As part of an Ireland wide programme, Cunamm Pheadair Naofa is again leading the way in Ulster and Ireland by delivering the latest nutrition programme to young sports people; Recipes For Success developed at National Level. Recipes for Success is a unique healthy eating/nutritional initiative designed to respond to an identified need in GAA clubs for practical programmes supporting healthy eating for GAA players & members.
Recipes for Success is a unique healthy eating/nutritional initiative between the GAA and the Home Economics Department at St. Angela’s college, Sligo. The unique collaboration brings together expertise from an array of sectors, including leading Irish sports performance nutritionist Críonna Tobin. Recipes for Success has two elements; a kitchen-based cookery workshop which is exclusive to Healthy Clubs and a Recipes for Success toolkit which is filled with tasty, healthy, performance enhancing recipes that are easy to make. The club is lucky enough to have two professionals well educated in the delivery of this programme, Aislíng McGivern (Head of Home Economics) and Ross McGarry (Qualified Fitness Instructor) and the programme was lead by the club Health and Well Being and Healthy Clubs Committees under the professional eye of committee leader Katrina Kernan.
Our U16 footballers took part in a nutrition morning on Sunday morning in St Marks where they had a 45 minute indoor training session and then moved up to Home Economics for a nutrition session.
The boys had a 30 minute food, nutrition and sport session delivered by Aislíng McGivern & Ross McGarry before taking part in a practical session where they cooked a recipe from the new GAA Recipes for Success Programme developed by Croke Park & delivered by Aislíng McGivern. The boys then made their own lean in 15 mince burgers and sweet potato fries & left with a Recipe for Success book with lots of lean, nutritious & balanced meals for sports people. The programme, which has been
Thanks to everyone who helped and the Health and Well being committee for their organisation of the event.
