Presenter: Alyssa Luning, Registered Dietician/Nutritionist from RWJ Barnabas Health
Take care of yourself one day at a time…one meal at a time! Every time we eat is an opportunity to fill our lives and bodies with essential nutrients like fiber, phytochemicals, vitamins, and minerals like those found in plants. Learn how to boost these plant foods into breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, and even dessert.
Week 1: The Basics
Handout:
The Power Of a Plant-Based Diet Vegan Starter Kit
(Includes steps to get started, recipes and meal ideas, FAQs, inspiring success stories and links to free resources)
Week 2: Breakfast
Featured Recipes:
Breakfast Tofu Scramble
Overnight Oats
Week 3: Lunch
Featured Recipes:
Chickpea Salad
Walnut and Lentil Taco
Week 4: Dinner
Featured Recipes:
Tempeh Satay
Rotini Puttanesca
Week 5: Appetizer and Dessert
Featured Recipes:
Spinach Artichoke Dip
Banana Nice Cream
About the presenter:
Alyssa Luning obtained a bachelor’s of science in Culinary Nutrition from Johnson & Wales in Providence RI in 2012 before she was accepted into Tulane University for her dietetic internship. Her first full time position was as a community nutrition & culinary educator for Whole Foods Market. Afterwards, she worked as an outpatient bariatric dietitian, obtaining her CSOWM (Board Certified Specialist in Obesity and Weight Management). Her curiosity later took her to Washington D.C. to work for a non-profit organization to research and promote the health benefits of a plant based diet. Once home in NJ, she worked at local hospitals as a clinical inpatient dietitian. Now, things have come full circle and she is working full time as a community nutrition & culinary educator with RWJ Barnabas Hamilton. She gets the most joy out of being a dietitian from working with patients who reverse their type 2 diabetes, as it takes such great strength and patience.
Presented in collaboration with RWJ Barnabas Health.
