Part 1 – How the Body Works

Understanding how the body functions, the digestive and immune systems and the gut brain axis. How food, environment and lifestyle affect the body on a cellular level. Knowing when to refer to a specialist.

Part 2 – Nutrition for Every Day Living

Food choices and how the nutritional values of individual foods impact our immunity, cognitive abilities and energy levels, is the focus of CNM’s classroom-based Short Course in Nutrition for Every Day Living (NEDL).

If you are already qualified in A&P or Nutrition you can seek an exemption from these parts of the course.

Part 3 – Chef Training

140 hours in the kitchen, and 160 hours home assignments

Leading Natural Chefs will teach you essential cooking techniques. You’ll also learn methods for sourcing quality ingredients, culinary business principles, and the art of healthful cooking.

Vegan Natural Chef Training is comprised of five modules:

Fundamentals

• Food safety and sanitation
• Macro & micro nutrients
• Flavour, taste, preparation and presentation
• How to create a healthy balanced vegan diet
• Recipe writing and culinary maths
• Best sources of food and ingredients
• Energetics of food

Techniques

• Kitchen equipment, knife skills
• Cooking, grilling, steaming, dehydrating, baking
• Sprouting, juicing, fermenting

Food

• Master vegan sauces and stews
• Use seasonal ingredients in an imaginative way
• Work with tofu and tempeh
• Vegetables, salads, fruits, grains, nuts and seeds
• Raw and not so raw, culinary herbs and spices
• Beverages, superfoods, food combination
• Alternatives to sugar, table salt, dairy, gluten, soya

Food for Health

• Therapeutic menu writing and planning
• Foods that support organ systems
• Food therapeutics
• Deliciously healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert

Business

• PR/marketing strategies
• How to build a plant-based culinary career
• The law, accounts