Lentil we meet again at Kingsgate Student Pantry
12 Goodgymers helped their local community in Kingston upon Thames
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Tuesday 4th February
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Use-by dates. Not always applied at home, provided something passes the sniff test or hasn’t gone green, but an important factor at Kingsgate Student Pantry.
Much of this fun task involved a brilliant turn out of GoodGym members going through the various items donated to the student food bank.
Ken, Marcos, Rachel, Jana, Jacqui and Ana all got stuck in straining their eyes on packets to make sure everything was safe to consume. Dave used some elbow grease to clean the freezer while Claire and Julie did the same in the kitchen.
Luke and Tom, meanwhile, very nearly consigned 50kg of lentils to the dustbin when nearly mistaking the date they were packed for the use-by. Mistake amended, they were reassigned to smaller packets, with the bag sealer getting a thorough outing.
A fun task and a warm welcome from the Kingsgate team before we reconvened at the Albion
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Kingsgate Student PantryKingsGate Student Pantry is a not-for-profit social supermarket, set up to help address food insecurity among students.
National research as well as student survey data from the university demonstrate a need to support students, many of whom are affected by the cost-of-living pressures. This first-come, first-serve weekly pantry charges only £5 for £25’s worth of food, personal hygiene and essential household cleaning items. Feel free to pop by for a tea or coffee whilst picking up your groceries, or tune into the live healthy budget cooking demonstrations and access the optional pastoral support and signposting to additional services available.
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