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Recipes and Catering

Healthy Cooking and Nutrition Programme Resource

The Healthy Cooking and Nutrition Programme Resource was developed by the Bay of Plenty District Health Board. It provides guidelines and tips for running community based cooking skills workshops.

The Great Little Cookbook

The Great Little Cookbook provides "hints on healthy eating on a tight budget". This is a PDF version of a cookbook recently released by the Nelson Marlborough and West Coast DHBs and WINZ Nelson Regional Office. It was written by registered nutritionist Sally MacKay.

Quick Easy Healthy Eating – Low Cost Recipes

This simple booklet has recipes using canned fish, potatoes, beans, rice and pasta. It was compiled by Liz Cutler, a dietitian at Community and Public Health.

Healthy Eating Recipes – Bronwen King

Public Health Nutritionist, and ex café owner and chef, Bronwen King has been doing a Healthy Eating cooking show on Canterbury TV for a number of years. Her recipes are stored online.

Healthy Eating Video Series

This two video series (five hours) with accompanying recipes demonstrates the 'hows' of healthy eating. It covers a wide range of health topics with accompanying yummy, healthy and economic food ideas. It is great for teachers, community groups, homes, health professionals or people interested in exciting new ways to improve their own or their family's health.

Video One: Healthy Breakfasts, Lunches, Snacks, Soups and Roasting
Video Two: Cakes and Desserts, Legumes, Easy Meals, Salads, Cooking with Mince, and Favourite Meals.

Cooking for Older People – Recipes for One or Two

Community nurses and hospital staff often work with older people who show signs of malnutrition. There is an increased awareness that factors like the degree of mobility, financial status, depression, oral health and living alone can all impact on an older person's nutritional status.

The Project Dietitians of the Canterbury District Health Board Older Persons' Health Service has produced a recipe book, and a range of pamphlets, to assist older people in preparing easy, nutritious and delicious meals. Bronwyn King has illustrated some of the cookbook recipes on CTV's Healthy Eating-Cooking for Older People 2005 series.

These two programmes have been made into a DVD which is now available with the cookbook. The recipe book DVD and pamphlet series are available from the CDHB Community Information Centre.

Recipe Booklets – Department of Human Nutrition, Otago University

Since the days of the old Home Science Department, Otago University has produced a series of recipe cards (available in bulk) and recipe booklets on topics like 'every day meals' and 'soups' etc. They also have good ones on wonderfully old-fashioned things like preserves and pickles and stain removal.

More recipe links

For more recipe resources, check out your local public health information centre, your local library and the websites listed in the Links section of the ANA website.

Living in the Community

This book assists people and carers living in community group homes to produce nutritious, tasty, economic and safe meals. Divided into five sections: nutrition, meal planning, food safety, food choices and cooking skills, it covers healthy eating, food and medications, constipation, vegetarianism, menu planning, budgeting, keeping food safe, takeaways and convenience foods. Living in the Community includes over 30 simple recipes for two, four and six people.

Heart Foundation Catering Resources

In consultation with hospitals, rest homes, work places, lunch bars and cafes, The Heart Foundation Heartbeat Catering Programme developed educational resources for caterers. The resources available are:

  • Caterers Corner, a nutrition newsletter with recipe cards attached which is sent out quarterly to caterers. The objective of this newsletter is to increase the nutrition knowledge of caterers and the practical application of the New Zealand Food and Nutrition Guidelines.
  • A series of guidelines developed on evidence based nutrition information:
    • Function Catering Guidelines encourage the availability of healthy food choices at conferences, seminars and functions.
    • Recipe Development Guidelines provide a framework for food writers, home economist, food technologist and chefs involved in recipe development.
    • Heartbeat Catering Guidelines are for residential settings of one kind or another – boarding schools, halls of residence, the armed services, prisons, community homes and rest homes.

For more information about the new Heart Foundation Catering resources see www.nhf.org.nz or phone 09 571 9191.

Recipes and Catering Tips from Diabetes New Zealand

The Diabetes NZ website, has information available on how to adapt your recipes so they are lower in fat, salt and sugar but still have plenty of flavour.

Catering Guidelines Poster

Available in either A3 or A4 sizes, this poster provides a checklist for caterers on providing healthier options. The three messages are to offer a variety of food, prepare meals with minimal added fat, and purchase, prepare and serve food safely.

  • Download the poster order form here.

Food Costs Survey – Dietetic Students

Each year Otago dietetic students survey supermarkets in the five main centres to estimate the cost of a healthy diet for men, women, adolescents and children.