‘Cook and Count’ – Virtual Cooking Classes and Carbohydrate Counting for Young People

In the past, diabetes education had been conducted face-to-face which was not possible in times of COVID-19. Our team dietician decided to run virtual cooking and carbohydrate counting sessions via Zoom with a specialist nurse joining separately from their own kitchens, targeting patients in the 8 to 12 years age bracket and their parents/carers supervising in the background. As healthcare professionals it was a pleasure to see children learning through doing and having fun, and it has been a successful way to achieve this during a time when face-to-face teaching was not possible.