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The 3 Habits and Skills of The New Kitchen Way®
The New Kitchen Way® is all about helping you make real, whole, health-giving meals in a way that’s fun, delicious and no big deal. And it does this by sparking a transformation in the way you go about meal making. That transformation happens as you adopt the 3 Habits and Skills to be new in your Cooking, your Kitchen and your Thinking.
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Be New in Your Cooking
Learn to easily cook meals like your life depends on it (which it does!)
Take the Mystery Out of Healthy Meal Making In today’s food world, meal making is hamstrung by three things: an intimidating view of “cooking;” a tedious”single-recipe” focus; and an outdated and limited knowledge of ingredients. Come cook with me and we’ll demystify cooking.
- Learn the few basic healthy cooking blocks (or “cooking Legos®) that you can mix and match to make hundreds of interesting, tasty and 100% healthy dishes.
- Move beyond single recipes that you must follow slavishly and tediously. Learn the “system cooking” method and enjoy tasty go-to recipes that you can easily adapt to fit your tastes and needs perfectly.
- Taste the many wonderful, healthy ingredients available in today’s marketplace. No longer are we stuck with the bland, brown and heavy foods common at the dawn of the healthy eating movement.
- Discover amazing spices and condiments and how to combine them with interesting vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, meats and meat options to create colorful meals that aren’t the same old boring thing you always eat.
Vegetable Comfort Speaking of vegetables, there is one simple thing you can do to massively improve your health: Eat LOTS of vegetables and more fruits. But vegetable know-how and comfort are additional victims of our adoption of convenience eating over the last several decades. We were divorced from them entirely—what they are, what they taste like and how to prepare them tastefully.
I started my healthy eating journey in that state of forgetfulness, but quickly got busy learning about vegetables—and loving them for the color, texture and wonderful taste they added to meals.
Let me share that know-how and familiarity so you can take off on a wonderful vegetable adventure of your own. Build your knowledge base of how to buy vegetables, store them for freshness, cook them, season them and basically make them so tasty you eat them because you want to, not just because you should.
Healthy Eating Clarity Don’t have a specific diet plan you’re following? Not certain what’s healthy and what’s not. Let me introduce you to the Simple Prescription for Good Eating that clarifies what a healthy plate looks like. Discover that healthy eating is a lot easier than you think.
Cooking Veterans What if you already know how to cook? You’ve got a great head start, but the New Kitchen Way® is about so much more than just cooking. If you’re struggling to make the meals of your dreams, despite your cooking skills, then it’s likely you’re missing critical kitchen skills and habits of thought. That’s why you will still gain valuable benefits from my classes and programs (and veteran cooks are often surprised by the many valuable cooking skills they learn!)
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Be New in Your Kitchen
Guarantee cooking success with the 6 KitchenSmart® skills and habits
Here is a little-known secret: Only 40% of meal making is what we usually think of as “cooking,” i.e., chopping, dicing, mixing and sautéing. Few people know that the other 60% of meal making success lies in what you do before you ever step foot in the kitchen and start cooking! That second part of meal making is the “getting-prepared-to-cook” part.
The 60/40 Secret If you don’t know about that 60% part of the meal making success equation, of course you’ll struggle making the healthy meals you want to be eating. You’re missing more than half of the equation!
The Full Equation Happily, my programs offer a new, holistic and integrated approach, sharing 100% of the skills you need for deliciously healthful everyday meal making. In addition to the 40% cooking piece, you’ll discover the 60% getting-ready-to-cook piece that transforms meal making from chaotic to efficient, easeful and manageable.
That 60% piece can be organized into six KItchenSmart® skills and habits that match the six getting-prepared-to-cook pieces of the meal making process:
- Know What You’re Going to Make Have a guiding game plan before heading to the kitchen to make a meal
- Have New, Healthier Recipes at the Ready Organize so you can find them in a hurry when it’s time to cook
- Create a Hassle-Free Work Space Make sure you’re not weighted down by counter clutter, disaster cupboards and hard-to-find tools and ingredients
- Support Yourself with a Healthy Pantry Relish the many possibilities offered by a helpful, time-saving pantry
- Equip the Kitchen, in Balance Get the few things you need—and not much more; surprisingly, you don’t need that much in the way of equipment
- Tame Your Grocery Shopping Time Get efficient at the store so shopping isn’t a barrier to making good meals
Put in place the missing 60% piece of the healthy meal making success formula and you’ll start overcoming obstacles that have kept you from the nurturing meals you want and deserve.
Importantly, however, it isn’t necessary to have every element of the 60% piece in place before you start experiencing benefits. Bit by bit, with each small step you take, you’ll be rewarded with welcome improvements in your meals.
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Be New in Your Thinking
Get Your Head Behind Your Actions for Powerful Results
You might be wondering what your thinking has to do with cooking. Cooking seems pretty much mindless and mechanical. In fact, we do our best to not think about it—and even avoid it entirely until forced to confront it at mealtimes. Yet that oversight is a big reason we struggle so much with meal making.
If you aren’t actively nurturing supportive thoughts and mindsets, your brain will likely be overrun by commonly-held assumptions and beliefs that range from unhelpful to downright obstructive. For example:
- I have better things to do than spend time cooking
- There’s no way I could be happy without fast food
- Cooking meals is so overwhelming
- I’m too busy to cook my own meals
- Cooking is boring
- Healthy food is weird and unappetizing
These kinds of mindsets, along with dozens of variations, will put a quick stop to your healthy eating efforts. They are especially dangerous because they are invisible—and stealthy. You will be stopped in your tracks and never really know why!
That’s why a big part of The New Kitchen Way® is all about adopting fresh, new thinking that will support you in making healthy meals and taking control of your food life.
A Good Example Take the assumption that cooking is boring. It a very common mindset barrier, which is why my tagline emphasizes that The New Kitchen Way® is the fun and delicious way to break free of disease.
While the illnesses we face are serious, we need solutions that are both fun and delicious. That’s because it takes weeks, months and even years to prevent or turn around health problems that have been building over many years. Only if the path is fun and inviting will we stick to it, especially when the going gets tough.
The reason is simple: Fun things are things that we will do, willingly and consistently, for the long term. So if you believe that cooking is boring, we need to tackle that belief and be open to experience how cooking can actually be engaging, interesting—and fun!
Breakthrough Thinking for Successful Healthy Meal Making The new thinking part of The New Kitchen Way® works hand in hand with the cooking and kitchen pieces. The more we build our cooking capability and put the KitchenSmart® skills into place, the more manageable–and enjoyable–meal making becomes.
This is why my programs reintroduce the kitchen as a place of comfort, fulfillment, engagement and fun. A place where we can easefully and naturally make meals that serve our health and fill our hunger for flavorful, yummy food. When we experience cooking success and make meals that are interesting and inviting, we discover that the common assumptions about meal making don’t hold water.
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Classes and Programs to Help You Be NEW
Are you ready to be NEW? All of these New Kitchen skills and habits are combined in my classes and programs, offering you the opportunity to build a whole new approach to meal making.
Read on to find out more about Classes and Programs.
Join me and let’s start something NEW!
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