Welcome to the Kitchen Magic Home Page!
What is Kitchen Magic?
It started out as a program designed for non-profit and anti-poverty agencies as a way to teach clients some of the skills that would help them make the best use of food items found in support hampers. Over time, though, it has become clear that there are a range of people who are interested in ways to make their food budget go further. The program now offers a range of classes from in-home consultation and cooking demonstrations to one-on-one shopping trips to show people how to make the best use of their food dollar. As always, the cookbook "101 Recipes from the Hamper" is a staple resource that can be used by anyone from a company president looking to cut down on household costs to the stay-at-home mom looking for something a litle different to make the family on a penny-wise budget.
It might surprise many people to know that, after rent/mortgage, the greatest expence in the house goes to food. This means more than just the food itself, but also includes things like: shopping for food, appliances to prepare food, menu planning, storage and preparation of food. All together this can represent from 50-60% of a household's spending! With the ecconomy moving on a downward spiral, many of us are feeling moved to cut costs in almost every area of spending. For those who are already on a tight budget, there is an even greater need to explore other ways of making sure there are nutritious meals on the table while still being aware of cost-cutting plans.
Kitchen Magic offers a new way of looking at budget cooking and culinary problem-solving that can be a benifit to any home, even if you don't know how to cook or never thought you'd like cooking!
For individuals:
One on one or small group instruction. For in-home facilitation, please keep the number of families to five or less as larger numbers could create crowding and unsafe conditions in the host's kitchen. Instruction includes, but is not limited to: identifying the needs of the family (time, nutrition, cost), discussing recipes currently used and ways to make them more cost effective/faster/more nutritious, examining and streamlining shopping habits and offering recipes and recipe suggestions. Cost of the in-home assessment will depend on the number of families participating. Please use information on the contact page to request pricing.
For groups:
A range of classes can be presented to a neighbourhood gathering or a company group.
Shopping on a shoe-string
Caviar dinners on a Peanut butter budget
Easy ways to cut kitchen costs
Cooking demonstrations (please email to request list of demos available)
Nutrition without kid-battles
Shopping Tours
For all presentations, please email for prices and resources available.
