Cook Real Food: How to Make Simple Plant-Based Meals
What you'll learn
- How to set up a kitchen with the right tools and appliances for healthy eating.
- Which foods to stock regularly for healthy and wholesome plant-based meals.
- How to cook whole plant foods in a quick, easy, healthy, and minimally destructive way.
- How to work with starchy and non-starchy vegetables, grains, legumes, mushrooms, fruits, nuts and seeds, and herbs and spices.
- How to make simple, delicious, quick, and easy plant-based meals for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
- How to use meal templates for practical everyday meal preparation.
- How to make wholesome sauces to complement plant-based meals.
- How to make delicious, quick, and easy snacks and treats using whole plant foods.
Requirements
- PREREQUISITE: It is highly recommended that you have taken the "Eat Real Food: How to Eat a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet" course (here on Udemy) before taking this one.
- Students should have general knowledge about the health and nutrition benefits of whole plant foods.
- Students must have access to high-speed internet, an up-to-date modern browser, and an appropriate computer, laptop, or tablet in order to properly watch the video lessons and access the accompanying downloadable resources.
- Students must have access to a kitchen that includes a stove, cookware, dishware, fridge/freezer, a high-quality blender, food processor, and basic utensils in order to prepare the foods and meals in this course.
- Students must have access to a variety of whole plant foods in order to prepare the foods and meals in this course.
Description
Knowing how to feed ourselves in a way that supports our health and fits with our modern constraints is one of the most valuable and essential skills to have today!
When you make the choice to eat and cook real food that is most optimal for the human body, as whole plant foods are, you are making the choice to take responsibility for your wellbeing and positively contribute to our entire Earth. When you make the choice to create homemade meals from whole plant foods you are making the choice to avoid the health dangers of processed and convenience foods and their many harmful ingredients and cooking methods. Cooking your own food also helps you save money, bring more balance into your life, and build stronger bonds with family members whom you share your meals with.
Cook Real Food takes you on a journey of self-empowerment to build your confidence, comfort, and creativity to work with whole plant foods in your kitchen.
You will learn how to:
Feed yourself in a way that is easy, doable, economical, and sustainable.
Feed yourself in a way that nourishes and heals your body from the inside out.
Feed yourself in a quick way, where the average meal takes 15 minutes.
Work with common, fresh, whole plant food ingredients that you can get from your local grocery store.
Cook various starchy and non-starchy vegetables, grains, legumes, and mushrooms.
Incorporate fruits, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices into meals in easy and healthy ways.
Create simple, yet delicious and satisfying, meals and treats.
Approach plant-based, vegan cooking in a positive way based on mindfulness and gratitude.
Cook Real Food is a practical course with a holistic foundation.
The course features 12 sections that provide over 60 lessons, along with practice activities in the form of worksheets and quizzes, and a course assignment to help you apply what you learned. All lessons include either summary sheets, worksheets, or recipes that you can download and print for quick reference and use. You will benefit from over 6 hours of content and a set of skills for life.
You will gain skills to know how to:
Obtain, select, and store whole plant foods.
Set up and stock your kitchen for healthy plant-based cooking and eating.
Cook foods in the least nutritionally-destructive manner.
Not rely on any animal foods, oils, or high-heat cooking methods.
Adapt your plant-based meals for special needs like gluten-free and nut-free diets.
Flavor your plant-based meals in satisfying ways.
Fix problem plant-based meals and avoid food waste.
Cook Real Food is not a fad-diet or a trendy recipe course but a way of living.
Your teacher, Evita Ochel, brings you over 10 years of research and personal experience in the field of plant-based nutrition and nearly 20 years in the field of optimal health, and will teach you how to use the power of your food with everyday wholesome, plant-based meals. Instead of focusing on recipes, which can be limiting in many ways, you will be guided with meal templates to create an infinite number of meal and flavor combinations, no matter what your personal limitations may be.
Be sure to look through the course curriculum to know what the specific lesson topics are, and watch the free video lectures to best know if this is the right course for your current needs.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner students who do not know how to cook or work with whole plant foods or make meals with them.
- Intermediate students who would like to gain more skills and knowledge in order to make quick, easy, and simple plant-based meals.
- Expert students who would like to gain more tips and ideas in order to optimize their use of whole plant foods and meals with them.
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Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 9,713 Reviews
- 42,288 Students
- 8 Courses
Evita Ochel, BSc., BEd., is an educator, researcher, and writer with over 20 years of experience in the field of optimal human health who integrates the best of conventional science and holistic principles. She is also certified as a holistic nutritionist, CHN, with a specialty in plant-based nutrition, and certified as a yoga and meditation teacher, CYT.
Evita is the author of the book "Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition" and the founder of the Healthytarian Lifestyle, based on fresh thinking, smart eating, and mindful living. She has created several online publications that feature hundreds of her articles, videos, classes, and courses, and has provided counseling to thousands of people on numerous wellness-related topics.
By addressing the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual areas of our health, Evita helps people understand how everything is interconnected and reflected in the various states that our body and mind express. She works to empower individuals to consciously create their life, their state of health, and the world they wish to see by being aware of and taking responsibility for their personal choices.