Cooking up a storm

A cookbook co-created by people with learning disabilities aims to showcase simple, nutritious, budget-friendly meals that build skills, confidence and independence, writes Saba Salman.

Nathan smiling while frying

My Meals, published by Sheffield Mencap and Gateway, includes recipes chosen, tested and adapted by people with a learning disability.

The step-by-step instructions and design have also been co-produced by members of the charity.

My Meals is part of a wider Sheffield Mencap and Gateway’s campaign to improve the health of people with learning disabilities.

This group have poorer health outcomes than the general population and are also at a greater risk of obesity, with poverty contributing to this.

My Meals is available for £6.50 from Sheffield Mencap’s website