I saved hundreds of dollars each month by not eating out or relying upon frozen foods that were bland and expensive.
Darya Rose PhD – Foodist Kitchen
You want to cook more, so what’s stopping you?
“I love the idea of cooking but putting it into practice is a nightmare, and when no one wants to eat it I feel like I have wasted time of my life that I will never get back.”
“Cooking takes me foreverand it never turns out right, and it doesn’t feel very rewarding anyway.”
“I have stopped believing that I am capable of cooking a good meal. And how can I ever develop a good relationship with food and not worry about it if I’m at the mercy of processed foods and restaurants?”
“I want badly to be the mom that cooks at home, I just don’t know where to start…. It feels so overwhelming.”
“I live by myself and am just too tired to cook. It seems a huge effort to do for myself only.”
“Eating out all the time is really expensive, but I hate cooking so much that most the time I either give in or just skip the meal altogether.”
“When I look at ANY recipe I want to cry. When I do try to make something and it doesn’t work out I get even more frustrated and say to myself, this is why I hate cooking.”
Hi, I’m Darya Rose. I’m a neuroscience Ph.D, author of Foodist and creator of Summer Tomato, one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites.
Before I started to cook regularly, there was nothing that scared me more than the kitchen.
I didn’t know how to use a knife or stove.
I’ve never been able to cook anything. The result was bland, unflavored and burned on the outside. It was still delicious in the middle. It sounds delicious, I know.
Most of the meals I ate were from boxes, bags, or restaurants.
Don’t forget about entertaining. It was absurd to cook for someone else. Why would I cook for anyone other than myself? (Let’s not forget about me). Thank you, but no thanks.
If you had asked me at the time why I didn’t cook more I would have said that I just didn’t know how. And I don’t have the time or energy anyway.
Cooking felt like a hard job with very little reward. It was.
At the time, I didn’t know how cooking could change my life. It would have solved my weight problems and transformed my relationship to food and my body.
I also didn’t understand that the struggles I had with cooking could be eliminated with just a few simple adjustments in my strategy.
If you make cooking a habit, it can make cooking easier and more enjoyable.
When cooking isn’t a habit it feels hard and seems to take forever. Each step, from shopping, planning and prepping, to cooking, cleanup, and cleanup, takes more energy and time.
Even if you do manage to throw something together there’s a good chance it doesn’t taste that good.
But when cooking is a habit it isn’t stressful or frustrating. It takes you less time to prepare meals in the kitchen than it does to cook at a restaurant.
Even after a long day’s work you can walk in the door, open the fridge and know exactly what to do to get a tasty, healthy meal on the table in half an hour.
When you have a habit you can do something easier and faster, because your brain doesn’t have to work as hard.
Actually, it’s easier to stick with a habit than it is to break it.
This is why habits are so powerful.
Habits don’t develop when things are hard
I’ve spent years trying to understand what prevents people from forming a cooking habit. I’ve done surveys, conducted interviews and analyzed thousands of answers.
People give different reasons for why they don’t cook, but I discovered the common thread underlying all the issues:
People often rely on recipes to help them cook.
It’s simple, think about it. When you don’t cook regularly and you decide to try a new recipe you take a long list of ingredients to the store.
You walk through the aisles searching for what you need. It is stressful and can take up to 45 minutes.
What do you do if you can’t find something you need? Ugh. You need to make another stop.
You might have an open bag of cornstarch, or some ground cumin when you got everything home. But you aren’t exactly sure how old those were anyway, so you throw them away.
Now you’re wasting food.
You struggle through the recipe, which takes a lot of time because you’re constantly having to read and make sure you’re doing everything correctly.
When you’re done the recipe may or may not have turned out well. Surprisingly, very few recipes are properly tested.
If it doesn’t turn out well, can you fix it? Are you tired of eating a poor meal?
What if everyone in your family doesn’t like it? Are you allowed to make more than one recipe?
You will end up with too many leftovers if you cook from a recipe. Food waste is higher.
And don’t forget the rest of those carrots and the other half of the onion you didn’t use. If you cook from recipes, you probably don’t have a plan to use up everything you purchased for the original recipe.
Waste galore.
Each of these factors adds frustration and stress to the cooking process.
No wonder you don’t do this very often.
Cooking without using recipes is possible
Learning to cook without using recipes is the key to establishing a cooking routine. This may sound like a magic trick, but it isn’t as hard as you think.
Imagine the freedom you would have You can make your weekly shopping trips at your convenience by walking through the produce and butcher sections, and then deciding what you want to cook for the week.
Choose three main courses and imagine the flavors and side dishes that would go with them. Because you are so familiar with many different ingredients and cook often, this is easy for you.
You know how to cook pretty much everything in the produce aisle, so you just have to decide what ingredients you need to create the dishes you’re imagining. You are also familiar with where to find everything.
Knowing your family’s eating habits will help you determine the right amount of food to buy. This reminds me, your children loved the squash dish last week, so I recommend buying more today.
You already have all the basics at home, so you’ve picked up everything and are out of the store in under 20 minutes.
You decide each evening what you will be “in the mood for” based on what you’ve purchased, and you have the knife and cooking skills you need to assemble it without much stress.
When the food is getting close to finished, you have a taste and decide it’s a bit flat. The seasonings are adjusted and some herbs added until the food sings. This is what you make a mental note for the next time.
It’s obvious that you can make something delicious. Your family and friends are impressed by your abilities. They ask you for your secrets and want the recipe.
“Oh it’s just something I threw together, I didn’t really follow a recipe.”
“Wow! You’re an amazing chef.”
“Nah, I just know what tastes good.”
Because you’re not frantically following a recipe, most of the cleanup is done before the food is finished cooking.
After you finish eating, rinse the pans and place the plates in the dishwasher. It takes less that 10 minutes.
There’s just enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow, since that’s what you planned for.
And when you treat yourself to a nice restaurant meal on Friday night, you’ve earned it.
It is easy to let go of the responsibility of following a recipe. This will free you from the frustration, stress, and waste that can come with not having an intuitive sense of the kitchen.
It is the ultimate foodist freedom.
You don’t need to know any recipes to learn how cook.
Because I learned how to cook from scratch, I am confident that anyone can do it.
While in college, my cooking skills were so poor that I once burnt water. It took me an entire day to learn how to boil eggs.
(I’m still embarrassed by this).
I find that making healthy and delicious meals at home is as natural as getting dressed for work or walking my dog. I don’t think about it, I just do it.
One common misconception is that cooking is an acquired talent. You don’t have to be a professional chef to learn how to cook.
It’s not that you either can or can’t cook. It’s that you do or don’t cook.
First, stop looking at cooking as one skill. Instead, see it as a series if skills and habits that make it simple to get home.-You can cook your own meals.
This allows you to break down the cooking process into manageable steps and then tackle each one individually. Cooking skills are interrelated so you need to be able to teach them in the correct order.
Although it may seem like more work than learning a few habits, it is much easier than trying to learn a new recipe every day.
And once you have it down, you’re set for life.
Introduce Foodist Kitchen: A program to teach you to cook without recipes in just 30 days
I am a passionate cook and have created an online course to help you learn how to cook in just 30 days.
I spent over five years fumbling my way through different cooking techniques and slowly building the confidence and intuition I have in the kitchen today. This is something I wish I had done. Much quicker if I’d had a system to take me through the essential steps.
Foodist Kitchen It is designed to help you learn the skills and habits you need to cook. so you can become an intuitive cook in a fraction of the time it took me.
It will walk you through each step and transform you from being someone who struggles through a recipe, to someone with total confidence in the kitchen.
At the end of 30 days you’ll be able to come home from work, open the fridge and whip up something healthy and delicious without much effort.
You’ll intuitively know what to make, how much to cook, and how to make it taste good.
Unlike most cooking classes that simply teach you techniques (though you’ll learn those too), Foodist Kitchen It focuses on building the basic habits needed to make regular cooking a part of your daily routine.
I deconstruct the processes of shopping, meal planning, flavor pairing, cooking and cleanup into basic principles that you’ll understand forever. This way you won’t have to rely on recipes ever again.
Foodist Kitchen ensures that you learn and practice each skill at the right time and in the right order, removing all guess work from the habit building process.
Sign up for Foodist Kitchen each day you’ll receive a simple, fun lesson delivered by email.
It is easy to read in less than 10 minutes and only requires you to complete one task. All you have to do the first day is go into the kitchen and grab a knife.
Foodist Kitchen ensures that you’ll be using both your mind and your kitchen, because that’s how habits form.
The lessons and assignments start small, then gradually turn you into a kitchen ninja by the end of the program.
This unique approach will systematically eliminate the anxiety you feel around shopping, cooking and cleaning, and give you complete kitchen confidence.
“Thanks to Foodist Kitchen I’m feeling less anxious about the whole process. Historically it’s been overwhelming, because every time I have to do the whole decide on food – grocery shop – (clean dishes) – cook – clean dishes cycle. I think I might actually be looking forward to cooking tomorrow!” –Jennifer P.
Do you sound familiar?
Foodist Kitchen Feast Bootcamp was originally created. It was praised as a revolutionary new cooking course from media outlets like Men’s Fitness, Mashable, Greatist and even Summer Tomato.
“Feast’s approach is different: It’s more about building motivation and confidence than learning to cook super fancy, complex dishes.” –Greatist
Feast was my favorite website and I got so much feedback from readers about it that I decided I would take it over and make it foodist. (Thanks David, Nadia!
Based on hundreds of studies by psychologists and researchers, the original program was created.
It is the same ideas that make habit.-CrossFit has become a very popular and successful program.
I’ve used the original program as a foundation and made it even better by layering in the foodist philosophy and everything I know about using food and your brain to enhance your life and change your relationship with food forever.
It’s the ultimate starting point for becoming a foodist.
“Foodist Kitchen helped me systematize the process of getting food in the house and cooking it in a way where it became almost automatic… I can now buy a week’s worth of food and prepare it without really trying too hard.” –Carol S.
Cooking is a way to change everything
It is not just about how much you spend time in the kitchen that will make a difference in your life, but also how learning to cook without the use of recipes.
Health is key to our health Foodist Kitchen philosophy
While I enjoy cooking for its own sake and the connection it creates in my home, my main motivation to cook is to eat more Real Food and avoid processed foods.
It’s simply impossible to make the best food decisions on a regular basis unless you can cook and prepare Real Food. Foodist Kitchen This mission will be supported by us and we will help you to build meals using the information. Foodist Plate.
“Now when I’m hungry, I’m going to the kitchen to take a look instead of grabbing my keys. I am by default eating healthier. Based on that, I consider this money very well spent.” –Jenny P.
Cooking saves you money
Unexpectedly, I was surprised at how much I saved when I began cooking as a graduate student. Restaurants are expensive. I actually went into debt after eating out so frequently in San Francisco.
I saved hundreds of dollars each month by not eating out or relying upon frozen foods that were bland and overpriced. These savings allowed me to pay off my debt and create Summer Tomato.
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Since I learned to cook without using recipes, I stopped throwing away as much food. The savings were huge.
Cooking allows you to connect with people you care about
Cooking more can bring out the best in you, your family and friends.
We love to eat dinner together at home. It is one of our most treasured rituals.
My cooking skills have spread to my family. My dad switched from eating fast food to a healthy, home-cooked diet.-cooked meals.
Prior to this, he was depressed after a stroke and hardly wanted to live. Today he is 40 lbs lighter and happier than he’s been in two decades.
His passion for cooking saved his life.
My sister-In-After years of being picky eaters, law and niece now love cauliflower, squash and brussels sprouts.
Simple things can make a huge difference in your life.
“Before Foodist Kitchen I did not even know how to hold a knife correctly, let alone plan a meal. Now I am in the kitchen all the time making delicious Real Food for myself and my family.” –Adam H.
“Some people might think this is simple stuff, but for me it is a wealth of information I had no clue about. Foodist Kitchen has made something very complicated (for me) into something simple and (dare I say) fun! Thank you!” –Beth S.
With Foodist Kitchen You’ll…
Simple is good Daily lessons This will take you through every habit you should have, without the need for recipes
Learn how to streamline your shopping Save time and money by using this process
Learn Basic cooking techniques like chopping, sautéing, and roasting
Create your flavor intuition Find out how to “season to taste” And “fix” a dish that isn’t working for you
Create your Intuition for cooking So you understand what it means to cook “until done”
Learn how to build healthy deliciousMeals You can do almost anything
Learn How to “use up” Everything You can make delicious and innovative meals with your fridge
Save money Reduce waste by avoiding packaged food and restaurants.
How to Get Family members Willing to try new foods and like them?
Impress your friends and partners Your fancy new kitchen skills
Join a community Explore new recipes, share tips and have fun with other cooks
“Learning how to pair flavors in Foodist Kitchen was the highlight for me. Now that I’m armed with the basic theory, I can read a recipe or watch a cooking show, and understand why the particular ingredients are chosen. The tastiness of my dishes has improved significantly.” –Joan K.
Learning to cook is the hardest part. Let’s start! Foodist Kitchen Step by step instructions-By-Step by step, you will learn how to cook without using recipes.
Who should join? Foodist Kitchen?
Foodist Kitchen Anyone who is looking to make a positive difference in their life by cooking.
Anyone who….
Ever thought of cooking? too hard Takes Too much time
Feels Overwhelmed by cooking and doesn’t know where to start
Manufacture is poor Confidence They are able to make food taste great
You want to build a foundation. Healthy eating For their loved ones and family
Are you tired of throwing money away? Restaurants And Pre-packaged foods
Loves to cook RecipesIt was difficult, but I wished it was simpler and more successful.
Hates Food waste
Are you looking for? You can save money On their monthly food bill
Loves Good food And Sharing it with people
Foodist Kitchen Although I teach you the principles and concepts of cooking, I don’t tell you what to do with them.
This makes it easy to modify the program for vegetarians, vegans, and gluten-free.-Other eating plans or free.
“You guys are doing a great job, this is a really good method to force people to actually think about the basics. You have clearly tackled the underlying problem, and this little formula works to overcome the barriers.” –Ernest C.
Who should NOT join?
Foodist Kitchen isn’t for you if you aren’t serious about learning to cook.
The program is specifically designed NOT to be overwhelming and isn’t a huge time commitment.
It is important to take regular action and keep going because habits are formed by repetition.
It doesn’t matter if you aren’t a natural or if you have a small kitchen. The point of practicing is to make your habits stick.
If you can commit to that, I’m committed to turning you into someone who cooks without recipes in just 30 days.
Foodist Kitchen starts at the very beginning with things like grocery shopping and basic knife skills, and eventually moves up to more advanced lessons on flavor, creativity and experimentation.
This is it. Once the program is over, it will show you how to increase and improve your cooking skills..
Roasted meats can be roasted and broasted. sous vide On a regular basis Foodist Kitchen You will find it too simple.
But if you never got past salads and stir fries, it will certainly help you take your skills to the next level.
Register for Foodist Kitchen Today
You’re ALWAYS going to be crazy busy.
But the sooner you learn to cook without recipes, the sooner you’ll eliminate the stress and anxiety that comes from having to feed yourself every day without the necessary skill set.
Also, you can start saving money right away by learning to cook without the need for recipes
Foodist Kitchen You will find that it is very cost-effective and can be repaid many times over. The sooner you start cooking, the more you’ll save.
Also, cooking at home is the single most important step you can take to improve the health of yourself and your family. This may be the best money you’ll ever spend.
By signing up now you’ll lock in the incredibly low price of $99.
This is the one-You will receive lifetime access to the course materials and access to the private Facebook Group. This group allows you to share your journeys and get support.
Does it sound too good to be true
I’m so confident that you’ll love Foodist Kitchen that I’m offering a 60-day money back guarantee. The program will last longer than the total length!
That gives you plenty of time to try the course at your own leisure and decide if it’s right for you.
