Simple, Healthy Fall Recipes
What you'll learn
- What fruit and veggies are at peak of season in the fall (med-Sept - mid-December).
- How to balance your plate and fill it with healthy fruits and vegetables that taste great
- How to prepare healthy salads
- How to prepare fish without stinking up the house
- How to make nutritious, yet delicious desserts
- How to make festive drinks for the fall season - with or without alcohol
Description
We all know we should eat healthier, but how many of us actually know how to do so? So much of how we look and feel comes down to how we feed ourselves, yet so few of us choose to prioritize our health and invest in eating quality food. Think it's too hard? Too time consuming? To complicated? Too expensive? Let Red Jen teach you how easy it is to make simple, seasonal dishes that are as scrumptious as they are nutritious. Stop choosing the convenience of processed foods, full of sugar, sodium, preservatives and other chemicals that weigh you down, tire you out and add 10 years to your age! Isn't it time to learn to invest in your health - to improve the way you look and feel? Let Red Jen teach you how to cook simple seasonal dishes that taste delicious and are healthy for you, too.
By enrolling in this course, you'll learn step-by-step cooking lessons a la Julia Child with Certified Health Coach Red Jen Ford. Jen teaches you how to enjoy the Autumn harvest while online access allows you to learn at your own pace: to master one recipe at a time or to watch them all and dive in where you are most inspired. Never used kale or winter squashes before? Never fear! Red Jen unlocks the mysteries of hard-to-handle fruits and vegetables, shares with you how these foods can improve your health, and actually makes them taste good!
Red Jen teaches a conscious approach to eating, one in which you realize that you deserve beautiful food made from quality ingredients full of nutrition with surprisingly brilliant colors that tastes amazing without impacting your waistline; this is what she calls
Who this course is for:
- want to look and feel their best without feeling like they're sacrificing
- want to increase energy levels and feel good all year long
- want to align themselves with the seasons
- are new to cooking and unsure how to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into their everyday diet
- want a greater understanding of the real health benefits of food and seasonal eating
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 7 Reviews
- 84 Students
- 1 Course
Red Jen Ford is a Health & Wellness Coach, Consultant, Educator and Seasonal Eating Expert with 15 years of experience balancing a demanding corporate career with her need for healthy & tasty food, plenty of exercise and a fulfilling life. She provides coaching and education both on an individual basis and in group settings to help clients achieve balance in their lives and improve their overall health and well being. She also consults with organizations to help them define and implement nutrition and wellness strategies.
Jen earned her BS degree in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis in Biotechnology at the University of California at Berkeley. She began her career in Environmental Consulting and went on to work as a Management Consultant, focusing on industries such as Investment Banking, Aerospace and Defense, Food & Beverage, and Healthcare. After learning how to juggle her demanding job, travel challenges, personal responsibilities, and need to pursue her passions, she realized her true calling was to help others find more balance and improve the health and quality of their lives.
She became a yoga teacher in 2005, quit her corporate job in 2007, and started managing the Westwood Farmers’ Market that same year. She went on to earn her certificate in Holistic Health Counseling from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and has been coaching ever since.
Working at the farmers market has deepened her understanding of seasonal eating and connected her with yoga’s sister science, Ayurveda, an ancient approach to finding energetic balance. She’s been told that she has an uncanny "Passion for Produce" and with this passion hopes to change the world "one bite at a time." Or, more pointedly, one Big-Bang-for-Your Bite!TM at a time!
Red Jen teaches her busy clients the simplicity of eating local, sustainably grown food.
Check her out on the web at www.redjenford.com, read her recurring articles in LAYOGA Magazine, get inspired in her yoga classes at CorePowerYoga (www.corepoweryoga.com), find her at the farmers market at www.westwoodfarmersmarket.com, or watch for her seasonal sound bites and cooking demos at www.foodenquirer.com.