Create & Make
Create & Make is a surplus food recipe kit produced by the Mayors Fund for London and The Felix Project.
Each London household wastes roughly £600 worth of food every year – most of which is edible. Create & Make empowers families to make meals that help tackle food waste. Each recipe kit contains pantry staples (such as chickpeas, chopped tomatoes and soy sauce) along with a lucky dip of fresh produce and instructional material to help turn ‘wonky’ fruit and vegetables into delicious meals.
Create & Make inspires families to try new ingredients or use familiar ingredients in ways that they might never have done before. It’s a recipe kit that helps the environment – you can freestyle your own recipes with the items you receive, or you can follow the recipe frameworks we’ve linked – either way you’re helping to cut London’s ginormous food waste footprint.
We’d love to see you enjoying your creations! Share them with us using #CreateandMake.
Design the new Create & Make box
Our Create and Make boxes are getting an upgrade! We are looking for young people to get creative and design a new Create and Make kit.
All you need to do is design a new Create & Make box on paper with pens or digitally, you can use our template to help. You can do this on your own or in a group. Your design must say ‘Create & Make’ somewhere on the box. Submit your idea to us and it could be developed and printed onto future boxes!
To find out more and see the template download the kit below.
Create & Make Food Waste Hacks
For Stop Food Waste Day, we wanted to help you understand how the food in your kitchen can go further and last longer. So we worked with Chef Nureen Glaves to produce the ‘Create & Make Food Waste Hacks’ mini-guide! It’s full of tips and advice on how to help repurpose food and combat food waste.
Our guide also contains recipes that go hand in hand with the ingredients in our Create & Make boxes: meal kits for families providing a selection of store cupboard staples along with a lucky dip of fresh produce and instructional materials to help families turn ‘wonky’ fruit and vegetables into delicious meals.