Discover Your Inner Chef Campaign

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Written By Judy Doherty, MPS, PCII

Deborah Lay, MSc., RD, Public Health Nutritionist, Durham Region Health Department has a “Discover Your Inner Chef Campaign” to help their low-income population become more confident in the kitchen.

Here are the topics and objectives:Discover Your Inner Chef campaign will continue throughout 2010 with supportive messages focused on the following topics:
  • Canada’s Food Guide offers healthy choices to maximize your food budget and save!
  • Planning ahead helps you control your food budget and save!
  • Get to know your grocer store and save!
  • Discover your inner chef… cook at home and save!
  • Use your leftovers to create something new and save!

Clients can call or visit www.durham.ca/foodbudgetkit to obtain a kit, which helps them plan ahead and make better meals in their kitchen. The Food Budget Kit is designed to provide people with the basic tools to start developing food skills Contents include:

  • Everybody’s Food Budget Book
  • Canada’s Food Guide
  • Menu planner
  • Recipes
  • Spices
  • Canned food strainer

Since the launch in October, approximately 350 kits have been ordered. Deborah has had great success engaging their population online.

Judy Doherty, MPS, PCII

Judy Doherty, MPS, PCII discovered her love of cooking at her grandmother's side, stirring raisin oatmeal on a Saturday morning. By 15 she had her first food service job. At 18 she was accepted to the Culinary Institute of America, where she graduated second in her class, then went on to the Fachschule Richemont in Switzerland to study pastry arts and baking. A decade with Hyatt Hotels followed before she founded Food and Health Communications with a single conviction: food that is good for you should taste extraordinary.

Judy holds a Master of Professional Studies in Food Business from the Culinary Institute of America, a Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts from Johnson and Wales University (Summa Cum Laude), two art certificates from UC Berkeley Extension, and the CIA's Pro Chef II certification. She has earned the American Culinary Federation Bronze Medal, Gold Medal, and ACF Chef of the Year award.

Today she develops every recipe on this site, shoots and styles food through her food photography and motion studio, and publishes nutrition education materials for dietitians, schools, extension offices, and health professionals through nutritioneducationstore.com. She uses the latest nutritional science and Dietary Guidelines to drive her creativity — whether that means a new twist on fajitas or Italian brownies made with toasted nuts and cooked honey. Her mission has never changed: help everyone make food that tastes as good as it is for them.

https://nutritioneducationstore.com
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