Join Nutritionist Rita Varelas and explore the theme of healthy eating; catering for your dietary intolerances; meal planning and shopping; gut health and benefits of nutrient-dense food to improve your health.
This workshop is now being offered online via Zoom, no face to face classes are conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Workshop 1: The Foundations to Healthy Eating
- Introduction to health and the risks associated with poor dietary choices
- Working out your Healthy Weight Range; Daily kilojoules requirements; Daily Macronutrients allowance
- Understanding the Australian Dietary Guideline’s recommendations for Healthy Eating
- Getting the right tools for the job
- Goal Setting
- Food demonstration
Workshop 2: Dietary Intolerances, Menu Planning, Shopping, Tracking
- Understanding the different types of dietary intolerances and special diets
- How to incorporate a healthy eating menu plan based on these special diets
- Learning how to shop to get the best available produce, at cost-effective prices
- Stocking up your fridge/freezer and pantry so to whip up quick nutritious meals
- Food demonstration
Workshop 3: Gut-health
The science behind maintaining a healthy gut and the health risks associated with poor gut health.
- About your micro-biome and how to take care of it.
- Discuss probiotics and their importance
- Introducing fermented foods, what they are and their benefits
- Food demonstration
Workshop 4: Food is Your Medicine
Getting creative with the principles learned in a fun, interactive workshop, covering:
- eating across the entire colour spectrum in vegetables and the meaning behind their colours
- using food as your medicine to repair and clean your body, mind and spirit
- preservative and packaged free eating and learning to make more foods yourself from scratch
- Food demonstration