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May 14 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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This program has been cancelled. To be notified of future sessions, please email olivia@smithcenter.org.
With Chef Kara Garrett
In our final session, we will take what we’ve learned and discuss tools to help you realistically incorporate preparing healthy meals into your weekly routine. Maintaining a healing kitchen requires planning your meals to be nutritious and delicious, while staying exciting to your taste buds. We will review how to select recipes, build a shopping list and prep your meals to support a kitchen that fits your lifestyle. This class will include:
- Selecting a “base meal” to plan other healthy meals to enjoy throughout a week
- Learning to plan your weekly meals by trying new dishes and utilizing your favorite recipes
- Using a template tool to help generate a weekly shopping list (and keep your healing pantry stocked!)
- Learning to evaluate and organize your meal prep tasks to reduce the amount of time spent in the kitchen
As a group, we will prepare our selected recipe, and prep additional ingredients that can be used at home in future meals that week.
Address:
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
1632 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
Suggested Donation: $15/session or $45/series
About Chef Kara Garrett
Kara Garrett is a health-supportive chef based in Washington, DC. Following her breast cancer diagnosis in 2013, she embraced the challenge of finding a balance between her foodie lifestyle and eating well with cancer. Kara is a graduate of the Chef Training Program at Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC, trained under Chef Lillian Chou at The Ananda Ashram Yoga Society of New York, and completed a graduate certificate in Developing Healthy Communities: Nutrition, Behavior, and Physical Activity from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She is passionate about working with others to encourage healthier food choices and develop sustainable food relationships that energize the body and the soul.
