Cooking workshops help youngster to try new foods
A mum has hailed the team at our Community Hub for helping her son open up to trying new foods.
Charlotte and her son Xavier, who attends Queen’s Park Primary in Brighton, have been coming to free family nutrition workshops at the Community Hub in Brighton for several weeks.
In that time Xavier has experienced lots of new foods and has become much more willing to try new things for dinner.
Our family nutrition workshops are designed to teach primary age children about the benefits of proper nutrition and how to prepare basic healthy dishes, while enjoying themselves in a fun environment alongside their parents and other families.
Xavier, who is in Year 2, had struggled to find many foods he enjoyed and it often left his mum scratching her head for answers.
Since coming to our workshops, he has started to eat healthy foods like vegetables and fish.
“I’ve seen a massive change in Xavier, it’s really benefitted him coming here. He talks about it as soon as we get home, and he can’t wait to come again.
“All the things that we’ve made here, he’s now willing to eat at home. He wants to get involved with cooking at home too, and takes much more of an interest in dinner.
“He’s been eating a lot more vegetables, which was a bit of a challenge before; lettuce, cucumber, and other veggies. He’s also now happy to eat fish, which was quite a surprise.
“Before we started coming here he wouldn’t always eat all his lunch at school, but now he’ll finish it all and he enjoys eating fruit too.
Mari, the Foundation’s Community Hub nutritionist, has been delighted to see Xavier make so much progress in such a short amount of time.
“We’ve been running these sessions for a few weeks now and I’ve seen some children make some really good progress in that time.
“Xavier came to us a little bit unsure, but now he comes so excited to get stuck in every week. He’s eating different kinds of foods now and he’s always ready to dive in and try new things.”
Our family nutrition workshops are part of our health and wellbeing project, which is supported by the Premier League and PFA Community Fund.
You can find out more about the Foundation’s Community Hub here.