A list of resources suitable for groups who wish to develop community cookery sessions in low-income communities.
Cookery skills
Resources, toolkits and recipes for community cookery
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Cooking and growing
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Healthy eating and beyond
A fact sheet that provides a snapshot of community cookery sessions being delivered around Scotland.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Cooking and growing
Area of Work: Cookery skills
TV dinners
This factsheet provides examples of how three youth groups were inspired by TV formats to create a friendly competitive environment to teach cookery skills.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, cookery sessions, cooking, young people
Area of Work: Cookery skills
North Glasgow Youth Food Guidelines and Healthy Eating Toolkit
Following consultation with young people in the North Glasgow area, these guidelines and healthy eating toolkit were developed. As well as advice for clubs on what they can do to improve the availability of healthier food in youth clubs, the guidelines include ideas on how to run healthy eating, growing, and cookery activities, with ideas …
Publisher: North Glasgow Community Food Initiative
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, Glasgow, recipes, tuck shops, young people
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Munch Crunch 2
Munch Crunch 2 is a collection of simple recipes to encourage healthy eating and cooking.
Publisher: NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: cooking, healthy eating, recipes
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Healthy Cooking in the Community
This resource has been developed by North Ayrshire Community Food Workers to enable the delivery of individual workshops or sessions to community groups. It is a comprehensive guide to using the Recipe Book, Munch Crunch 2: Recipes for Change.
Publisher: NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: Ayrshire, community food workers, cookery sessions, cooking, healthy eating, recipes, shopping
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Short introduction to training the trainers – healthy cookery courses
This fact sheet summarises information gathered from across Scotland on activities that ‘train the trainers’ to deliver healthy cookery and food preparation skills in low-income communities.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Professional development
Related topics: cooking, diet and nutrition, food preparation, food training, healthy eating, low income, trainers
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Networking and learning development
The CFHS Recipe Book
The poaChing, Frying, masHing and roaSting recipe book is a compilation of tried and tested recipes contributed by community food initiatives in Scotland to improve take up of a healthy diet by building skills in cooking and preparing food.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: cooking, food preparation, fruit and vegetables, health and safety, low income, recipes, shopping, weaning
Area of Work: Cookery skills
What about berries?
Useful leaflets giving information and recipes for cooking with berries.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: choice, heart disease, recipes, soft fruit and berries
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Healthy Eating Healthy Living
This Scottish Government funded Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Project developed a multi-media educational pack consisting of 26 sessions on healthy eating for adults with learning disabilities. This included five practical cookery sessions. A small team supported six pilot sites in Greater Glasgow and Tayside to deliver the pack and this report describes how the programme …