Nutrition Therapy Institute

Creating optimal health through nutrition education

Careers as a Natural Foods Chef

natural foods chef

Join the growing field of whole foods Personal Chef cooking. Move into the growing demand for personal chefs who can offer menus of proactively healthy food.

  • Become proficient in preparing therapeutic meals to provide nutritional support for those who have health conditions that require therapeutic food for healing, conditions such as cardiovascular, diabetes, obesity, allergies, stress, digestive disorders, etc.
  • Be creative in introducing available whole foods from organic farms, including seasonal local produce, raw milk, and other products
  • Become teachers and teach cooking classes
  • Teach clients to cook healthy meals in their own homes
  • Work in health food restaurants, create health food restaurants and/or become a
  • consultant to health food restaurants
  • Cater healthy meals for events
  • Provide menus for entertainment venues
  • Produce healthy specialty foods for restaurants and stores
  • Train food service workers in preparation of whole foods from scratch

For more information on our graduates and their professions, visit our graduates page