Healthy cooking

Nutrition educator leads session at Delray library

Coco Frey, nutrition educator and founder of Eat the Truth, recently led a healthy cooking demonstration at the Delray Beach Public Library.

The highlight was Frey using fresh peas to create her version of pea soup.

“I use liquid vegetable stock. I don’t like peeling potatoes and don’t recommend scrubbing potatoes heavily,” she said. “I rinse the potatoes with water from the kitchen faucet, remove the grit and eyes and cut off the tips.”

Frey, who moved fromTexas to Boca Raton last year, demonstrated the correct way to hold the knife she was using to slice and dice the potato, blended the ingredients with a mixer and poured it into a saucepan to cook.

Frey said her company provides nutrition education, healthy cooking and business-to-business consulting.

“When it comes to nutrition, the messages are swallowed up by the media and consumers are now confused,” she said. “Eat this, not that, avoid this, avoid fat, carbfree, gluten-free, natural — it can become overwhelming.”

She shared the Eat the Truth Rules, which include eating fats and carbs (from fruits, vegetables andwholegrains), don’tover-consume protein, cut the junk, all in moderation and avoid genetically modified foods.

Next, Frey showed the many ingredients she had prepared in advance to make quinoa stuffed mushrooms.