Lottie's Kitchen

One of the great joys of food is sharing. Spreading your knowledge to the world.  Lottie's Kitchen is a charity supporting the families with children in hospital. Their work is amazing and there are two main reasons why I respect this charity so much.

1. Quite obviously, I love food and one of the greatest aspects of food is sharing it, only so other people can experience the joys of the meals you prepare.

2. Lottie's kitchen doesn't just think about the child, although this is important, their main priority is the families of the sick and what sort of impact the food will have on them. This may not seem important, however, the more strongly the family are looked after, the better they will feel about looking after the child.

Last Christmas, I had the great joy of going there with my family and a friend to work there for the afternoon. We spent part of the afternoon listening to the achievements of the charity and the other half preparing meals for the children in hospital. In 3 hours we succeeded in making 80 meals this means that in a full day’s shift we could have made 320. This was an incredible experience and I felt so much pride in preparing these meals. I also loved some of the amazing stories about the charity that the inspiring women who do this every day told my family and I.

One of the most amazing things they have ever done is setting up in hospitals something called COFIX. if you have ever had to suffer the long periods of time in hospital, then your family may have realised that they are spending a great deal of money on expensive lunches from a hospital canteen, this can make somebody’s bill very overpriced. In many hospitals they have now opened a COFIX. This many seem like an ordinary Café. However All of COFIX's products are not more than 5 dollars. This means that having a quick sandwich every time you are waiting for your child in hospital, your will not have to spend too much money. Although this was just a normal chain of Cafes Lottie's kitchen persuaded almost all of these hospitals to open one. This is one thing I find amazing as it is not an ordinary idea that any charity would think of 

Another one of the great achievements done by Lottie’s kitchen is microwaves. As you may not know a great majority of sick children will have siblings. The parents must be in the hospital with the ill child, so where does that leave all the siblings? There sometimes might be 3 or 4 of them. Lottie’s kitchen takes care of this. They mainly take care of the food aspect. In every sick child’s house they have installed a simple and easy to use microwave. This means that a child can just take something out of the fridge and heat it up for their supper. This may not be an exquisite banquet. However it does keep them going and means that the parents do not have to worry about feeding them on top of everything else they have to deal with.