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The New Kitchen Way^®and Meal Making Transformation

Make your healthy eating dreams come true

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Is This How You Feel?

• You want to be healthy
• You know that to be healthy you must eat healthfully
• You also know that you can’t buy good nutrition in a box
• Instead you need to eat real, whole foods—the kind that have to be cooked!!

But you don’t want to cook! You like to get food in convenient, ready-to-eat packages, takeout containers or drive-thru meals. This leaves you feeling trapped between:

Option 1)  giving up on your hopes and dreams for good health, or
Option 2)  making friends with cooking and the kitchen.

Until now, that could have been a tough choice between two not-so-great options.

The New Kitchen Way®

But I’m going to make the choice easy for you, by vastly increasing the attractiveness of Option 2. That’s what 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.

Why wouldn’t you choose Option 2 if meal making could be easeful and even enjoyable, and if you could end up with meals that are very healthful but also really tasty and not boring? The New Kitchen Way® makes this possible.

Meal Making Transformation

No doubt you’ve seen dozens of self-help offerings for everything from reviving your marriage to supercharging your career and from finding a soul mate to achieving enlightenment. Although the concept may be new, our food lives are equally good candidates for a transformation in three areas:

• The Kitchen No longer will the kitchen be a treadmill to jump onto, stressed and overwhelmed, just long enough to throw together some filler food and stave off hunger until the next meal. Instead you’ll begin to see the kitchen in a new way, as a friendly, supportive ally on the healthy eating journey.
• Cooking You’ll begin to see cooking as the pathway to good health, the key to regain control of our food lives and eat in a way that serves our best health.
• Thinking Gradually, your mindsets will shift to support you in making wonderfully satisfying meals that nurture, nourish and provide a deep sense connection to the food that is the very foundation of our entire lives.

The 3 Habits and Skills of The New Kitchen Way®

Ready to be NEW in your kitchen and experience a transformation to a more manageable and successful way of making meals? Learn about the three skills and habits that are the foundation for a New Kitchen:

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.

The Missing Translation Link: More “How” and less “What”

Most healthy eating information focuses on what we should be eating, e.g., how many carbs vs. proteins, what kinds of fat, whether to eat meat, what vegetables have which vitamins, and so on.

This kind of “what” information is very helpful. However if it remains in your head, it does you absolutely no good. It must be translated into meals on the table to produce an improvement in your health.

In other words, you need the other half of the healthy eating equation, or the “how” piece. How do you translate the experts’ nutritional advice into meals on the table? Sadly, this piece of the equation is often breezed over. It’s just assumed that we can actually do whatever we’re advised; that we have all the skills, tools, habits and mindsets we need.

The Solution

This is why I created The New Kitchen Way®: To share the missing tools, skills, habits and thinking that we need to translate nutrition advice into tasty, inviting meals—and to do this not just for a day or two, but consistently, day in and day out, for the long term, which is the only way we can truly achieve lifelong health.

So many of us struggle with mealtimes. But with the New Kitchen Way®, you’ll get around the obstacles that most people face at mealtimes–and that keep you trapped in eating meals that don’t meet your healthy eating dreams.

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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.

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:

1. Know What You’re Going to Make Have a guiding game plan before heading to the kitchen to make a meal
2. Have New, Healthier Recipes at the Ready Organize so you can find them in a hurry when it’s time to cook
3. 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
4. Support Yourself with a Healthy Pantry Relish the many possibilities offered by a helpful, time-saving pantry
5. 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
6. Tame Your Grocery Shopping Time Get efficient at the store so shopping isn’t a barrier to making good 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!

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!

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Come Home to a New Kitchen Culture

As you get new in your kitchen, cooking and thinking, an interesting thing will happen. You will step in to a whole new culture of food, meal making and eating.

• Meal by meal, you will begin to see cooking and the kitchen in a whole new light. No longer will meal making be just a tedious chore to be dispensed with as quickly as possible.
• You’ll begin to understand that the kitchen is actually the vital life support center for body and soul. And cooking is how you access and reap the health benefits of that life support center.
• No longer will your healthy meal making intentions be blocked and scuttled by the “Kitchen Resistance” common today. Instead, you will be guided by a whole new way of thinking, a nurturing New Kitchen Culture.
• In this new culture, we’ll see meal making as a respected, valued and entirely worthy use of our precious time. Instead of “I don’t cook,” or “I can’t cook” or “I don’t want to cook,” the underlying assumption is that, “Yes! Of course I make my own meals—so I can be in control of my health.”

I invite you to read more about this wonderfully supportive way of thinking

and to please join me in creating The New Kitchen Culture.

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The Surprise: Mealtimes with MORE

While health is the primary focus of my programs, perhaps you have a secret hope for more than just making meals and eating “like the doctor says.” Perhaps you have a hope for meals with a little MORE.

I want you to be prepared for a surprise. As you transform meal making, you’ll not only start making healthier meals, but also meals with MORE:

• More Variety–not just the same old thing, again
• More Flavor–that really satisfies your cravings–both body and soul
• More Budget Friendly–you’ll shop less and food won’t go to waste
• More Efficiency–no more time wasted on extra shopping trips, wondering what to make, and fruitless wheel spinning
• More Taste–you’ll be dying to tell friends or co-workers what you make
• More Pizzazz–experience the joy of eating meals with a satisfying pop of pizzazz–and fun!

Welcome to a new food world, filled with healthy and happy meals!