Spend a week having exploring your healthy meal making obstacles, strategizing for winning solutions

 and achieving the breakthrough you’ve been hoping for . . .

. . . all while having fun in the kitchen, making and tasting deliciously healthful food

and having great conversations

 Cook           Learn           Discover          Breakthrough !!

A Couple Questions for You

What do the meals of your dreams look like?

Have you ever stopped to visualize them?  What would they taste like?  What kinds of foods would they feature? Would they be rich in vegetables?  More balanced? Would they be really flavor-ful and tempting?  Would you be excited to eat them?  And after a meal would you feel happy and satisfied that you took care of yourself well?

What will it take to make those meals of your dreams?

How can you do it consistently?  How can you beat the boredom that zaps your motivation? How can you make decent meals when you’re so darn busy, tired or low on energy?  Why do you fail to make good meals even though you really want to?

How would you like to join a small group where we can focus on the challenges you face getting healthy meals on the table?  Where we can strategize winning solutions and build the skills you need to be successful?  Where you can get support and encouragement to achieve your cooking dreams and eating goals?

Join Healthy Kitchen Companion Mary Collette for an intimate, small group intensive in her kitchen and:

Experience Meal Making Transformation

If you’re part of our healthy eating community, you know that Meal Making Transformation is what we’re all about: If you want to eat better, then learn to make better meals.

Summer Camp is the perfect way to fast track your way to better meal making.  Start making real progress toward your healthy eating hopes and dreams. For example:

Want to start eating more vegetables?

How about cooking with 12 different ones over the week — trying them in new ways, in new combinations and with new flavors

Wish you actually liked the fresh, light taste of vegetables, instead of just eating them because you should?

Discover how your taste buds can become your best friend and most helpful ally on the healthy eating journey

Wish you weren’t a slave to sugar and carb cravings?

Learn the science behind cravings and meal making tricks and strategies to beat them

Discouraged because your food doesn’t taste good?

Discover the magic of spicing and seasoning and how to customize recipes for your personal tastes

Wish you could feel confident that you’re making healthy meals?

Pssst . . . here’s a little known secret: Healthy eating is a lot easier than you think. Find out why and how anyone can do it!

Would you love to feel inspired and motivated to make good-for-you meals?

Let’s talk about that, too, and discover what inspirational sparks work for you

And the biggest wish of all: Do you yearn to make healthy meals quickly and easily?

Solving our time and energy barriers–which almost every home cook faces–lies at the core of this week-long program. And the solution may well surprise you, because it’s not primarily about cooking! The solutions are found in the comprehensive, integrated New Kitchen Way® that you’ll learn about–and do.

Oh, and lest I forget the other biggest perennial problem: Would it be great to not be bored with mealtimes?

You bet it would! It’s time for a fresh step and a little more sparkle in your meals. That’s why you’ll learn lots of simple touches to easily add interest and appeal to your meals.

What Others Say

“I took Mary’s”healthy cooking” class and I just had to shout out how great it was. Mary is sparkling and funny and energetic and she knows her stuff. I learned how to cook food that is not only healthy but delicious. (Before, those two characteristics seemed fairly incompatible to me.) I learned this is a lifestyle and state of mind. I can’t gush about her enough.“

–Carol

The Method Behind the Magic

How can I promise so much for your mealtimes?  Because I will be sharing The New Kitchen Way®, a new, integrated and holistic approach to meal making.  This unique, proprietary system is the roadmap for a Meal Making Transformation in your kitchen.  It’s the method behind the magic—based on best practices developed over my 25 years of coaching and teaching in the healthy meal making and eating field.

Not surprisingly, The New Kitchen Way® is all about being new in the way we go about making meals.  You know things don’t get better if you just keep doing them the same way.  Change requires newness!  And The New Kitchen Way is your friendly guide on this count.

Be New in Your Kitchen  Get KitchenSmart® and become more efficient, save time and experience less stress and more success making the meals of your dreams

Be New in Your Cooking   Learn new and healthier ways to cook, new and more wholesome ingredients to use, and new tricks and techniques to become a comfortable and confident everyday healthy cook

Be New in Your Thinking  Discover new ways to think about the kitchen and cooking to better support your meal making transformation.

I very much want to introduce you to this exciting new approach to meal making.

It promises solutions where you may think there are none.

Customize it to address your needs and circumstances and you’re set for a lifelong healthy eating journey.

Join me for Summer Camp!

“I like being able to cook my own food now.  I don’t have to go to Whole Foods or somewhere else and get prepared food that’s really expensive and has a lot more calories than I want.  Six months ago I couldn’t imagine being able to do this.”

Stacey, private client

“You are a great teacher. I really like your approach of a basic framework that we can then mix and match using the various protein-veggie-starch-seasonings options to customize our meals.”

Phyllis from Meal Planning Class

A Typical Day at Camp

Morning Session  A combination of hands-on cooking instruction and lecture/discussion/Q&A around The New Kitchen Way®, especially its KitchenSmart® strategies.  We’ll cook, taste and evaluate two to three recipes that are representative of the day’s theme.  The last hour we’ll enjoy a lovely meal, chat, and evaluate the day’s learning against your healthy eating goals.  The last 20 minutes we’ll clean up together.

Evening Session  Online class via virtual classroom.  Your chance to apply what we learn in your own kitchen.  Follow along as I walk you through a simple go-to recipe, the kind you need for every day meals when you don’t have much time and limited energy.  When we’re done with class, so is dinner!  Recipes and shopping lists provided.

Look at All You Get!

• 5 Lovely Lunches

• Lots of Recipes  Skillets, stir-fries, vegetables and salads for summer–all GF, DF, sugar-free, corn-free, vegetarian-option

• Healthy Desserts  Guidelines + yummy and good-for-you dessert ideas

• Local and Seasonal Eating Sensibility  Cooking segments feature mostly seasonal and local foods, offering the opportunity to learn the benefits and how-tos of seasonal cooking

• Lots of Quality Handouts to keep for future reference, e.g.,

The Frying Pan Cooking Continuum    ~    Sautéing:  8 Steps to Flavor-Rich Food    ~    Meal Planning Forms    ~    Pantry Storage Guide    ~    10 Steps to Super Stir-Fry

• Meal Plans, Shopping Lists and Ingredient Tips

• Healthy Cooking Building Blocks to mix and match for dozens of great meals

• Tool talk and equipment testing

• Tips and tricks for leftovers and freezing

Plus

• Free copy of my book, Take Control of Your Kitchen, the guide for organizing your kitchen and time for efficient, smooth and healthy meal making

• Group chat with a nutritionist about cravings and other burning nutrition questions

• (Optional) Spice store adventure and spice samples to take home

• Free access to the online Cook Happy | Live Healthy program to keep up your momentum after Camp

And of course . . .

• 25 hours of instruction in a hands-on format to build comfort and confidence cooking on your own.

• Support and encouragement in a small, intimate group  Time-saving tips, flavor-boosting tricks, ingredient insights, getting prepared to cook skills, pantry stocking, equipment buying guidance, and more

• Do-as-you-learn, hands-on and action-oriented classes  After discussing and learning, we head to the kitchen and cook, do, see and experience.

• See and taste real, whole foods  Cook with them, see how easy they are to make and how delicious they can be.  We’ll be using at least a dozen seasonal vegetables and fruits plus whole grains, clean proteins, beans, nuts and seeds.

• “Diet neutral” approach  It doesn’t matter whether you need to be on an allergy-free diet or you want to go Paleo, plant-based, vegetarian, low-fat or some other approach.  The New Kitchen Way provides the nuts and bolts implementation tools you need to be successful.

Your Part of Our Partnership

What does it take on your part to join me and get all the valuable learning, skills, tools and cooking instruction that are included in this week long program?

Just $395 for all 25 hours of instruction

+ $ 95 food and materials cost

• Think of the money you spend on prepared foods and restaurant meals (usually not-so-healthy) because you can’t get organized and energized to make your own good meals.

• Think of what you pay for pills, supplements, doctor visits and so on. What if you could save bundles on those things, just by spending a week getting educated and jazzed to make your own, health-giving meals?

• Now think how wonderful it would be to enjoy the healthy weight and good energy that comes from eating well . . .

. . . and I think you’ll agree that $395 is a small price to pay!

If you’ve been to my classes, you know I put a lot of energy and effort into them–because I so want to be of service to help our communities become healthier and realize all the good things that come with good health.

This is probably why my classes consistently receive 9s and 10s on evaluations–and why you won’t be sorry to invest in a value-packed week with me.  I feel confident you’ll find that it’s a small price to pay for a set of skills, tools and systems that will benefit you for the rest of your meal making life.

Hurry!  Camp is limited to just 6 people
Deadline for registration: Thursday, August 2

Camp Dates: Monday, August 6 to Friday, August 10
Times/Locations:
9:00 am — 1:00 pm, Monday to Friday
Live, in-person classes in my kitchen in Central Boulder
5:00 — 6:30 Monday to Thursday
Online session in your kitchen via my virtual classroom

“Loved your class.  The amount of thought, follow-up and practical skills are priceless.”

–Gail

Cooking + A Whole Lot More

While this is a cooking class, it is so much more than just that!   A lot of people don’t know that 60% of meal making has nothing to do with the chopping, frying and mixing that we usually think of as cooking.  So if you’re struggling to make good meals, it’s likely that you’re missing all or part of that 60%.  But don’t worry, you’ll learn all about and start doing those missing parts–then don’t be surprised when you start meeting with more and more success in the kitchen and start achieving your healthy eating hopes and dreams.

What You’ll Learn at Summer Camp

These are the main topics addressed in each of the three main pillars of The New Kitchen Way. While listed separately, they are actually very interrelated, and are presented so participants learn about and see how they work together, in tandem, to make healthy cooking easeful and manageable.

Be New in the Kitchen Get KitchenSmart® and make health-giving meals with less stress and more success

•  How the 60/40 Secret is the missing link to overcome the struggle home cooks face getting healthy meals on the table consistently

• Taking organization and time management from office to kitchen—and experiencing the refreshing antidote to stress and chaos at meal times

  

• Using “inevitability planning” to guarantee meals that match your healthy eating goals

• Discovering a new, expansive view of the pantry

• Building a healthy, time-saving pantry: Matching staples to eating goals, identifying healthy options, storage guidelines and pantry meal ideas

• Creating friendly and supportive kitchen spaces

• The healthy kitchen’s two primary workhorses: what to look for, what to buy, how much to spend on these key tools

• The simple solution to save time and sanity at the grocery store–and never have to run back for missing ingredients

Be New in Your Cooking Learn the healthy cooking basics and become a comfortable and confident real foods cook

• The Lego Cooking Approach and how it helps busy cooks make healthy meals fast

• Learn one mother technique, get five frying pan options for free

• Knife skills for quick, efficient vegetable chopping, including tear-free onion chopping and garlic mincing

• Simplify and de-mystify cooking so healthy meal making is doable on a busy schedule and accessible to everyone

• Tricks and tips: Make recipe reading less tiresome, the benefits of a guiding game plan, the mise en place trick and how to break down a recipe to 4 Basic Moving Parts

• Spicing and seasoning know how and inspiration–power up flavor with low-cost, low-cal, healthful herbs and spices from cuisines around the world

• How to “taste and adjust” to make a dish that deeply satisfies and “beats the competition”

• Single recipe cooking vs system cooking, the solution for fast and easy everyday meals

• Strategies to take the tedious out of kitchen clean up

• Lots of other time- stress- and money-saving tips and ideas

Be New in Your Thinking Discover a New Kitchen Culture, the foundation for Meal Making Transformation

• “Cooking on purpose”–the necessary connection between cooking and healthy eating

• How “kitchen reluctance” and “cooking negativity” became unquestioned foundations of our kitchen operating system

• What a New Kitchen Culture looks like and how it frees us to take control of our health by making our own, real foods meals

• The “value proposition” that creates time and space for making real food meals

• New and helpful “universal laws” of the kitchen, e.g., the investment theory of good health, how energy begets energy, the creative human theory and how taste buds can be turned from foe to friend

                Your Guide for Summer Camp

Mary Collette Rogers, Healthy Kitchen Companion, has been teaching healthy meal making for 25 years after several years as a corporate attorney. She is excited for the opportunity offered by a week long camp to really dig deep into the mealtime barriers we face and come up with breakthrough strategies that get you firmly started on the road to more health giving meals.

Mary is always happy to share her many year’s worth of insider tips and tricks to take the struggle out of every day, wholesome meal making. Let’s make it natural, easeful and just “no problem at all!”

In addition to teaching, Mary has worked with hundreds of people as kitchen coach and teaching for dozens of organizations from corporations, school districts and law firms to national grocery chains, health care providers and diabetes support groups. Her classes always earn top marks on evaluations and a very enthusiastic response from participants.

From January’s Meal Planning Course

“The course more than met what it described would be covered.”

“The course underscored for me the importance of meal planning, and this support will help me when I feel overwhelmed trying to stay on track with the diet I need.”

“You were awesome!”

My Mission

Educate, Excite and Empower You to Make the

Health-Giving Meals of Your Dreams

Won’t You Join me!