FFYWB - Channel Your Inner Chef

Food for Your Well-Being (FFYWB) is a nutrition and wellness education series from Bon Appétit Management Company that supports your well-being, whether you’re working or learning onsite or at home. Read the tips, watch the videos, and try the recipes for all FFYWB topics.

BOOST FLAVOR AND NUTRITION WITH FROM-SCRATCH COOKING

Skip the boxed and premade sauces, broths, and dressings by making your own! Learning a few from-scratch recipes can boost nutrition, reduce sodium, and eliminate preservatives and artificial ingredients. Scratch cooking can also help save money and reduce waste!

By cooking from scratch you can:

• Boost nutrition and freshness. Making your own simple sauces, vegetable broths, and salad dressings allows you to choose which fresh whole-food ingredients you use and allows you to control additions like sugar, salt, and fat.

• Save money and reduce waste. Scratch cooking can help you save money and reduce waste from food product packaging.
• Control what’s in your food. Many premade and boxed foods are high in fat, sugar, sodium, and preservatives. Cooking from scratch means using fresh produce when it’s in season and controlling the amount of fat, sugar, and salt added to your recipe.
• Batch cook. Make big batches of your favorite foods from scratch and then freeze for later use to streamline your time in the kitchen and have easy meals to reheat on busy nights.

Want to get started cooking from scratch? Channel your inner chef — and reduce food waste! — with this homemade vegetables stock recipes using food scraps.