Tomato Scrum: Waste Not, Want Not Workshop
Transform leftover bread into a delicious mid-week treat that the whole family will love!
Join us for a hands-on cookery workshop where you’ll learn to make Tomato Scrum—a yummy, comforting dish that’s perfect for using up day-old bread and store-cupboard ingredients. Budget-friendly, satisfying, and surprisingly simple, this is the kind of recipe every family needs in their repertoire! Tomato Scrum is a brilliant British comfort food classic that deserves to be better known! Think bread pudding meets tomato bake—layers of bread soaked in rich tomato sauce, baked until golden and crispy on top, soft and flavourful underneath. It’s warming, filling, and absolutely delicious.
Completely free, with all ingredients provided and plenty to take home!
Your tomato scrum:
- Made with day-old bread (waste not, want not!)
- Rich, savoury tomato sauce
- Crispy golden top, soft underneath
- Perfect mid-week family meal
- Great hot or cold
- Uses simple, affordable store-cupboard ingredients
- Easily adaptable with what you have
This is proper comfort food that’s kind to your budget—the sort of recipe grandmothers made when nothing went to waste and every meal had to stretch!
What you’ll experience:
- Hands-on cooking in our professional cookery school
- Work individually or in supportive pairs
- Expert instruction and encouragement throughout
- Essential kitchen skills (safety, hygiene, equipment use)
- Budget-friendly cooking techniques
- Tips for reducing food waste
- Ideas for adapting recipes to what you have at home
- Recipe cards to take home
- Possibly leftovers to take home too!
Workshop details
Grow, Cook, Share, Care is a Hands of Hope programme engaging vulnerable groups, those with complex needs, families, especially those living in food poverty, and older people, in learning, wellness and social activities aligned to growing, cooking, and nature.
Suitable for all. Priority for spaces will be given to people meeting the criteria: aged over 50, young carers and young adults with learning disabilities.
There is no charge for this workshop, donations are always welcome!
Please ensure you arrive ten minutes before the start time to ensure we can get everyone registered, and please bring a container to take your home your goodies.
Each participant must book individually so we can monitor eligibility and ensure we’re fully prepared for everyone attending the workshop.