Our Veterans Training Kitchen

You are what you eat 

That is the philosophy of David Routledge the Founder of
Healthy Kitchen and Deli, who has set up the Veterans Cookery Kitchen. Based in their Kitchen and Café in Newton Aycliffe, David and his team are dedicated to teaching veterans how to eat foods which are both healthy, nutritious and cost effective. 

Sometimes people can be intimidated by Healthy Cooking, especially people who have not spent much time in a kitchen. So, we try to make it easy, fun, and break it down into simple steps for our Veterans. We want to give them the confidence to prepare good nutritious food for themselves in their own homes. It seems less daunting to them if they walk through the process with us first.  

In addition to the cooking of healthy meals we also want to teach the Veterans the fundamentals of working in a kitchen, from basic handwashing, knife skills, and the importance of reading food labels in a supermarket. We also want to them to learn How to Eat, not just what to eat, this being portion control, plates and what to fill them with.  

The course is run over 6 weeks and topics include Healthy Eating on a Budget, Food and how it affects your mental health, The food Pyramid, Level 1 in Food Hygiene as well as plenty of hands-on cooking