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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 plate of homemade onion bhajis

Onion bhajis

a bowl of homemade vegetable stew on a wooden background

Moroccan Veg Stew

a traditional Moroccan vegetable tagine in a tagine pot

Moroccan vegetable tagine

Nadia Terry

a woman wearing a green jumper stirring a boiling soup with a wooden spoon in a silver pan

Authentic Moroccan soup

a close up of a mini mince pie with a star shaped top dusted with icing sugar

Mince pies

a slice of lasagne topped with green herbs on a white plate

Lasagne

pink white and yellow sugar paste roses

Sugar paste roses

a stack of homemade pancakes covered with sugar and topped with lemon slices

Pancakes

a slice of lentil ricotta spinach lasagne topped with a basil leaf

Lentil ricotta spinach lasagne

lemon shortcake biscuits topped with white zigzag icing on a pink plate

Lemon shortbread

How to make lemon shortbread.

a lemon and poppy seed drizzle cake on a cooling rack surrounded by lemons

Lemon drizzle cake

a man with a beard and glasses in a white t-shirt slicing courgette in a kitchen

Glamorgan Sausages

a close up of fresh noodle soup in a bowl on a polka dot napkin

Sweetcorn noodle soup

a stack of homemade welsh cakes ready to be cooked

Making Welsh Cakes

spaghetti and meatballs in a white pasta bowl garnished with green herbs

Meatballs with pasta