In 2006 Partnerships for Wellbeing embarked on a healthy eating initiative for the Inverness area called Food1st. The aim of Food1st is to promote healthy eating to low income and vulnerable communities; this has been made possible by funding from Lifescan Scotland, Lloyds TSB and the Scottish Community Foundation.

• Do you find it difficult to buy good food locally?

• Is shopping difficult to carry or heavy?

• Do you find fruit and vegetable expensive?

• Would you like to support the local economy?

• Does the environment matter to you?

• Does your health/ your family’s health matter?

Younger children...

• Why not play with your Food?

• Pasta, rice, lentils and beans all make great pictures

• Pasta shapes threaded onto string, make good necklaces, you can also paint them

• (Always supervise younger children)

Older children...

Why not get the children to help you make soup? Just add the ingredients shown here, 2 stock cubes and you have piping hot soup for tea. To help disguise the veg you can blend the soup with a hand blender. Eat with chunk of wholemeal bread

(Small cup of lentils, not the whole bag)

Contact Food1st on 01463 729997 or by e-mail: foodfirst@pfw.org.uk