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5 Fast and Easy Cooking Demonstration Ideas
Putting together an engaging and informative cooking demonstration is much harder than it looks. Don't worry, though, because our chefs and presenters have tons of wonderful cooking demonstrations under their belts and share their tips, ideas, guides, and a printable PDF here.
12 Salad Presentation Ideas for Cooking Demos & Displays
Here are 12 plated salad presentation ideas from a professional chef whose passion is to cook healthy and make a lot of salads.
Better Birthday Treats for Kids
If you were to replace birthday cake with the sweet treats in this post, then you would save about 8,000 calories per child per school year, which is quite a bit...
Teaching a Cooking Class: Tips and Tricks
I have been teaching a string of cooking classes recently, and boy have I ever learned a lot! Here are the tried-and-true secrets that take a presentation from good to great...
How Much Salt is in Your Soup?
Help your clients reduce the sodium in a bowl of soup by making soup at home. Here are two of my favorite soup recipes, which are perfect for cooking demonstrations or speedy handouts. You can also prepare samples at home and then bring them to your next session. The samples make equally-good health fair booth lures. Which will you try first?
Penn's Potato Diet
Hopefully, Penn Jillette's experience will help make the naïve notion that potatoes somehow promote obesity and type 2 diabetes because of their high glycemic index disappear.
Whole Wheat Breadsticks
My son loves breadsticks, especially the ones from pizza delivery places. I prefer to make them at home because I can make them whole grain and control the fat, sodium and cost. Here is a recipe that is very easy to make and yields great results that are kid tested! These were a hit at a spring break pool party with teenage boys.
Unlocking the Vault: Is Olive Oil Heart-Healthy?
Olive oil may positively impact blood lipid levels, but some evidence shows that excess amounts in the diet may cause the progression of atherosclerosis.
Unlocking the Vault: Weight Control Without Hunger Foods
The following foods are the lowest in calorie density. Suppose you eat fruits, vegetables, high-fiber carbs, and cooked grains. In that case, you will fill up on fewer calories than if your diet consists of low-fiber, high-fat, and high-sugar foods like pizza, burgers, french fries, cinnamon rolls, candy bars, potato chips, cookies, and many other American favorites.Think salads, fruit, low-fat pasta, low-fat stir fry, baked low-fat seafood, chicken, rice, and oatmeal. It is still necessary to be aware of not stuffing yourself, but you do not need to go hungry and skip meals.
Meal Timing and Frequency
In the early 1970s, meals made up 82% of adult calorie intake and snacks contributed 18%. Fast-forward to today, and meals make up 77% of calories while snacks contribute 23%.
Meal Timing and Frequency
In the early 1970s, meals made up 82% of adult calorie intake and snacks contributed 18%. Fast-forward to today, and meals make up 77% of calories while snacks contribute 23%.
Nutrition Month Theme 2025
This free nutrition month handout is a printable PDF for nutrition education.
Best Printable Nutrition Month Handouts
We've made a lot of fantastic free nutrition handouts over the years. I was just looking over our site stats, and I was overwhelmed by the amazing positive response they've earned. That's why, today, I'm going to share the top 10 printable nutrition handouts that have gotten the most rave reviews over the past year...
2025 Predictions and Trends for Food and Nutrition Education
As we welcome 2024 and a new year, it is often fun to contemplate where we have been and where we are going on our food, health, and nutrition education journey. The nutrition research, as we have seen over numerous years of Dietary Guideline reviews and in the present 2020-2025 edition, has corroborated a whole-food, plant-based, minimally-processed diet that is low in added sugar, salt, and processed fat especially with regards to trans fat and saturated fat.
2025 Predictions and Trends for Food and Nutrition Education
As we welcome 2024 and a new year, it is often fun to contemplate where we have been and where we are going on our food, health, and nutrition education journey. The nutrition research, as we have seen over numerous years of Dietary Guideline reviews and in the present 2020-2025 edition, has corroborated a whole-food, plant-based, minimally-processed diet that is low in added sugar, salt, and processed fat especially with regards to trans fat and saturated fat.
Fun Halloween Recipes!
Want to get your clients excited about the upcoming holiday in a healthful way? Try one of these spooky Halloween recipes!
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