HealthWISE NEST program rolls out in Tamworth

The Northern Daily Leader

WATCH: A local health charity is teaching community members how to eat healthy on a budget as a means to combat food inflation. Video by Gareth Gardner and Jonathan Hawes

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00:00 G'day folks, we're at the Youth Theatre today where some of our more elderly residents are

00:05 gaining helpful tips on how to cook and how to manage their food budgets.

00:09 Let's go ahead and go on inside and have a look and see how it's going.

00:13 So we got some grant funding from the Department of Communities and Justice to run some events

00:18 for seniors week.

00:19 We had been in consultation with Healthwise previously about running the NEST program

00:24 and we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to bring that to the community, particularly

00:28 at this time when the cost of living is so high.

00:31 Seniors struggle with the cost of living so we thought it would be a good match for seniors

00:36 week.

00:37 So it is a six week program.

00:40 Participants are obviously encouraged to all six but it's not the end of the world if they

00:45 can't.

00:46 But it is a building on the skills learnt each week and then every, the following week we

00:51 sort of revisit those briefly, what we learnt last week and then build on that again.

00:56 It's you know, some basic cooking skills, breaking it down so that it is, so that participants

01:02 remember it's quite easy, it doesn't have to be complicated and it can still be tasty

01:06 and healthy.

01:07 The program's name is Nutrition, Education and Skills Training, or NEST for short, and

01:12 it's one of many programs Healthwise is rolling out to fight food inflation.

01:17 We have connected with the food banks and the pantries in our region and we're keen

01:20 to do more work and look for ways that we can sort of, you know, help out and assist

01:25 in that and connect people.

01:27 Healthwise became the first organization to roll out the NEST program to a regional area

01:32 earlier this year.

01:33 And at the end of the course people get a take home pack which has lots of resources,

01:38 a recipe book, yeah, just to take home with them so they can continue their journey and

01:43 feel more confident.

01:44 With food prices skyrocketing across the nation, programs like these are more important now

01:49 than ever.

01:50 This has been Jonathan Hawes for the Northern Daily Leader.

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