South Birmingham Food Coop

2012 Meeting

South Birmingham Food Coop — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:27:09 +0000

2012 is going to be an exciting year for SBFC as we are opening up a shop on Stirchley High Street in collaboration with Loaf bakery and cookery school. To get involved please come to one of our meetings:

5/1/12 & 19/1/12 : 8pm start : The British Oak

There are lots of things to do! From graphic artist to salesperson, jam maker to carpenter, if you have a skill – or if you simply have time – get in contact!

SBFC

December meeting x 2

South Birmingham Food Coop — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:51:40 +0000

As it is the festive season we thought we would treat ourselves to two SBFC meetings in December….one of which is followed by a social!

****Next meeting 8 pm on 01/12/11 – British Oak Pub, Pershore Road, Stirchley****

****Second December meeting 7.30pm on 15/12/11 – British Oak Pub, Pershore Road, Stirchley…..then SOCIAL venue tbc (but it will be one of Stirchley’s finest curry houses) ****

New members are very welcome – if you’re interested in providing environmentally friendly, ethical and good-for-the-purse foods for yourself and others please come along and find out more.

South Birmingham Food Coop

March meeting….

South Birmingham Food Coop — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:14:41 +0000

The date for the March meeting is 29/3/11, at 7.30pm, venue TBA….

First meeting of 2011…

South Birmingham Food Coop — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:54:43 +0000

The first meeting for 2011 will be at Selly Oak constituency office (address below) on Thursday the 24th of February, 7-9pm. We will be talking about the new supermarkets in Stirchley (boo!) and our possible new shop in collaboration with Loaf (cheer!), among other things. All welcome!

SBFC needs some space….

South Birmingham Food Coop — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:44:09 +0000

If you or anyone you know has some storage space available long-term in the Stirchley area SBFC would like to use it for keeping our food in. Email us!

Parecon talk

South Birmingham Food Coop — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:26:35 +0000

Short notice about this, but I only found out about it myself yesterday.

On Tuesday at 7pm there will be talk at the University of Birmingham,
Muirhead Tower (R21), Lecture Theatre G15.

Parecon stands for ‘participatory economics’, a type of democratic
economy proposed as an alternative to capitalism. The leader in the
field is Michael Albert and it’s him that is giving the talk. I saw him
speak on Saturday and it was very entertaining and informative.

I thought that the other SBFC members may be interested as the coop
movement is seen as one which has thinking much in line with Parecon.

If you’re interested in coming but don’t know the university very well
then contact me on lxw799@bham.ac.uk and we can arrange
somewhere to meet up beforehand.

Lucy

Product Review: Meridian Peanut Butter

South Birmingham Food Coop — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:02:38 +0000

First of what will be (hopefully) a series of product reviews and recipes from members of SBFC. If you’d like to add a review/recipe email us and we’ll put it up.

Product: Meridian Peanut Butter – £3.75 for 1kg.

Just like it says on my 1kg tub, this peanut butter definately tastes ‘natural’ – ingrediants after all are just 99% peanuts, 1% sea salt. This is my first experience of ‘proper’ peanut butter, I usually buy the shiny jars from the supermarket (not any more, thank you SBFC), and I was slightly suprised when I opened it as it did look a bit dodgy. The oil had separated and left a thick brown suspicious looking sludge at the bottom of the tub.
A quick stir round with a spoon sorted this out and this is when I realised ‘Wow this peanut butter is thick’. And it is very thick and gloopy but also delicious in the way it sticks your mouth together glue….mmmm….
I have tried it in a peanut butter and banana sandwich and I’ve added it to a stir fry with soy sauce and I’ve also eaten it from the tub with a spoon: I can confirm that this is definately a top notch peanut butter (If you like your PB to actually taste of peanuts)
I’ve heard that the no added salt one is EVEN BETTER so will get that next and report back.

Final score: 9/10

Up and Coming Meetings

South Birmingham Food Coop — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:13:43 +0000

Hello,
At the last meeting we discussed future meeting dates – the idea being that we should set the same time each month to meet up. At the moment we are saying this will alternate between the third Thursday and the third Wednesday of each month (so people who can’t make either of these days can at least come every 2 months!).

It’s not TOTALLY final yet, so check back on here for any changes closer to the time:
October – Thursday, 21st
November – Wednesday 17th
Time for the meetings will be 7pm-9pm

IMPORTANT!
Change of venue for the October meeting – now to be held at British Oak Pub, Pershore Road

The meetings are NORMALLY at:
Birmingham constituency office,
1459 Pershore Road,
Stirchley, Birmingham,
West Midlands
B30 2JL

New members are very welcome – if you’re interested in providing environmentally friendly, ethical and good-for-the-purse foods for yourself and others please come along and find out more.

South Birmingham Food Coop

First general meeting, Thursday 13th May

South Birmingham Food Coop — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:01:27 +0000

Details here: http://wp.me/PQvdj-g