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?
An intervention between the service user and a social prescribing coordinator.
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.
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.
How will this benefit your staff or service?
The Healthy Food Made Easy Programme gives people who attend, the knowledge and skills to eat healthier on a budget.
Contact
Jane Elliott
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