“She used to make her own spice blends and I used to be in the kitchen with her, helping her out. And so that's how I got started.”
Dave Singh and Lucky Kaur of Morley, Leeds, have set up a business 'Go Indian Spice' blends designed to help people batch cook on a budget and have been donating some of their products to the local Salvation Army. Picture: James Hardisty.
Inspired by their heritage, Go Indian Spice offers individual sachets or boxes of spice blends which are vegan, gluten-free and naturally low in salt that can be mixed into all sorts of home made food as an alternative to regular powders found in supermarkets. Customers can also subscribe.'Go Indian Spice' blends.
“So we've teamed up with the local Salvation Army and we give a percentage of our spice blends to them to put it in food parcels. It’s just to jazz up the food parcels for homeless people, or whoever needs the food parcels.” Citing research firm Kantar, it reported last week that grocery price inflation hit 12.4 per cent during the past month, up from last month’s previous record of 11.6 per cent.
Some 41 per cent of people receiving the benefit did so over the past three months, according to a survey for theAnd 38 per cent of respondents said they had gone a whole day without eating, or just had one meal, in the last month because they could not afford to buy enough food. Lauren Raistrick, children and family worker at Morley Salvation Army, based on Ackroyd Street, says they are very grateful for the donations from Go Indian Spice.