Eating healthily - Medway Cooks! Recipe Competition | A Better Medway

New Medway Cooks! Recipe Collection available

The deadline for entering the Medway Cooks! Recipe Competition has ended and we have now selected the 30 successful recipes that were submitted by Medway residents over the past four months.

To claim your free pack of the latest recipe cards in the Medway Cooks! Recipe Collection, please request a pack by emailing change4life@medway.gov.uk or join us at the following location:

- Sunday 19 February 2012 - Rochester Farmers’ Market, Corporation Street

At this event there will also be a chance to try a selection of the new recipes cooked fresh on the day.

In addition, we will be running a number of food demonstrations and mini cookery roadshows this year where you can get practical cooking and healthy eating tips, taste some recipes, and get the latest recipe cards for the Medway Cooks! Recipe Collection. Details will be on this page in the coming weeks.

In the mean time if you would like to try some healthy recipes from last years Medway Cooks! Recipe Collection please view, print or download from the link below . The collection is now in more than 3,500 homes in Medway and features 30 homemade recipes created by Medway people.

See part 1 of the Medway Cooks! Recipe Collection here.

Hands on Healthy Eating- Spread the word!

Find out fun and interactive ways to spread healthy eating messages to your families, students or groups?

Learn how to use resources that interact with others and promote healthy eating messages.

A Better Medway’s Community Food Team is providing these workshops to increase understanding on how to use healthy eating resources within a group setting. The workshops are suitable for people who work with adults, children and families, such as school staff, children centre staff and community group leaders.

Dates:

• 29th February 2012, 1-4.15pm

• 15th March 2012, 9.15-12.30pm

Location: Hand in Hand Children’s Centre, Twydall Infant School, Twydall Lane, ME8 6JS, Medway.

To book a place please contact Claire Burgess, Community Food Project Coordinator on 01634 334309 or email change4life@medway.gov.uk by the 17th of February 2012.

You can also book directly using this online system to register for the event.

The Medway Cooks! Recipe Collection shows that home cooking can be quick, tasty and even save you money on the weekly food bill. Recipes in the collection encourage healthy eating by focussing on achieving a balanced diet, and giving you tips to help build some healthy habits into your day-to-day routines. Share recipes from the collection with friends and family, or why not cook them one of the dishes? A home cooked meal is a great opportunity to get people together.

If you're looking for free recipe ideas, try some of these websites for some suggestions:

Eatwell recipes
Change4Life recipes
5-A-DAY recipes
Healthy Start recipes
British Heart Foundation recipes
Diabetes UK recipes