Harvest Potluck Update

Thank you to everyone who brought sustainable dishes to our Harvest Thanksgiving Potluck Lunch. And thank you to everyone who brought in donations to the Salvation Army’s breakfast food appeal, and to everyone who also gave donations to GAiN for relief for the Turkish earthquake victims.

We would appreciate hearing your feedback about the potluck lunch, if you enjoyed the food and if it made you think about what you cook and eat.

Here is the list of sustainable dishes that people brought:

First course dishes

• Chickpea and rice salad
• Lentils with tomato salad
• Potato and tuna salad
• Tomato cucumber feta salad
• Pasta salad
• White bean salad
• Lentils with green leaf salad
• Couscous with beetroot salad
• Potato omelette
• Olives

Second course dishes

• Spinach curry
• Chili chicken curry
• Red lentil curry
• Spinach crepes
• Egyptian lentil soup with yoghurt
• Tomato with sausage dish
• Crumbed chicken
• Saffron rice with cherry tomatoes

Desserts

• Apple crumble
• Chocolate brownies
• Carrot cake
• Red apples
• Blueberry tart
• Natillas de café
• Banana cake with lemon icing

Recipes are available for some of these dishes. Contact the church office or check out St George’s Facebook page where you can upload your own favourite sustainable recipe with a photo, too, to encourage others.

Our aim is to reduce each person’s Carbon Footprint through what we eat. You can check your impact through these links:

• Click here to test your knowledge of which foods are planet friendlier. (You’ll be presented with pairs of meals. Click on the image of the one that you think has a lower CO2 score. You may be surprised!)
• Foodprint Calculators can also help you understand how much your food choices impact the planet. Click here for a list of different Foodprint Calculators so you can figure out the carbon foodprint of different meals, and how your food intake compares to emissions from driving, heating a home and consuming water.
• Please remember to complete our Caring for Creation survey so we can all practise good stewardship and become a responsible Eco Church.

St George’s Church is reducing its environmental impact in various ways. One such project, which the church council has approved, is to install solar panels on the church roof. We are working on the management of implementing this. If you are interested in this project or others, please contact the church office.

St George’s Caring for Creation Group was formed to help everyone become better aware of the importance of sustainability, and to do everything we can to make our lifestyles on this Earth more sustainable.

As the famous conservationist Jane Goodall once said: “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”