I'm new to this forum — but not this lifestyle — and I'm delighted to have finally found this place!
So, I live in Malmsbury — which is in the Goldfields area of Victoria (roughly: Bendigo/Castlemaine/Kyneton/Trentham/Daylesford) and I was wondering if anyone else is in the area?
My brother, who is also a dedicated vegan and animal rights supporter, and I are both eager to set up a Bake Sale (with all proceeds going to Animals Australia, of course!) as an alternative to the sausage sizzle that seems to happen at our local supermarket every single weekend...
I'm not a bad cook — but neither of us have any experience with this business kind of thing. We've found a few websites that offer recycled and biodegradable cutlery and plates that we're going to order, we're also going to order stickers and flyers from Animals Aus, but as far as the actual stall set-up goes... we're a little lost.
We can maybe manage on our own — but the more the merrier! At the moment, we'd just like to gauge if anyone else lives in this area — and if they'd be interested in setting up a stall with us. OR if anyone in the area is in the process of setting one up already — just let us know and we're more than happy to come and help out!
This was a huge rambling rant, sorry, congratulations if you got to the end of it. Hope to hear from you soon!
Nice idea. I too get grumpy with the ubiquity of sausage sizzles.
On a pragmatic point, do you have a food handling certificate? If not, I don't recommend you do anything of the sort until you have that under control. You can't even volunteer at a school fete BBQ without one these days.
That's a really good idea I wish I could help but I live to far away :/ I am not 100% sure you need a food handling cert. But with people who do like sausage sizzles I know that a majority do not have one. You might need gloves or tongs (depending on what you make) and a list of the ingredients if anyone asks.
I do try hard to maintain my zen (oxymoronic?) but when even just getting in the *only* door of the supermarket involves running the gauntlet of thick smoke and stench and blindly guzzling consumers... I feel more than a little nauseous and upset. I honestly don't want to get angry at people who haven't, well, woken up yet (my way is the right way, ra ra ra...) but a similar level of consideration would be nice — we intend to set up under a tree and not directly confront anyone. Walk gently upon the world, right?
I don't have a food handling certificate — and thankyou for bringing it up. I've been trying to find out details about this on the Health Department websites, but aside from some tips on "Don't store raw meats and cooked meats together"! I'm finding it a little difficult to establish if we need a licence or not.
But I will definitely comb over the details properly once I've finished my Uni essays — imagine if we were arrested! What a great statement that would make... I don't think we could bear Lyn's disappointment
I'm 90% certain the people doing the sausage sizzles in Kyneton don't have licence's — but then they've probably also got some racket going on with Safeway Man, all this small town politicking is nuts.
We'll definitely wear gloves and use tongs — but the ingredient list is a really good idea, thanks. This kind of thing is so much easier at Uni where the vegie-guys & gals set up on a rickety old cardtable outside the food co-op and serve stuff off a roll of (new!) toilet paper — no licences there!
Man, all this small town politicking is nuts.
