My Cook Real Food program – eat the food nature provided.

Come and embrace this Real Food journey with me towards a healthier living and cooking lifestyle. After many years of teaching food from various cuisines around the world, my focus now embraces cooking food that is low carbohydrate and healthy fat, concentrating on eating the food that nature provides, the cooking and eating of real food, natural food. Learn how to give Real Food, Real Flavour.

What makes my Cook Real Food program different? The program’s core foundation is the food philosophy of the Low Carbohydrate Healthy Fat lifestyle.

You learn the key elements of this LCHF program, including ingredient substitutes, planning tips along with thoughtful shopping and storage ideas as well. You will Cook Real Food and gain Real Flavour and Nourishment from the nutri-rich, delicious healthy food.

In class we make everything ourselves. We cook and eat what nature provides – natural foods. We cook using minimal carbohydrates and no processed foods; the majority of our foods include above ground vegetables, animal proteins, pure diary, definitely no low-fat; those healthy fats such as olive oil, butter, avocado oil, coconut oil, duck fat, macadamia nut oil home-made egg mayonnaise, some nuts and seeds.

There are no extra sugars and highly processed foods, no industrialised, highly processed oils such as canola, peanut, sunflower, palm, safflower, grapeseed etc. We avoid foods with high carbohydrate levels, those using additives and preservatives and ingredients you do not recognise with names you cannot pronounce!

If you want to learn how to make delicious, nutritious, natural meals, using minimal carbohydrates and discovering natural, real food substitutes along the way – this is the cooking class program for you!

Where did we go wrong and how come we strayed so far from cooking and eating food that nature has provided?

Re-discover the pleasures of the art of cooking, to cook for flavour and taste and enjoy the dining ‘culture’ of the table.

Learn how to make delicious, nutritious, natural meals for your family and friends with minimal carbohydrates, without spending hours and days in the kitchen. Enjoy the satisfying experience of the kitchen, and gain pleasure and satisfaction from the cooking process, plus you learn how to give real food, real flavour.

Eating is fundamental to our living.  We need to eat well to stay well and healthy. As a society, we need to elevate our thinking about food, to learn to cook food well using local, seasonal and fresh, real food.

As a member of the Slow Food Movement, I follow its philosophy, that the food we eat should taste good, it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, and its producers should receive a fair compensation for their work

Eating real food – the food that nature provides will enable you to live a healthier and more enjoyable life. A major benefit from cooking and eating real food is that it will help your immune system to be the best it can be.

Eating what nature provides means shopping at the fresh food markets, good butchers, greengrocers, delicatessens, farmers’ markets and getting as close as you can to the people who produce your food.

All full-day classes are at our usual time of 8.45am until 3.30pm.

Book a class now – classes are small and numbers are limited.

Note: Classes are available on any date of your choice for groups of 6+ – Please contact Tonya for availability

Classes $275 p/p

By the way, there is now a Partners and Friends Class Luncheon available, without the cooking class. This is available for guests of people attending the Cooking on the Bay cooking classes, and who do not want to cook!

Guest arrival time is around 12.30pm; we are usually finished then or nearly finished anyway. Your guest can relax with a glass of wine if we are still finishing off a dish or 2.

The cost for the lunch with wine is $145 per person. Email me to book and pay this Luncheon option.

Dr. Barton Jennings, Lung and Sleep Physician, Melbourne – ‘How to lose weight without having to eat less and exercise more’. 

For many years, we have been told incorrect information about healthy nutrition. This has resulted in many people gaining weight and developing diseases of lifestyle such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. In this video, Barton explains what we should be eating for weight loss and to achieve optimal health.

My Cook Real Food Cooking classes teach you the methods and techniques of cooking, with tasting, easy, delicious and modern recipes, which all support the Low Carb and Healthy Fat Lifestyle Program. Eating the LCHF way will improve your health and you will boost your body’s natural immunity.