With the City of Lethbridge cultural landscape becoming more diverse, cooking classes are something many citizens are checking out.

The Chinook Country Kitchen is one prime example, that partners with Family Centre as well as The Interfaith Food Bank for cooking classes. The cooking classes are in place to help families cook healthy meals that are on a tight budget.

Jenny Kelly, a Kitchen Coordinator for Family Centre says they offer a variety of lessons open to the public. Cooking classes can help individuals with choosing healthier meals for their family.

Kelly adds that it’s a great way for parents to meet other families within the community.

“We have quite a lot of people signing up for our classes,” Kelly says.

With having classes every day of the week, Friday is the busiest because children partake in the lessons as well.

Rebeca Nelson attends cooking classes once a week and says having children who are picky eaters helps her prepare meals for her own children.

“Their main focus is healthy foods, which is really nice,” Nelson said.

She says along with preparing healthy recipes, this also teaches her how to use every day ingredients within the meals.

Reflecting back on her time attending the classes, the variety of new recipes she learned since starting at the Country Kitchen has grown.

“I normally cook the same things at home and this really opened my eyes to how much more I can do.”

The Country Kitchen is not the only place cooking classes are available in Lethbridge. Lethbridge College offers non-credited cooking courses for anyone.

According to Danielle Phair the college is focusing on sushi classes at this time.

“All of our classes are taking place in the evening,” she adds.

A list of classes can be found online for the public to see.

As for Interfaith Food bank, their classes run until the summer of 2016.