Healthy Eating Online
Leeds Let's Change have put together this information and advice sheet to help health professionals offer basic guidance and knowledge within the area of healthy eating. To view the information sheet just click on the 'A Health Professional's Guide to Healthy Eating' download to the right of this screen.
Want to learn more about how to cook quick, healthy meals?
Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food aims to teach the people of Leeds to cook quick, simple, and healthymeals, then ‘Pass It On’ and teach others how to make them too.
To find out more just click on the link below!
Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food Leeds
Please speak to the team or visit the website http://www.jamieoliver.com for more information.
Want to learn more about the basic methods of cooking with simple, fresh ingredients?
The Get Cooking! program is all about enjoying food and cooking. Lessons range from an hour and a half to two hours and run as a 10 week course. Not only do you get to take home the food made but also gain valuable skills for life!
Get Cooking is accessible to all ages and particularly meets the needs of people with a disability, the elderly or people with mental health problems.
Check out the 2013 course programme in the 'downloads box' on the right hand side.
To apply for the course or for more informaton just click on the link below which will take you to the Get Cooking! website.
http://www.get-cooking.org.uk/
This service offers a FREE one hour shopping tour around Kirkstall Market by a trained Community NHS Dietitian.
For more information check out the poster 'Shop to get fitter' and sign up using the printable 'Shop to get fitter application form' (both found on the downloads page).
Health Checkout- come virtual food shopping
This interactive guide launched by Diabetes UK provides the support and information people with diabetes need to eat well enough to keep themselves healthy.
Make sense of confusing dietary advice, guidelines and food labelling by clicking on the link below!
Why not try a school meal? Keeping the kids healthy too!
Check out our downloadable poster 'Healthy School Lunch- handy reminder!' explaining just why healthy School lunches are so great!
Or why not visit The Leeds School Meals website which features lots of useful information for schools, health professionals and anyone with an interest in school meals.
Are you pregnant, have children under the age of four or a family on benefits?
If so, Healthy Start is the website for you! With Healthy Start, you get free vouchers every week to spend on milk, plain fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables, and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins!
To see if you qualify just click on the link below!
http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/