Lunch and Learn
I recently did a “Lunch and Learn” event using recipe “make-overs”. We took several familiar recipes and gave them a healthy make-over by accentuating healthy ingredients, minimizing unhealthy ones, and strategically using others to our best advantage. Our recipes lost hundreds of calories and significant amounts of fat. For example, a Spinach Artichoke Dip appetizer from Chili’s, Ruby Tuesday’s, O’Charley’s, or Red Robin is between 905-1248 calories with 55-116% of your total recommended fat for the day. Our make-over of that appetizer was 130 calories with 9% of your rda of fat. While we were eating our great looking and tasting recipes, we learned how to apply the same tricks to give healthy “make-overs” to other recipes at home.
I think the saying “a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down” is true. I just tweak it slightly to be “a spoonful of something yummy makes the nutrition go down”. At an event like that, people enjoy a healthy meal and realize that with a little knowledge of nutrition, some good ingredients, and a few tricks they can easily cook healthier at home.
If you have a group interested in having a Lunch and Learn event, feel free to contact me using the link in the sidebar or email me at healthycookingbydesign at gmail.com.
