Scottish Borders Housing Association
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“YOU CAN COOK” – Message to Borders Young People, backed up by training.
09 March 2010
In March 2010, “You Can Cook” will begin a programme with young people and housing association tenants that will help them learn basic techniques and skills in cookery. Through five workshops, participants will benefit from a varied programme that will help raise awareness of how to plan, budget, prepare, cook and serve meals based on a healthy and nutritional diet. You Can Cook is committed to Self-Help and empowering participants to take that step forward in changing their lifestyle for the better. The project in the Borders has been able to go ahead, due to funding from “Awards for All” and a Wider Role grant from the Scottish Government. Some of the early beneficiaries will be young people involved in the Albert Place Transitions Project to be launched on Wednesday 10th March 2010, by Scottish Borders Housing Association and Scottish Borders Council. The You Can Cook programme includes information about nutrition, benefits of organic and non-organic foods, buying local produce and fair trade issues with the ultimate objective of helping vulnerable people make an informed choice. Planning and budgeting skills and knowledge about additives, flavourings, pesticides, fertilisers, E numbers are integral to the programme. You Can Cook is an established programme that is run by a qualified and experienced chef, who recruits and trains people from the local community to share their expertise and passion for cooking with those who do not fully understand the benefits of healthy and nutritional eating. This provides an opportunity for beneficiaries from the project of learning how to become a community cook and disseminate their learning and acquired skills with other people. The programme’s philosophy is based on the axiom “we are what we eat” and helps vulnerable people to understand how they can nourish their bodies in an appropriate way to improve their well being. The planning and budgeting elements of the programme will also help participants to manage their shopping in a more economic way and reduce expenditure by not purchasing high cost ready meals. The project will be organised into five blocks and each block comprise six sessions. Each session is for two hours and You Can Cook provides all the tools, ingredients and a community chef together with a qualified chef provides the expertise.
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