Takeaways that qualify as HOT are making positive changes to how they prepare, serve and display their food to help customers make healthier choices.
Find your nearest Healthy Options Takeaway in Ashfield.
Feel Good Food
Feel Good Food is a health and wellbeing project delivered by us in partnership with other local organisations.
Feel Good Food recipe book
This includes simple, easy to follow recipes created by Change4Life to provide an opportunity for people to have a go at cooking at home. You can get the recipe book from the related documents section of this web page.
Further recipes and information about healthy eating are also available to view on the Change4Life website.
Healthy Options Takeaways (HOT)
Many local takeaways are accredited by HOT which means they have looked at their menus and cooking methods to provide a healthier choice for you. Take a look at our list of accredited local takeaways.
Working with partners
Our partners include:
- Engage Under One Roof Food Bank, Hucknall
- Kirkby Storehouse Food Bank, Kirkby in Ashfield
- Lets All Eat Food Bank, Sutton in Ashfield.
In our first year of delivery (2019/20) Feel Good Food aimed to build confidence, knowledge and awareness to eat healthy as well as encouraging people to buy food locally, supporting local businesses and market traders, with a particular focus on the Sutton area. This was a great success and also identified a need to create a stronger approach to reducing food poverty within the district of Ashfield.
Feel Good Food has now formed a local district food group which is currently represented by the above name partners who represent some of our local food banks provding food parcels and provisions to our most vulnerable residents.
Over the next year Feel good Food aims to:
- create a collaborative approach to attract funding to support food poverty in Ashfield
- investigate opportunities to work with community allotments to increase donations of fresh food to food banks and reduce food waste
- create social opportunities for individuals to build their skills, knowledge and confidence to eat a healthy diet as well as reducing isolation
- improve partnerships with local businesses and supermarkets in the donation of food locally
- support the implementation of National and local food initiatives within the district of Ashfield.
How to contact us about Feel Good Food
If you would like more information about Feel Good Food or feel that you may be able to support our work, contact:
Dianne Holmes
Health and Wellbeing Officer
telephone: 01623 457233
email: healthandwellbeing@Ashfield.gov.uk
