Pro Chef Nutrition
Chef Ken Sherepita has been a professional chef for more than 25 years, most recently in the sports and nutrition field. You can access his knowledge and experience to create your own customized recipes and meal plans for your family while creating more time to spend with them as well.
Remember- most people don't plan to fail, but failing to plan is a sure way make your goals more difficult to achieve.
Learn the five basic steps to provide your family with the healthy and nutritious meals that you can prepare in your home.
First and Foremost- Mise En Place is a French phrase meaning
"To Put In Place" this phrase is used in professional kitchen. This is the foundation for organizing your meals and kitchen. To take it a few steps further we will Mise en Place ourselves and plan before we begin in the kitchen.
Assessment - You will need to assess your current nutritional daily intake.
The first step is to determine what your goal would be, one goal could be to benefit from having homemade meals that are nutritional sound and actually take less time and money to prepare.
It will be beneficial to get an idea of your current nutritional needs and see what areas you can improve upon.
To do this you should record everything that you are currently cooking and eating at this time. The more detailed this diary is the more accurate you can be and have more accurate results
Planning- You will learn how to plan your meals and learn what foods should be eaten and when, also how to get organized to maximize your time
Having the right plan will assist in meeting your nutritional needs and will allow you to prepare for meals in an efficient manner where you can streamline prep time by producing food for multiple meals at the same time.
You utilize "PLANNED OVERS"- plan specific foods for multiple meals
Purchasing- Learn how a planned shopping list will ensure that you can provide your family with the right fuel, know what foods to buy.
Most of your groceries can be found on the perimeter of the store in the Produce, Meats, and Dairy sections have nutrient dense foods.
Try to use a variety of colors to ensure a variety of vitamins and minerals.
Once you have established a meal plan or group of recipes you can streamline your shopping list according to your needs for each week with.
Preparation- Learn from Cooking Demonstrations from the Chef for the "Tricks of the Trade"
On day one of preparation you will want to prep all like items together. Such as all of your vegetable chopping, fruits, proteins, Mise en Place all of your meals for the next few days and
prepare fully the meals that are going to be a "Heat and Eat" meal.
You will probably be able to have two days where you are doing all of the prep for the week.
The next 3 or 4 days you will spend much less time actually preparing your families meals.
Remember- most people don't plan to fail, but failing to plan is a sure way make your goals more difficult to achieve.
Learn the five basic steps to provide your family with the healthy and nutritious meals that you can prepare in your home.
First and Foremost- Mise En Place is a French phrase meaning
"To Put In Place" this phrase is used in professional kitchen. This is the foundation for organizing your meals and kitchen. To take it a few steps further we will Mise en Place ourselves and plan before we begin in the kitchen.
Assessment - You will need to assess your current nutritional daily intake.
The first step is to determine what your goal would be, one goal could be to benefit from having homemade meals that are nutritional sound and actually take less time and money to prepare.
It will be beneficial to get an idea of your current nutritional needs and see what areas you can improve upon.
To do this you should record everything that you are currently cooking and eating at this time. The more detailed this diary is the more accurate you can be and have more accurate results
Planning- You will learn how to plan your meals and learn what foods should be eaten and when, also how to get organized to maximize your time
Having the right plan will assist in meeting your nutritional needs and will allow you to prepare for meals in an efficient manner where you can streamline prep time by producing food for multiple meals at the same time.
You utilize "PLANNED OVERS"- plan specific foods for multiple meals
Purchasing- Learn how a planned shopping list will ensure that you can provide your family with the right fuel, know what foods to buy.
Most of your groceries can be found on the perimeter of the store in the Produce, Meats, and Dairy sections have nutrient dense foods.
Try to use a variety of colors to ensure a variety of vitamins and minerals.
Once you have established a meal plan or group of recipes you can streamline your shopping list according to your needs for each week with.
Preparation- Learn from Cooking Demonstrations from the Chef for the "Tricks of the Trade"
On day one of preparation you will want to prep all like items together. Such as all of your vegetable chopping, fruits, proteins, Mise en Place all of your meals for the next few days and
prepare fully the meals that are going to be a "Heat and Eat" meal.
You will probably be able to have two days where you are doing all of the prep for the week.
The next 3 or 4 days you will spend much less time actually preparing your families meals.