Cooking For Diabetes Good Health And Wellness
Dates: 29 Nov 2014 - 29 Nov 2014
Location: The Cookery School At Braxted Park, Essex
With Christmas and the winter months looming, you can be sure that plenty of hearty seasonal food and festive treats will be on offer at all those parties and family gatherings, sparkling enticingly to us from the supermarket shelves. For those watching their waistlines or managing their diet this can be a tough time of year to deal with, but for people living with diabetes this seasonal challenge can be an especially difficult one to navigate.
That’s why, at this year’s Cooking for Diabetes, Good Health and Wellness Day we have decided to tackle some traditional Christmas dishes and seasonal recipes to see how we can make them healthier and nutritional while keeping the tasty fun factor. At the same time you will learn some new cooking skills and techniques and add to your understanding of healthy food choices to help manage your diabetes.
Under the guidance of nutrition expert, author and Chef, Ursula Ferrigno, the step-by-step tuition will be fun and easy to follow. It doesn’t matter whether you attend the day by yourself or with a friend because we will be working in pairs and as a team, so the whole day is very interactive and no one is left on their own. The cookery school team will be on hand to help throughout the day and you will learn everything you need to produce the perfect festive dish.
The teaching kitchen is state of the art and overlooks the beautiful 500-acre Braxted Park Estate in the picturesque Essex countryside. The award-winning chefs are hand-picked to ensure you have the finest cookery experience that will inspire you to take your new-found skills into your kitchen at home. The day is suitable for everyone from complete beginners to budding chefs and will be an experience you will never forget.
Working alongside Chef Ursula and a diabetes specialist dietitian our menu for the day will be complied with the best advice and choices in mind for people living with diabetes.
The full cost to attend this all-inclusive day is £135 per person. However DRWF is able to subsidise the cost of attendance by 25% for Diabetes Wellness Network members as part of the charity’s annual educational event programme.
The 25% member discount reduces the cost of attending to £100 per person.
The cookery day is fully inclusive, so your fee for attending covers everything from the moment you park your car to the moment you go home. To recap here is a list of what is included in the cost –
- Tea, coffee, refreshments and biscuits on arrival
- Braxted Park welcome folder and embroidered apron
- All recipe ingredients, cooking materials and equipment supplied
- Tea, coffee, refreshments and biscuits (break time)
- Full day of instruction from our tutor Chef Ursula Ferrigno
- Sit down meal, wine, tea and coffee at the end of the day
- DRWF delegate pack
- All day parking
With only a limited number of twelve places available, the cooking day would make a wonderful Christmas gift or experience for someone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and family and friends who want to learn more too.
For more information and an information pack, please call the DRWF Event Co-ordinator, Lee Calladine, on 023 92 636133 or email events@drwf.org.uk
