Sustainability

Creating Conscious Choices with Nutrition Voices
Food Education and Culinary Strategies to Get the Field Back on America's Plate

In this unique session, Amanda discusses food-centric educational strategies to open up eyes and ears to the conscious choice conversation. She'll lead you through experiential ideas and tools that showcase how we can create food awareness and environmental consciousness among consumers. Learn how to create a navigational tool that enables consumers to see "the big picture." See first-hand how consumers can immediately visualize how the steps they take, fit into that picture. Develop menus and menu marketing initiatives that dovetail with Conscious Choice educational initiatives. Leave with tools and strategies to enable greater awareness and a seamless conversation between the world we live in and the journey to our plates.

KEY TOPICS: Food and environmental awareness; sensory learning; food as a platform for learning beyond nutrition; education tools development; concept development; menu ideation

Recommended workshop time: 90 minutes – can be expanded beyond 90 minutes to enable live educational tasting stations and application in action