Feed and Flourish
cooking classes
Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.
With my food basket, and your food basket, the people will thrive.
Our aim is not to just provide a hand out through food parcels, but to give a hand up and alleviate food poverty in Papamoa. Cooking classes is one step.
All Classes Are Free!
Papamoa Food Hub are piloting a free Basic Cooking class, starting on 6th June 2025. Further classes will be held each school term, starting with 1 per term, with further planned if there is demand.
Each course will consist of 4 weekly lessons.
The attendees will learn how to cook simple, economical and nutritious family meals. How to shop smart. Basic nutrition and food safety.
Starting at 6pm and finishing at 8.30pm
About the cooking classes
Classes are open to anyone.
You may be a single parent and not learnt how to cook. Perhaps you are a grandparent and now have your grandchildren living with you but you've forgotten how to prepare child friendly meals. Or perhaps you can no longer afford the takeaways and ready meals that you used too. Are you a student living off campus, or have left home for your first job and now need to cook for yourself?
You may like to do this as an activity with your teenager and learn to cook together.
At the end of the class we will all sit down together and eat what we have prepared before cleaning up the kitchen.
Our aim is to provide you with the skills and if possible, tools, to help you feed your family. As such we will be providing a goodie bag with the recipes and food items to make a main meal and dessert learnt during class, to try out on you family.