Cook Real Food: How to Make Simple Plant-Based Meals
Why take this course?
🌱 Course Title: Cook Real Food: How to Make Simple Plant-Based Meals
🔥 Course Headline: 🚀 Learn how to cook whole plant foods to make quick, easy, and healthy vegan meals for practical everyday eating! 🍏🌿
🎉 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 a conscious decision to take responsibility for your wellbeing and positively contribute to our entire Earth.
By creating homemade meals from whole plant foods, you are making a 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. This course is designed to guide you through the process of cooking simple, nourishing, and satisfying plant-based meals with ease.
🎓 What You Will Learn: You will learn how to:
- Feed Yourself Easily: Discover how to make healthy, quick meal choices that are also economical and sustainable.
- Nourish Your Body: Understand how to create meals that heal and nourish your body from the inside out.
- Quick Meal Preparation: Learn how to prepare a meal in an average of 15 minutes.
- Work with Whole Food Ingredients: Get familiar with common, fresh, whole plant food ingredients available at your local grocery store.
- Cook Vegetables & Grains: Master cooking starchy and non-starchy vegetables, grains, legumes, and mushrooms.
- Incorporate Fruits & Nuts: Learn easy and healthy ways to include fruits, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices into your meals.
- Create Delicious Meals & Treats: Make simple yet delicious and satisfying meals and treats that will delight your taste buds.
- Approach Cooking Mindfully: Learn to cook with gratitude and mindfulness.
📚 Course Features: Cook Real Food is a practical course with a holistic foundation. The course includes:
- 12 comprehensive sections with over 60 lessons.
- Practice activities in the form of worksheets and quizzes to reinforce your learning.
- A course assignment to help you apply what you've learned.
- Downloadable and printable summary sheets, worksheets, and recipes for easy reference.
- Over 6 hours of content designed to give you a set of skills for life.
🍴 Skills You Will Gain: You will gain the ability to:
- Select & Store Foods: Learn how to obtain, select, and store whole plant foods properly.
- Kitchen Setup: Understand how to set up and stock your kitchen for healthy plant-based cooking and eating.
- Cook Nutritionally: Know how to cook foods in the least nutritionally-destructive manner possible.
- Adapt Meals: Adjust your plant-based meals to cater to special needs like gluten-free and nut-free diets.
- Flavor Your Foods: Discover satisfying ways to flavor your plant-based meals.
- Solve Problems: Learn how to fix common problems with plant-based meals and avoid food waste.
🌟 Course Philosophy: Cook Real Food is not a fad-diet or a trendy recipe course but a way of living. This course will provide you with meal templates that allow for an infinite number of meal and flavor combinations, regardless of personal dietary restrictions or preferences.
With over 10 years of research and personal experience in plant-based nutrition and nearly 20 years in the field of holistic health, your instructor is well-equipped to guide you through this transformative journey.
📖 Ready to Start? To best determine if this course is right for you, watch the free video lectures and review the detailed course outline available on the website. Join us in the kitchen and embark on a path to healthier living today! 🍎👩🍳
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Comidoc Review
Our Verdict
Cook Real Food: How to Make Simple Plant-Based Meals stands out as an approachable and visually appealing e-learning experience, offering a wealth of information for those looking to minimize the learning curve when transitioning to plant-based meals. Although there's room for improvement in terms of scientific accuracy on certain topics, the course truly shines in its step-by-step guidance for cooking technique and meal template implementation, ensuring that students build confidence while making simple yet nutritious dishes. Overall, it serves as a commendable starting point in one's plant-based culinary journey.
What We Liked
- The course excels at providing thorough instruction on cooking whole plant foods using 'gentle' techniques that retain nutrients.
- It's hard to overlook the positive impact of Evita's teaching style—students find it approachable, slow-paced and beneficial even for kitchen novices.
- Meal templates are a major strength; they empower learners to create flexible, customizable meals without strictly following recipes.
- An emphasis on using minimal ingredients results in simple, delicious recipes that students appreciate for their ease and affordability.
Potential Drawbacks
- Some students might find the scientific explanations (e.g., GMOs) overly emphasized or not always aligned with current evidence.
- Given that it's an extensive course, certain sections could be seen as repetitive for those with prior cooking experience.
- While many appreciate Evita's strict guidelines on kitchen tools and ingredients, some may consider this aspect inflexible or daunting.
- The course focuses primarily on a ‘whole food plant-based’ diet; students who are not interested in following that particular lifestyle might find limited value.