FoodCycle Exeter

We reclaim surplus food and cook it into tasty, healthy meals for our community! Come enjoy a free hot meal every Tues at 6.30pm from The Mint Methodist Church.

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We can talk and talk and talk about how great volunteering with us is.

Instead, we'll let these smiling faces speak for themselves 🙂

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36 guests including 4 children at Exeter tonight. With new volunteers on both the Cooking and Hosting teams. The menu tonight consisted of
Broccoli and Potato Soup with Croutons, Veggie Lentil Chilli with Mozzarella, Potato Wedges, Guacamole, Refried Beans and Spiced Greens.

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Great evening at Exeter last night! 39 guests all looked after by our lovely hosting team. We had two new volunteers in the kitchen, both very keen and eager! Some really lovely donations from our suppliers - thank you! Oh and a visit from Rob from our Gloucester project!

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📷 Starter: Carrot soup with cheesy croutons
📷 Main: Quorn and vegetable "cottage" pie with greens and gravy
📷 Dessert: Fruit bread and butter pudding made with chocolate custard and served with yogurt

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Lots of donations this week! We had a leek and potato soup to start, then Dahl with potatoes, cauliflower and courgette for main, followed by a delicious crumble and custard - thanks everyone for a great evening! See you tuesday!

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Back tonight at 6.30pm!! Anyone welcome to come for food 💚

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Free meals back this evening at the Mint methodist church on Fore St, 6.30pm, all welcome, no questions asked!

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This week in Exeter....
💚25 guests - Enjoyable team effort for the host and kitchen crew's.
Good food donations, loadsa eggs! Our menu this week:
Winter veg soup and croutons, Mixed Vegetable Frittata, Roast potatoes, Salad, ketchup and Apple Crumble and Strawberry custard 💚

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Lovely evening tonight in Exeter with 30 guests 😍 Thank you to everyone for a really chilled night 😁
🍄 Starter: Creamy mushroom soup with croutons
🍲 Main: Veggie tagine with herbed cous cous and hasselback potatoes
🫐 Dessert: Banana and blueberry yogurt cake and brownies

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🧅 Starter: Roasted butternut squash soup with croutons and bread and butter
🥘 Main: Veggie cottage pie with sweet potato and potato mash, sautéed greens and gravy
🍰 Dessert: Mixed cakes - chocolate and jam and coconut sponge with whipped hazelnut cream

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31 guests at Exeter last night 🥕
Not a huge amount of donations so we're ever grateful for the stash of butternut squash we had a few weeks back from Riverford! Thanks to all the volunteers for a lovely relaxed session 💙

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🥔 Winter vegetable soup with garlic croutons
🫑 Mediterranean vegetable pasta bake with rainbow coleslaw 🌈
🍌 A trio of puds - banana bread, coconut and jam sponge and mince pie served with ice cream and a citrus syrup

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Last night in Exeter we served 28 guests 🤩 We had a lovely mix of donations and concocted the following menu! Thank you to all volunteers for making the session run so smoothly ❤️

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We had some eggs and bananas left over from last week both of which needed to be used soon so naturally banana bread for dessert sprang to mind
We added some crumbled up double chocolate chip cookies donated by @sainsburys
*chefs kiss*

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With a busy main on the menu (photos to come) we thought we'd keep it light and fresh for the starter
- Rainbow carrot salad with saltanas and lemon and lime dressing
- Garden salad (lettuce, cucumber, broccoli florets, tomato, celery & fennel)

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Serving food as always this evening at 6:30pm - don't be late!
P.S for our returning guests: if you have taken away any cooked food at a previous session and have tupperware containers which are piling up, you can bring them back and hand them to us! We can reuse them!

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We received an email from a local shop who had some one off donations for us which included lots of dates - we love surprise donations!
The kitchen teams brains immediately turned to sticky toffee pudding almost as fast as the weather has turned 💙

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We received lots of burger buns in our donations this week and not much fresh fruit or veg so we made some chilli bean burgers with potato wedges.
They were a delicious labour of love from the kitchen team who had to fry 40 patties in two tiny frying pans!

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Come eat with us tonight at 6:30pm at no cost!
We can't tell you what will be on the menu but we're sure it will be delicious!
📷Banana bread and butter pudding with ice-cream from a couple of weeks ago :)

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Tomato, aubergine and mushroom pasta bake (there was cheese we promise but it somehow ended up underneath this serving)
Served with a side of spiced cauliflower, cabbage and green beans
The background hints at what the dessert was this week...