OK – play our game. It’s called the “#GoodFoodPlace game: a bottom up approach to making healthy, sustainable food the norm through social media” (catchy, right?)
Good food place-making is what Food Partnerships are about:
“Through the power of partnerships, we aim to make healthy and sustainable food a defining characteristic of where we live.”
The Rules of the Game
Share your photos of good food on social media (if you want to tag the @LincolnshireFoodPartnership we’re on Facebook and Instagram) with hashtag #GoodFood*placename*
For example: this scrumptious meal that I had recently – thank you, Rising Cafe – would be #GoodFoodLincoln (it’s on Newland, quite near the station).
(That main vegetable is celeriac, in case you were wondering – an under-appreciated vegetable that’s in season now and grown in Lincolnshire.)
Simple!
What counts as good food?
- Healthy – that is, multiple kinds of plants are core ingredients (not a cheffy garnish!). Dietary fibre and diversity of vegetables are our main dietary deficits – we don’t eat anywhere near our five-a-day! But most of us would like to, if it was a bit easier.
- Sustainable – I acknowledge this is not simple, but you might have in mind principles like seasonality, inclusion of legumes (beans and pulses), unusual cuts of meat, locality, etc…
- Tasty – it’s subjective, but just go for it – if it looks appetising, take a photo!
So play the Good Food Game with us!
If you tag us @LincolnshireFoodPartnership, we’ll share your photo.
Why play this game?
Pardon my little rant: it’s been doing my head in that when I get off a train, or when I’m in town for a meeting, etc, it is such a headache to find a tasty, nourishing meal! I’m always banging on about healthy, sustainable diets, and then, not quite of my own choosing, I’m found scoffing chips for my lunch.
I’m finding it really hard to put my own principles into practice! – especially when I’m on the hoof, needing to travel light, or (confession time!) I didn’t plan ahead, batch cook from scratch and pack a lunch.
I take my hat off to our mothers and grandmothers, and aspire to their culinary preparedness, but I think I’m a fairly average twenty-first century working parent in this regard.
Lincolnshire is the nation’s breadbasket – and veggie box and fishing net – I mean, good food is part of our territory, inheritance and identity… isn’t it? Why is it so hard?
It doesn’t have to be fancy!
I’m interested in food that is nourishing, sustainable, delicious…. and ordinary!
By which I mean everyday good food, as opposed to fancy cheffy food with a flourish (delightful as that may be)!
But I’m not advocating for cheap food food: there is a devastating number of people in Lincolnshire, from Scunthorpe to Spalding, who can’t afford to put decent food on the family table because they don’t have enough money to cover the basics.
That’s “a moral scar on society” as the last Labour manifesto rightly described it.
But it’s not because the food is too expensive – food is too cheap, and cheap food is partly what got us into this mess – but that’s another story.
So – let’s make it a bit easier for each other to eat better, and show our appreciation for the great food places serving us healthy, sustainable, delicious nosh!
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