Class 1: Culinary Condiments

This class explores the benefits of using fresh spices and homemade sauces in levelling up your cooking.

• Best practices for selecting and storing herbs and spices
• The powerful health benefits of certain spices
• Make a spice mix that you can put on anything and everything
• Discover how simple it is to make an all purpose sauce from scratch
• Learn how to batch prep and store sauces.
• Two recipes demonstrated and shared: Toss It On Everything Spice Mix and Roasted Red Pepper Dip

Class 2: Simple Elixir Magic

No more caffeine needed to boost your mornings! This class explores homemade elixirs to energize and fuel your day without the caffeine jolt.

• Best practices for blending hot liquids
• The importance of healthy fats
• Swapping out ingredients to suit your dietary needs
• Create your own tea base to use in elixirs, smoothies and more!
• Learn how to make and customize your own nut and/or seed milk
• Two recipes demonstrated and shared: Mochachoca Latte, and Turmeric Sunshine Elixir

Class 3: Plantiful Party

Whether gathering amongst your own household or connecting with friends and neighbours, the heart of a great gathering, in addition to delightful people, is the food.

• Swapping out ingredients to suit your dietary needs
• The importance of soaking your nuts, seeds and grains
• Learn what 2 herbs help the body detoxify
• Discover how simple it is to make your own crackers from scratch
• Two recipes demonstrated and shared: Crispy Crackers and The Mighty Everything

Class 4: Whole Foods Fuel

Fueling with whole foods is a health supportive approach to eating that can be applied to any personal food philosophy. This is where we focus on eating foods in their most whole form, with all of the processing happening in our home kitchen.

• Fastest and easiest way to de-stem kale (and what to do with the stem after!)
• The best way to batch prep kale so it’s ready to eat
• How to store and use various oils
• Two recipes demonstrated and shared: The Best Kale Salad Ever and Tangy Tahini Dressing

Class 5: Raw Dessert Delight

There are few things that are more amazing than a raw dessert. Raw desserts are nutrient powerhouses, and are free of fillers. In the case of this demo, it’s dairy-free and gluten-free but maintains a richness that we love from a good dessert.  

• How you can take this cake to the next level and add ferment into the mix
• Simple ways to modify the flavour profiles and make it your own
• The importance of using natural sweeteners in desserts instead of refined white sugar
• One recipe demonstrated and shared: Raw Strawberry Cheesecake

Class 6: Pizza Party

Pizza is a great way to use up fridge leftovers, let kids (or selective partners) customize their meal, and the crust can even be prepped in advance and frozen. That’s what we call a win/win/win. 

• The hidden ingredient in most store-bought pizza crusts that you want to avoid
• How to sprout your own beans and legumes
• The importance of incorporating fresh herbs in your meals
• Two recipes demonstrated and shared: Mung Bean Pizza  Crust and Pizza Pesto Sauce

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based author, speaker, nutritionist, the founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, and the head instructor of the Culinary Nutrition Expert Program. She’s also written two bestselling books: UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health and The UnDiet Cookbook. 

Meghan’s success in cultivating a global community of health & nutrition enthusiasts and Culinary Nutrition Experts has garnered her a feature in Forbes, and ranked her as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada. She is also the mother of a hungry 4 year-old.