Alright Raiders
By Laura Gaga
Alright Raiders 👋🏽 Are you partial to a Yellow Sticker, Reduction Raiding? Do you get knee deep in the supermarket reduced crate? Or are you wanting to change your relationship with food, cooking? I’m Laura Gaga aka Reduction Raider and here to talk to guests about their relationships with food. Discover their food journeys, and consider the changes we want to see for our person, our people, our planet!
Alright Raiders Nov 20, 2021
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Reduction Raider Breaks Bread with Sutton Community Farm, Head of Communications, Sonia Cropper
Sonia is a member of staff at Sutton Community Farm, London's only community-owned fruit and veg farm. The farm grows over 40 types of fruit and veg in harmony with nature, building healthy soils, welcoming wildlife and never using chemicals to grow food. Over 70 weekly volunteers come to the farm to get involved in all areas of farm activities. The farm runs an online farm shop and delivers fresh seasonal food to people's homes and pick-up points across south London and Surrey.
Sonia has been working at the farm since 2017 and has a background in food growing, education, and working for organisations that transform food waste into a community resource. Before working for Sutton Community Farm, Sonia was involved with FoodCycle, People's Kitchen, and a House of Hospitality for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, where she and others would whizz up tasty community meals from food diverted from landfill.
Website: www.suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk
Facebook: en-gb.facebook.com/suttonfarm/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/SuttonCommunityFarm/
Sonia has been working at the farm since 2017 and has a background in food growing, education, and working for organisations that transform food waste into a community resource. Before working for Sutton Community Farm, Sonia was involved with FoodCycle, People's Kitchen, and a House of Hospitality for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, where she and others would whizz up tasty community meals from food diverted from landfill.
Website: www.suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk
Facebook: en-gb.facebook.com/suttonfarm/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/SuttonCommunityFarm/
Apr 29, 202334:03
Reduction Raider Breaks Bread with Stacey Williams Head of Business Development at Gander
Stacey Williams is Head of Business Development at world first anti-food waste app, Gander.
A seasoned retailer who previously worked for Marks & Spencer and Morrisons developing, leading and supporting diverse teams at divisional, regional and store level, Stacey is experienced in planning and executing change programmes and has implemented multiple innovative solutions to optimise performance and drive-up business efficiency.
He has been with Gander since February 2022. The world first anti food waste mobile app allows retailers to display reduced to clear (often yellow-stickered) food and drink, to consumers in real time. The tech, which integrates seamlessly with retailers’ point of sale systems, displays reduced products on the app in front of a huge audience, essentially allowing retailers to increase revenue and footfall whilst helping to reduce food waste.
Apr 14, 202331:33
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Aria Beheshtaein founder of B'liev.
Aria Beheshtaein is founder of B’liev, a new plant-based, protein shake available in three unusual, but utterly delicious flavours: Blueberry Muffin, Cookies & Cream and Chocolate Brownie. Packed with protein and fibre, and fortified with vitamins and minerals, B’liev delivers much more than hydration and great taste, and encourages us all to believe that anything is possible, we just have to believe in ourselves.
Web: https://bliev.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlievOfficial/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blievofficial/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blievofficial
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bliev/about/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blievofficial
Dec 18, 202249:33
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Robert Straw of Action Against Food Poverty.
Hey my name is Robert Straw and in March this year I founded Action Against Food Poverty, which is a Saturday morning walk in London supporting not only our homeless friends with food and supplies but others such as students, single parents, unemployed and many other social groups that finding it hard to access decent food and other necessities of life. We use food as a catalyst for conversation as emotional contact and support is just as important as the food we serve to our friends. After spending time talking to them we want to come away with our friends feeling in a much better place mentally before Action Against Food Poverty arrived. Thank you so much for checking out the podcast, if you would like more information, join a walk or make a donation to Action Against Food Poverty here are the details email aafp19@aol.com www.crowdfunder.co.uk/action-against-food-poverty mobile 07961 027852.
Jul 15, 202249:47
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Suzy Holding & Lisa Harmer of Best Before Cafe & Food Rescue Hun.
Suzy Holding & Lisa Harmer of Best Before Cafe and Food Rescue Hub in North Hertfordshire.
Both our nonprofit organisations rescue surplus food to ensure no good food goes to waste. Best Before Cafe, run entirely by volunteers, works out of one shop and serves the community in Letchworth Garden City. Food Rescue Hub is an eco-community that has 3 market style pop up outlets at sites in Hitchin, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage.
Though the Cafe and the Hub work in different ways, both teams are passionate about environment and people. This brings us together.
Jan 08, 202231:51
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Toni Vernelli
Toni Vernelli, International Head of Communications and Marketing, Veganuary
The daughter of a butcher from a small town in Northern Canada, Toni gave up meat in her teens when she learned that we can live and be healthy without it. Now vegan for more than 30 years, she believes passionately that we need a mass shift towards plant-based eating and is proud to be part of an organisation fuelling this change. She also holds a PhD in Animal Behaviour. www.veganuary.com @weareveganuary
The daughter of a butcher from a small town in Northern Canada, Toni gave up meat in her teens when she learned that we can live and be healthy without it. Now vegan for more than 30 years, she believes passionately that we need a mass shift towards plant-based eating and is proud to be part of an organisation fuelling this change. She also holds a PhD in Animal Behaviour. www.veganuary.com @weareveganuary
Jan 03, 202243:26
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Fatti Tarkleman.
Fatima “Fatti” Tarkleman is a zero-waste, British migrant chef of mixed African-Asian descent. She has special interests in cross-cultural cooking that prioritises sustainability, inclusivity, and local produce, while representing her London upbringing and the flavours of her heritage. Fatima works as a private chef, workshop facilitator, recipe writer, and content creator. She embraces innovative ways of using age-old techniques to make delicious food, putting care for people, their stories, and nature at the heart of her practice. @foodventures_with_fatti
Dec 20, 202145:36
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Ellen Tout.
Ellen Tout is a sustainability writer passionate about helping us reduce food waste. After writing about sustainability for many years, she became fascinated by compleating – eating all edible parts of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Ellen's debut book, The Complete Book of Vegan Compleating, is out now and shows us how to make the most of our ingredients, save money, have fun with food and reduce food waste by compleating. For more, see ellentout.com @ellen_tout @compleatly_vegan
Dec 11, 202135:46
Reduction Raider breaks bread with James Barthorpe and Paul Simpson of Food Circle Supermarket
Food Circle Supermarket is an online surplus food retailer, specialising in healthy and high protein snacks for people who like to live healthy for less while helping to reduce food waste. The co-founders, Paul Simpson and James Barthorpe, started the company in 2018 and have sold hundreds of thousands of items that may have otherwise gone to waste, to customers across the UK. Based in South Yorkshire, Paul and James have a professional background in the surplus food industry spanning over seven years, and use this experience to work with brands and manufacturers to provide a home for their surplus food, and give consumers a way to normalise shopping for surplus and short-dated products. www.foodcirclesupermarket.co.uk @foodcirlesupermarket
Dec 04, 202150:08
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Lisa Jones, cofounder of The People's Pantry.
The People’s Pantry is a refill delivery service and mobile shop operating through an e-commerce site and a repurposed vintage milk float called Ernie. They supply packaging-free pantry, eco-cleaner and bathroom essentials, all vetted for their sustainability credentials, to eight postcodes in North London. Lisa Jones set up The People’s Pantry in August 2021 with her husband, Stephen. It brings together their respective backgrounds as a Food & Drink PR and journalist and he an IT consultant; and was launched to make reducing plastic use convenient, simple and fun. The People’s Pantry is founded on a strong sense of community, a love of good food and a determination to be part of the change. www.thepeoplespantry.biz @thepeoplespantryldn
Nov 27, 202137:53
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Olivia Eneje of The Little Coffee Company.
The Little Coffee Company is an ethical, social enterprise company. The Little Coffee Company is on a mission to nurture and empower women in rural farming creating happier lives through coffee. Working with SolarAid, 20p per tin of the profit that they make goes back to the farmers and also goes towards building solar lamps for the community.
@littlecoffeecompany www.littlecoffeecompany.com
@littlecoffeecompany www.littlecoffeecompany.com
Nov 20, 202121:58
Reduction Raider Breaks Bread with Ellora Torchia of The Arty Vegan.
The arty vegan are, father and daughter culinary duo who have been vegan for over thirty years, bringing fresh, handmade, eco-conscious, low impact goods to food-lovers across London. They specialise in the sustainable uses of the soya bean, and focus on producing high quality, vegan, deli-style foods, using an artisanal craft approach and strive to be completely zero waste.
In essence, the arty vegan is a vegan local London business, but at its' heart there food is made for everyone www.theartyvegan.com @theartyvegan
In essence, the arty vegan is a vegan local London business, but at its' heart there food is made for everyone www.theartyvegan.com @theartyvegan
Nov 13, 202135:50
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Karma CEO Hjalmar Ståhlberg Nordegren.
Hjalmar is a serial entrepreneur, Medical Doctor and Forbes 30 under 30 winner with a passion for leadership and programming. He co-founded Karma in 2015 and has since served as its CEO with extra focus on the commercial side of the business. Fun fact: Hjalmar built the first iOS version of Karma which has since been overwritten by much more talented engineers.
www.karma.life @karma_uk
www.karma.life @karma_uk
Nov 06, 202141:54
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Anshu Ahuja of DabbaDrop.
DabbaDrop is the brainchild of Anshu Ahuja and Renee Williams, two Hackney neighbourhood friends who bonded over their love of cooking and a desire to make a small difference to the planet and for their children.
Anshu is a Mumbai-born, Hackney-living passionate home cook who in 2014, following a successful career in TV production, was selected as one of the finalists on the food incubator scheme, Kitchenette. The scheme allowed Anshu to launch her pop-up Indian tapas concept, Pao Wow, to critical acclaim at Stevie Parle’s Dock Kitchen.
New Zealand native Renee has 12 years’ experience with a background in restaurant operations and design, as well as events production at Soho House, Caprice Holdings and Caravan restaurants.
Anshu and Renee brought together their complementary skills to develop DabbaDrop; a food delivery concept, launching the takeaway curry service in Hackney in November 2018. In Summer 2021 Marie Claire magazine awarded DabbaDrop winner of the ‘Best Sustainable Food Delivery Initiative’. @dabbadrop www.dabbadrop.co.uk
Anshu is a Mumbai-born, Hackney-living passionate home cook who in 2014, following a successful career in TV production, was selected as one of the finalists on the food incubator scheme, Kitchenette. The scheme allowed Anshu to launch her pop-up Indian tapas concept, Pao Wow, to critical acclaim at Stevie Parle’s Dock Kitchen.
New Zealand native Renee has 12 years’ experience with a background in restaurant operations and design, as well as events production at Soho House, Caprice Holdings and Caravan restaurants.
Anshu and Renee brought together their complementary skills to develop DabbaDrop; a food delivery concept, launching the takeaway curry service in Hackney in November 2018. In Summer 2021 Marie Claire magazine awarded DabbaDrop winner of the ‘Best Sustainable Food Delivery Initiative’. @dabbadrop www.dabbadrop.co.uk
Oct 29, 202130:15
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Leon Aarts at The Felix Project.
Leon Aarts joined The Felix Project in May 2021 as the Head of Felix’s Kitchen, our new Social Kitchen for London at the same Tower Hamlets site as our new East London depot.
Leon joins us with a huge amount of experience and success founding and then running one of our closest partner charities - With Compassion (formerly Compassion London). Here Leon and his incredible team achieved outstanding success turning donated and surplus food (mostly from Felix) into over 500,000 meals since the first lockdown began, utilising donated kitchens at places like Wembley Stadium and most recently London Scottish House in Victoria.
Leon joins us with huge credibility, professionalism, passion and expertise. He has previous experience as a chef, entrepreneur and seasoned professional in the restaurant and hospitality sector. He is an inspirational leader who bravely addressed the hunger and food poverty crisis amongst the 10,000 strong refugee and migrant population in the camp known as The Jungle in Calais until its closure in 2016.
www.thefelixproject.org @thefelixproject
Leon joins us with a huge amount of experience and success founding and then running one of our closest partner charities - With Compassion (formerly Compassion London). Here Leon and his incredible team achieved outstanding success turning donated and surplus food (mostly from Felix) into over 500,000 meals since the first lockdown began, utilising donated kitchens at places like Wembley Stadium and most recently London Scottish House in Victoria.
Leon joins us with huge credibility, professionalism, passion and expertise. He has previous experience as a chef, entrepreneur and seasoned professional in the restaurant and hospitality sector. He is an inspirational leader who bravely addressed the hunger and food poverty crisis amongst the 10,000 strong refugee and migrant population in the camp known as The Jungle in Calais until its closure in 2016.
www.thefelixproject.org @thefelixproject
Oct 22, 202133:16
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Kate Hall of The Full Freezer
Kate Hall is the Founder of The Full Freezer™ and author of the e-book ‘The Full Freezer (Save Food, Save Time, Save Money)’.
Kate helps busy parents reduce their food waste and cook from scratch more often by using their home freezers more effectively. Unlike batch cooking, The Full Freezer Method is completely flexible and allows families to easily enjoy a wide variety of meals. www.thefullfreezer.com @thefulfreezer
Kate helps busy parents reduce their food waste and cook from scratch more often by using their home freezers more effectively. Unlike batch cooking, The Full Freezer Method is completely flexible and allows families to easily enjoy a wide variety of meals. www.thefullfreezer.com @thefulfreezer
Oct 15, 202101:07:55
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Maya of Green N White
Maya is a core member of the @greennwhite.uk team, who sell sustainable home and personal care essentials, at cost, to members. Their aim is to make sustainable living easy and affordable.
Part of the job includes sharing tips about sustainable living with members to help reduce their carbon footprint in all areas of life. Inevitably this has worn off on Maya who, after a year of researching, decided to try a plant-based diet (along with many other food related changes). www.greennwhite.com
Part of the job includes sharing tips about sustainable living with members to help reduce their carbon footprint in all areas of life. Inevitably this has worn off on Maya who, after a year of researching, decided to try a plant-based diet (along with many other food related changes). www.greennwhite.com
Oct 01, 202132:29
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Bubble & Squeak.
Bubble & Squeak is a social enterprise in East Acton with kids at the heart of what they do. They collect surplus food and distribute it to those in need in their local community. They also run after school clubs and community initiatives hosted by an incredible bunch of children passionate about saving food waste and taking direct action against climate change. They believe in the power of communities built by kids, powered by food. www.bubblesqueakeat.com @bubblesqueakeat
Sep 25, 202125:40
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Sarah and Rich at Flat Earth Pizza.
Sarah and Rich at Flat Earth Pizzas make creative, meat-free pizzas that are kind to the planet. Serving out of The Railway Tavern in Dalston, they use the best ingredients available locally from small producers. Their dough is made from English organic heritage grain flour from Gilchester's in Northumberland and they get chemical-free veg from small, independent growers.
Pickling and fermentation is prevalent throughout their regularly changing menu, using ancient preservation techniques to get the most out of the veg. There is minimal food waste in their kitchen and any small amount of unavoidable food waste is turned into fertiliser for local farms. Flat Earth Pizzas proudly send nothing to landfill.
Instagram: @flatearthpizzas
Website: www.flatearthpizzas.com
Pickling and fermentation is prevalent throughout their regularly changing menu, using ancient preservation techniques to get the most out of the veg. There is minimal food waste in their kitchen and any small amount of unavoidable food waste is turned into fertiliser for local farms. Flat Earth Pizzas proudly send nothing to landfill.
Instagram: @flatearthpizzas
Website: www.flatearthpizzas.com
Sep 18, 202139:24
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Fiona Brennan.
Fiona is a content consultant for vegan businesses and B Corps. She's been vegan for 18 years and is a work-in-progress for becoming less wasteful. Fiona wants to spread the message that you can change the world for the better through stories.
www.indieessentials.co.uk
www.indieessentials.co.uk
Sep 10, 202156:51
Reduction Raider breaks bread with John Pellegrini.
John is a chef, runner, and vegan father of three with a passion for sharing food with people and fighting food waste. Throughout 2020 John worked alongside a local charity to distribute meals made from soon-to-be food waste to his local community, while his recently launched catering business wasn't able to operate as planned. He also put together a family friendly cookbook and believes that educating people more about where their food comes from might be the key to making serious progress with many of the food related world issues we face. You can find out more about him and his work here: @hampshirevegan www.hampshirevegancatering.co.uk
The Art House Southampton CIC, spoken about in the episode: www.thearthousesouthampton.uk
The Art House Southampton CIC, spoken about in the episode: www.thearthousesouthampton.uk
Sep 04, 202146:20
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Sean Rodrigo
Sean Rodrigo is a Walthamstow-based, Artist/Technologist working with creative technology, such as virtual reality and 3D printing, to achieve engaging, insightful and meaningful projects. Sean’s fascination with all things creative technology has lead him to work actively in maker labs across London.
During the first Covid-19 lockdown, Sean’s Lottery funded ‘Mini Morris Project’ donated more than 550 paintable plaster bust sculptures of William Morris to children of Waltham Forest. In September 2020, Sean ran a two week art exhibition at the William Morris Gallery and now sells the plaster busts in the William Morris Gallery shop.
In Lockdown three, Sean’s custom-designed and 3D printed ‘Mini Food Bank’ project has collected over 3000 community donations of non-perishable food for local food charity PL84U Al-Suffa in Wood Street. @minifoodbankse17 www.pl84ualsuffa.co.uk
During the first Covid-19 lockdown, Sean’s Lottery funded ‘Mini Morris Project’ donated more than 550 paintable plaster bust sculptures of William Morris to children of Waltham Forest. In September 2020, Sean ran a two week art exhibition at the William Morris Gallery and now sells the plaster busts in the William Morris Gallery shop.
In Lockdown three, Sean’s custom-designed and 3D printed ‘Mini Food Bank’ project has collected over 3000 community donations of non-perishable food for local food charity PL84U Al-Suffa in Wood Street. @minifoodbankse17 www.pl84ualsuffa.co.uk
Aug 31, 202149:47
Reduction Raider breaks bread with James Eid founder of Earth & Wheat.
Earth & Wheat is a fun new ‘wonky’ bread online delivery platform for families looking to do their bit for the planet and enjoy tasty freshly baked goods at the same time.
It is the world’s first ‘wonky’ bread subscription service and it’s mission is to reduce food waste at the point of production by rescuing imperfect or overproduced bread from UK bakeries which would otherwise have been binned.
Every box at Earth & Wheat is packed with a random mixed selection of delicious ultra-fresh ‘wonky’ crumpets, pancakes, tortillas, pittas and focaccias which are great for any meal time including breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Each box helps save the planet by fighting food waste at the point of production – something no other company is doing at scale.
www.earthandwheat.com @earthandwheat
Aug 21, 202132:08
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Selina Patel.
Selina is a Registered Associated Nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition (AfN), mother of two and founder of @the_lifestyle_nutritionist.
Selina is big on food and believes that we can all enjoy food (without guilt!) and aims to encourage others to take a relaxed approach to nutrition. Inspiring people to get cooking in the kitchen, Selina likes to show that nutritious food doesn’t have to be time consuming or expensive and how we can also utilise those ingredients left in the fridge at the end of the week! Raising her own little foodies, Selina believes it’s important to get her own two boys in the kitchen and trying new foods!
Selina currently works with businesses offering health writing, recipe development and wellbeing talk services.
Instagram: @the_lifestyle_nutritionist
Selina is big on food and believes that we can all enjoy food (without guilt!) and aims to encourage others to take a relaxed approach to nutrition. Inspiring people to get cooking in the kitchen, Selina likes to show that nutritious food doesn’t have to be time consuming or expensive and how we can also utilise those ingredients left in the fridge at the end of the week! Raising her own little foodies, Selina believes it’s important to get her own two boys in the kitchen and trying new foods!
Selina currently works with businesses offering health writing, recipe development and wellbeing talk services.
Instagram: @the_lifestyle_nutritionist
Aug 14, 202149:22
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Karen Heynike
Karen manages the ‘green spaces’ owned by Walton Charity which includes 4 allotment sites, a community allotment project, woodlands, and the gardens of their 2 sheltered housing properties. It has been 5 years since Karen started the community allotment project, turning a wild unkempt area of Walton Charity’s largest allotment site into a haven for local people to enjoy the benefits of volunteering for their mental and physical wellbeing. In addition to learning to grow fruit and vegetables, Karen runs sessions to encourage people to cook with the vegetables they have grown and try new things. www.waltoncharity.org.uk
Aug 07, 202138:33
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Conor Gallagher of AllotMe.
Conor Gallagher is the founder of AllotMe, a platform that pairs up unused garden space with would-be vegetable growers amidst rising demand for allotments, and a move to more sustainable food. Conor founded AllotMe after a career as an architect in London, realising the opportunity of vacant land in the city when met with the reality of decades long allotment waiting lists.
www.allotme.co.uk
@allotme_uk
www.allotme.co.uk
@allotme_uk
Jul 30, 202138:06
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Callum Weir of Yumfu Plant Based Nutrition
Callum Weir is a plant based vegan nutritionist, educational speaker and recipe creator who specialises in whole foods nutrition, Callum started up his own nutrition business “Yumfu” last year during the pandemic. After turning his life around with nutrition it was time to try and help people take back and gain control of their health and life, making peoples journey onto a whole food plant based lifestyle as easy, delicious, educational and fun as possible while trying to take away the stigma attached to the lifestyle and diet.
Instagram: @yumfu.life
Website: www.yumfu.life
Instagram: @yumfu.life
Website: www.yumfu.life
Jul 23, 202150:52
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Conor Spacey.
Conor is committed to investigating food waste, our global food system and finding solutions to ensure that we can have a sustainable food system that ensures everyone has access to nutritious food and no one goes hungry.
His work has also led to him becoming one of the original members, authors and advocate of the Chefs Manifesto, a global network of chefs that now spans over 80 countries that work on 8 thematic areas for chefs to become more sustainable and focus on the United Nations sustainable development goals.
A lot of his work has also seen him collaborate with many NGO’s including World Vision, Concern, WFP, Eat foundation, FAO and many more.
With over 30 years cooking in professional kitchens, he has always championed fresh, local ingredients and works very closely with farmers & growers throughout the country
Conor enjoys sharing his work on zero waste and plastic free kitchens that also have a low carbon footprint that people can introduce to their homes as well as professional kitchens
Conor is also the culinary director of FoodSpace, an award winning contract catering company, that has turned large scale catering into a sustainable system that is also responsible for building circular economies, zero waste and plastic free kitchens/cafes throughout Ireland.
Instagram - @spacey_chef
Twitter - @spaceychef
Jul 16, 202157:06
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Amaeze Madukah MSc RNutr.
Amaeze is a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr) with a Masters degree in Clinical Nutrition. She is a trustee for the Association for Nutrition (AFN) and the founder of the consultancy Life’s Recipe. She also cofounded the Diverse Nutrition association with an aim to enhance equity within health.
Working in both private and public settings, Amaeze works with individuals and groups to cultivate a sustainable, healthy relationship with food to enhance health outcomes. She also supports women experiencing hair issues to find the missing link through nutrition and lifestyle.
Amaeze runs the Instagram page @lifes_recipe where she shares recipes and demystifies health issues, bringing clarity to conflicting advice. This conversation also includes harvesting, allotments, food waste, composting and. The politics of palm oil.
@lifes_recipe
hello@lifesrecipe.co
Working in both private and public settings, Amaeze works with individuals and groups to cultivate a sustainable, healthy relationship with food to enhance health outcomes. She also supports women experiencing hair issues to find the missing link through nutrition and lifestyle.
Amaeze runs the Instagram page @lifes_recipe where she shares recipes and demystifies health issues, bringing clarity to conflicting advice. This conversation also includes harvesting, allotments, food waste, composting and. The politics of palm oil.
@lifes_recipe
hello@lifesrecipe.co
Jul 09, 202139:03
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Tomi Makanjuola.
Tomi Makanjuola is an award-winning food blogger and chef. She runs The Vegan Nigerian, a platform dedicated to making Nigerian cuisine and the vegan lifestyle accessible to members of her community and beyond. Tomi is passionate about reducing food waste, and sharing her knowledge through workshops, cookbooks and online content. She is the author of Plantain Cookbook.
Website: www.vegannigerian.com
Instagram: @VeganNigerian
Facebook: www.facebook.com/VeganNigerian
Twitter: www.twitter.com/VeganNigerian
Website: www.vegannigerian.com
Instagram: @VeganNigerian
Facebook: www.facebook.com/VeganNigerian
Twitter: www.twitter.com/VeganNigerian
Jul 02, 202127:32
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Louisa Ziane co founder of Toast Ale.
Louisa co-founded Toast Ale in 2015. She is the Chief Operating Officer, managing the company's commitment to people, planet and profit, and ensuring the brand is true to its purpose: to end food waste over a cheeky pint. She is a certified management accountant with a background in sustainability consulting and marketing. She's passionate about social enterprise, the circular economy and the growing B Corp movement.
Instagram: @toastale @lou_zed
Website: www.toastale.com
Instagram: @toastale @lou_zed
Website: www.toastale.com
Jun 25, 202101:04:25
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Lucy Vincent Chief Executive of Food Behind Bars.
Lucy Vincent is the Chief Executive and Founder of Food Behind Bars, the UK's only charity dedicated to transforming the food served in British prisons. After a career in journalism and hospitality, Lucy ventured into the world of prison food in 2016 after reading the report from HM Inspectorate and feeling inspired to do something about poor quality prison food. Since then she has visited prisons nationally, worked in prison kitchens and delivered pioneering projects centred around the belief that wholesome and nutritious food can change lives. Lucy has been named in CODE Hospitality's 30 Under 30 and Cosmopolitan's Millennial Power List.
Listen now to hear how Lucy is reducing food waste and indiscriminately raising well-being.
www.foodbehindbars.co.uk
Instagram: @foodbehindbars
Twitter: @foodbehindbars
Facebook: @FoodBehindBarsCharity
Listen now to hear how Lucy is reducing food waste and indiscriminately raising well-being.
www.foodbehindbars.co.uk
Instagram: @foodbehindbars
Twitter: @foodbehindbars
Facebook: @FoodBehindBarsCharity
Jun 11, 202101:00:17
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Pauline Joseph.
Pauline Joseph is a Trinidadian, Digital Marketing Consultant, LinkedIn Caribbean Host, and host of Live from the Caribbean podcast. She was brought up in Trinidad and Barbados, and as an adult spent time living in London.
Pauline is a keen triathlete, competing in half Ironman events. We discuss food waste, her efforts to lose the weight she gained during lockdown, the nutritional needs of competing in such events, the search for a healthy balance, and self acceptance.
We get into how our relationships with food are tied up with our upbringings, attachments, and the way in which this influences our food choices. We discuss Slavery, Racism, the Royal Family, the Meghan Markle interview, what it invokes in us all, and the parallels with food.
www.acmarketingcaribbean.com
@acmcaribbean
@blackwomantriing
Pauline is a keen triathlete, competing in half Ironman events. We discuss food waste, her efforts to lose the weight she gained during lockdown, the nutritional needs of competing in such events, the search for a healthy balance, and self acceptance.
We get into how our relationships with food are tied up with our upbringings, attachments, and the way in which this influences our food choices. We discuss Slavery, Racism, the Royal Family, the Meghan Markle interview, what it invokes in us all, and the parallels with food.
www.acmarketingcaribbean.com
@acmcaribbean
@blackwomantriing
Jun 04, 202101:13:41
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Lily Pearson Food Waste Heroes Account Manager at Olio.
Working for OLIO, a platform that connects neighbours and local businesses to share more and waste less, Lily loves food but hates waste & has a huge interest in the impact of food waste on the environment. Originally from Devon, where she found her love for scuba diving, sea swimming and anything ocean related, she was brought up vegetarian and went vegan at university. She here focused on how meat and dairy consumers use the power of distance to disassociate their actions from the wider ethical consequences in her undergrad, before exploring how food is used as a catalyst of care during the global pandemic in her postgrad. On university holidays, Lily worked in the food industry and independently set up a mini and unofficial food waste system, in which she redistributed the surplus food to the local homeless.
www.olioex.com www.goodgym.org
May 28, 202153:35
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Elaine Entenza, Pilates Brevard.
Elaine Entenza is a major lover of life, and avid movement aficionado. Following her passions from an early age, she began her fitness career back in 1999, and explored almost every movement modality before finding her heart in the Pilates Method. She became a certified teacher in 2004, and has focused her teaching energies here ever since. Her career has allowed her to travel and teach across the globe, including fun places like NYC and London (where she met your marvelous podcast host), but has now rooted down in the WNC mountains with her talented chef-husband and fantastically animated kiddos. With COVID shifting the workout world, she has moved her teaching business online, but is all the better for it; as now, she is able to teach committed students from all corners of the world together via Zoom.
Aside from Pilates, Ayurvedic studies and practices have greatly influenced her personal health journey, and she believes the greatest thing you can do for your welfare is listen and honor your body’s ever-changing needs. And she is not quiet about this belief! Chances are, if you attend one of her classes, you will no doubt receive her most favorite advice: “Listen to your body more than me, please.” 😊
When Elaine is not busy playing with her young kiddos or teaching Pilates, you can find her writing, hiking, eating, or – and most importantly – attempting to sneak in rare sans-kiddo moments with her brilliant-but-also-busy husband, Adam.
And for the record, she hates writing personal profiles, but loves to shoot the breeze with good friends. So, be sure to listen to this episode to discover how she is reducing food waste, taking sustainable steps, her real deal via candid dialogue, with one of her most cherished and greatest best friends.
Email Elaine at pilatesbrevard@gmail.com for more info!
Aside from Pilates, Ayurvedic studies and practices have greatly influenced her personal health journey, and she believes the greatest thing you can do for your welfare is listen and honor your body’s ever-changing needs. And she is not quiet about this belief! Chances are, if you attend one of her classes, you will no doubt receive her most favorite advice: “Listen to your body more than me, please.” 😊
When Elaine is not busy playing with her young kiddos or teaching Pilates, you can find her writing, hiking, eating, or – and most importantly – attempting to sneak in rare sans-kiddo moments with her brilliant-but-also-busy husband, Adam.
And for the record, she hates writing personal profiles, but loves to shoot the breeze with good friends. So, be sure to listen to this episode to discover how she is reducing food waste, taking sustainable steps, her real deal via candid dialogue, with one of her most cherished and greatest best friends.
Email Elaine at pilatesbrevard@gmail.com for more info!
May 21, 202152:23
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Leah Webb.
Leah is a family food and garden coach residing in the mountains of North Carolina, USA. Her cookbook, The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook is a complete meal planning guide for those committed to eating more homecooked meals, even on busy weeknights. Her commitment to health is inspired by her garden, her two children’s medical challenges, and the unexpected gifts that accompany adversity. Listen to how she manages family life and food waste. Learn more at www.leahmwebb.com
@leah_m_webb
@leah_m_webb
May 14, 202101:01:02
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Becky from Genre Cycle
Becky Spiga, founder of Genre Cycle is a mum on a mission to help fellow binge eaters find light at the end of the tunnel.
Hear how she is taking measures to lessen food waste in Bahrain.
Instagram: @genrecycle
Hear how she is taking measures to lessen food waste in Bahrain.
Instagram: @genrecycle
May 07, 202135:57
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Vicki Mcgarrigle
As well as looking after a family of 4, London based Vicki Mcgarrigle, is the Executive Director/Communications Officer with Minds United FC. Based in North Kensington they support adults, with lived experience of mental health, through football. Vicki also volunteers with Under One Sky, London, providing food and clothes for the homeless in Central London. Since the pandemic, Vicki has started her own project, Laraine’s Story, with a friend to end a pensioner’s rough sleeping. They raised £38,000 and moved Laraine on from Church steps into a warm hotel. Instagram: @vickimcgarrigle @underonesky_london @mindsunitedfc
Apr 30, 202149:49
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Hazel of The People’s Army
30 year old Hazel Jhugroo is a mother, go getter, positivity queen, zero food waste warrior and founder of The People’s Army. Hear how she rallied the troops from her bedroom, to support others, and reduce food waste, as the pandemic struck. Instagram: @thepeoplesarmyldn
Apr 24, 202126:33
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Sareta Puri.
Sareta Puri is a Scottish-Indian plant-based chef, writer, consultant and food activist. She became vegetarian aged 8, due to a love for animals, and eventually vegan in her late 20s. After a decade working in youth charity sector, Sareta decided to become a ‘professional vegan’ - starting with supper clubs & food writing - and now works on a range of projects that make a positive impact on the planet. Sareta is currently Head Chef of Made in Hackney’s community meal service in London, a cooking teacher, a Diversity & Inclusion Associate for Be Inclusive Hospitality plus works on ad hoc projects relating to food or equality.
In February 2021, Sareta published her first book, Plant Based Planet, co-curated with The Vegan Food Fiend. Listen now to hear how she is tackling food waste!
www.saretapuri.com
@saretapuri
Apr 16, 202154:42
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Amy of Temple of the Feminine
Amy is a sexual healing and feminine awakening coach, crystal yoni tool provider and founder of Temple of the Feminine. She is known for her enlightening and inspiring content on her social media channels on the concepts of masculine & feminine energy as well as conscious sexuality for the mind, body and soul. Amy facilitates transformative group courses, 1-1 mentorship programmes and her signature Feminine Awakening Classes and Sex Magic Rituals. Tune in to hear how sex and relationships feed into food waste. Instagram: @templeofthefeminine Website: https://linktr.ee/templeofthefeminine
Apr 09, 202151:15
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Chantelle aka I Lost My Tempeh
Hi, my name is Chantelle, and I began my vegan lifestyle back in February 2016 and found the transition from being a short-term vegetarian to vegan, pretty straightforward
Both sides of my family were restauranteurs and my dad was French-trained chef, so growing up, I was always surrounded by fantastic food, so veganising dishes that were familiar to me was not only enjoyable but also easy — I had support from my whole family, which was a huge advantage and they soon too became vegan
I started my own vegan catering business and tried to introduce vegan food to a wider community.
Fast forward to 2018, and I landed my dream job at a vegan publisher as the recipe creator for their magazines
Three years on, I’ve started my own YouTube channel called Meet and Eat.
I post my vegan food creations on here, on my channel and on Instagram, in a bid to show everyone how EASY being vegan really is. Tune in to hear how Chantelle is reducing food waste and flying the flag for veganism and sustainability. Instagram: @i_lost_my_tempeh
Website: linktr.ee/I_lost_my_tempeh
Both sides of my family were restauranteurs and my dad was French-trained chef, so growing up, I was always surrounded by fantastic food, so veganising dishes that were familiar to me was not only enjoyable but also easy — I had support from my whole family, which was a huge advantage and they soon too became vegan
I started my own vegan catering business and tried to introduce vegan food to a wider community.
Fast forward to 2018, and I landed my dream job at a vegan publisher as the recipe creator for their magazines
Three years on, I’ve started my own YouTube channel called Meet and Eat.
I post my vegan food creations on here, on my channel and on Instagram, in a bid to show everyone how EASY being vegan really is. Tune in to hear how Chantelle is reducing food waste and flying the flag for veganism and sustainability. Instagram: @i_lost_my_tempeh
Website: linktr.ee/I_lost_my_tempeh
Apr 03, 202158:12
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Bettylicious
I’m excited to introduce Betty Vandy, Chef & Writer, who’s travelled across West Africa and is now in Sierra Leone. Born and raised in Liverpool, England Betty started her journey from London, England to Ghana in 2019 then went onto Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone to discover her African plant based roots and family food legacy along the way.
She’s currently writing a book titled ‘Gather at the table’ featuring amazing black and brown women from across the world, involved in food as well as chronicling her own journey. Tune in to hear more about her relationship with food and food waste. Instagram: @bettyliciouscooks @gatheratthetable Website: https://linktr.ee/BettyVandy
Mar 27, 202153:47
Reduction Raider breaks bread with Martyn Odell aka The Lagom Chef.
Introducing Martyn aka “The Lagom Chef” A no-nonsense honest and humble trained chef with over 15 years experience in kitchens across the world. With a genuine passion for healthy eating and saving the planet.
"I want to radically shake up the culture of food waste elitism by showing people how easy it is to live a healthy sustainable life!”
Martyn draws on his years of teaching, performing and cookery experience to teach practical cooking skills.
Showing people how to use everyday ingredients in creative and clever ways, making sustainable cooking at home easy, digestible and fun!
I am not doing this because its trendy there is a real problem… Website: www.lagomchef.com Instagram: @lagomchef
"I want to radically shake up the culture of food waste elitism by showing people how easy it is to live a healthy sustainable life!”
Martyn draws on his years of teaching, performing and cookery experience to teach practical cooking skills.
Showing people how to use everyday ingredients in creative and clever ways, making sustainable cooking at home easy, digestible and fun!
I am not doing this because its trendy there is a real problem… Website: www.lagomchef.com Instagram: @lagomchef
Mar 20, 202136:58
Reduction Raider breaks bread with improv star Monica Gaga
Monica Gaga is a British-born, London based, Black African queer improviser, facilitator, host and scripted actor and performer.
When she is not performing, hosting or teaching, Monica is championing diversity, inclusion and equity in improv and trying to get as many people, particularly POC, involved as possible.
Let’s explore her relationship with food, food waste, and that horned melon! Website: www.monicagaga.com
Instagram: @msmonicagaga
When she is not performing, hosting or teaching, Monica is championing diversity, inclusion and equity in improv and trying to get as many people, particularly POC, involved as possible.
Let’s explore her relationship with food, food waste, and that horned melon! Website: www.monicagaga.com
Instagram: @msmonicagaga
Mar 14, 202127:23
Introducing Reduction Raider who will be exploring guests relationships with food and food waste.
Alright Raiders 👋🏽 Are you partial to a yellow sticker, reduction raiding? Do you get knee deep in the supermarket reduced crate? Or are you wanting to waste less? Change your relationship with food, cooking? I’m here to talk to guests about their relationships with food. Discover their food journeys and consider the changes we want to see for our person, our people, our planet! On this first episode, I’ll be introducing myself by answering the questions that I’ll be putting to others! Website: www.reductionraider1.wordpress.com
Instagram: @reduction_raider1
Instagram: @reduction_raider1
Mar 06, 202122:12
Alright Raiders
Alright Raiders 👋🏽 Are you partial to a yellow sticker, reduction raiding? Do you get knee deep in the supermarket reduced crate? Or are you wanting to waste less? Change your relationship with food, cooking? I’m here to talk to guests about their relationships with food. Discover their food journeys and consider the changes we want to see for our person, our people, our planet!
Mar 06, 202100:33