• KITCHEN CLINIC

    Food as Medicine

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    KITCHEN CLINIC

    Sign up and join me in the Kitchen Clinic, a monthly workshop focussed on Ayurvedic Cooking and health! You will learn tips and tricks on how to use herbs and spices to supercharge your diet, cook and eat right for your body type + get the chance to cook new wholesome and nourishing recipes in the comfort of your own kitchen with my help and guidance!

     
    The workshops are live-streamed via ZOOM.
     
    You will be sent a shopping list, recipes and preparation guidelines in advance.

  • KITCHEN CLINIC

    Saturday 7 December 2021

     

    1000 - 1200

     

    Investment: £10

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    Online + Live via ZOOM

     

    FESTIVE HEALING WITH AYURVEDA

     

    How to stay calm during the festive season and healthy during winter

     

    Delivered in a 'Cook With Me' style - from my kitchen to yours, together we will prepare simple and wholesome Ayurvedic dishes and remedies to aid immunity and digestion. The workshop is interactive - you will be able to ask questions and share photos of your dishes via a private WhatsApp group live.​

     

     

    HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WORKSHOP

     

    Ayurvedic Hacks

     

    You will make Ayurvedic Preparations including: Healing 'Every Dish' Spice Mix, Cumin & Honey Digestive Mix, Ayurvedic Ghee.

     

    Ayurvedic Recipes

     

    You will cook: Ayurvedic Kitchari, Steamed Greens with Ayurvedic Dressing, Fresh Coriander Chutney, Bliss Balls

     

    'How To' Demonstration

     

    Homemade Tahini Preparation

     

    WHAT'S INCLUDED

     

    1. An E-Book inclusive of the following:

    • A shopping list and equipment inventory
    • All recipes and Ayurvedic remedies
    • Information about the spices and herbs used and their effects on health, immunity, and digestion
    2. A workshop recording to keep.
     
     
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  • Food is Medicine + Food is Love

    Ayurveda believes that “food is medicine” because nothing else has the same power to nourish, heal and bring together a community. According to Ayurveda, all foods have distinct properties that can bring you closer to or further from health, depending on your individual constitution. But Ayurveda also teaches that not all food is equal. Food that is filled with prana (life force), cooked gently with digestive spices and served in a sattvic (pure) home environment is the medicine that we should seek.

     

    In recent decades, eating for convenience or entertainment, through frozen meals, packaged foods or at restaurants, has replaced the simple act of daily cooking that puts our health literally into our own two hands. Perhaps this distance from preparing our own food (and the surge in health concerns that have accompanied this change) is the reason so many people are now interested in Ayurveda.

     

    Ayurveda says that it is not only what we eat but when we eat, how we eat, where we eat and many other factors that influence our digestion. For example, one of the most important aspects contributing to proper nutrition, according to Ayurveda, is the mental state of the person preparing the food. Food should be cooked with love and there is a good reason for this. Ayurveda, which bases its theory on the existence of five elements, believes that the art of cooking relates to the state of transforming matter. Simply put, when we heat food we change it or partially digest it. During this action, the state of the cook becomes part of the process of transformation and his or her emotions become one with the energy of the food. Love is a nourishing emotion and therefore, food cooked with love becomes healing to anyone who eats it.

     

    In addition, where we buy food, our mood when shopping, and even how we make money used to buy food are all important factors when considering a diet, because these add a certain energy to our lives. Buying food with money earned by sattwic, honest means that serve others will bring those qualities to anything we purchase. But if we feel frustrated, angry or anxious while shopping, we will end up adding that energy to the food we buy.