Skills for Life
Feeding Myself
By the end, you can cook a few real meals — and plan and shop for them on your own money.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- A cooking series
- Session length
- About 2 hours
- Who leads it
- A partner delivers the content; New Steps hosts it
- Certificate
- New Steps Certificate — competence-based, signed off when the young person has shown the skill on a real task
Every session cooks and eats a full meal together. The number of sessions is set with the delivery partner for each cohort.
What they leave with
- Their own week-of-simple-meals plan
- A shopping list built to their own food number
- A list of three meals they can now cook
- Kitchen-safety basics
- Five keep-forever nutrition cards — the healthy plate, reading a label, best-before versus expiry, safe storage, and eating well on a budget
How it runs
It runs in a New Steps home: the kitchen is the classroom. A partner brings the cooking; New Steps hosts, feeds and wraps. Small groups only — a home kitchen holds so many hands.
How it connects
Modules are built to stack. Where one has already taught a skill, the next one recalls it rather than teaching it again.
Bridges to
Is this a fit for someone you work with?
A caseworker reaches out, we book a tour, and we work out together whether New Steps is the right place. When a room is open, a referral can come together in about a week. When we are full, we will say so. New Steps is not an emergency placement service — we do not take same-day or overnight placements.
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