Comunity Eats Dinner at Food is Fundamental Conference

Dinner last Saturday night went really well, we served about 125 people in the basement of Macmillan building. The SEC conference was also a success, with a sunny Saturday morning at the UBC Farm with bread and jam making workshops, the farmer's market and some awesome speakers.

For dinner we served two dishes: a red lentil curry and a spicy baked chick peas and vegetables with organic brown rice and bagels from Benny's. We were also lucky to have dessert which included plums from Laura's friend's tree in Ladner and slices of cantaloupe. Recipes are hopefully on their way.

Many people forgot to bring their own containers, so there was a definite variety of eating surfaces from pieces of cardboard boxes, to dumpster-dived yogurt containers, to bagels and even a tennis racket with some paper towel on top of it. Lots of creativity.

The meal itself also needed some creativity as our distributor did not have a lot of food to donate to us this week (which is good for them, bad for us)...so we needed to supplement our collection. We were able to collect potatoes, tomatoes, cantaloupe, onions and eggplant from our distributor. We managed to find some bountiful discount produce dollar bags at dollar grocers on commercial drive and we also purchased 8 lbs of potatoes, 15 lbs of rice, 8 lbs of chick peas and 16 lbs of lentils from Sprouts in order to make enough food to feed the 200 people who registered for the dinner.
However, as expected, 200 did not show up, which meant that we were left with some food to take home, but its better to have too much than too little in these situations.

Next lunch will be October 10th, 11:30-1:30ish in Sprouts, with a Thanksgiving theme.

More to come soon, stay tuned!