Feeding your family

This page is all about helping you get the best value from your food and preventing food waste, along with guidance on healthy eating, weight management and living well.

Warwickshire Slim Your Bin

Slim your Bin is a campaign helping Warwickshire residents to waste less and recycle more.

Cooking courses and videos

• Packmore’s Pantry cooking workshops at The Gap, Warwick
• WRCC Warm Hubs - 12 4-week courses in slow cooking in winter warm hubs for autumn and winter 2023/24
• Warwickshire Adult and Community Learning - cooking courses offered at some venues
• Get Cooking! 
• The Recovery and Wellbeing Academy - often run free food and cooking courses linked to healthy eating and mindfulness either online or in person
• Grow, Cook and CrEATe with Escape Arts in Stratford upon Avon
• Co-op Kitchen Cooking Videos
• United Response CookABILITY videos
• Taste Education - lessons and videos to share with your kids about food

Recipes, tips and guidance to avoid food waste

• Educaterers have produced their first recipe book (PDF, 4.3 MB) for inspiring ideas on cooking meals with children
• Love Food, Hate Waste – safe food storage and making use of your leftovers
• BBC Good Food
• BBC £1 dinners
• 25 Easy ideas to reduce kitchen energy costs
• Meal Plans
• The Batch Lady
• Tom Kerridge - Full time meals and Instagram page
• Jack Monroe - Cooking on a Bootstrap
• Seasonal fruit and veg – a handy guide

Healthy Habits and Keeping Well

• Healthy Habits
• Fitter Futures Everyone Health - healthy lifestyle service 
• Compass Connect for Health - for young people
• Healthy eating and healthy weight
• Recovery and Wellbeing Academy – free courses and workshops with a focus on physical and mental health and wellbeing
• NHS Better health, healthier families
• NHS Eat Well - information on eating a healthy, balanced diet
• Action for Children - for families with children who have sensory food issue
• Contact: Feeding and Eating – a guide for parents of disabled children (PDF, 256 KB)

Apps

• NHS Food Scanner app – find healthier swaps for your favourite foods
• Too Good to Go
• Whisk 
• Olio - lets you pass on what you no longer need to those who live nearby
• Refill - connects you to places to eat, drink and shop with less waste
• Kitche - a free food waste app designed to save you money and reduce your food waste at home

Disclaimer: Please be aware that Warwickshire County Council cannot endorse independent sites or apps. Care has been taken to ensure they are provided from well-respected sources for use at your discretion.