Healthy Food Made Easy

Healthy Food Made Easy (HFME) is a basic nutrition and cookery course helping people to build confidence around food related skills such as eating well, menu planning, budget shopping and confident cooking.

What is the aim of the Healthy Food Made Easy programme?

To encourage healthy eating

To enhance our nutrition knowledge for home cooking

To eat healthy meals on a budget

Free five-week programme

HFME Programme

Healthy Food Made Easy is a free five-week programme. The course is run over a 2 ½ hour session each week, with hands-on cookery sessions, week’s two through five, making simple nutritious recipes.

Course outline each week:

Building a food pyramid
The fibre providers
Focus on fats
Food for life
Shop smart

All participants will have the opportunity to prepare, cook and taste healthy foods. Two tutors co-deliver the programme. You do not need a big kitchen, just a room with the use of one cooker. Maximum group size, 10 to 12 adults.

Two women are smiling at the camera. One woman is holding a cup; the other is stirring a pot of food on a stovetop.

Two women are standing behind two tables at a cooking demonstration. One woman is reading aloud the information on a bag of flour; the other woman is looking on.

A group of women are sitting in a semi-circle in a brightly lit hall, observing two women standing at a table. A red banner hangs above the table on the wall and green and blue balloon arch is hung over two windows to the right of the room.

Bowsl of breakfast cereal with fruit and bowls of berries, sitting on a check tablecloth on a table.

Healthy assortment of yellow foods displayed on table

Who is it for?

Any community groups and/or organisations, including; Men's Shed, Women's groups, new communities, ethnic groups, staff groups, parenting groups, people living alone, residential staff, carers, FRC programmes etc. Anyone who feels they would benefit from the programme, can come together to form a group and participate in the programme.