Plant-Based Farm-to-Table Cooking Experiences
Experience Nutrition is honored to collaborate with Meeting Planners to create memorable, one-of-a-kind Arizona experiences, unique gifts, and beautiful tasty, healthy artisan catering for your clients. – Melanie Albert, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition
- Unique, memorable, fun, culinary experiences with just-harvested local Arizona farmers produce, herbs, and edible flowers
- Sustainable Healthy Snacks and Gifts
- Artisan Hand-Crafted Catering
Perfect for Meetings, Corporate Wellness, Team Building
Hosted by Plant-Based Culinary Leader, Melanie Albert, award-winning cookbook author, speaker, farm-to-table cooking experience guide, cooking and self-care retreat host, artisan hand-crated caterer, and Founder & CEO of Experience Nutrition in Phoenix, Arizona.
Happy to share with you some ideas for your Meetings and Events…
Interactive Plant-Based Farm-to-Table Experiences
Join Experience Nutrition and plant-based culinary leader, Melanie Albert, with plant-based healthy cooking programs, both in-person hands-on and virtually from a distance.
In-Person Hands-On Experiential Cooking Experiences
- Farm-to-Table Experience. Fun, interactive, hands-on cooking experiences with local Arizona farmers produce at a local organic farm or unique Arizona venue.
- Group Activity. Fun, engaging group activity to strengthen relationships while having fun together.
- Team Building. Perfect for friendly team-building competition.
- Cook with the Season. Food and recipes for the cooking experiences change seasonally, even weekly, based on what the farmers are growing.
- On Location. At beautiful local Arizona farms or unique Arizona venues.
In-Person Cooking Experience Highlights
- Local Organic Farm Tour. Enjoy a tour of the farm where food for the experience grows and is harvested specifically for the event.
- Create Tasty Dishes. Learn a few simple culinary techniques and hands-on create several simple, tasty recipes with fresh, just-harvested produce, herbs, and edible flowers.
- Food Art. Learn food presentation skills and experiment to create beautifully plated culinary creations. Garnish with fresh herbs, micro-greens, and edible flowers.
- Mindfully Enjoy your Meal. Enjoy your culinary creations with colleagues in the beauty of an urban farm or other unique location.
- Experience Nutrition Kit. Participants receive custom Experience Nutrition Gift Kit, with culinary tools including an apron, cutting board, and local Arizona artisan pottery bowl, and mug, and other custom artisan gifts.
Local Organic Farm Tour
Create Tasty Farm-to-Table Dishes. Experiment with Food Art.
Mindfully Enjoy the Farm-to-Table Meal in the beauty of a local farm.
Enjoy intuitively creating beautiful farm-to-table dishes. Mindfully enjoy the meal.
Signature Cooking Experiences
Enjoy creating beautiful, tasty farm-to-table dishes with just-harvested local Arizona farmers produce. Each cooking experience is totally unique with seasonal produce, fresh herbs, and edible flowers.
- Seasonal Salads. Raw Kale Salad. Arugula & Greens. 3-Ingredient Dressing. Tomato Gazpacho. Mediterranean Quinoa Salad.
- Mediterranean Appetizers. Hummus. Olive Tapenade. Hempseed Tabouli.
- Veggie Tacos. Tomato Salsa. Avocado Guacamole. Cashew Cream.
- Avocado Tartare Food Art. Turmeric and Beet Hummus. Seasonal Veggies. Edible flowers and Micro-herb Garnish.
- Raw Desserts. Carrot Cake. Fresh Berries. Edible Flowers. Superfood Berry Pie. Chocolate Avocado Pudding.
Seasonal Salads
Mediterranean Appetizers
Veggie Tacos
Avocado Tartare
Raw Desserts
Signature Team Building Challenges
Enjoy friendly competition with Team Building Challenges while creating beautiful, tasty farm-to-table dishes.
- Raw Farm-to-Table Seasonal Salads.
- Three-ingredient Herbal Salad Dressing. Seasonal Greens, Fruit, Veggies, Nuts & Seeds Salad.
- Food Art.
- Raw Deconstructed Lasagna. Seasonal Veggies. Red Tomato Sauce. Green Pesto. White Raw Nut Sauce. Fresh Herbs.
- Avocado Tartare. Turmeric and Beet Hummus. Seasonal Veggies. Edible flowers and Micro-herb Garnish.
- Raw Dessert.
- Raw Carrot Cake. Fresh Berries. Edible Flowers.
Thinking about unique, memorable, one-of-a-kind Meeting Activity or Team Building for your organization, would love to brainstorm and collaborate. Please contact, Melanie Albert, Mel@MelanieAlbert.com or 602.615.2486
NEW VIRTUAL: Video and Live Stream Cook-Along Programs
Experience Nutrition is excited to offer New Virtual Plant-Based Cooking Programs for meetings, from a distance, featuring beautiful, tasty Arizona farm-to-table culinary experiences.
- Engaging Online Cooking. Interactive, fun plant-based cooking for group activities and team building.
- Local Farmers Seasonal Produce. Participants cook a few simple, tasty recipes with local Arizona farmers produce, herbs, and edible flowers.
- Cook-Along or Cook Later. Participants Cook-along with the Live Stream (2.5 hours) or watch a Video (30-40 minutes) and create recipes after viewing the video.
- Experience Nutrition Food Kit. Participants receive Plant-Based Food Kit, with local farmers’ produce and herbs, recipe guide, key cooking ingredients, kitchen tools, aprons, and cutting boards.
- Healthy Cookbook. “A New View of Healthy Eating” by Melanie Albert or New Cookbook Coming Soon: Plant-Based Farm-to-Table Food Art.
- Private Group Facebook Page. Plant-Based healthy eating and cooking community, where participants share their culinary creations and ask questions.
Hosted by Plant-Based Culinary Leader, Melanie Albert, Founder & CEO of Experience Nutrition, award-winning cookbook author, speaker, cooking experience and retreat host, and caterer.
Experience Nutrition Virtual: Signature Plant-Based Cooking Topics
- Seasonal Farm-to-Table Salads. Raw Kale Berry Salad. Tomato Gazpacho. Mediterranean Quinoa Salad.
- Avocado Tartare. Hummus. Seasonal Salad. Food Art.
- Mediterranean Appetizers. Hummus. Olive Tapenade. Hempseed Tabouli.
- Veggie Tacos. Tomato Salsa. Avocado Guacamole. Cashew Cream.
- Raw Desserts. Raw Carrot Cake. Edible Flowers. Superfood Berry Pie. Chocolate Avocado Pudding.
- Food Art. Raw Deconstructed Lasagna. Raw Superfood Pie.
- Kids Cook! Massaged Kale Salad. Avocado Tartare. Chocolate Date Balls. Food Art.
Special Virtual Cooking Experiences: In Your Kitchen with an Oven
- Farm-to-Table Veggie Bowl. Quick Roasted Seasonal Veggies. Quinoa. Nuts & Seeds.
- Sprouted Spelt Flatbread. Roasted Veggies. Quick No Yeast Flatbread. Quick Roasted Veggies. Hempseed Cream.
Looking for a fun, unique Virtual event for your organization? Happy to co-create a custom video or cook-along with our local Arizona farmers goodies. Contact Mel@MelanieAlbert.com or 602.615.2486
Sustainable Healthy Snacks & Gifts
Unique, one-of-a-kind custom hand-crafted artisan healthy snacks, gift baskets, and cooking experience tools. Perfect for meeting participants to enjoy during their time in Arizona and when they return home.
All snacks, kits, and gift baskets are customized for organizations. And, can be co-branded with Experience Nutrition.
Unique. Sustainability. Arizona.
- Healthy Snacks. Tasty organic hand-crafted snacks, such as custom organic trail mix, energy balls, granola, dark chocolate, and superfoods.
- Cooking Experience Kits. Aprons, dish towels, salad dressing jars, hand-made pottery bowl, mugs, and other custom pottery.
- Arizona Gift Baskets. Custom, unique gift baskets as take-home memento of the Arizona experience or sneak peek of the Arizona experience prior to visit.
- Local Artists. Memorable gifts featuring local Arizona artists pottery: cups, bowls and other custom art.
- Sustainable. Served in re-usable stainless steel colander or garden pot.
Looking for unique, sustainable Arizona gifts for your meetings or events, we’d love to explore custom ideas for you. Contact Mel@MelanieAlbert.com or 602.615.2486
Artisan Hand-Crafted Farm-to-Table Plant-Based Catering
Beautiful artisan, farm-to-table hand-crafted catering featuring local Arizona farmers fresh, beautiful food.
- Farm-to-table Food Art. Appetizers, entrees, and desserts mindfully created with Arizona with beautiful food art presentation.
- Grab-and-Go. Snacks and picnic or hiking lunches. Perfect for organizations or tourists.
- Local Arizona. The plant-based catering menu highlights local seasonal Arizona produce, herbs, and edible flowers.
- Seasonal. Menu changes with the season, based on what the local Arizona farmers are growing
- Plant-Based Healthy. All dishes are gluten-free, dairy-free, and soy-free.
A “Taste” of Experience Nutrition Catering…
Sample Plant-Based Farm-to-Table Menu
- Raw Kale Salad. Massaged kale with fresh berries and pumpkin seeds.
- Mediterranean Appetizers served with fresh local farmers veggies.
- Hummus. Smooth chickpea hummus three ways: Classic, Beet, Turmeric
- Hempseed Tabouli. Refreshing light, gluten-free tabouli with fresh herbs
- Olive Sun-Dried Tomato Tapenade. Rich olive appetizer
- Local Arizona Veggies for Dipping
- Raw Deconstructed Lasagna
- Artful lasagna with local seasonal veggies
- Ree Tomato sauce
- Green Herbal Pesto
- White Cashew Cream
- Raw Carrot Cake
- Fresh raw carrot and apple dessert, with berries and edible flowers
Interested in beautiful Plant-Based Farm-to-Table Catering for your meetings, events, or wedding, please reach out to us: 602.615.2486 or Mel@MelanieAlbert.com