Gallery
Stevenage kids cook up a healthy feast with Tesco and the Children’s Food Trust
Freddie O'Dell and Ashton Lincoln - Credit: Archant
Forget junk food,it’s much tastier and healthier when you make it yourself.
James Shepherd and Camilla Dandridge taking the session with children - Credit: Archant
That’s the message nearly 100 children in Stevenage are being given in free cooking lessons which are being held this month.
James Shepherd led one class at the Tesco Extra store in The Forum last week.
He said: “It’s great to see so many children getting excited about cooking. They had so much fun making veggie fajitas, and even more fun eating them.
“It’s so important for children’s health and wellbeing now, and in later life, that we educate them about food and where it comes from.”
The courses, called Let’s Cook, are being run in a partnership between Tesco and the Children’s Food Trust and hope to educate kids about the importance of cooking and eating healthy foods.
On the day they prepared everything from scratch before feasting on their creations at the end.
Most Read
- 1 A1(M) closed in both directions near Letchworth
- 2 Plans approved for former Stevenage bus station site
- 3 Three arrested after cannabis, cash and phones seized
- 4 Lights stolen in Baldock burglary
- 5 Can you spot your school at Stevenage's Commonwealth Games Day?
- 6 11-year-old boy 'seriously injured' after e-scooter and car crash
- 7 Stevenage Armed Forces Day in pictures
- 8 North Herts Sanctuary announces plans to continue support amid service changes
- 9 Villagers pull together to support boy with life-limiting condition
- 10 Weston fraudster given jail time after scamming council out of £700,000
Around 2,700 children aged between five and 11 are expected to take part in the course nationally, including 54 in Stevenage.
Let’s Cook is part of The Tesco Eat Happy Project which aims to inspire children to take an interest in what they eat at a time of rising childhood obesity rates.
