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Tools and Resources for Healthy Eating

What is a healthy diet?

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The Balance of Good Health PDF
A 5-page guide including information on the five food groups, portion sizes, the amount of food people need, vitamin & mineral supplements and composite foods.
Food Standards Agency
2001
FSA nutrient and food based guidelines for UK institutions PDF
The Food Standards Agency’s Food and Nutrition 8-page guidelines for the UK, including an explanation of the Eat Well plate to ensure a balanced diet.
Food Standards Agency
2007
Food labels PDF
A 24-page document explaining traffic light labelling, ingredients lists, allergy information, claims on labels and vegan & vegetarian labelling.
Food Standards Agency
January 2007
Food labelling terms
An interactive list of labelling terms to help answer the sorts of questions you may ask yourself when you pick up a product in the supermarket. The aim is to help people make healthier and more informed choices when out shopping.
Food Standards Agency
February 2009
Example menus for adults 19-74 years PDF
A 41–page document of dietary requirements and a week plan of meals.
Food Standards Agency
The Eat Well Plate poster PDF
Poster displaying the Eat Well plate. It shows how much of what we eat should come from each food group.
Food Standards Agency
BMI calculator
The Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator is a useful guide telling you if you're a healthy weight for your height.
Food Standards Agency
Height – Weight Chart
You can use this chart to check if you are the right weight for your height.
Food Standards Agency
The little book of SALT
Little very colourful simple leaflet on salt PDF
Food Standards Agency
Nutrition and Food Poverty PDF
A toolkit for those involved in developing or implementing a local nutrition and food poverty strategy.
National Heart Forum
2004

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How do you set up and run a cookery club or cook and eat course?

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What’s cooking? Guide: England PDF
A guide to setting up and running community and school food clubs in England
Food Standards Agency
2008
Keep it going! PDF
Guidance for schools and other settings on how they can make their cookery club sustainable
Food Standards Agency
2008
How to set up a “cook and eat” course PDF
Includes a step by step guide and working examples. To help design and run practical courses offering basic cooking skills and healthy eating and budgeting information to community participants from a low income area.
East Kent Coastal NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust
2006

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How do you set up and run local initiatives to improve access to healthy sustainable food?

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London Food Access Forum
This forum brings together those organisations and individuals around London trying to improve access to healthy affordable food for people on low incomes. It is free to attend and open to all with an interest in the topic.
London Food Link
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FoodCoops.org
Website developed by Sustain, including information on where to find your local food co-op and how to set one up.
Sustain
N/A

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What are the links between food and mental health?

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The Mind Meal PDF
A recipe resource that draws attention to the important relationship between “food and mood”. Serves as an example of what can be done with some of the good mood foods that are generally recommended as beneficial for emotional and mental health.
Mind
Food & Mood Google group
This group is for people to share their experience of exploring the links between diet, nutrition and emotional and mental health.
Google

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How do you set up food growing projects?

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Food Growing for Groups PDF
Advice on finding funding, getting started, planning with the months of the year, dealing with the media and useful contacts.
Women’s Environmental Network
Grow your own organic food PDF
Information on why to grow organic, finding somewhere to grow, checking the soil, which seasons you can start growing in, what you need, what to grow, feeding the soil and things you can make.
Women’s Environmental Network
Landshare – find land or share your land
A website set up by Channel 4 that connects food growers with landowners.
Landshare
Growing round the houses PDF
Practical advice on food growing on housing estates using garden plots, fruit trees, ornamental borders, growing on concrete and alternative production. Also includes advice on how to set it up on existing estates, design, funding, managing and sources of help.
Women’s Environmental Network

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Who offers training courses to run community-led food projects?

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National Training Programme for Community Food Workers
This is the first programme of its kind. It provides an accredited framework of training and study, which will resource the development of food working in local communities.
Community Food Enterprise

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How do you get hold of healthy sustainable food for an event or meeting?

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Locally sourced Food Finder
The database holds records of producers and suppliers in London and the counties surrounding London, and a few businesses a bit further away supplying products which aren't available closer to the capital.
Sustain
N/A
Serving up Sustainability PDF
A detailed 28-page guide for caterers and restaurants on how to provide greener, healthier and more ethical food.
Sustain
December 2007
Requirements for sustainable foods at meetings and events PDF
A one-page list of ideas on how caterers can provide healthier options that have a low impact on the environment and support local sustainable economies.
Sustain
January 2008

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What funding is available?

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Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts - Local Food programme
This programme will fund a variety of food related projects to make locally grown food more accessible and affordable to local communities. For more information visit:
Big Lottery Fund / Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
Capital Growth
This programme will help Londoners transform the capital by creating 2,012 new food growing spaces by 2012. The Capital Growth campaign will offer practical and financial support (for limited periods) to communities around London, helping people get access to land and create successful food growing spaces. Capital Growth will offer funding at several stages until 2012. To be able to apply for this funding your project must already be on the Capital Growth scheme.
London Food Link

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