School and Community Workshops

$200/hr

Cooking Workshops
Teaching the easy art of putting together quick and simple meals encorporating a variety of vegetables and grains. Learn about various grains and how to prepare them, how to add more veggies to a meal and get your family to eat and enjoy them! We offer a shopping list, variety of recipes, Tip on meal planning and how to get your family to eat healthier.

Eating For Energy (Teens and adults)
Learn about how to fuel your body properly for physical and mental performance. Understand why processed foods and sugar depletes your body of energy and makes you feel tired and sluggish. Why do athletes Bonk? Why do I have cravings at certain times? Why do I rely on stimulants like caffeine? (45 minutes- 1 hour)

Food Processing (school age and adult)
Learn about how foods are processed and prepared to make them “taste good” and keep us coming back for more. Learn about and experience what these foods do to your body through an interactive game. Process some foods through grinding and juicing. This is an interactive, multi-sensory workshop (1 hour).

Body Image, self esteem and food (teen girls and women)
Why are so many girls restricting calories and becoming vegetarian? Why do we have such poor and skewed body image? What role does the media, peers, teachers and parents play in kid’s body image and self esteem. How does this affect our food choices? What role does our food choices play in our body image and self esteem? This workshop will address these questions in an interactive discussion.

Dynamic Nutrition Through Exercise Games (school age and middle school)                                                       45 minute workshops teaching : “The Stop Light Diet”, “My Plate” and “Food Affect”