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Photo of a woman pouring an oil into a bowl containing a pale coloured mixture of lentil pancake batter. Also on the table is an induction hob, various ingredients, containers and cutting boards. — A previous Cheap & Easy Cookery Workshop at the Central Methodist Church in Todmorden

All are invited to attend our last of five Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery Workshops (details below). Once again, we’ll be showing how to make several low-cost, healthy & easy-to-make plant-based dishes that minimise the food’s contribution to climate change… and maximise kindness. Free samples of the food prepared in the workshop will be offered to workshop participants along with recipes for each dish.

Saturday 26th April, Cheap & Easy workshop during Cornholme Community Day …

A poster giving the full programme for the Cornholme Community Day including the Cheap & Easy cookery workshop and free lunch. Timing in text below the image.

Our Cheap & Easy workshop will be held in Cornholme Old Library, I Parkside Road, Cornholme, OL14 8QA between 13:00 and 15:00 as part of the Cornholme Community Day. Between 12:00 and 13:00, we’ll also be providing some free mixed bean chilli lunches.

As you can see from the poster above, there’s a lot going on during the Community Day and it’s all free. Come and have fun whilst learning new skills.

All Cheap & Easy workshops have been supported by Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee

Help! We need some bodies.

Image showing hands raised an the word "Volunteer"

Yes yours please! We really need helpers for the Cornholme Cheap & Easy workshop on 26th April and/or the lunch we’ll be serving. If you can spare any time to help between 11:00 and 15:00, please email info@3valleyvegns.org.uk. We would really appreciate it…and you’ll get fed too.

Volunteer image by 🆓 Use at your Ease 👌🏼 from Pixabay

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Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery Workshops March & April 2025

20 March 2025 Rob

Green & black sketch of a person stir-frying vegetables in a wok. There are 3 bottles on the adjacent work surface & implements hanging on a rack behind.

We’ve got two more of our free, and popular, Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery workshops coming up.

In them, we’ll be showing you how to make a number of low-cost, healthy & easy-to-make plant-based dishes that minimise the food’s contribution to climate change… and maximise kindness. You’ll be able to sample everything prepared and take away recipes for each dish. The next workshop is very soon…

Monday 31st March, Central Methodist Church, Todmorden

On Monday 31st March, we’ll be holding a Cheap & Easy workshop at Todmorden’s Central Methodist Church, Union Street, OL14 5AW. Together, we’ll prepare different dishes to those at our last workshop there.

Doors will open at 7.00 pm so you can browse stalls, be entertained with music and enjoy hot drinks. The cookery will start at 7.30pm, and the event closes at 9pm.

Because the event is being made possible with the support of Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee, all dishes will be cooked using lower energy appliances such as induction hobs, microwaves and air-fryers, and ingredients will be as low carbon as possible.

Saturday, 26th April 2025, Old Library, Cornholme

This Cheap & Easy workshop will be held during the daytime as part of a Community event being organised by Todmorden Town Council to support local people in growing their own food. We will be providing some free lunches for Cornholme residents as well as free samples of the food prepared in the workshop taking place before lunch.

Precise times for this workshop will be communicated in our next email newsletter (sign up for the newsletter here if not already subscribed) but it will be sometime in the morning and lunch will stretch into early afternoon.

Both workshops supported by Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee

Help! We need some bodies

Yes yours please! We really need helpers for our Cheap & Easy workshops, especially the one at Cornholme where we will also be catering for lunch on 26th April. If you can spare some time to help for all or part of the time, please email info@3valleyvegns.org.uk. We would really appreciate it…and you’ll probably get fed too.

A big thank you

A big thank you to the kind people who made donations to our crowdfunding appeal for match funding of our Cheap & Easy workshops. The fundraising page has now closed.

Events

Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Christmas Cookery Workshop Monday 25th November

28 October 2024 Rob

On Monday 25th November, a free Christmas cookery workshop will take place at Todmorden’s Central Methodist Church, Union Street, Todmorden, OL14 5AW, with free samples of food afterwards (not necessarily what you see in this photo of a vegan Christmas dinner in the past).

Photograph of a vegan Christmas dinner on a plate. The plate contains nut roast, cranberry sauce, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, Brussels sprouts and flaked almonds

Cooking will happen on 5 separate tables around the room, and participants will be encouraged to move around the room, watch, ask questions and assist with chopping and stirring!

This event will feature examples of delicious festive vegan food which could be cooked at a mid-winter meal, and will be the third in a series of demonstrations in Todmorden organised by 3 Valley Vegans. Ferney Lee School was the venue for the second ‘Cheap and Easy Climate Emergency Cookery’ demonstration on Tuesday 1st October, when staff and local people gathered in the hall to watch simultaneous cookery demonstrations, listen to short talks and to share a plate of free food afterwards.

One of the dishes being prepared at the Ferney Lee workshop

Doors will open for the workshop on Monday 25th November at 7.00 pm, when there will be stalls, music and hot drinks served. The cooking will start at 7.30pm, and the event closes at 9pm.

There’s more information about the 3 Valley Vegans Cheap & Easy project here in a report about a past workshop in the series.

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Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery Workshops

20 September 2024 3valleyvegns

On Saturday 10th August, there were some delicious aromas wafting down the corridors of Todmorden College.

A free Cheap and Easy Cookery workshop was taking place – 9 food drop-in participants were learning how to make different dishes in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. People chopped and stirred, stories and recipes were swapped, and the end result was a smorgasbord, or perhaps a Buddha bowl which everyone sampled.

All recipes relied on basic sometimes tinned ingredients and supermarket donated vegetables, and were all plant-based. In addition, all dishes were cooked using lower energy appliances such as induction hobs, microwaves and air-fryers.

Dishes made were: hearty bean and vegetable soup, spicy fried potatoes, hot root vegetable salad, mushy pea dahl, cous cous, flatbreads and rainbow salad.

“Cheap and Easy Climate Emergency Cookery” is a pioneering series of workshops helping Todmorden residents struggling with the cost of living crisis to prepare healthy meals cheaply, quickly and easily.

Future workshops will continue to concentrate on wholefood plant-based meals that rely on low-cost, seasonal and readily available ingredients that make a much lower contribution to climate change than meat, dairy, egg and fish products. For some tips about how to eat plant-based food on a budget, you can read a blog we published a while ago here. It’s still very relevant.

All of the Cheap and Easy workshops are run by 3 Valley Vegans and are made possible with the support of Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee.

Under the terms of the project funding, there is a need for crowdfunding to cover a small element of the costs. If you’d like to make a donation, please go to https://app.goodhub.com/3-valley-vegans-11596 or scan the QR code below:

3 Valley Vegans