Response to ‘Choosing the Right Ingredients: the Future for Food in Scotland’ from two focus groups carried out by East Lothian Council’s Homelessness Unit with homeless households in temporary accommodation.
Topic: choice
East Lothian Homelessness Unit food policy discussion report
Publisher: East Lothian Council
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: choice, consultation, funding, homelessness, local, policy, Scottish Government, shops, supermarkets
Fare Choice Issue 40
Fruitful Participation; Stakeholders Perspectives on the Diet Action Plan Review; Shetland visit; food, health and homelessness; SCOFF; East Lothian Roots and Fruits celebrate 10 years
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: choice, food co-op, grants, health promotion, healthy eating, homelessness, mobile, participatory appraisal, policy, sales and marketing, Scottish Diet Action Plan
Dysart Food and Health Initiative
An evaluation of a project using participatory appraisal methods to explore the opportunities for increasing healthy eating choices in the Dysart regeneration area in Fife.
Publisher: Vikki Hilton
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, action planning, choice, evaluation, Fife, food poverty, healthy eating, participatory appraisal
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Scottish Executive’s work with the Scottish Grocers Federation on neighbourhood shops
Notes from a roundtable discussion 17 November 2006.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: choice, local, low income, Scottish Government, shops, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 28
Glasgow community cafes; SCOFF nutrition research; food mapping; Dundee International Women’s Centre; Question Time.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: children, choice, community cafes, Dundee, Food Standards Agency, healthy living, local, policy, schools, vending machines
Fare Choice Issue 23
Healthy living campaign; community pharmacies; small grants scheme 2003; breakfast club toolkit; FSA food hygiene knowledge survey; SCOFF nutrition research; Question Time; Barri Grubb; Cookwell project; Healthy Start.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: breakfast clubs, choice, diet and nutrition, food hygiene, Food Standards Agency, grants, Healthy Living initiatives, policy, young people
Fare Choice Issue 18
Parliaments; Scotland’s First Food and Health Co-ordinator; SCOFF and nutrition research; Prestonpans Breakfast Club; Northern Exposure report; Food Poverty Network; Food Standards Agency; Information Exchange
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: breakfast clubs, Canada, choice, diet and nutrition, farming and city farms, food poverty, Food Standards Agency, grants, school meals, Scottish Parliament, Wales
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
Breakfast Daze
Report of the Scottish Community Diet Project’s seminar on breakfast clubs held on 4 August 1999 in Glasgow.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Retailing and catering
Related topics: affordability, breakfast clubs, children, choice, diet and nutrition, funding, health and safety, schools
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Families with children, Networking and learning development
Focus on food services for older people
On 25 February Community Food and Health (Scotland) and Consumer Focus Scotland co-hosted a roundtable discussion looking at issues around older people’s access to affordable healthy food of their choice.