Roade Community Larder

15/06/2026

Loads of wonderful food options for you today. See you all soon💜

14/06/2026

🧅 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).

➡️ You are welcome to 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.

12/06/2026

👩‍🍳 Kale and Chorizo Stew

👩‍🍳 We sometimes have butternut squash and red onions. Butter beans and chopped tomatoes available in the ambient section.

2 tbsp oil
1 red onion peeled and sliced
150g chorizo, diced
200g kale, shredded
½ litre vegetable or chicken stock
1 x 400g butterbeans in water
1 butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and diced
1 tbsp dried mixed herbs
1 tsp paprika 1 x 400g chopped tomatoes

👩‍🍳 Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onion and chorizo for a few minutes until the onion has softened. Toss in the kale, stock, butterbeans, squash, mixed herbs, paprika and tomatoes. Season to taste.

Bring the mixture to the boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes until the squash and kale are tender.

08/06/2026

🍌 See you all soon! 🍌

07/06/2026

Thank you for interacting and commenting on our ‘behind the scenes’ posts. We hope it has given you an insight into how incredible our Larder volunteers really are 🥰

To mark the end of Volunteer Week 2026, here is a little summary of the past 7 days:

⏰ 4️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ VOLUNTEER hours clocked up to bring you our larder services and pop ups in Towcester and Roade.

♻️ Over 5.5 TONNES of fresh and perishable food saved from waste.

👫 Over 500 shoppers at the Larder sessions, pop ups (and supported hardship collection/deliveries).

Finally, a BIG thank you to ALL OUR AMAZING VOLUNTEERS. The larder wouldn’t exist without you ❤️

07/06/2026

Behind the scenes… Sunday

Supermarket collections today and later this evening to stop some great food going to waste 🍞 All distributed for free at our session in Roade tomorrow.

Another few hours clocked up by our fantastic volunteering team 💪

07/06/2026

🛒 What is a 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

05/06/2026

05/06/2026

Congratulations to our fabulous volunteer Cindy who today was presented with the Rose of Northamptonshire award for her services to the community. We are hugely proud of Cindy and thankful for all she does in Roade.💜

05/06/2026

👩‍🍳 Slow Cooker Ratatouille

👩‍🍳 Keep this recipe till the summer when aubergines, courgettes, tomatoes and peppers are in abundance. Grab some sourdough or similar from our bread section to make a tasty, healthy meal. The quantities given serve six people.

2 tbsp oil
1 red onion, sliced
2 garlic cloves
2 large aubergines, cut into 1.5cm slices
3 courgettes, halved and cut into 2cm pieces
3 mixed peppers, cut into 2 cm pieces
1 tbsp tomato puree
6 large ripe tomatoes, roughly chopped
Small bunch of basil, roughly chopped, plus a few extra leaves to serve
Few thyme sprigs
400g tin plum tomatoes
1tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tsp brown sugar
Sourdough to serve

👩‍🍳 Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onions for 8 minutes until translucent. Add the garlic and fry for 1 minute. Turn the heat to medium high, add the aubergines and fry for 5 minutes until golden. Stir in the courgettes and peppers and fry for 5 minutes until slightly soft. Add the tomato puree, fresh tomatoes, herbs, vinegar, sugar and 1 tsp salt and bring to the boil.

Transfer to the slow cooker and cook on low 5-6 hours or until everything is soft and the sauce has thickened. Season, scatter the basil leaves over and serve with the sourdough.