Educational resources
Healthy Eating Healthy Living
A training pack designed to encourage healthy eating as a way of life for people with learning disabilities. Can be downloaded from www.scld.org.uk/healthy-eating-healthy-living-pack/
Caroline Walker Trust
Eating Well: Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities – Training Materials. This can be downloaded for free from www.cwt.org.uk/downloads/
Easy Health website
A variety of resources available to download from www.easyhealth.org.uk
Communication for Health, NHS Fife
This website is for staff and carers who are looking for accessible information for people with learning disabilities.
www.nhsfife.org/services/support-services/communication-for-health/
Food Standards Scotland
Eat Well, Your Way is a resource developed to help you take small manageable steps to eat healthier. www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/healthy-eating/eat-well-your-way
Healthy Eating Tutorial. A helpful tool for those who are looking for an introduction to nutrition and who may be required to provide healthy eating messages to others as part of their job.
www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/healthy-eating/nutrition/healthy-eating-tutorial
NHS Fife Feed Your Mind Podcast. Episode 5 ‘Eating Well on a Budget’ and Episode 7 ‘Vitamin D’ www.nhsfife.org/feedyourmind
Pictorial recipes and cook books
Health Promotion Access Catalogue (HPAC), NHS Fife http://hpac.fife.scot.nhs.uk ‘My Own Cookbook’, ‘Cook Your Own Takeaway’ and ‘CookWell’ recipe cards
Community Food and Health Scotland www.communityfoodandhealth.org.uk (Resources > Good Practice and Ideas > Community Cooking Sessions)
NHS Forth Valley, ‘How to… Cook’ and ‘Six Step’ Picture Recipes https://nhsforthvalley.com/health-services/health-promotion/nutrition/grow-and-cook/
Love Food Hate Waste. Recipes, tips and guidance to make the most of your food at home. www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/
NHS Grampian, Confidence to Cook Recipes. https://www.confidence2cook.co.uk/recipes
Videos
What Makes a Good Meal. Preparing nutritional meals for people with eating and drinking difficulties. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbFSvzf-pk8
Raising awareness of high risk foods when supporting someone with an eating and drinking difficulty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvvwLFkh7L4
A brief video explaining some of the different food labels found in the UK. Learn how to know what foods are high in fat, sugar and salt. Download our handy food label card and be more aware of the nutritional content of the foods and drinks you choose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hPg1-bfLYE
CookABILITY is an online video series aimed at getting more people with learning disabilities cooking healthy, homemade food. www.unitedresponse.org.uk/resource/cookability-videos/