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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 traditional English afternoon tea table spread with a teacup and saucer, a strawberry cake and pot of fresh strawberries

Vegan tea time

A person serving spiced chicken chow mein into a foil plate

Chicken Chow Mein

fresh bread dough being rolled out on a clear surface

Pitta bread

a plate of homemade onion bhajis

Onion bhajis

homemade blondies on a white serving tray

Biscoff blondies

a pile of bright yellow lemons

Lemon curd

Part of Volunteers Week 2021.

a close up of a cake covered with green sugar paste and decorated with green orange and yellow sugar paste roses

Decorating with sugar paste

a close up of a slice of tomato and cheese pizza being served

Homemade pizza

a close up of a pile of homemade fish fingers on a white plat with a slice of lemon and garnished with herbs

Homemade fish fingers

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

Graze Box

Chinese New Year Cooking Xiuli Lei Image

Chinese New Year Cooking

Cheese Straws Michelle Wilding Istock 482595704

Cheese straws

Beef Broccoli And Oyster Sauce Suzie Lee Istock 532545783

Beef broccoli and oyster sauce

a selection of vegetables

Harness the power of plants