Pocket to Plate

Given the challenging times over the last few years with the pandemic and the cost of living crisis, the council wants to ensure a sustainable approach to good food for everyone in the city for years to come.

The new approach will cover anything and everything to do with food from helping people get food savvy by developing cooking skills in person and online, accessing good quality, but reasonably priced food and even growing their own.

With financial challenges increasing for councils, City of Wolverhampton Council wants to ensure its residents can still eat well and have the knowledge and skills to avoid food insecurity even in the toughest of times.

The council cannot achieve this alone and needs the help and commitment of a wide network of partners across the city who already contribute to supporting people to eat well in a wide variety of ways.

Pocket to Plate got underway with an event for all partners, where the council shared its vision and gave organisations the chance to sign up to a new Food Alliance to deliver the approach. 

And from 5pm on Thursday, November 21 you’ll be able to get a taste (see what we did there?) of Pocket to Plate for yourself with the first project. Wulfrunian TikTok cooking sensation and Sunday Times bestselling author Mitch Lane has joined forces with community chefs from the WV10 Consortium, Prince and Simon, to create recipes and cooking tips every week for followers on youtube, instagram and tiktok.

You can follow now on those platforms @pocketoplate and over the coming weeks and months there’ll be advice on developing good basic food skills, how to do set pieces like a decent ‘fakeaway’ and themed recipes to help make the most of seasonal food events. We want you to get involved by challenging the chefs and suggesting what they want them to cover each week.

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