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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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tomatoes being chopped on a wooden chopping board with various vegetables in the background

Vegan one pot curry

Main Image: Healthy Turkey Meatballs With Bulghur Wheat And Broad Beans on a white plate, with a sprig of parsley on the top.

Healthy Turkey Meatballs Recipe with Bulgur Wheat and Broad Beans

Main Image; An assortment of fruits and vegetables on a wooden chopping board including, lemons, kiwis, radishes, tomatoes and salad leaves.

Protein-Packed Vegan Cooked Breakfast Recipe

Part of Men's Health Week 2025

a close up of homemade elderflower cordial made by Rachel Moore

Elderflower cordial

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

3 light lunches

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)

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

Mini batbout (flat breads) & turkey burgers

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

Kunafa Pastry with Ricotta Cheese

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

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

Mediterranean vegetables and hash brown quiche

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

FABRIC SCRAP SWEETIE BOWLS Rachel Moore IMAGE

Scrap fabric sweetie bowls

A close up of some purple spouting micro salad leaves

Micro Veg