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A membership service that provides access to affordable groceries. See our website for full details.

18/10/2026

🍇 We look forward to seeing you at the Community Larder tomorrow, at Roade Village Hall from 1:30 - 2:15. New members welcome.

🍇 Most fresh fruit; vegetables and some bakery products are free with your paid shop. We are able to accept card payments (cash is still fine).

⏩️ For a £12 trial shop (22 points, or £6 shop 10 points) you can try out the larder and experience what we have to offer before becoming a member. Our wonderful volunteers will also be happy to answer any questions you have.

16/10/2026

👩‍🍳 Kipper Fishcakes

👩‍🍳 Smoked kippers are quite cheap to buy, I will not deny this is a faff but it is worth it (I do a double quantity), they freeze well (uncooked) but wrap in greaseproof paper to stop them sticking together.

4 baking potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
50g peas, briefly cooked
210g pack smoked kippers
250ml semi-skimmed milk
1-2 tbsp plain flour
2 spring onions, finely sliced
10g parsley finely chopped
60g golden breadcrumbs

👩‍🍳 Simmer the potatoes in salted water for 10 – 12 minutes until tender.
Preheat oven to gas 7, 220C.

Set aside the butter from the kippers then put them skin-side up in a wide pan so they sit snugly in a single layer. Pour over the milk and place over a low heat. When the milk starts to steam and you see a bubble or two, remove from the heat and leave for five minutes.

Drain the potatoes, steam-dry for 1 minute in a colander. Mash with the reserved butter and 2 tbsp of the poaching milk. Add the spring onions, peas and parsley and enough flour to make a stiff, mouldable mixture.

Drain the kippers and flake into large pieces, removing any skin or bones and add to the mash. Gently mix, then shape into 8 cakes (100g each).

Place the breadcrumbs on a plate and press the fishcakes into them to coat.
Place on a greased baking tray and drizzle with ½ tbsp oil. Bake 10 – 15 minutes until crisp.

15/10/2026

Macmillan Coffee Morning ☕🍰

On Monday 26th October, our lovely Larder volunteers will be hosting a Macmillan Coffee Morning outside the Village Hall, and we’d love you to join us.

Cancer is a cause that is particularly close to our hearts. Some of our amazing volunteers are currently undergoing treatment, while others have recently been through treatment themselves. So this is much more than just a coffee morning for us. 💚

Everyone is welcome! Come along for a hot drink, some delicious cake and even a raffle, all while helping us raise much-needed funds for Macmillan and the incredible work they do supporting people affected by cancer, including people within our own community.

Please pop along, have a cuppa and a slice of cake, and help us make a difference. 💚☕🍰

12/10/2026

🍇 See you all soon! 🍇

11/10/2026

🛒 What is the Community Larder?
(Sometimes called a social supermarket / pantry)

🛒 Instead of operating like a normal supermarket that’s profit-driven, the Community Larder is a social action project of SNVB (registered charity) and operated by over 100+ volunteers: serving, shelf stacking and food collecting.

Our goals are to:
🪙 Make essentials affordable – through collecting and distributing surplus food from Fareshare, events, retailers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, that might otherwise go to waste, but are still perfectly safe to eat.

♻️ Reduce food waste – By redistributing surplus goods, we prevent huge amounts of food from ending up in landfill.

ℹ️ Support communities – we also offer advice, signposting, training, or support services to help people with finances, wellbeing and hardship through onsite visiting partnerships such as .

🛒 A key difference between us and food banks is that the Community Larder purchases food surplus and therefore charges an annual subscription of £15 and a subsequent weekly fee of £6 or £12 to shop. Rather than being a crisis support service, we offer a long-term sustainable provision that includes fresh and perishable food. This is to maintain dignity, choice, and a shopping-like experience for customers. Fruit and vegetables are free with all shops to encourage healthy eating.

🛒 Personal and business donations as well as funds from our memberships and weekly shoppers allow us to do extra support work and involve ourselves in projects such as providing families with the essentials they need in the school holidays, deliver food to those who are housebound and are unable to visit us, provide vouchers or connect with other local charities to provide essential food supplies.

✅ In short: the Community Larder is a low-cost, community-focused grocery store that helps tackle both financial hardship and food waste.

🕜 We are open every Monday at Roade Village Hall from 1:30pm ~ 2:15. Find out more at: www.towfood.org.uk

09/10/2026

👩‍🍳 Cauliflower and Bacon Bake

👩‍🍳 We sometimes have cauliflower and onions, cooking bacon is perfectly fine in this recipe.

800g Cauliflower
2 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp butter
400ml milk
1 tsp mustard
200g cheddar
2 tbsp cream cheese (Google substitutes)
1 onion, sliced
Spinach

Slice onion, shred spinach and grate cheese.

Cook cauliflower 15 minutes, grill bacon and add to ovenproof dish. Make cheese sauce, reserving some cheese.

Place sliced onion on top of the bacon, then add the spinach. Drain the cauliflower and put on top of the spinach.

Pour the cheese sauce over, sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake at 200 for 20 minutes.

06/10/2026

🐷 When you buy cooking bacon and get bacon chops instead!

🐷 Thank you Lidl ((£1.99) ~ other supermarkets are available!

🐷 Lots that can be done with bacon: bacon suet pudding, add to pasta sauce, essential ingredient of loaded potatoes etc. What do you use yours for?

05/10/2026

Fantastic selection for you all today.
Open from 1:30 till 2:15pm
New members are welcome.

04/10/2026

🥐 We look forward to seeing you at the Community Larder tomorrow, at Roade Village Hall from 1:30 - 2:15. New members welcome.

🥐 Just to remind you that you can pre pay for October at tomorrow's larder - which costs just £20.00 for 4 shops (see www.towfood.org.uk for all membership options) when you visit the larder four times in October.

🥐 Most fresh fruit; vegetables and bakery products are free with your paid shop. We are able to accept card payments (cash is still fine).

02/10/2026

👩‍🍳 Red Pepper and Bean Tikka Masala

👩‍🍳 Baked beans, tomato puree and rice can be found in the ambient section, we often have red peppers and lemons too.

1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion, copped
2 red peppers, deseeded and cut into strips
1 garlic clove, crushed
Thumb-size piece of ginger, grated
1 red chilli, finely chopped
½ tbsp each of garam masala and curry powder
1 tbsp tomato puree
415 g tin baked beans
½ lemon, juiced
Rice and coriander to serve.

Heat the oil in a saucepan over a medium heat, add the onion and peppers with a pinch of salt and fry until softened, around 5 minutes. Tip in the garlic, ginger and red chilli along with the spices and fry for a couple of minutes more.

Spoon in the tomato puree, stir, then tip in the baked beans along with 100ml water. Bubble for 5 minutes, then squeeze in the lemon juice. Serve with the rice and scatter over the coriander leaves to serve.

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Roade

Website

http://www.towfood.org.uk/

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