Fuelling Success: GAA and St Angela's College announce the relaunch of 'Recipes for Success
THE GAA is excited to announce the relaunch Recipes for Success" program in partnership with St. Angela's College.
The project is the result of a unique partnership between the GAA, the Home Economics Department at St. Angela's College, Sligo, and the ATHE (Association of Teachers for Home Economics). This collaboration aims to empower individuals with sports nutrition and the skills to prepare healthy, nutritious food to support healthy living and optimise esports performance. First launched in 2015, Recipes for Success has been reviewed and updated to keep it up to date in the world of sports nutrition. The programme was relaunched on October 26th in St Angela's College
Sligo by Minster for Public Health, Wellbeing and Drugs Strategy, Hildegarde Naughton.
The GAA's Recipes for Success booklet is filled with tasty, healthy, performance enhancing recipes that are easy to make and aims to support GAA players and members in making the right choices. Cooking for yourself is something you can only truly learn by doing.
That's why the unique partnership behind Recipes for Success facilitates bringing teams together to enhance not only their nutritional knowledge but also their practical cookery skills, one of the most important life-skills any player can develop.
Recipes for Success has two elements; a “hands on” kitchen-based cookery workshop and a Recipes for Success toolkit which is filled with tasty, healthy, performance enhancing recipes that are easy to make. Research carried out on the programme by St Angela's College (REF) indicated that those reported increased nutritional knowledge alongside knowledge regarding best nutrition practice during training and pre- and post-match. 92% of participants indicated that what they learned in Recipes for Success would influence them to make healthier food choices in the future. Recipes for Success is aimed at minor and U20 players, with the aim that these players will carry the knowledge and skills to support their own nutrition through to their adult playing careers.