New Food Not Bombs Blog London, ON

ALL TAKEN FROM THE NEW LONDON, ON
FOOD NOT BOMBS COMMUNITY BLOG:

http://www.londonfoodnotbombs.blogspot.com/

Here is the link to the first amazing London, Ontario Food Not Bombs newsletter! Find out more about the international movement of Food Not Bombs here.

UPCOMING SERVING:

EVAC Serving: 12:00 (collection & cooking) 6:00 (serving)

Jan 29, 2012 12:00 PM

"January 14th Dundas & Richmond Serving"

"Thanks to all of the wonderful help we had today the whole process today ended up being a lot of fun and less stressful than we anticipated. We were able to get a lot of donations from the Covenant Garden Market and Nicole was able to drop off two boxes of tomatoes, some peppers, leeks and potatoes off to us from the Western Fair! We had a lot of help in the kitchen and were able to make a salad, pasta, lentil and vegetable curry, TVP sloppy joes, rosemary french fries, avocado butter-bread and bruschetta, and Laura brought muffins and a sweet potato mash! It was mighty cold out at Dundas and Richmond but we had many people who were interested in having a warm meal and some free groceries. Most of the food got eaten and what did not actually froze! We received some grand donations and one of our vendors actually came by and got to see what we do! It was a lot of fun. For next time: lettuce freezes easily. "

FNB Occupation Soup: Creamy Vegan Pumpkin!

Vegan Pumpkin Soup: A Food Not Bombs Autumn/Halloween Recipe:

1. Bake pumpkin guts, seeds and squash content in oven at 350F.

2. Fry with oil or veg margarine, fry onions, garlic, ginger and any other desired veggies such as carrot, mushroom or zucchini! Combine results in saucepan/soup pot with 1/2 or more veg broth and 1/2 or more almond milk or substitute.

3. Puree baked pumpkin contents and add to soup.

4. Spice generously with cinnamon, cardamom, paprika, nutmeg, and curry. Flavour with additional garlic, onion and ginger seasoning and add salt and pepper to taste. A handful of shredded coconut and a pinch of quality sugar is nice!

Props to these blogged recipes that gave me direction and inspiration:

http://www.ofthekittenkind.com/2010/08/creamy-vegan-pumpkin-soup.html

http://thehealthyadvocate.com/2010/10/12/healthy-simple-pumpkin-soup-recipe-dairy-free-vegan/

OCCUPATION TRANSFORMATION: food not bombs

Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now by Naomi Klein

@OccupyLdnOnt
http://occupylondonontario.blogspot.com/

http://occupylondon.tk/

londonfoodnotbombs@gmail.com

Have you ever heard of Food Not Bombs? Below is a copy of a letter of appeal to food outlets that may be able to make donations. Please distribute to people and places that you think could contribute to feeding the occupiers in Victoria Park, London, Ontario.

To Who it May Concern,

We are writing to you on behalf of the London Food Not Bombs (FNB). FNB is a non-profit transnational group that strives to provide free vegan and/or vegetarian meals for community members. The mission of FNB is to address the growing issues of hunger, poverty, homelessness, and sustainability within our community. The London FNB chapter has been active for over six years and serves a hot meal on the last Sunday of each month in rotating locations. On occasion FNB will also serve for larger community-run events. As FNB is a non-profit initiative we run solely off of community volunteers, donations, and our community garden. We are looking to build a relationship with you in order to sustain this wonderful initiative. With this, if you were able to donate any resources to FNB it would be greatly appreciated by all of the individuals who run FNB, as well as the people who it serves. Food wastage is very prevalent in our society and FNB would gladly accept donations that would otherwise be disposed of after your business closes for the evening. We do pick ups for food donations typically on Saturdays, but other arrangements can be made. All donations are joyously welcomed.FNB is an image of community members caring for community members.

Thank you for your time,

Sincerely,

FOOD COMMITTEE - OCCUPY LONDON ONTARIO: feeding campers in Victoria park and the wider London community

There are several things we need to address and several tasks to issue to people who are available and willing to volunteer:-donations-collections-who we are getting donations from I suggest we talk to individuals, the markets around town, farmers, grocery stores, religious organizations, social organizations to donate (I understand many people are at conflict with religion but they have a lot of money generally speaking and should be willing to support us with food, we are all in this together)-cooking, where can we do this-pots, pans, resources for feeding and distributing-water supply-if reusable washing stations, this will be hard first off-what time-how frequent-number of people we will be feeding-getting gloves and serving people to keep sanitation to a max-trying to get a person who has a permit for cooking (if it's even applicable in a park)REMEMBER FNB IS VEGETARIAN AND OR VEGAN ALL MEAT DONATIONS WILL NEED TO BE SPECIFIED AND SEPARATED Ideally it would be great to have ingredient lists for all prepared food

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