On Saturday, February 26th, the Culinary Workshop of the Veggies4MyHeart project took place at the School of Health Sciences – Polytechnic of Leiria, with the special participation of Chef and Nutritionist Rui Lopes and the project team.
Veggies4myHeart, a ciTechCare project in the 2021/2022 Edition, is led by Cátia Pontes and promoted by Intern Nutritionists Neuza Barros and Patrícia Ferreira.
The project aims to promote food and nutritional literacy and reinforce the consumption of vegetables in preschool age.
This year, the project was carried out in partnership with the PIICIE program (Integrated and Innovative Plan to Combat School Retraction) in 8 kindergartens in the municipality of Leiria, where children played the digital game Veggies4myHeart and tasted the five vegetables from this project.
The culmination of this edition was the Culinary Workshop, in which several dishes were prepared, the main ingredients of which were the five vegetables covered by the project: tomato, red cabbage, cucumber, carrot, and lettuce. There was the presence of children from several kindergartens in the district of Leiria participating in the current edition of the project and their families.
It was a fun, educational, sharing, and delicious morning!
