Cooking - Catawba Valley Community College

Healthy for Life!
Tips and Trends for Cooking, Shopping, and Eating

Do you want to live a healthy life but lack the tools to be nutrition savvy? Catawba Valley Community College and Catawba Valley Medical Center are teaming up to equip you with the knowledge and skills to be successful at planning and eating healthy. You will have the opportunity to attend five different dynamic classes lead by Renee Greene, a registered and licensed wellness dietitian. Learn how to shop and cook on a budget, make healthy choices when snacking and dining out, and how to achieve a healthy weight while preventing disease. You will receive helpful handouts, learn how to prepare healthy meals and snacks, as well as sample nutritious foods. Finally, get a grocery store tour where you will put your knowledge into practice! Sign up for one class or all five, whatever fits into your lifestyle!

Eating Healthy and Shopping on a Budget

With rising prices and falling budgets, it's challenging to bring home ingredients for balanced meals. But eating right doesn't have to break the budget! Participants will learn the three steps for healthy eating while saving money--planning, purchasing, and preparing. Then, a healthy, budget-friendly meal will be demonstrated and tasted!

Eating Healthy and Shopping on a Budget
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID
April 17, 2018	Tuesday	10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Renee Greene	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$65.00	97187

Eating Right for a Healthy Weight

It can be a challenge to achieve a healthy weight. But you can become a healthier you by enjoying your food while eating less. Set healthy, realistic goals and glean tips to incorporate eating healthy with right-sized portions and physical activity. Also, sample a delicious, calorie-conscious dish!

Eating Right for a Healthy Weight
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID
April 24, 2018	Tuesday	10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Renee Greene	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$65.00	97186

Healthy Choices When Snacking and Dining Out

Eating out and mindless snacking can sabotage a healthy diet. Develop an understanding of why to snack, when to snack, what to choose, and how much to eat. Then, learn to prepare a healthy snack food. Also, identify the components of eating healthy when dining out including: deciding to eat healthy, ordering healthy, and eating healthy. Practice making healthy selections with menus from area restaurants.

Healthy Choices When Snacking and Dining Out
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID
May 1, 2018	Tuesday	10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Renee Greene	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$65.00	97193

Eating Right to Prevent Disease

Every day, we are bombarded with health claims from the media and from food packaging. Students will learn the importance of nutrition in promoting health and preventing disease, as well as distinguish between the truths and myths of media claims and popular diets. A nutritious recipe packed with antioxidants will be prepared and sampled!

Eating Right to Prevent Disease
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID
May 8, 2018	Tuesday	10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Renee Greene	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$65.00	97185

Grocery Store Tour

Put all your skills into practice! A personal-guided tour at your local grocery store will equip you to make healthy choices when meal planning and shopping. Learn to read food labels and identify and select healthy food items to purchase. Take home handouts packed with tips and tools to become nutrition savvy at the market!

Grocery Store Tour
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID
May 15, 2018	Tuesday	10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Renee Greene	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$65.00	97184

Cake Decorating Classes

Vintage Cupcake and Cookie Design

In this 4-week class, learn different techniques that are easy and simple to achieve and make sweet treats that will get a real "Wow" factor with your friends and family. The student will learn to make different styles of fondant cupcake toppers, make Victorian style iced cookies, learn how to make Rosette, Hydrangea, Zinnia and other floral cupcakes and learn how to monogram cookies. No pre-requisite required.

**Vintage Cupcake and Cookie Design**
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID
April 9 - April 30, 2018	Monday	6:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Glenda Peek	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$45.00	99005

Buttercream 101

In this 5-week course, the student will be introduced to the world of decorating using buttercream for projects ranging from cupcakes to cakes for any and every occasion. During the class, students will learn the difference in icing consistency and why it is important; how to fill and use a decorating bag, different tips and how to pipe them, how to decorate a cupcake, how to make buttercream flowers, and how to level, torte, fill and ice a cake and more!

**Buttercream 101**
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID
April 10 - May 8, 2018	Tuesday	6:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Glenda Peek	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$50.00	99002

Cake Design and Royal Flowers

This class introduces you to the world of royal icing....for cakes! This is different from the medium used for cookies and allows you to make decorations such as pansies, violets, and lilies in advance. Flowers and decorations dry hard and are able to be stored for later use, giving you a whole new world of options when planning your cake design and decor. The class will cover how to create six different types of flowers, how to make applique's, learn classic borders to enhance the design of your cake and learn color palettes and cake design.

**Cake Design and Royal Flowers**
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID#
April 12 - May 10, 2018	Thursday	6:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Glenda Peek	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$50.00	99003

Becoming Friends with Fondant

This introduction to fondant class teaches you how to work with this medium properly to achieve the professional looking decorations, flowers, and covered cakes you have always wanted but were afraid to try. We tame the beast! Students will learn how to work with fondant, how to color and store fondant, understand the difference between fondant and gumpaste, how to use gumpaste, how to make flowers such as gumpaste rose and how to cover a cake with fondant.

**Becoming Friends with Fondant**
Date	Day	Time	Instructor	Location	Cost	ID#
May 17 - June 14, 2018	Thursday	6:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Glenda Peek	CVCC EC, Rm. 1209	$50.00	99004

Classes are held on the East Campus (EC).

For questions about these courses contact Cheri Toney at ctoney@cvcc.edu;
to register you may e-mail Cheri Toney at ctoney@cvcc.edu or register with Online Instant Enrollment.
For further information you may contact the Continuing Education Department at (828) 327-7037.