The Older People Services Development project produced this healthy eating resource, with support from NHS Health Scotland, in response to an extensive consultation that shows ethnic minority older people can face barriers to accessing information on diet and lifestyle.
Topic: healthy eating
Healthy diet and lifestyle for ethnic minority older people
Publisher: Equality Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: access, diet and nutrition, healthy eating, inclusion, older people
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Older people
Community cafe event, June 2014
CFHS held a networking event for community cafes on 26 June 2014 in Glasgow. The aims of the event were to give everyone taking part the chance to meet staff and volunteers from other community cafes; space and time to think about and discuss the future; the chance to find out about the Edinburgh Community …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication categories: Conferences and networking, Retailing and catering
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, healthy eating, networking
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Cooking in the Community in 5 Easy Steps
This manual has been developed by Community Food Workers in Fife, and is a reflection of their shared experiences. It is intended to support organisations and their workers, who seek to promote healthy lifestyles within their local community through practical food activities.
Publisher: Fife Community Food Project
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food workers, cookery sessions, food preparation, healthy eating
Area of Work: Cookery skills
How to get beyond smoothies
This booklet features tips and ideas gathered from a CFHS youth, food and health networking event that focused on work with a range of young people.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, cooking, growing and gardening, healthy eating, tuck shops, young people
Area of Work: Food and nutrition training
Food, mental health and wellbeing
The bulletin summarises existing research/evidence and showcases some of the organisations in Scotland that are putting the evidence into practice.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, cooking, evidence, food preparation, growing and gardening, healthy eating, mental health, research
Area of Work: Mental health and wellbeing
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
Embedding food and health activities and policies across learning disability services
Twelve people (specialist dietitians, voluntary sector and NHS staff) from across seven NHS board areas attended this roundtable discussion, including representatives from the Scottish Commission for Learning Disability (SCLD) and the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS). The group carried out a mapping exercise and discussed what they thought was going well or less …