Creative Cooking Family Challenge: Fun Way To Learn About Family Nutrition And Healthy Eating

Creative Cooking Family Challenge: Fun Way To Learn About Family Nutrition And Healthy Eating
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Healthy food is yummy, especially when you cooked it yourself! That’s what kids and their families did at the Little Day Outing with Mount Alvernia Hospital: Creative Cooking Family Challenge.

Mount Alvernia Hospital: Creative Cooking Family ChallengeThey made teddy cupcakes from scratch, using a recipe that was tweaked to include more nutritious ingredients, and also created their own animal sushi bentos.

Participants learning how to make cupcakes from Chef Violet
Participants learning how to make cupcakes from Chef Violet
Doesn’t this unicorn sushi bento look absolutely beautiful?
Doesn’t this unicorn sushi bento look absolutely beautiful?

Learning About Nutrition

The hands-on cooking experience provided participants with the opportunity to apply what they had learnt from the experts in nutrition, Mount Alvernia Hospital’s dieticians, in the earlier segment of the programme.

Kids learning about healthy eating from Mount Alvernia Hospital’s Sarah and Janice
Kids learning about healthy eating from Mount Alvernia Hospital’s Sarah and Janice

The children had fun discovering about the Healthy Plate through craft, while the adults benefitted from an interactive session on food label reading.


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The children were encouraged to design their own Healthy Plate.
The children were encouraged to design their own Healthy Plate.

“I learnt quite a few things,” said one participant when asked if she enjoyed the nutrition session with the dieticians.

The adults learnt how to decipher what’s written on food labels from Mount Alvernia Hospital’s senior dietician, Shiling.
The adults learnt how to decipher what’s written on food labels from Mount Alvernia Hospital’s senior dietician, Shiling.

Cooking Up A Healthy Storm

To up the excitement level of this Little Day Outing, a competition element was included in the cooking segment. The completed food items were judged on criteria such as nutrition, creativity and presentation, and teamwork.

Participants enjoyed the family bonding and teamwork as they worked together to cook nutritious food.
Participants enjoyed the family bonding and teamwork as they worked together to cook nutritious food.

The competition was meant to be a friendly one, and participants were reminded about how the process of learning to prepare nutritious food was more important than the end result of winning.

A team presenting their masterpiece to the judges from Mount Alvernia Hospital.
A team presenting their masterpiece to the judges from Mount Alvernia Hospital.
Congratulations to the winning mother-and-daughter team!
Congratulations to the winning mother-and-daughter team!

Passing The Taste Test

After the exhilarating countdown to the end of the cooking time, came the true test of the culinary experience: Participants were to eat what they had cooked for lunch!

Mt Alvernia Outing with Little Day OutThe verdict? “Yes!” a young participant answered emphatically when he was asked if the nutritious food was nice.

Mission accomplished!

Judging by the smiles on the participants’ faces, everyone had a great time at the Creative Cooking Family Challenge.

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Little Day Outing with Mount Alvernia Hospital: Creative Cooking Family Challenge is organised by Little Day Out and presented by Mount Alvernia Hospital.


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