Tag Archives: Citizen Teaching

The Dangers of Sugar and Food Labels

Last Thursday we were fortunate to have Christina join our apprenticeship to discuss the basics of sugar consumption and label reading.  Christina is a professional nutritionist who works at Whole Foods. Christina demonstrated the amount of sugar that is in some commonly eaten foods.  For example, children’s breakfast cereals – one cup had 11 teaspoons […]

Preparing to Teach

The topic of my Apprenticeship is Nutritional Cooking.  I call it “Nutritious and Delicious”.  (By the way, I got the idea to write this blog each week from the movie Julie and Julia.) Why this topic?  Well, when I first started Citizen Teaching they had an apprenticeship gap in this area.  Plus, there are three reasons […]