Over this last week I've had the pleasure of travelling around the country with Lisa Fallowfield Head of Health Projects at Aberdeen Foyer and meeting up with all of you and hearing your ideas and progress with your Foyer Health programmes.
We've had some great ideas and I wanted to get them out there for everyone to see as soon as possible
Here's just a few.....
Fun things to try with fruit
The Human Fruit Machine ! - this was a great idea from Painswick Inn Foyer who created a human fruit machine at their launch event on 22nd Feb. The machine needs four people, 1 to act as the lever, and three as the "fruit machine ". Pull the handle and each of the three pick a fruit at random from a bowl. A lucky player will find three lemons or pears selected and will duly get fruit as a prize ! ...need to know more ..contact Painswick Inn Foyer
Torbay Foyer breaks the fruit barrier ....... Torbay Health Champion Sarah initially approached local supermarkets about accessing some fruit and veg for the Foyer, but did not meet a very helpful response. So she went off to find out who supplied the supermarkets locally with fruit and veg and found a very helpful local supplier who will be supporting their launch.
Also try ..fruit as prize ...Aberdeen have used a pineapple as a Trophy ! Feel the fruit ..Why not have a Fruity Friday and provide a small goody bag of fruit to all residents. Others have managed to transform their tuck shop.......
Another way to encourage young people to try cooking something new and healthy is to put together a healthy recipe Kit/goody bag , that contains a recipe and then all the ingredients individually portioned. You could get a member of staff to demonstrate the recipe and then give the Kit/good bags for young people to go home to their flats and try it for themselves.....
"Eat anything you like day" - another great idea from Painswick Inn. Painswick In n have asked young people to think of one single food that they would like to try and have teamed up with their local Waitrose to make it happen.It is rumoured that Lobster may well get on the menu for a few young people curious to try it out .........
We learnt a lot from Lisa this week about integrating healthy eating into all kinds of projects that are not necessarily "health projects". try integrating a healthy breakfast or lunch into learning programmes at your Foyer. Also get healthy menu preparation on the agenda for any outward bound/Princes Trust programmes you run.
FARESHARES
We also heard about the success of FARESHARES food distribution scheme in some areas. FareShare is the national charity working to relieve food poverty by providing quality food and other support services to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community.
Find out more about Fareshare at their website below and also check for a local project near you. Meanwhile we will check out some of your concerns.
http://www.fareshare.org.uk/local/index.html
http://www.fareshare.org.uk/index.html
Food Policies
We had some discussion this week about the value of establishing a food policy for Foyers to guide practice. Developing a food policy is one of the standards in the healthy eating accreditation standards for Foyers that Year One foyers will be working towards.
I will be tracking down a an example workplace policy ..but in the meantime here are two links to schools food policy guidance and templates
http://www.sustainweb.org/pdf/G5_MFPol.pdfhttp://foodinschools.datacenta.uk.net/
Healthy catering guidelines
http://www.nwph.net/food_health/Taskforce_Publications/Forms/Detail%20View.aspx
The North West Food and Health Task Force
A useful website with lots of guidance documents
http://www.nwph.net/food_health/default.aspx
more soon .........bye for now
Nerys
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