DCM are involved in “Healthy Food made Easy” which is a course provided by Southside Partnership DLR to teach residents how to prepare and cook healthy recipes. The residents learn what healthy eating is and receive great tips on how to plan meals and shop for ingredients on a budget. This course has garnered great interest and residents thoroughly enjoy it.

Hosted by Southside Partnership and funded under the Department of Health, the Healthy Food Made Easy Programme in DLR aims to address inequalities related to food and to improve nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviour through the provision of information and the facilitation of a 6 week course. The key objectives of these courses are to increase participant knowledge about diet and nutrition and to develop food-related skills such as cooking, budgeting and shopping.