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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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homemade blondies on a white serving tray

Biscoff blondies

a close up of a copper cooking pan with brass handles and wooden cooking utensils in the background

Easy steamed chicken

a stack of vegetable pakoras on a wooden board with chilli dipping sauce garnished with green herbs

Vegetable pakoras

a close up of three vegan sushi rolls on a plate

Vegan sushi

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Vegetarian Chinese cooking

a chocolate Christmas yule log on a wooden board decorated with red cranberries and green festive herbs

Yule log

a close up of a vegetable cutlet on a wooden board

Vegetarian cutlet

homemade hummus in a white bowl surrounded by carrot sticks and tortilla chips

Hummus

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

One pot curry

someone mashing banana up on a wooden chopping board next to a bunch of bananas

Breakfast Bars

Authentic traditional ceramic Moroccan tagine pots in a row

Moroccan lemon chicken tagine

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Turkish eggs

fresh bread dough being rolled out on a clear surface

Pitta bread

a homemade casserole in a black cooking pot on a wooden background

Moroccan lentil casserole

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

One pot chilli

Anna Hunter