Get Cooking!

Cooking for yourself is a skill everyone needs to be an independent and healthy adult. The Get Cooking! project puts cooking back into everyone's life, with young people leading the way.

Food is one of the great pleasures of life. Learning about food can be a pleasure too, and it is also an essential skill. And it's a skill you can have a go at and get better at all the time. Eating well is vital to good health all th rough life. We all need to know how to feed ourselves enjoyably and healthily by the time we leave school. The Get Cooking! project - run in 1993, wanted everyone to gain and enjoy these skills. This guide was produced for anyone who wants to learn to cook
and for anyone who wants to teach others to get cooking.

Contents

• Welcome to Get Cooking! Reasons for getting cooking.
• Get Learning! Advice for anyone teaching others to get cooking.
• Get Safe! A guide to food safety - from shopping to chopping.
• Get Equipped! What you need to get cooking.
• Get Together! People you could contact locally to help you get organised. You can learn to cook - at home, at school, on on evening course , at a youth club. So why not set up a Food Club wherever you are? 
• Get Cooking! 20 easy-to-cook recipes to help you on your way.

Please note that this version of the report is produced from a processed scan of the original.