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Daily Bread Cambridge coming to a market near you!

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We’ve recently started attending more markets in and around Cambridge, bringing a selection of our most popular items. Our next market day will be a farmers’ market run by Farmers Fayres, on Saturday 17th September from 9am-12pm at Histon Methodist Church.

Last Saturday we attended EcoFest at Great Shelford Free Church which was a great day and had a wonderful community feel with family activities and local produce. The Repair Cafe run by Cambridge Carbon Footprint, and the human fruit machine were particular highlights!

We welcome ‘special orders’ in advance of the markets we’re attending, so if you’ll be in attendance and want us to bring something along to save you a trip, please fill out the ‘special order’ form on our website, or call, email, or tell us in person.

Histon Farmers' Market graphic with black ink illustrations of foods, text saying Histon Farmers' Market, and the address of Histon Methodist Church, which is 22 High Street, Histon. The date shown is 17th September from 9am to 12pm.

The farmers’ market has moved to Histon from Impington where we’ve attended the past few months. It runs every 3rd Saturday of the month, and we confirm our attendance via our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts a week or so prior. We hope to see some familiar faces in Histon on Saturday, and meet some new ones too!

See photos on our social media accounts from the recent farmers’ markets at Impington if you’d like to see our set up and the kind of items we bring.

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National Allotments Week: Daily Bread's outdoor growing space by Transition Cambridge

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National Allotments Week image from: NSALG

It's National Allotments Week!
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For 20 years the National Allotment Society have been "raising awareness of allotments and their role in helping people to live healthier lifestyles, grow their own food, develop friendships & bolster communities". (Quoted text from NSALG website.)

Here’s our in store display table with our National Allotments Week product picks:

Blackboard with chalk writing saying National Allotment Week
Wicker bowl containing Handmade Norfolk Soaps Gardener's Hand soap, Badger Balm for hardworking hands, and Boxworth Botanicals gardeners hand cream
National Allotments Week display table with blackboard, seeds, soaps, gardening gloves, and greeting cards
Wooden display containing packets of wildflower seeds from King's Seeds, and seeds from Green Manures range

Did you know we have our own little growing space in front of Daily Bread that nurtures these principles too?

Photo collage featuring a wooden sign with the text 'edible landscaping, Transition Cambridge, along with tomatoes, courgette, beetroot, and squash at varying degrees of growth.

Transition Cambridge veggie garden outside Daily Bread Co-op, King’s Hedges

Going back a few years, Transition Cambridge set us up with an edible landscaping platform in the form of raised fruit/veg beds as part of their Growing Spaces project. Their volunteers transformed an area by our carpark into a space where the community can come and pick their own fruit & veg!

The raised beds are decorated with Jayne Ruffell-Ward’s beautiful steel sculptures as can be seen on the Growing Spaces website. We currently have fruit, veg, and herbs growing, so come and see if there’s anything ready and ripe for the picking!
Find out more via their website: transitioncambridge.org 🌱

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New Product: Candy Kittens gourmet vegan sweets!

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Introducing a new product on our shelves: Candy Kittens!
Gourmet sweets that are:

Candy Kittens gourmet sweets on a small plate with two packets in the background

vegan

made with fruit juice

palm oil free

natural flavours & colours

carbon neutral

very tasty!

Candy Kittens Loves packet of vegan sweets with small dish of cat shaped sweets next to it.
Three packets of Candy Kittens in a row.

These have been very popular both with staff and customers since they hit the shelves. We hope you like them too!

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Recipe: cacao and goji berry energy balls served with grapefruit

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If you seek a decadent alternative option to refined sugars, enjoy the chocolate and grapefruit taste sensation that is our Chef Donna McLuskie’s goji berry energy balls! Recipe as follows:

1/4 cup goji berries

1 cup walnuts or pecans, blended/finely chopped

1 tablespoon sparkling water

1 tablespoon almond butter

½ cup frozen blueberries

5 tablespoons of cocoa or cacao powder

½ cup porridge oats 

1 teaspoon hulled hempseed for topping

STEP 1

Whizz together the frozen blueberries, almond butter and water (and the goji berries if they are not soft). If your nut dust is not as fine as you would like, then whizz it with this mixture as well. Otherwise, just add the nut dust with the other ingredients below.

STEP 2

Place this mixture in a bowl and add 4 tablespoons of the cocoa or cacao powder and the rest of the ingredients. Mix all together. Shape this mixture into small balls about 25mm or 1” diameter. You will probably end up with around 16 energy balls of this size.

STEP 3

In a sealable container, place 1 tablespoon of cocoa or cacao powder. Carefully add the energy balls, stopping to close the container and shake gently to cover the balls with the powder before continuing to add more of the balls (so that they don’t stick together). Store the finished product in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to five days.

STEP 4

To serve, place some energy balls in a bowl and top with grapefruit segments (kudos to Chef Clive for highlighting this incredibly delicious taste combination), and pour over some of the juice. Sprinkle with cocoa or cacao powder (and some hulled hempseed for an extra energy boost, if desired).

All mentioned ingredients are available at Daily Bread Co-operative Cambridge. Find our product list here.

New Product: Biona organic green curry coconut milk

New product alert! We now stock Biona green curry coconut milk which is dairy free, organic & vegan.

Suggestion for a simple, wholesome meal: fry some onion, add the milk, add diced root veg or lighter veg (depending on season). Serve with rice. Mmmm!


We’d love to see what you make with this coconut milk - share on social media and @mention/#tag us!

 

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