Level 2 Award in Healthy Food and Special Diets
Learners will outline current nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet, describe the impact diet has on health, describe food preparation techniques that maintain the nutritional value of food and understand how to plan and provide meals for those with special diets (including medical needs, allergies, vegans, vegetarians and diets for different faiths).
The flexibility of this training course will be of benefit to people working in a diverse range of catering backgrounds from school caterers and those working in the care sector to restaurant and hotel staff. It would also be suitable for GCSE students taking relevant food and health subjects.
The course is available to individual candidates or can be customised to meet an organisations specific needs.
This course has also been adapted to meet the requirements of care homes. The content of the course remains the same but with the emphasis being on feeding the elderly and those in care homes. The second part of the course includes a session that discusses the problems in relation to feeding those in care homes and practical demonstrations on modified diets. This also gives anyone involved in the feeding of residents a chance to ask any related questions.
This qualification will benefit anyone who prepares and serves food as it is designed to provide a basic understanding of nutrition and the requirements of special diets to enable the planning of well-balanced meals that have a positive impact on health. This could include chefs, kitchen porters, waiting staff, health care workers and childminders.
Learners will outline current nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet, describe the impact diet has on health, describe food preparation techniques that maintain the nutritional value of food and understand how to plan and provide meals for those with special diets (including medical needs, allergies, vegans, vegetarians and diets for different faiths).
