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- This report is for anyone who runs, manages or commissions cooking skills courses. It uses evidence from a realist self-evaluation study group to show the ...
- Community Food and Health (Scotland) ran a short online survey during the summer of 2017 to get a snapshot of cooking skills activities for people ...
- Practitioners who run cooking skills courses have told us that they have worked with course participants who may be experiencing food insecurity and were struggling ...
- This guide is for anyone who runs, manages or commissions cooking skills courses for people within low-income communities or who are vulnerable. It will also ...
- Includes sections on: effective training, food hygiene and safety, Eatwell Plate, microwave cookery and microwave recipes.
- In 2014 Community Food and Health Scotland/NHS Health Scotland commissioned a realist review of community cooking skills activities run by community initiatives and agencies. The ...
- In 2013 the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) developed a new short accredited cooking course. CFHS supported the availability of this course by ...
- This CFHS fact sheet provides an overview of the work undertaken by initiatives funded by CFHS in 2013 to build on their current work with one ...
- In 2012, Community Food and Health (Scotland) provided funding totalling £15,000 for six community food initiatives to build on their current work with one or ...
- This short report provides a summary of research commissioned by CFHS that studied the impact of cooking skills on families.
Cookery skills
One of the barriers to a healthy diet is having the skills, knowledge and confidence to shop for, and prepare, healthy meals. Community-based cookery sessions can offer a relaxed environment to learn cookery skills.
Sessions can either happen within an existing group or be open to all. They might take place in a local community centre but some areas have community kitchens for hire.
CFHS works to demonstrate the benefits of community cookery sessions, and to share learning from community food initiatives in order to improve their practice.
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News and updates
What do researchers talk about when they talk about cooking skills courses?
‘It’s not just a wee cooking group’: Community cooking skills courses – train the trainers workshop
Reasons to be cheerful part 2 – CFHS cooking skills research. What did we learn about the best ways to run a cooking skills course?
Cooking skills blog: Cooking skills research – Reasons to be cheerful, part one
Community cooking skills – evidence and networking event
Do you run or manage community cooking skills activities in Scotland?
Cooking skills blog 33: Working with vulnerable groups: Supporting people affected by food insecurity: ideas from practitioners
Cooking skills blog 32: Practitioner guest blog: ‘the benefits of being forgetful and burning rice’
Cooking skills blog 30: What are the best recipes to use on a cooking skills course? Part 2.
Cooking skills blog 29: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: Guest blog: what’s the difference between ‘observation’ and ‘third party’?