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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: a Christmas chocolate yule log, roulade recipe, decorated with cream and chocolate shards on top.

Christmas Chocolate Yule Log - Roulade Recipe

Main image: Chicken And Tarragon Pie With Flaky Homemade Pastry.

Chicken and Tarragon Pie Recipe with Flaky Homemade Pastry

Chinese New Year Cooking Xiuli Lei Image

Tender Chinese Beef and Chilli Stir Fry

a stack of homemade pancakes covered with sugar and topped with lemon slices

How to Make Pancakes at Home

Main image: Sticky Marmalade Chicken on a bed of Crispy Fried Rice and slow cooked onions, with a bunch of parsley on the top.

Sticky Marmalade Chicken and Crispy Fried Rice

Main image: a vegan Christmas recipe idea - a poached pear on top of maple soft cheese, with a drizzle of maple sauce.

Vegan Christmas Recipes

Main image: a bowl of dates with almonds and a spoon of sugar, ready to make almond stuffed dates to gift at Christmas.

How to Make Almond Stuffed Dates

Main image: a bowl of Moroccan Steamed Couscous And Apricot Salad, a healthy vegan recipe, in a brown bowl on a while stone table top.

Moroccan Steamed Couscous and Apricot Salad

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