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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 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

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