Improving Relationships with Food for Everyone
Cookery Classes & Workshops
Delivering our Shop & Cook Wise courses and workshops across Plymouth to teach essential cooking and life skills as well as offering food coaching.
Working with Livewell Southwest’s Weight Management clients to rekindle those lost cooking mojos.
Supporting ex-service veterans through our Bake and Banter project, using food as a therapy and a motivator.
Food Education
Teaching nutrition and cooking skills to primary school pupils in a fun way.
Talk to us about your idea or needs about children’s food education and we’ll work with you to tailor our service to suit you.
Demonstration Kitchen Hire
For events of any size, we have a demonstration kitchen/stage for you at competitive rates. Although we mainly cover the South West of England, please do enquire if your event is further afield, and if we can’t help, we’ll try to point you in the direction of someone who hopefully can.
Improving Relationships with Food in a Fun Way and Reinvesting Profits for Social Impact
Cookery Classes and Workshops
Delivering our Shop & Cook Wise courses and workshops across Plymouth to teach essential cooking and life skills as well as offering food coaching.
Working with Livewell Southwest’s Weight Management clients to rekindle those lost cooking mojos.
Supporting ex-service veterans through our Bake and Banter project, using food as a therapy and a motivator.
Food Education
Teaching nutrition and cooking skills in a fun way.
Talk to us about your idea or needs about children’s food education and we’ll work with you to tailor our service to suit you.
Demonstration Kitchen Hire
For events of any size, we have a demonstration kitchen/stage for you at competitive rates. Although we mainly cover the South West of England, please do enquire if your event is further afield, and if we can’t help, we’ll try to point you in the direction of someone who hopefully can.
Food Buddies South West 💚
Our Impact
We have worked with
Primary, Secondary, Surestart & Colleges
We have worked with
Children and their families
We have delivered
Food festivals large and small
Our demo kitchens have supported over
Public food events
Our Latest News
What exactly does ‘Healthy Eating’ mean?
The World Health Organisation defines “health” to mean: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”...
It’s not the Calories you eat, but the Calories you absorb
The “calories in minus calories out” model says that to maintain our weight, the number of calories we take in (i.e. eat) should match the number we use up (by keeping the basic body metabolism going, digesting food and carrying out physical activity). However, not...
Calories for breakfast, lunch and dinner
From Public Heath England's "One You" website: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/for-your-body/eat-better/keep-track-of-calories-400-600-600/ Aim for 400-600-600 Eating healthily and keeping track of your calorie intake can be tricky sometimes. Research has shown on average...
The very first Food Is Fun event
This is the local press coverage of the very first Food Is Fun event, held in Plympton St Marys Infants School on Tuesday 10th February 2009. We had reporters from the Plymouth Herald and a film crew from ITV covering this historic day!
Little Chefs – ITV 2008
In 2008 Food Is Fun's kitchen was featured in an episode of ITV's "Little Chefs" series, where TV chefs Peter Gorton, Lesley Waters and Matt Corner worked with teams of school children in a competiton....
Reinvesting profits for Social Impact
We are proud to be a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. That means that when you hire anything from us, you are helping us to make a difference to those who need our help.
Any profit we make from our hires is reinvested into the organisation to part-fund our schools and community work.
Teaching essential cooking and budgeting skills alongside the importance of having a healthy balanced diet for overall health and wellbeing.
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