Delicious and Nutritious Healthy Eating Cooking Class

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Delicious and Nutritious Healthy Eating Cooking Class

Eat yourself healthy and learn valuable chef skills with Chef Mel.

The Happy Chef: Chef Mel

5.0 (5)

10k followers

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2.5 hours

1 to 12 (public classes), 8 to 50 (private) (private classes)

$97 (Afterpay available)

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What you'll do

Delicious and Nutritious Healthy Eating Cooking Class with Chef Mel in your own kitchen, office or venue.

Healthy doesn’t have to be boring—let’s make it delicious, nutritious and fun for everyone! Learn to cook some 'Happy Meals' with the Happy Chef; you'll be so inspired and confident after one of her hands-on cooking classes.

Join Chef Mel, a professional chef and cooking school teacher with over 25 years of experience running successful cooking schools in South Africa and Australia, for a hands-on healthy cooking class designed to inspire and energise your kitchen skills.

This class is perfect for:

Health-conscious families
Parents or individuals who feel frustrated or uninspired with everyday meals
Frazzled foodies who need some friendly guidance to make meal times more fun and bearable
Those managing diabetes, gluten intolerance (coeliacs), or other dietary needs
Teens and young adults wanting to gain valuable cheffy skills and confidence
Anyone looking to prepare economical yet restaurant-quality meals at home

Can cater for gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free, and all other dietaries. Please note these on your booking form.

Menu:

We will be cooking Chef Mel's signature dishes from her Eat Yourself Sexy Quickies Cookbook! You will learn 4 new dishes:

Chicken and Zucchini Involtini with sugo OR
Around the World Chicken Breast with Velvety Lemon Carrot Puree
Aburi Salmon Stack with sushi rice and slaw
Handy Sauces and Dressings (various-Mel's signature sauce hacks)
Personal Choc-Lava Mud Cake OR Salted Caramel Mud Cake

Over three hours, you’ll discover how to create vibrant, flavour-packed dishes that are easy, affordable, and good for you—with plenty of clever chef tips to make healthy food look and taste spectacular. Chef Mel will teach you how to boost flavours, plate like a pro and maximise nutrition without stress or fuss. These might be budget but they are chic and bougie...delicious enough to serve at your next dinner party, or just a weeknight meal to impress!

What you’ll learn:

How to balance a healthy plate with proteins, carbs and colourful veggies
Bulk or batch cooking ideas for meal prep and savvy savings
Delicious gluten-free and diabetic-friendly meal options
Creative, budget-friendly ways to make meals look restaurant-worthy
Essential knife skills and clever cheffy techniques to speed up prep
Confidence-building skills that will last a lifetime

How the class will run:

You’ll work in pairs to prepare a range of healthy, tasty dishes with Chef Mel’s guidance. Recipes will be provided so you can recreate them at home, and Chef Mel will help every step of the way to build your skills and knowledge. At the end of the class, you’ll gather around the big dining table to enjoy your delicious creations together, celebrating your new healthy cooking know-how.

What’s included:

All fresh ingredients and equipment
Professional tuition from Chef Mel
Printed recipes to take home
A warm, interactive, and inspiring cooking experience
A lunch or dinner of the meals we prepare, and leftovers too!

Perfect for all skill levels—come hungry to learn and leave inspired! In your own venue/kitchen.

What you'll get

Recipes as an eBook download
A feast of the meals prepared
Lifelong chef skills and confidence

See available dates, Request a private class or Gift

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Knowledge required

None at all. Beginners welcome.

What to bring

Take away container in case you would prefer to take your meals home
Notebook to make personal notes

Add-on available for this class

Cheffy Skills Cookbook ($35)

You can add this when you book (optional).

Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or hens party.

This experience would also be a unique gift for her, gift for mum or gift for couples.

Location

Newmarket, QLD

Exact location is masked for privacy. You'll automatically get the specific address after booking.

Your teacher can also travel within 250 kms of Newmarket, to a venue of your choice for a private class.

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The Happy Chef: Chef Mel

5.0 (5)

10k followers

I can help YOU become UNSTOPPABLE & KITCHEN CONFIDENT by teaching you CHEFFY SKILLS for life.

Hi! My name is Mel Alafaci. I am the proud founder of Vanilla Zulu cooking school in Brisbane, established 2011. I also founded Gecko Culinary Adventures Cooking School in Durban, South Africa in 2001.

I have been a cooking school teacher since 2001. My passion is food and people, I am a published author and cultural gastronomer...I travel the world and discover cultural food.

I recently created online cooking classes and courses to help level your cooking or cheffy skills. You can do my cooking courses at your own pace, in your kitchen, with me only a message away to help you as you level up your cooking skills and confidence. I am also a published author and have written 13 cookbooks...food is my everything, and teaching is my passion.

I am also excited to announce my new range of online cooking classes through LIVE Zoom sessions...which are perfect to level up the skills YOU want...and these can be amazing team building sessions too!

I also have a range of cookbooks to support your learning. It's so important to learn how to have fun in the kitchen and take all the stress out of learning. All the recipes are tried and tested, perfect for weeknight meals and dinner parties.

It's also perfect if you work in the food industry and need to learn more skills. I have a knife skills course that is FREE when you purchase it, so you can master the fundamentals and boost your confidence.

Perfect for home cooks, foodies and wanna-be foodies, food technology teachers, mining industry, private chefs, private yachts, bed and breakfast or hotel staff, catering staff, students wanting extra help...I guarantee you will increase your cooking skills in the first lesson...and then have the confidence to keep learning.

I also concentrate on food presentation, food matching, and food substitutions. Perfect for various dietaries as I always give gluten-free and vegetarian substitutions where possible.

My courses and cooking classes also covers basic cooking skills, so they are perfect for beginners, intermediate or advanced foodies.

I am always only a message away, and you will have your private learning portal that you can access from your laptop or phone. Along the way, you will receive progress reports and certificates of completion.

If you need a certificate of skills, I also offer a skills assessment so that you can use it for personal development in the workplace...or just to put it on your fridge for your enjoyment...or to show off to family and friends at your next dinner party!

I can't wait to have you as part of my happy tribe.

Here's to happy, delicious cooking...and skills that will last you a lifetime.

Chef Mel