Teaching Kitchen
Upcoming ClassesYour Hub for Healthy Cooking and Wellness
The Teaching Kitchen at OSF Cancer Institute is a place where you can learn to prepare meals that support your health and well-being. Our cooking classes are easy to follow and combine simple nutrition tips with hands-on cooking techniques, helping you feel confident in the kitchen.
These healthy cooking classes focus on using food to help your body heal, prevent illness and give you the energy you need to feel your best. You can also connect with others on a similar journey, share experiences and find support while creating delicious, nourishing meals for yourself and your loved ones.
Explore Our Cooking Classes
Nourish & Flourish
This cooking class is designed for anyone interested in learning how to eat more nutritiously. Topics include meal planning and grocery shopping, plant-based recipe ideas and strategies for eating to support various health conditions.
Power Plates: Recipes for Strength and Recovery
This class is designed for individuals undergoing active treatment, healing post-treatment, preparing for or recovering from surgery, or experiencing general weakness. It will focus on high-protein meals and snacks that support strength, recovery and overall well-being.
Cook to Cope
Need help knowing how to eat or prepare meals during cancer treatment? Struggling with taste changes, sore mouth, nausea or other nutrition-related side effects? This cooking class is for anyone going through any type of cancer treatment. It will provide easy to prepare meals that provide vital nutrients and help support nutrition when eating is tough. Caregivers welcome!
Thrive After Cancer
Designed for cancer survivors, this class will cover nutrition guidelines put forth by the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) for cancer survivorship, and how to apply them in your kitchen.
Specialty and Seasonal Cooking Classes
Looking for something unique? The Teaching Kitchen offers a variety of specialty and seasonal cooking classes. From couples’ cooking for breast cancer patients to brunch with our oncology dietitians, there’s something for you.
How Cooking and Nutrition Work Together for Better Health
Culinary medicine combines cooking and nutrition to help you feel your best. Registered dietitians create simple, nutritious and tasty recipes then teach you how to make them yourself.
Eating the right foods can:
- Give you more energy and help you sleep better
- Make it easier to manage your blood sugar
- Support cancer treatment and recovery
Culinary medicine can help prevent cancer, support those going through treatment and improve the well-being of cancer survivors.