Re-Engineering the Kitchen: A simple method to put Real Food on your table faster, easier, & cheaper

Re-Engineering the Kitchen™ is the practical how-to guide for anyone who wants to eat less ultra-processed food and more unprocessed Real Food, while saving time and money doing it.

Beyond diets and nutrition headlines, Re-Engineering the Kitchen™ provides a new perspective on how we manage our food by taking a step back and addressing our overall food process from planning through preparation. With a BS in Chemical Engineering, an MBA in Finance & Business Economics, and a Certificate in Nutrition and Healthy Living from Cornell University (as well as decades as a working mom), Alin’s quantitative process-focused background allows her to bring a unique and practical perspective to the conversation about food. Re-Engineering the Kitchen™ applies process improvement methods to the process of feeding ourselves.

Re-Engineering the Kitchen™ takes a step-by-step approach to improve the entire food cycle, including:

• Defining the food cycle with a critical look at all food sources, both home and away.
• Highlights of research on the health impacts of food processing.
• Outlining essential nutritional principles that can be applied to any eating style.
• Optimizing Priority Foods (nutrient-dense unprocessed protein and produce) which are the most challenging to manage.
• Creating an individual action plan to achieve your dietary objectives, using USDA dietary guidelines as a working example. (Charts and worksheets included.)
• Developing a baseline food plan: the right amount of the right Priority Foods for your healthy lifestyle.
• Supplements? Strategies to get vitamins, minerals, and essential nutrients.
• Easy to use shopping guides and strategies to improve nutrition, save money and reduce food waste.
• Providing over 120 streamlined Agile Recipes™, with a new intuitive and adaptive format, so you can cook delicious Real Food quickly and easily.
• Techniques and strategies for a more efficient and productive kitchen.

Regardless of your experience and expertise, this book will give you a new perspective about food in our 21st century world and practical tools to make less processed food a reality.

Let’s Re-Engineer your kitchen and make it easy to spend less time, money, and effort on better food!