Food literacy for life
Equipping vulnerable adults with food literacy skills
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The project partners were
Cobh family resource centre
Cork new life media
About this project
This project empowered marginalised adults by equipping them with food literacy skills. It also taught learners how to eat healthily while managing limited financial resources.
More about this project
This project delivered practical, hands-on workshops in community venues. Facilitators integrated literacy, numeracy, and financial skills into cooking sessions. They also ran one-on-one and small group support sessions.
The workshops covered
budgeting,
shopping,
meal planning,
cooking, and
food storage.
The project also produced numerous resources, including
a recipe book,
podcasts,
video tutorials,
cheat sheets,
meal planners, and
visual guides.
"The workshops focused on simple, clear, and accessible methods for meal preparation, portion control, budgeting, and reducing waste, ensuring that we could immediately apply what we learned in our daily lives.”- quote from a learner