Introduction to FFP cooking sessions

Our heritage and our culture inspires what we eat and how we eat. Cooking and eating are in many ways important expressions of our liberty, and setting out on a pathway to healthy living does not change any of these things.

Aims and objectives 

Aims: 

• Promote knowledge and skills of audiences wishing to adopt a healthier lifestyle through adapting food choices

• Provide practical evidence based guidance on cooking healthy cultural foods for communities living with, or at risk of avoidable chronic illness 

• Provide a group learning environment to support behaviour change 

• Offer lifestyle advice which is culturally sensitive to African Caribbean communities

Objectives: 

• Demonstrate how to use less salt in cooking with the use of various spices and seasonings with reduced salt

• Demonstrate how to use less fat in cooking by adopting different cooking methods 

• Provide tips on how to increase the fibre content of dishes with the use of various vegetables, beans and pulses

• Introduce how to adapt meals plant-based options 

• Offer tips on how to control meal portion sizes

• Deliver meal plans and tailored recipes which are fully analysed for macro and micronutrients

• Demonstrate how to adapt cooking when living with conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia etc. 

Current sessions

FFP CIC currently delivers culturally tailored cooking sessions for the following health programmes HEAL-D (Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes),  Up!Up! Weight management programme for Black communities in Lewisham. Both programmes are specifically for people from African Caribbean communities. The programmes are delivered in partnership with GSTT (Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust) and Lewsiham Public Health.

FFP specialises in delivery of bespoke cooking sessions for a wide range of health conditions, and to promote community-based and private organisations.