Puāwai-Kai — Canterbury
Puāwai-Kai is a free 8-week healthy lifestyle and cooking programme for people in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It is for people who want to improve their health and wellbeing.
How the programme runs the 8-week courses
- Puāwai-Kai runs regular courses throughout the year.
- Courses are held during the day or evening in various places in Canterbury.
- Each weekly session lasts 2 hours.
- There are up to 16 people in a session.
- The first 3 weeks focus on how to make healthy lifestyle changes.
- The next 5 weeks focus on cooking — putting the ideas into action.
- Each session ends with sharing kaitogether.
What you will learn
- Enjoying a healthy relationship with food and having a routine. Week 1 includes breakfast foods to try.
- Filling up with whole foods and making water your friend. In week 2, you get to try curried kumara soup.
- Sleeping well, moving, taking care of yourself and eating mindfully. Week 3 focuses on making lunches, so you get to make and enjoy a salad bowl.
- How to read a recipe, knife skills and cooking baked potatoes and bean salad.
- Knowing what you eat, why home cooking is good for your health, and making pizza.
- Cooking eggs, making mini vegetable quiches and making easy coleslaw.
- How to turn a simple recipe into many different whānau meals, cooking with legumes and making nachos with salad.
- Cooking chickpea and vegetable curry with rice.
For more information, visit the Puāwai-Kai website.