Our impact
Our Mentored Home Cooking course is designed to address the barriers to good health faced by those in poverty, and help them make long-term changes.
Our Mentored Home Cooking course is designed to address the barriers to good health faced by those in poverty, and help them make long-term changes.
HOW WE ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD POVERTY
People often believe that the food poverty is caused by a lack of cooking skills. In reality, research and our own experience shows that people in poverty have similar cooking skills to the rest of the population, so this does not explain their significantly worse diet.
The real causes are the challenges our participants face in all aspects of their daily lives. These social determinants of health are complex, interlinked, societal issues that influence how and what we eat and the consequent impact on our physical, mental and financial health
Bags of Taste’s Mentored Home Cooking course is designed to tackle all of these barriers, and we make a positive impact in all areas. This leads to dramatic changes to our students’’ diets and lasting improvements to the quality of their lives.
• Our local shopping guides mean that students can continue to buy affordable food
• Recipes are tasty and give a realistic alternative to takeaways and ready meals
• We encourage people to batch cook and freeze so that there is an instant alternative when you feel like a takeaway