Healthy eating must be learned

With a busy life, healthy eating often is forgotten. The easy access to 'unhealthy' food does not make this easer. When you go outside you can have tasty food within 5 minutes. Even a sandwich from the gas station looks good with some arugula on top. But in all these easy meals is too much fat, salt, sugar and other additives. The ingredients are not fresh, local and organic. There must be a way to do it differently. How? That's what I want to teach as many people as possible.

lifestyle as company culture

I had the honour to work on the project 'geniet van eten' (enjoy food) of Pon. I have never met such a progressive company. They do everything they can to keep their employees healthy and fit. They even have a special 'Pon fit' department. They facilitate moving, nutrition and cure, from health checks and running programs to cooking workshops. I was involved in the latter. Very nice to give people the insight healthy food can be tasty, simple and affordable.

Employees on cooking class

It is important to have budget for educating your people. You also spend money on Excell courses right? Invest as well in your kitchen staff. It starts very simple with taste. People are so used to a certain taste they often don't even realise how poor it is. I try to make them conscious about this again and teach them to properly taste. What is it you're eating? Is this tomato really good?

Expensive is no excuse

Often the excuse to not use good products is them being too expensive. I like showing you can treat these products differently. Of products having more flavour you need less. You make delicious dishes with less ingredients, but of better quality. It's not about a lot, but about tasty. And just like for meat, for vegetables also counts the head-to-tail principle: you can perfectly well use the stem of a broccoli. If you eat according to the seasons, the prices often aren't that expensive either. Why would you economise on your health if you can do it this way?

A tasteful casted floor

The head-to-tail principle is applied by LEOXX. Using food products entirely does not necessarily have to be done in one single dish. Why not use them in a floor? In the casted 'Nature' of Caracterr rest products from the food industry have been processed, like coffee (grounds), corn, cork and fruit. It gives the floor a beautifully natural character and helps our earth. The innovative material of Nature has been rewarded with biomaterial of the year 2016.

Take a look at the collection of Nature.

Andy Verdonk is founder of Foodjoy - creative and educative food events. Foodjoy provides the delicious catering for all our events ‘over de vloeren’ . For our next event 'de smaak te pakken’ keep an eye out for our newsletter.