Eat to live, don't live to eat

The food here is delicious and locally grown, with few artificial ingredients, but people here seem to like fried food, mayonnaise and a lot of sugar and salt, as Nina wrote a month ago. So, the second workshop on healthy nutrition was held today at NWC

Workshop started with a brief presentation of basic rules and recommendations when it comes to food and health. A healthy diet involves consuming appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water.

Aminatta and me by the charcoal stove

Nutrients can be obtained from many different foods, so healthy diet needs to have a balance of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, calories to support energy need and micro nutrients to meet the needs for human nutrition without inducing toxicity or excessive weight gain from consuming excessive amounts.

But, the real fun started with actual cooking session!
All members were present and responsible for some work (pealing potatoes, cleaning spinach, slicing carrots, onions, tomatoes, eggplants, preparing the meat...), under the supervision and guidance from our great cook Aminatta.

After few hours of cooking delicious and healthy meals were ready.

Ready-to-serve food

So, we could finally invite local kids for a lunch. More then 60 children, ages 2 to 12, ran to our backyard, sat on the floor and quietly waited for their free meal. We served rice, boiled potatoes, spinach with eggplants, and some nice looking beef stew (I can't judge on the taste, though).

At the end, all kids got a glass of milk and some fresh bananas. 

Esther serving milk

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