Less Waste More Taste: Recipe Book

Less Waste More Taste focused on making food and the role it plays in our environment, health and wellbeing, as well as our pocket.

National Festival of Making, Cracking Good Food and The Bureau Centre for the Arts teamed up with the local community on a project aimed at developing a better understanding of healthy and economical cooking. 2000 people visited the Bureau for this mass healthy cooking session, and hundreds of those ate for free at the festival.

The project used food provided by Fareshare, a company licensed to safely distribute food discarded by supermarkets, highlighting issues around food waste and low-income families managing budgets.

An outcome of this project is a recipe book, distributed to participants and made available to the public via Blackburn Market’s produce stalls. A digital version is downloadable below.

This book provides information, advice, recipes and tips to help you prepare, cook and eat fresh, healthy and homemade food. The Blackburn community, along with Cracking Good Food, have helped to provide recipes for this book, and we encourage you to shop local and buy your food from your nearby markets, supporting the local economy.

Download recipe book