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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 grilled meat koftas on wooden board with tomatoes and herbs

Moroccan beef kofta

a traditional Moroccan vegetable tagine in a tagine pot

Moroccan vegetable tagine

Matt Pritchard

Leek, Spinach and White Bean Pie

Part of Men's Health Week 2022

a jar of sourdough starter on a white kitchen countertop

Making sourdough

a white dinner plate with a vegan leftover fritter on top

Veganuary leftover fritters

a chicken salad with kidney beans, Brussel sprouts, quinoa, spinach and sesame seeds

3 light lunches

Non Alcoholic Punch Michelle Wilding Istock 1637732935

Non alcoholic Christmas Punch

a close up of homemade elderflower cordial made by Rachel Moore

Elderflower cordial

small bowls of fresh fruit vegetable and herbs on a white marble background

Veganuary ideas

a Christmas nut roast in a white casserole dish

Vegan Christmas

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

Chef Xiuli Lei

Vegetarian Chinese cooking

a stack of vegetable pakoras on a wooden board with chilli dipping sauce garnished with green herbs

Vegetable pakoras

Father and Son's Sunday cooking, Dr Bala And Master Saidaksh

Turkish eggs

a woman wearing a green jumper stirring a boiling soup with a wooden spoon in a silver pan

Authentic Moroccan soup