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Reconnect Through Cookery

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Our members did a fantastic job making tuna pasta bake at the most recent cookery session. Not everyone is a lover of tuna, so some added sausage or ham and cheese to theirs. After making the pasta bakes everyone prepared a healthy salad of broccoli and peppers that we pan fried in olive oil, and carrots which we glazed with honey and air-fried. I think everyone hit their target of 5 portions of fruit and veg!

Thank you to Cheryl and Rickell for all your hard work in the kitchen, and to and Ffion for being an amazing quizmaster and calling the bingo.

Next week is our Halloween party when we will have prizes for the best carved pumpkin, best fancy dress, and best spooky dancer. There will also be raffles, quizzes, bingo, and lots of spooky tunes to dance to. On the menu will be jack-o-lantern pizza, spooky Halloween sausage, and graveyard cake. See you all next week.

Healthy Eating

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This week we were visited by Patrick and Kane from the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board who talked to the group about the Mediterranean Diet and the importance of healthy eating. It has long been known that people living in Mediterranean countries (Italy, Greece, France and Spain) enjoy long life and good health, and the boys talked about which foods make up a Mediterranean Diet, and also what foods are bad for you.

Members received a booklet to take home containing this information in more detail, plus recipes to try, and a chart to write which foods you have eaten throughout the week. Thanks to Patrick and Kane for the visit, and for the very important information which we hope our members will use in their daily lives.

Gardening

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Yesterday at TARAGGAN Educational Gardens & Nursery our volunteers continued working hard on the plots, weeding and preparing them to plant garlic next week. The group also harvested our raspberries and shared them out in the office when we returned.


Thank you Kyle Richards for helping to prepare the plot for planting the garlic, and for showing our new volunteer Connor how to use the tools correctly. If you would like to volunteer with us we are at TARAGGAN every Tuesday morning from 10.30am.

Cookery

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At Friday’s cookery session we enjoyed indulging in some good old-fashioned comfort food when Connor’s choice of Lasagne was the perfect dish for a cold, rainy Friday. Our members did a great job preparing the side salad while Connor showed everyone how to layer the lasagne. He began by spreading a layer of bolognaise on the bottom of the dish, then added a single layer of pasta sheets, followed by a layer of white sauce. This was repeated to make two layers, and was topped off with a sprinkle of cheddar cheese. The end result was delicious.


Thank you to our amazing volunteers for assisting and working so hard on the pots and pans – well done everyone. We have a few spaces available for pasta bake next week, so if you would like to join us drop us an email at enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org or call Christy on 07940 474640.

Crafts Session

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Thank you to Cheryl Smith from the Parent Network Community Forum for our spooktacular get Crafty session today. Our members had fun making masks and decorations to use at our Halloween party on 27th October. Our next craft session will be on Tuesday 24th October from 12.30pm. Please contact enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org if you would like to join us.

Gardening

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Yesterday was a beautiful morning at TARAGGAN Educational Gardens & Nursery where our volunteers worked hard weeding the plots and digging up leeks. Thank you to Sam and Kyle for showing us how to do this properly, and for giving us the leeks to take home to cook. Our volunteers plan to make soup, leeks in cheese sauce, quiche and stews with today’s harvest.

If you would like to volunteer with us or would like more information please contact our Head gardener Morgan Jones via enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org

Cookery

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At Friday’s cookery session members prepared salad and made burgers. We served them with fries, pickles, coleslaw and onion rings. Everyone did a fantastic job and the group enjoyed taking part in the bingo and quiz.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the session – you worked very hard as always, and these sessions would be impossible without you all.

It was great to see some new faces and to see everyone socialising together and making new friends. Our new member Connor has chosen lasagne for next week.

Gardening

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Yesterday, Sam, Rees, Gethin, Chris, Anthony and myself (Morgan Jones) worked on our allotments at TARAGGAN. As head gardener, I give people tasks to do and tell our volunteers what we need. I started by telling the boys what tools we needed, and once these were collected we started digging the ground to remove as many weeds as possible.

After that I noticed that a few of the vegetables we’ve been growing were ready to be picked, so we picked carrots, curly kale, runner beans, and beetroot, which we took back to the office to be shared among the group. I asked Christy how much veg I was allowed to take home, and her response was ‘take as much veg as you would like’.

When we had finished, I asked the group if they could clean the tools and put them away neatly, so that John, who helps us with our plots, won’t need to tidy up after us. Thank you also to Kyle Richards for all your help.

If you would like to volunteer with us at TARAGGAN Educational Gardens & Nursery we are there every Tuesday morning from 10.30am. Please contact Morgan Jones on: enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org

Crafts

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Yesterday our focus group took part in an Arts and Crafts session with Cheryl and Zoey from the Parent Network Community Forum. We made Halloween paper chains and coloured in Halloween templates ready for the trunk or treat event with the Parent Network in Morrisons underground car park on Monday 30th October. Our next craft session will be Tuesday 10th October, and if you’d like to book your place please contact Ffion on 07488 350518.