Ready, Steady... Fun!

Students at Walsall College put the fun back into food with a day of exciting cooking and healthy eating related activities on Wednesday 2nd February.

Organised by the College’s catering contractors, Chartwells, the activities were designed to encourage students to eat well and bring the fun back into preparing and eating healthy food.

The day’s activities took place in the atrium of the College’s Wisemore Campus, including a ‘College Food Survival Guide’ demonstration, a Smoothie Bike and an ‘On your marks, get set, cook’ cooking competition, hosted by Chartwells Chef, Tim Elks.

The ‘College Food Survival Guide’ was an interactive live cookery demonstration, showing students how to make exciting, healthy meals on a budget, including Cantonese, Caribbean, Mexican and Indian dishes.

Taking place at lunchtime, the ‘On your marks, get set, cook’ was a Ready, Steady, Cook themed live cookery competition. Two teams of students, led by Public Services Lecturers Andrew Mason and Richard Jones, competed to produce the best balanced meal within a 15 minute time period. The audience then voted the Green Team as the winner of the competition by holding up voting cards.

Students also had the chance to get some exercise on the smoothie bike, a pedal powered blender which made delicious smoothies whilst they cycled.

Tracey Rooney, Catering Manager for Chartwells said: “This was an exciting, educational and fun filled event that helped put the fun back into food for students. We are delighted to be increasing our interaction with the students, helping to educate students in the importance of making healthy choices and how to create healthy, balanced meals on a limited budget”.