Like so many people, you may really want to eat more healthfully but, you can’t find the time and making big changes feels simply overwhelming.
As a healthful foods & cooking coach, I offer my clients hands-on coaching on how to prepare more healthful foods at home. You’ll gain skills, confidence, change old habits and improve your nutrition — one dish at a time.
Tracy coaches you to improve cooking skills & nutrition. A variety of whole grains and beans are in the foreground.(All photos by Brad Dahlgaard)
Whether you are a teen, young adult, single or partnered parent, empty-nester or senior – we often experience changes in lifestyle that prompt us to re-evaluate our approach to food.
- Health concerns
- Finances
- Scaling down/up the size of your family
- Moving from a house to independent or assisted living residences, or from family’s home to your first apartment
- Interest in organics, regional/local foods, vegetarianism
Before we start coaching sessions, we’ll talk about your personal health & nutrition goals, and assess what skills and information you may need to achieve those goals. Perhaps you want to establish better eating habits (ie, more vegetables and whole grains). Maybe you suspect food sensitivities to wheat or cow’s milk, or have been advised to reduce sodium and fats.
Coaching is highly personalized. For instance, some clients may want to be more efficient or creative in planning and cooking meals, while others would like to improve (or acquire) basic shopping, prep and cooking skills. Some of you want a friendly guide to what’s available at the Farmers’ Market and ethnic grocery stores. Other clients may want mainly specific nutrition coaching.
During a typical coaching session, you’ll learn:
- how to make 1 easy, inexpensive dish
- tips on cooking skills, equipment, shopping, storage
- tips on how to stretch and recombine ingredients and dishes.
Caroline learns to snap off green bean stems for Salad Nicoise. (Photo: Brad Dahlgaard)
I coach individuals and groups of up to four persons, including kids. Cooking as a family is great quality time, and a wonderful life-long activity to share!
Please contact me at tracyksyue@yahoo.com if you would like to learn more about Healthful Foods and Cooking Coaching.
Dear Tracy:
Hello, my name is Hannah Palbicki and I am a program coordinator with Dakota Communities the Larpenteur location.
We provide services to disabled adults and at the start of the new year we will be changing our menu system. This new menu system is all homemade meals.
Therefore I need to give my staff training, education on how to make these meals and understand reciepes. However I don’t have a lot of food education myself and am looking to seek help.
I got your information from a co-worker and I thought I would try to see if you are willing to come out the house sometime and give us some knowledges and tips to starting this new menu system. This is a non-profit organization so if you are able to provide your services it would have to be through volunteering.
Please e-mail me or call if you are interested.
Phone number: 651-XXXX