Meet other foodies, share your love of food & take home produce lovingly made, brewed or grown! No money changes hands, the currency is your home produce! The first part of a Food Swap event is for greeting, displaying your stuff, completing ‘swap cards’ for each item of produce you’ve brought and for setting up some tasting samples if you have them. Then it’s on to chatting, tasting, perusing the available items and writing down what you would like to offer for other people’s produce on swap cards. Around an hour into proceedings we make an announcement and everyone heads back to their goods to see who’s expressed interest…. and then the fun begins! Using the cards as a basis for negotiating, you finalise your swaps – and rapidly find yourself with a haul of fantastic produce to take home. A few Food Swap tips:
Arrive at the start (or as close as you can) – so you don’t miss out on potential swaps. Batches are good – the more items you bring, the more you take home. So, if you bring one cake, you’d get to take home one jar of jam (say). If you bring three cakes and a jar of chutney from your larder, you’d be able to take home that jar of jam, plus a sourdough loaf, a bag of organic apples and some granola…… so the more the merrier definitely works! Think about packaging your items up so that they can be easily transported by other swappers – and feel free to make them look attractive too! Think about portion swapability as well: a loaf of bread, 225g (8oz) of jam or 6 eggs are about equal. Label your produce where you can. Bring samples to share/taste. More Information from www.hertfordabundance.co.uk
