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Eating a nutritious, balanced diet is vital to health and wellbeing, and learning how to make simple meals is a life skill that supports independent living. At the Virtual Village Hall, you can learn how to make simple, tasty dishes using low-cost, store cupboard ingredients.

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Main image: chickpeas and spices on greaseproof paper, ready to make a healthy snack - crispy chickpea biscuits.

Crispy Chickpea Biscuits Recipe - Healthy Snack

Main image: three images of Halloween party food, pumpkin apple try bake ingredients, pumpkins with candles around and beetroot and horseradish soup.

Three Spooky Halloween Recipes for your Party

Main image: various types of no-knead bread loaves.

Three Easy No-Knead Bread Recipes

Main image: a butternut squash peeled and chopped along with other ingredients to make butternut squash curry.

Butternut Squash Curry - Vegan Recipe

No Bake Blackberry Cheesecake With Meinir Fon Hughes IMAGE Edit

No-Bake Blackberry Cheesecake

Autumn Vegan Cookery Ollie Bragg Canva Image

Autumn vegan cookery

a homemade casserole in a black cooking pot on a wooden background

Moroccan lentil casserole

Matt Pritchard

Leek, Spinach and White Bean Pie

Part of Men's Health Week 2022

Dominic Franks

Sausage and orzo one-pot stew

Part of Eat Well Week 2024

an overhead shot of bright green brussel sprout soup with whole brussel sprouts and paprika

Brussel sprout soup with cheddar stuffed bread

a close up of a cooking chicken and vegetable one pot in a blue cooking pot with someone pinching fresh rosemary into it

Chicken and vegetable one-pot

Blackberry Sorbet Meinir Fon Hughes Istock 929094700

Blackberry sorbet

Blackberry Crumble Cake Meinir Fon Hughes Istock 962496128

Blackberry crumble cake

Main Image: two fresh homemade English garden cocktails on a blue painted picnic bench surrounded by bunches of elderflower and halved lemons

The English Garden Cocktail

Main image: a gluten-free red lentil bread loaf, with black sesame seeds on top and a parsley sprig on top.

Gluten-Free Red Lentil Bread Recipe