*Smaranda Maier.
This week’s article from Smaranda Maier of Authentic Health delves into the experience “Cooking For Life”.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
How many times you said: I know I could eat better or I have to start eating healthier and you ended up in the same place: choosing convenience over health? This is simply because your brain choses familiarity versus novelty and keeps you stuck in the same pattern just because it is safe.
At the beginning of this year, after Netflix launched their “You are what you eat” series, I got every single person who I got in touch in January to ask me if I won’t be doing cooking classes. And I was so impressed by people’s interest in starting to implement small changes in their food choices and eating style. Three months later, and I am after creating the most unique skill learning experience called COOKING FOR LIFE – A hands on cooking experience.
Because I am an educator at the core, and any educator senses what is the best way to learn for their own students, when it comes to food and implementing changes in our eating styles, I know that learning by listening to a talk or watching a DEMO only supports 40% of retention rate. The most effective way of learning a new information is to combine all our senses by listening, watching, and feeling/doing.
With that in mind and working with people from all paths of life, I knew if I am going to do a demo only or a workshop where I talk, it won’t be what people really need for start moving the needle towards a healthy eating style. Sometimes, it takes a bit more than listening to a presentation or to watch a cookery demo. It takes to get to do both these things and a bit extra like cooking yourself using wholesome ingredients and being guided by a wholefoods experienced Chef that will guid you step by step and showing you how to cook delicious meals from scratch in minutes.
If you think that this is a dream and no one is going to give you this type of experience unless you do a full course or you retreat yourself for a few days, you are going to have a surprise. Nearly 40 people already enjoyed that experience in the last 2 months. People between 17 and 70 years of age were joining me and Chef Tanya Ranalow for this amazing Day Experience in Bia Innovator in Athenry, county Galway.
Cooking For Life – The Experience, it was created with your very own needs in mind and wants to put your desire to learn how to transform your health using better eating habits.
“Thank you for facilitating a wholesome, healthy, and practical class. I arrived with some anxiety and probably not the best breakfast but felt great after the delicious food. I found your talk inspiring and empowering. Everyone was helpful and I felt very accommodated”.
“I learned so much during the presentation and brought my motivation of starting to cook from scratch back. Needed that to bring me back on the right track.”
Participants in the Cooking for Life – The Experience.
And if that wasn’t enough, to convince you to take action and make your life easier when it comes to prepping food and eating healthy, let me tell you that the next three Cooking for Life Masterclasses are going to cover specific health challenges and brings accurate information and specific meal plans to help people to tackle high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high sugar levels, hormonal unbalance, chronic inflammation.
If you would like to take part in this unique experience, please send me an email on info@authentichealth.ie or WhatsApp me on 0851968088 and I will happily answer all your questions.
