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What happens if you don't know how to cook? with Dr Fiona Lavelle

Nutrition Science Bites with Professor Clare Collins AO

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What happens if you don't know how to cook? with Dr Fiona Lavelle

In this episode Professor Clare Collins interviews Dr Fiona Lavelle from King's College London about whether it matters if you can cook or not? They discuss food and cooking skills, meal planning and how this relates to diet quality. They cover the important question of who cooks and the challenge of balancing household responsibilities, and how to make cooking more accessible and enjoyable for all, especially kids.

Key Topics

  1. Definition of cooking and food skills
  2. Relationship between planning and cooking
  3. Impact of cooking skills on diet quality
  4. Gender roles and household responsibilities in cooking
  5. Strategies for reducing mental load in meal planning
  6. Involving children in cooking from a young age
  7. Cost-effective and waste-reducing cooking practices
  8. The spectrum of cooking: from assembly to from-scratch
  9. Cultural insights: Irish soda bread and traditional recipes

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Keywords: #cookingskills, #foodplanning, #householdresponsibilities, #dietquality, #cooking, #kidscooking, #foodwaste, #budget, #mealprep


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What is healthy eating?

Eating healthy is making sure you enjoy a wide variety of foods from each of the five major food groups daily, in the amounts recommended. The five major food groups as recommended by the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating are:

  1. vegetables and legumes/bean
  2. fruit
  3. lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, legumes/beans
  4. grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties
  5. milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat.

Foods are grouped together because they provide similar amounts of key nutrients and eating a variety of foods from the list above helps to promote good health and reduce the risk of disease.

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