About this Offering
Cooking is an overlooked component of eating healthy. When you cook more, you have a more balanced diet.
Cooking gives you more control. For example, you can choose the quality and quantity of the foods that you eat. You can tailor it to fit your likes and your nutritional needs.
Cooking improves your digestion by creating a better connection to your food. For example, you signal your body to produce the gastric juices needed to break down your food simply by smelling and touching the food prior to you eating it.
Cooking expands your curiosity and your palette. Your knowledge of seasonal fruits and vegetables will grow as try new recipes. Soon your creativity will flourish as you try different food combinations and new cooking methods.
Join Maria in this one-hour weekly cooking class. She'll teach you knife skills, nutrition basics, meal planning tips, and teach you how to cook gut-friendly, nutritionally dense recipes for yourself and your family. Each week will be a different theme. Please join us weekly to expand your knowledge of and skills in preparing and eating nutritionally dense meals.
Themes include:
3 Ways to Cook Chicken
Exploring Spice Blends
Using Healthy Sweeteners
Seasonal Foods
Salad Bowls
Healthy Lunches
And more…
Your Wellness Provider
Maria Quintana-Pilling
Maria Quintana-Pilling is a functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, certified nutrition consultant, natural chef and founder of UrbanspiceNutrition.com. Maria is committed to helping women to thrive at work and at home.
Maria is a graduate of Functional Nutrition Alliance Full Body Systems and Bauman College. Her interest in nutrition came from her own experience with fibroids, fatigue and constipation. She provides one-on-one nutrition programs, group detoxes/programs and cooking classes. Her focus is on teaching you how to get the most nutrition from your food in easy, fun and practical ways.
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