Cooking for SMILE Basketballers

New Aspect of CWF(Cookin with Foyer)
   Carl Millar wishes to integrate his basketball sesions with a healthy eating session for when they come back from Doncaster College's Gym (where they have the sessions)
   Several people within foyer are doing this "SMILE - Simple Making It Look Easy" thing will Carl Millar (Ex-Pro Basketball Player), every monday.
   unfortunately this week Carl got stuck in London because of the snow so David (a resident here & basketball coach in training) lead the basketball sessions instead. Carl was meant to be teaching me how to do Pasta Carbonara, Yvonne had already got all the ingredients & left them in the staff kitchen for us. Chris a staff member decided to step in & help us with the cooking since Carl was away. We cooked & served the food, it was hectic in that tiny kitchen!! but we did it :D

Trying to obtain some photographs Chris took while serving etc. Got to email Karen V about it since she'll be incharge of it all & she's gone home for the night.

Becky C wants to cook some kind of Curry next week or something along those lines, i'll discuss it with Yvonne tomorrow & see what can be done, as well as looking at risk assessments for food allergies etc.

speaking of allergies & dislikes, i asked people to write down their allergies on one side of a sheet & dislikes on the other side for my file for future reference.

Becky C has also asked if she can do the poster(s) from now on, as it's something she enjoys, i like this idea as it's one less thing for me to do. anyway that's all i can really remember for now, talk soon.


ideas for next week.
- keep the notice on the training room door to keep people out of it from 4pm-6pm. Mondays.
- post a notice of what's cookin (with ingredients)
- buy ingredients ourselves so we get everything (had to use garlic granules art the last minute, luckily we had some in)
- individual portions of cheese (if serving cheese) rather than leaving a bowl in the middle, this way everyone gets some rather than "first come first serve"

Chris's suggestion for the poster
"leave bad attitudes at the door, bring in your appetites & smiles"

Research - Equipment Comparisons (99p Store)

Was in the Doncaster 99p Store today, checking out what sorts of equipment they have considering what could be bought for this project.

I was asked by the staff to stop taking photographs (with my phone) as it isn't allowed in store. I didn't go against their wishes, luckily i'd just about finished taking images i needed.

I plan on going back later in the week & speaking to the staff/general manager, explaining what i'm doing & saying something about;

• establishing myself as a homeless person (not the grubby kind)
• informing them about my project
• promoting their product by using it in the project, informing residents about the equipment thereby getting them a customer-base within the Foyer
• inform them of the potential that I will be buying a lot from them for the project. 
• request to take photographs, under their supervision (if necessary) for research for the project& promotion within Foyer

to see the images from my little interaction please click here: O2TB FoyerCooking - 99p Store Research
or copy this link into the address bar: https://plus.google.com/photos/102740567074766928960/albums/5831784349960057313?authkey=CPGKs4vjn76UoQE

Simply Making It Look Easy - SMILE

Working with a SAHA (Salvation Army Housing Association) B-Ball team?
The classic smile, i'm sure he's talkin about Chicken or girlies haha

I can barely believe this myself but Carl Miller (Former Professional Basketball Player) is working with Foyer's up & down the country. I mention this because he's working with us on project SMILE, run by himself (as far as i'm aware)

Smile stands for Simply Making it Look Easy. Teaching people the necessary skills in the current job-market to make jobs rather than take them (which is part of the Foyer's new initiative to get residents across the country into work) using their Talents. He'll be teaching us some basketball things (which are incredibly fun & absolutely hilarious) each week i think as well as having one-to-one's with us to help our individual talents, apparently this whole cooking thing of mine is included in the Talent thing & I'll be part of his 6-8 week training program.

Next Monday he'll be here, early to see me, so we can go shopping, buy some ingredients, he'll teach me to cook something & we'll be making enough so when the group (including ourselves) come back from Doncaster College/Hub's Gym for Basket Ball practice/training we'll have something to eat, integrating my learning, the project's idea & giving residents a nutritional meal after strenuous activity (including a lot of giggling since he's lots of fun to be around) I'll see if i can get hold of the images from Monday's session.

SMILE's Twitter (run by him) https://twitter.com/smile4urself7
his twitter: https://twitter.com/MillamanOne
his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Look-Up-to-Yourself/297136287244?sk=info

WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Miller_(basketball)

founder of Look upto Yourself
http://www.grenfell-housing.co.uk/newsreleases/20120804_igniteday.html

Meeting - Existing Equipment

Start - 11am    With Yvonne.
Purpose of meeting: Looking over what equipment we actually have available in Foyer, making an inventory list with photo documentation

Why i'm doing this: so i'm not duplicating items unnecessarily when purchasing equipment.

What's happening.                                                               - stage it's at. -
Unloading from storage                                                            COMPLETE
Inventory of Supplies                                                                 In Progress
Organisation & Storage of Supplies                                       TBC
Sorting Kitchens out                                                                 TBC
researching equipment to buy (where &specialist etc)        TBC
buying equipment                                                                     TBC

Photos
<still to be uploaded to google photos>

Meeting - Discussing what we wanna do with these sessions

Gotta call a meeting with the residents about this.
& the staff

Look at Folders arranges like our resident folders, organised with certain things in certain polaces but left upto the residents to keep or maybe to have a space in the training room? I DONT KNOW :D

Kitchen Rep

As you know i'm a resident of Doncaster Foyer, I've been nominated as kitchen rep for thisfloor (each floor level in each of the 3blocks has a kitchen to share between the 5 residents residing on that floor) Technically I wont be the Kitchen Rep for my floor, as that position's been taken...however, staff have been considering the fact I spend most of my time on the ground floor of my block in my boyfriends room they've suggested that I be the rep for his floor

I've read the paperwork & signed the contract, this could help the whole O2 Think Big thing too :)

a few of my resident friends said they wouldn't do it but I kinda like the challenge.

Take Care all :)