What is WELLfed?
WELLfed is an award-winning FREE adult education programme - based around kai, cooking skills and more.
Participants learn how to plan, shop, safely prepare and cook low-cost healthy meals, with a strong focus on seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables.
WELLfed has been co-designed with the local community, to make the classes accessible and to ensure that the recipes and classes make a real difference.
Our programme delivers a series of interactive cooking classes, held weekly in the communities that need it most.
The first WELLfed programme started in May 2016 with a small group to pilot the concept and refine the initiative & logistics. Five years later and still going strong - watch our 'Taste of WELLfed' video to see us in action!
WELLfed Learners practice how to:
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Plan, shop for, prepare and cook low-cost healthy meals
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Best use seasonal, fresh fruit and vegetables wherever possible
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Budget and find ingredients to get "more for your dollar"
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Apply safe food handling and storage techniques
After FIVE years of running...
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900+ unique Learners now have skills, confidence & equipment
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10,700+ free meals have been taught, cooked, and taken home to share
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66,000 people have been fed with meals made by the community for their families
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25,000 kg of food has been rescued from landfill
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8,300 items of kitchen equipment have been given out
