And this day next week Drumchapel Life will be officially relaunching 'Flat Pack Meals’ into the New Year.

The scheme involves a paper bag filled with the ingredients to make a healthy meal for two using locally source produce.

The idea is to provide a healthy meal for a low price and to get people into the habit of cooking for themselves.

Amber Cully works for Drumchapel Life and is tasked with organising the Flat Pack Meal initiative.

She told the Post: “The idea is to engage people with cooking from scratch and get them away from ready meals and frozen food. Nutritionally, it’s better for people, it’s more cost effective and helps sustain local produce.” Flat Pack Meals first launched in September 2014 and has been successful ever since.

Each soup pack contains fresh produce, stock and a recipe guide in order to cook up four large bowls of tasty soup and can be bought for around £1.20 each.

A carrot and lentil soup pack can, for example, contain three large carrots, 200g of red lentils, a leak and two stock cubes.

A meal pack contains enough to make between two and three portions of a healthy meal, such as vegetable curry, chilli with rice, stir fry and noodles — at just £2.50 a pack.

The not-for-profit packs can vary on price depending on the cost of produce from suppliers — but Amber told how the said £1.20 for a soup pack and £2.50 for a meal pack are maximum prices.

Drumchapel Life are currently working on finding new suppliers to source their vegetables after problems with their previous.

But they are on track for their official relaunch next Thursday, January 29, which will see packs assembled to be sold at various locations around Drumchapel.

The idea started when manager Kenny MacDonald attained funding for a project to get people eating healthier in the Drum. Funding was secured from Cent of Contemporary Arts and the Big Lottery Fund.

Amber, who has worked at Drumchapel Life for just over a year, said: “Far too many people in Drumchapel have been eating badly and are just chucking a ready meal in the microwave rather than eating fresh.

“Flat Pack Meals has been such a success so far and has even helped me get back to cooking and lose half a stone in a week.” Amber said how she is in talks with Slimming World about stocking the meal packs due to their potential in weight loss programmes.

“Next week will be the relaunch that will get us started into the new year,” Amber told the Post. “All the volunteers are ready and we’re also still looking for people to help out.

“We’ll be meeting in the morning to prepare the meal packs as the produce delivery arrives at the Phoenix Centre. Once the bags are made they are distributed to our sales folks.” The organiser told how Flat Pack Meals will be stocked in Drumchapel Health Centre, Drumchapel Community Centre and Fasque Early Learning Centre.

The cost is soup pack maximum £1.20 and £2.50 for a meal pack.