Healthy Food/Healthy Mind Cooking Courses Set for March

CHEYENNE - Registration for AARP Wyoming’s next round of Health Food/Healthy Mind cooking classes is now underway. These cooking courses offer the ability to receive instruction in cooking tasty and nutritious meals at your home, while interspersing brain health tidbits.

The classes are free, but registration is required. To sign up for any of these courses, visit: aarp.org/wyevents and search “Healthy Food.” You will need to sign up for each event separately that you wish to attend.

If you missed any of the classes, log on to aarp.org/wyondemand to watch them in their entirety.

“Taking a class like this one hits on being social, engaging your brain, eating right, and for some cooking can also be a stress reducer, so enjoy that brain boost as you cook along,” says AARP Wyoming Associate State Director for Outreach Jennifer Baier.

About the menu
All classes take place from 5-6 p.m. Mountain Time. The featured meals for the series will include:

March 12 - Southwestern tuna melt and kale quinoa salad;
March 19 - Sweet potato nachos, peach cup, and sweet and sour cabbage.
March 26 - Creamy broccoli soup and apple nachos.

About the instructor
The webisodes will be hosted by Casper-based dietitian, nutritionist, and author Judy Barbe.

With a master’s degree in food science and human nutrition, she has been exploring food ever since. She is the author of two books and was a long-time regional newspaper columnist.

Her recipes and recommendations have been featured on many sites, including CookingLight, Reader's Digest, Prevention, and TheHealthy.

Brain Health and Cooking
In addition to instruction on the meal, AARP’s instructors will also offer a brain health lesson during each webisode. AARP’s six pillars of brain health are:

(1) Be Social
(2) Engage Your​ Brain
(3) Manage Stress
(4) Ongoing Exercise​=
(5) Restorative Sleep
(6) Eat Right.

For more brain health resources you can visit aarp.org/brainhealth

For more information on this or any of AARP Wyoming’s events, contact Jennifer Baier at: jbaier@aarp.org or 920-392-2250.