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

Authentic Moroccan soup

Rosemary Shrager

Oat coated chicken breast with green lentils and roasted red onion

Part of Eat Well Week 2024

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Beetroot and chocolate cake

Vegan dessert squares on a white plate topped with blueberries

Vegan desserts

Steph Miller

Pesto chicken and white bean traybake

Part of Eat Well Week 2024

Main Image: A person pan-frying basa fish fillets on the hob, with herbs and cooking accessories on the kitchen counter.

Pan-fried Basa Fish Fillets with Butterbeans Recipe

a white dinner plate with a vegan leftover fritter on top

Veganuary leftover fritters

a close up of fresh noodle soup in a bowl on a polka dot napkin

Sweetcorn noodle soup

a bowl of vegan soup topped with a coriander with lentils next to it

Vegan seasonal soup

a close up of three vegan sushi rolls on a plate

Vegan sushi

A lunch box filled with nuts and avocado and graps and carrot and cucumber and sandwiches

Graze Box

A chilli and ginger chicken in a white bowl with kiwi fruit spring onions and cashews

Chicken salad

mince meat chilli with red kidney beans and green onions in a bowl with salted tortilla chips

One pot chilli

A bowl of crispy kale salad garnished with Moroccan seasoning on a white table.

Moroccan spinach and kale salad

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

Vegan one pot curry