The visit will take place on Wednesday (October 3rd) when she will view meals being prepared for members of the community and meet the winner of the 2012 NACC Care Cook of the Year competition, Ellie Cook.
During the visit, the Duchess will meet students of Westminster Kingsway College who will be helping Ellie Cook, the chef manager at Anchor’s Kirkley Lodge Care Home, prepare meals to go out that lunchtime to members of the local community who would usually receive a community meal.
The Duchess will also meet representatives of the NACC and view the meals being prepared and packaged before they are taken out to the community.
Cook, assisted by Gill Thrush, the catering manager at Harrogate Food Angels, will be showing students of the college how to cook her winning menu, which has been adapted to be used as a community meal.
Together they will explain to them how the meals are costed and then packaged to go out on a meal delivery.
These meals will be delivered to 20 local clients in Westminster by Sodexo, the contractor which normally delivers to these clients every day.
To launch this year’s National Community Meals Week today the NACC plans to attempt a Guinness World Record for the most community meals delivered on the same day to people in their own homes.
Formerly known as ‘Meals on Wheels’, the service is celebrating more than 60 years of delivering meals to people in their own homes and to luncheon clubs and day centres.
Operating throughout the country, community meals providers vary from commercial companies to local authorities and voluntary agencies. The meals themselves can be delivered hot, chilled or frozen depending on the individuals’ needs and the area where they live.
Karen Oliver, National Chair of the NACC said: “Community Meals highlight the necessity for the continuation of a nutritional balanced daily meal for vulnerable people across the UK.
“The event at Westminster Kingsway College will showcase the excellence of Care Cooks and we are delighted that that the Duchess of Cornwall continues to support the NACC and this valuable service and promotes the provision of the Community Meals Service.”