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Vegan Sausage Rolls

Almost everybody loves sausage rolls and although traditionally not the healthiest of foods, these home-made ones are in fact packed full of wholefoods and deep flavours meaning they’re not only delicious but nutritious too!

If you have time to make homemade vegan puff pastry that

We love grass roots community organisations and what they can do to support their locals, so when Dee in our Business Development Team found out about Granton Community Gardeners and what they're doing she was delighted to be able to offer them our monthly donation and got in touch to find out more about

Rose Harissa Marinated Tofu Skewers

I’ve been really excited by our exclusive, new, deli brand Belazu, which claims to make ‘chef grade ingredients for your kitchen’.

So, for this week’s recipe I thought it would be an excellent idea to try one of their products out to see just how good it is.

I decided

Vegan Spiral Spanakopita Pie

We’ve recently taken on a Greek brand of vegan cheese from called GreenVie. I personally find feta style cheese to be one of the best vegan cheeses as its mild flavour and crumbly texture are easy to replicate than some other cheeses… While cooking the staff lunch (which

It’s a very happy 10th anniversary for The Penicuik Store house, a community-owned grocery shop and café, first established in 2015 with funds raised by selling £25 shares to the local community. The Penicuik Storehouse offer a wide range of organic store cupboard staples, groceries, fresh fruit and

Organic Sri Lankan Jackfruit Curry

For Organic September this year we have used a delicious but sometimes overlooked protein source, Jackfruit. We picked the Organic tinned Jackfruit by Essential which is ethically sourced from a small group of farmers in Sri Lanka. To honour it’s heritage we have put

We were approached by a lady called Maeve who had heard about our charity donation scheme through a mutual friend. She explained that she helps run a hub where women suffering homelessness can seek support and receive emergency food and hygeine packs and also have a safe place to spend time.

After a

It's Co-op Fortnight and the theme this year is #CoopHeroes.

This Co-op Fortnight is particularly special as it falls in the UN International Year of Co-operatives 2025, so we asked our Babs to put pen to paper, or more accurately fingers to keyboard, and give us a few words on the subject.
Aside from

The good people at Blackhill's Growing reached out to us with the hope of becoming recipients of our monthly £500 donation.

After a quick discussion our donations team agree that they're definitely worthy! I was lucky enough to be able to do the donation myself which allowed me to have a look around

Social Bite is a social enterprise which is close to our hearts and we have worked with them a lot over the past few years. Every day of the week they hand out packs of free food to the homeless and to people in need. When they approached us to see if we could donate some food for this worthy cause we