Excellent cooking project to improve the nutrition of vulnerable women and their families. - Yummy Mummies project by Sue McAuliffe and Alison Lloyd.

A nutrition project for vulnerable women shows how cooking can change lives - and be fun - Guardian report

Extracts:

"Until a few weeks ago, Amina admits, she used to add a tablespoon-and-a-half of salt to the curries she prepared for her family, and had no idea of the quantity of oil she added. Now she's cut the salt to nearly zero and keeps a close eye on fat content."

"Yummy Mummies (YM), which recently won a Royal College of Midwives' award, is a project set up by community midwife Sue McAuliffe and former food technology teacher Alison Lloyd to raise awareness to help vulnerable women who are either pregnant or have young children.

Once a week, they join a group of about 10 young women for a two-hour free session consisting of a short talk on some aspect of healthy nutrition, such as increasing dietary fibre or the physical impact of salt or fat on the body. Afterwards they prepare a meal together, then sit down and eat communally.

McAuliffe and Lloyd decided to target mothers attending a children's centre in Old Moat - a deprived and ethnically diverse area with an above-average rate of teenage pregnancies - and launched the YM pilot a year ago, funded by Manchester Food Futures, a partnership between the city council, communities and the private sector. Funding has been renewed for a second year and its running has been taken over by founder member Paula O'Reilly. A parallel session of YM has just been launched in neighbouring Burnage, and another will open soon in Wythenshawe."

Any project that gets people cooking, instead of always eating processed food, gets my approval. - And any project that gets people who cook for a family to cut down on the amount of salt in the meal gets three cheers from me! - That's great!

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! -You will feel so much better!
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