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Planning, preparing and portioning your meals ahead of time is one of the best tools for healthy eating. Come learn about different styles of meal prep and how easy it can be to create simple, healthy options that save you time and money. We will prep nutritious ingredients to make delicious meals that provide nourishment for a busy week. You will also learn basic knife skills to help ease prep.
Course Dishes:
- Cilantro Lime Chicken Bowl
- Blistered Cherry Tomato and Veggie Frittata and Pasta
- Chia Fruit Pudding
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Instructor: Jessica VanRoo, Executive Chef
In the skilled hands of Jessica VanRoo (“Chef Jess”), food becomes medicine that melts in your mouth.
A professional chef with two decades of experience and a culinary management degree from Art Institute of Orange County, VanRoo has a keen understanding of the power of food. This awareness feeds her passion for teaching people tips and techniques for preparing food that tastes great and can improve health.
VanRoo is executive chef of the UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute’s Mussallem Nutritional Education Center, a teaching kitchen where whole health flourishes through food as medicine. She is the creative chef who develops institute programs that please the palate and promote culinary medicine. Her menus are rich in produce, reflecting the influence of her upbringing in Taiwan.
Under VanRoo’s leadership, nutritional education center instructors – professional chefs and registered dietitians, often accompanied by physicians – connect the dots between food and health in programs for health professionals, patients and community organizations. She has also equipped the eight-station teaching kitchen and dining space to support group medical visits and culinary medicine research that involves meal preparation and service.
