Promoting Healthy Eating
We promote healthy eating and cooking among families to give children the best start in life and, hopefully, keep them healthy as they grow up.
The ECF food and health development workers tackle barriers to healthy eating by delivering healthy eating talks and demonstrations, cook and eat sessions, one-to-one advice and support on nutrition issues to community members.
We also support Early Years Food and Health work across all areas of Edinburgh.
Key aspects of our work are:
The Eatwell Plate
We develop our work by helping people understand the principles of a balanced diet forms the foundation for healthy eating habits. The eatwell plate makes healthy eating easier to understand by showing the types and proportions of foods we need to have a healthy and well balanced diet.
Food labelling
For people to eat healthily it's a good idea to watch how much fat, sugar and salt they eat. If interpreted correctly food labelling allow the consumer to make healthy and informed choices on the foods they eat.
How we can help teachers and community workers
We have resources to help teachers and community workers promote healthier eating. This can include cooking displays, lesson planners, and snack packs and healthy treats to give kids a great taste of the good stuff.
Helping healthy employers
One of our ambitions is to help businesses have more productive and happier workers by encouraging staff to eat healthily.
Not only are you helping yourself to healthy employees, you are also supporting us build a healthier Edinburgh. One more thing for your employees to be happy about. If you are an employer we can help encourage your staff to be healthy by delivering:
- Healthy snacks and fruit-baskets
- Fresh fruit and vegetables and groceries, for busy workers to conveniently take home after work
- Bulk deliveries for catering
Your staff can order their groceries from our website. All you need to do is give us a place, that’s convenient for you, where we can deliver their orders.