Food For Thought

HEA Green Academy

Let’s Get Cooking

Aim

• To raise awareness of the Let’s Get Cooking Club

• To provide ideas for setting up a club at another university

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What’s it all about?

• Sustainability

• It is not sustainable that people are suffering ill-health caused by diet

• It is not sustainable to produce so much processed food for us in the ‘Western World’

• It is not sustainable to consume the amount of animal produce that we currently do.

• Students have low income yet many eat diets based on convenience and fast foods.

• Studies have shown that what we eat can affect our ability to study

• Many students do not have their ‘5 a day’ or eat breakfast

Obesity

• “Take obesity: it already costs our NHS a staggering £4 billion a year. But within four years, that figure’s expected to rise to £6.3 billion.” David Cameron, 16 May 2011.

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/NHS_reforms_David_Cameron_speech_obesity_costs_foresight_Department_of_Health-2732

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Let’s Get Cooking:

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As we have had training from the team at Let’s Get Cooking we have access to their resources and are allowed to use their logo

The team

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Join our cooking sessions across NTU

Tantalise your taste buds, meet new people and gain the skills to cook nutritious, tasty and good value meals.

Wednesday’s2 pm – 4 pm

Thursday’s10 am – 12 pm and 2 – 4 pm

LET’S GET COOKING!

www.ntu.ac.uk/food4thought

The sessions

We have 4 sessions tailor-made for student living to produce main meals to share or to keep for another day:

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Session 1 Mince magic (can be completed using quorn)

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Session 2 Curry night

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Session 3 ‘Stir Crazy’

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Session 4 Soup, pizza & pud

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Why don’t more students cook?

• Lots of reasons:

• They can’t cook!

• They are not confident

• They’ve burnt all their pans!

• They haven’t got time

• Etc…

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Let’s start with skills:

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Beverley Lawe’s Contact details:

• beverley.lawe@ntu.ac.uk

• tel: 0115 8484205

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Any Questions?

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