Keep Calm and Curry On!

On a lovely sunny Saturday morning, six goodgym runners headed to the Hindu Community Centre in Grangetown to help out Food for Life Wales. Food For Life Wales is a project by Ty Krishna Cymru that was started over 20 years ago to feeding those in need in South Wales. During the pandemic they started helping by mainly delivering daily meal deliveries to those who were self-isolating. They have now expanded to help people with physical and/or mental health conditions and also those who may be struggling financially.

Once everyone arrived, we put on our masks, aprons and even hair nets so we could start helping getting over 500 meals ready! A massive amount of curry and rice had been cooked by other volunteers, which was waiting to get packed up. We formed a curry packing conveyer belt with; Flo and Lowri on rice, Alison and Imy on curry and Martin and Charlotte were lid sealers.

Despite the tray of rice being the size of small surf board and having over four huge buckets of curry, we flew through packing it all up. We then helped with the cleaning, mopping and hoovering before we all headed off. A few goodgymers also helped washing up all the big pans. They were impressed that instead of using standard wooden spoons, an actual oar was used to stir the curries!

It was a busy couple of hours and lovely to catch up with other goodgymers. It was also a key mission for Alison as it was her first ever Good Deed!! She had previously joined in with Goodgym Cardiff's virtual events from her home in North East England. It was great she could take part when down in Cardiff for the weekend.

Credit to Martin for the pun!