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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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two ice cream cupcakes in ice cream cones with white icing and multicoloured sprinkles on a blue back ground

Ice cream cupcakes

Main Image: Three lettuce leaves filled with Chicken Yuk Sung - AKA Chinese Lettuce Wraps.

Easy Chicken Yuk Sung - Chinese Lettuce Wraps

Main Image: Photo of an authentic Bajan brown stew chicken dish.

Authentic Bajan Brown Stew Chicken Recipe

Afternoon tea set up, middle eastern style, with a small brown teapot on a leaf.

Kunafa Pastry with Ricotta Cheese

No Bake Date Energy Balls in a bowl on a white and green striped table cloth.

Healthy No-Bake Date Energy Balls

Mediterranean vegetables and hash brown quiche in an oven dish, on a towel with ingredients around it.

Mediterranean vegetables and hash brown quiche

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

Brussel sprout soup with cheddar stuffed bread

a bowl of cabbage soup resting on a green hessian place mat on a painted turquoise wooden table

Moroccan hot and cold cabbage salad (Cabbage Zaalouk Salad)

Veganuary 2025 Ollie Bragg Istock 1180833562

Veganuary 2025

Vegetarian Spring Parcels Nadia Terry Istock 1371954810

Vegetarian spring rolls

Red Christmas themed cooking utensils in a wreath with red and gold baubles on a grey background

Christmas Veggie Cookery

landscape photo of rachel moore wearing a hat in front of her allotment on a bright sunny day

Sow the final seeds of the year

The Allotment Diaries Episode 5

Mini batboots (flat breads) and turkey burgers - Nadia Terry - Istock 1225510676

Mini batbout (flat breads) & turkey burgers

FABRIC SCRAP SWEETIE BOWLS Rachel Moore IMAGE

Scrap fabric sweetie bowls

A close up of some purple spouting micro salad leaves

Micro Veg