Gill here! Todays pantry we had a lovely selection of goodies saved from supermarket waste. Huge beefsteak tomatoes, lovely ripe bananas, satsumas by the few dozen, swede, butternut squash, a huge variety of breads, cakes and pastries, vegan milk, coconut water and even crisps.

We never quite know what we’re going to get! But a big part of our Community pantry is saving food from holes in the ground and getting it into bellies. So if you want to help reduce waste please come see us and take away some goodies!

Of course, the other reason for having the pantry is to feed folk who struggle. Along with our supermarket donations we provide our Community Cafe with tea, coffee, hot chocolate and even squash today. So for those folk paying forward drinks and soups we are extremely grateful!

Today that was 6 soups and 12 drinks! About 30 folk came in today including old faces from Above Bar, new regulars and totally new faces.

Today’s soup chef was John who made a gorgeous butternut squash, ginger and coconut soup … huge thankyou John.

Ziggy, Graham and Gill looked after the pantry and Huge thankyou to Bik and Ziggy for being our Wednesday pick up pixies!

We have lovely bright new aprons for volunteers to use.

We do need continuing support, also toiletries, store cupboard goods and volunteers. There’s a volunteer ‘job description’ coming very soon so if you fancy doing set-up, Pantry host or clear up, or any combination of, please let us know!!

Thank you for reading, I’ll follow this up next week with an end of month summary! Looking forward to May and beyond!

To support the pantry with a regular or one-off donation, any amount most welcome and needed, visit: https://thearthousesouthampton.org/donate/