On March 10th, I taught another one of my Cook to Thrive! survivor cooking classes with the help of Cancer Dietitian Lora (formerly known as Intern Lora!).
Turns out, it was the “last class before coronavirus canceled everything”! Since then I have been working to transition the our Cancer Services education and survivorship team to deliver information all from online and phone.
For Cancer Services, I have also been working to create weekly emails that offer our clients science based updates regarding the public health crisis, as well as ideas on how you can stay well at home.
If you would like to get these email updates from Cancer Services, you can sign up for our email list here! Some of the information is specific to our local area, but much of it is relevant for anyone anywhere!
Back to cooking class!
Whenever I teach cooking classes, I have all the intentions in the world to post the recipes on my website and sometimes don’t get around to it. At the bottom of this post, I will share the links for the previous classes I did. I believe I am missing a few recipes, but many are up!
For this class, we discussed what the Mediterranean diet (AKA the “Med Diet”, if you’re hip!) is, and also how it fits and functions as one option for eating a Plant Based Diet.
Basically for the Med Diet, it is recommended to build your food pattern on fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds, whole grains, fish, olive oil and other healthy fats. So our recipes followed this theme!
The Med-Tuna Salad is made out of all shelf stable products! A great “pantry recipe” to have when you aren’t able to get to the grocery store right away. Be sure to stock up with these ingredients!
We loved this soup because all you do is roast the veggies, and then blend. You don’t even have to get a pot dirty! You do need a blender though. : – )
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Julie Lanford MPH, RD, CSO, LDN, is the Wellness Director for Cancer Services. She is a registered dietitian, licensed nutritionist and board certified specialist in oncology nutrition with over 10 years of experience in oncology nutrition.
Her passion is wellness for cancer prevention and survivorship, and she specializes in making healthy living fun!
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