BUDDING cooks in Whaddon are being encouraged to get their five-a-day.

Staff at the Cornerstone Centre, in Severn Road, have launched a healthy lunch group every Wednesday, from noon to 2pm.

From jacket potatoes to butternut squash and asparagus, the club will show attendees how to cook healthy meals using a range of healthy ingredients.

Organiser Martha Clark said: "It's about getting people to think about what they eat and showing them how to cook dishes they might not usually do at home.

"We use all sorts of ingredients including alternative carbohydrates such as cous-cous and quinoa.

"What we eat has an important impact on our sense of wellbeing. Hopefully these sessions will encourage people to take the recipes away with them and give them a try."

The sessions cost £1 a person. Ingredients are provided. For more information, call the centre on 01242 269325.