This past Saturday, 11 of us GoodGymmers ran 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 based in Cardiff Bay. It has been feeding those in need in South Wales with hot, nutritious, plant-based meals for over 20 years. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has adapted its service to be able to reach those who are self-isolating through daily meal deliveries.

It was very busy when we arrived, with vounteer drivers picking up boxes of ready-packaged meals to distribute to households as far away as Swansea. In the kitchen and prep area, other volunteers were already stuck in. Some were dishing up an Indian dessert into small tubs - a puree which smelled lovely! We GoodGym volunteers picked up where they left off, filling over 1,000 little tubs in 2 hours! We then sealed and wiped them down when they cooled, ready to be put into more meal packages.

But the fun didn't end there - we also unpacked store-bought tomatoes, peeled carrots and then chopped them into julienne sticks (those thin little sticks you get in salads or sometimes steamed). Others helped out by tidying up - sweeping, wiping down table tops and a final hoover of the prep room floor, before more volunteers arrived for the afternoon shift.

It was a very busy, hot and intense 2 hours - but we didn't carrot all!

I'll get my coat ...