This week is Healthy Eating Week, and what could be a better time to look at how we’ve tried to look after our bodies?


With the growing awareness of the importance of a healthy diet, the phrase “you are what you eat” has never been more relevant.

Organised by the British Nutrition Foundation, Healthy Eating Week encourages everyone to consider their diet and overall health.

Whether that means having one extra portion of fruit or vegetables a day, being a bit more active, experimenting with a new recipe or using up leftovers, this week is all about giving it a go.
In 2016, pupils at Oughterside Primary School certainly did that when they participated in a cookalong event as part of Healthy Eating Week.

Pictured are Owen Hardisty and Zane Alderson showing off their tasty snacks.

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Also pictured at the cookalong is Kai-Leise Hanby, four.

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Staff at Kingmoor Junior School in Carlisle ran a healthy fruit tuck shop for pupils.

Senior teaching assistant Joanne Harrison and assistant headteacher Hayley Stewart are shown with school council members, from left to right, Josh Balmer, Lucy Whyte, Samuel Graham and Evie Duffin.

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Healthy eating was also on the timetable at Nelson Thomlinson School thanks to the Wigton Youth Station Little Fruit and Veg Project.

Dinner ladies and Wigton Youth Station handed out free fruit from local grocers Lightfoots and 17-year-olds Chloe Carrick and Louise Dennis are captured with theirs.

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At Carlisle Community Health Mela, Sky Higgins from Sustainable Carlisle demonstrated how to make a fruit smoothie on a bicycle smoothie maker.

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Sport and nutrition came together when former Sunderland footballer Maurice Hepworth visited Lanercost Primary School to talk to pupils about healthy eating.

He is pictured with seven-year-old Cem Akdeniz.

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A Let’s Cook children’s healthy eating project run by Tesco and The Children’s Food Trust at Barrow’s Tesco Extra saw Charlotte Leeder preparing fresh ingredients for her tomato soup.

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At a Ready Steady Cook event to promote healthy eating at Austin Friars School, chef Tim Elks from caterer Chartwells showed head of sixth form Stuart Parry the ropes. 

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Our final picture shows Chris Denwood, of Ikuji Workshops, teaching pupils from St Patrick’s school, Cleator Moor, about nutrition and healthy eating.