chef certification

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Become a Green Moustache Certified Chef

When you become a GMJ certified restaurant/chef, you’ll be able to confidently deliver the most nutritious, delicious and healthy food to your patrons and guests, building a restaurant that is known for helping people to heal.

Who is this for?

  • Leaders and visionaries who are veg-curious, vegan-curious or plant-based-whole-food-curious.

  • Experienced plant-based chefs who already cook in a veg, vegan or plant-based way, but are ready to turn this up a notch, and prepare foods in a way to reverse disease.

  • Chefs, kitchen staff, managers, cooks and owners of restaurants that don’t serve healthy plant-based whole food meals. They are just following the trends instead of offering something that is actually healthy, as well as delicious and mind-blowing. They want to add healthy meals to their menus, but don’t know how because they lack the scientific knowledge to do it properly.

  • Entrepreneurs in the making who, one day, will open their own restaurant, café, food truck or food establishment, but don’t currently have the knowledge, creativity or skills to add healthy, plant-based whole-food meals to their menu.

  • People who want to be a part of the solution to the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our nation, standing up for social justice and equality, overcoming food insecurity, restoring soil regeneration and sustainable agriculture practices, addressing climate change, returning to food as medicine, restoring traditional food systems, and ending the mental health epidemic.

  • Chefs who are sick and tired of the chronic disease epidemic.

  • Chefs who want to become leaders in the health revolution.

Timeline | 3 months

  • Meet every week online for two hours live – if you can’t attend live, the lessons will be recorded

  • 2-3 hours a week of food prep, practice, planning, and etc…

  • 12 weeks of coaching, instruction, and personalized instructor support

  • Access to all recordings for life

What will you learn? 

  • The science behind food and nutrition. To find out what really makes food healthy, so that it has the power to reverse chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and cholesterol, autoimmune disorders, chronic pain, infertility, mental health, and other degenerative conditions.

  • The science of food as medicine. So you and your staff will be able to communicate the difference between trendy, so-called “healthy eating”, and ways to make meals that are actually healing for the body.

  • The language of metabolic nutrition. So you can confidently communicate with your customers.

  • How to prepare and cook meals with exciting, delicious, and nutritious whole foods that anyone with a chronic disease can safely eat, and which are proven to reverse disease.

  • All the basic techniques for preparing raw and cooked meals with no oil, low sodium, unrefined produce, PBWF, and gluten-free options that actually taste good.

  • How to maximize the nutrient availability of your food.

  • The difference between foods that heal and foods that harm.

  • The difference between food prep techniques that heal and those that harm.

  • How to differentiate yourself from restaurants that claim they serve healthy food, when really they are serving fake PBWF that continues to harm instead of heal.

  • That there is another way to excel as a successful restaurant and chef, and it is streets ahead.

  • How to showcase your restaurant as safe, forward-thinking, and aligned with planetary values.

  • Earn a certification of completion from Richer Health and The Green Moustache.

course outline

week 1 | course outline

week 2 | debunking myths

week 3 | rebuilding our bodies one meal at a time

Week 4 | let’s make food

Week 5 | Understanding disease and disease reversal

Week 6 | gut health

Week 7 | specialty items

Week 8 | cooking to maximize nutrition

Week 9 | menu planning

Week 10 | sourcing and operations

Week 11 | business planning

Week 12 | moving forward

Create food
that heals
instead of harms

What does your investment include?

  • Fresh knowledge from Art and Science on cooking techniques and skills for using food as medicine

  • Certification upon completion – differentiate yourself from other restaurants and chefs

  • Access to 25 years’ worth of knowledge

  • Resources to access for life and continue your education - 100% online access

  • Access to private online FB group – join a community of like-minded chefs wanting to change the world

  • Ongoing online coaching as part of FB group – ask us anything, anytime

  • Marketing and advertising to grow your customer base – share recipes, menu plans, and market testing of recipes

  • A customized recipe book at the end of the program

  • Access our Eat Real to Heal Online course for 5 of your family members that currently have a chronic disease and want to use food as medicine to reverse their illness

  • 50% off an initial consult with Nicolette, if you have an existing health condition

  • Pre and post health assessment – reverse your entire restaurant team’s diseases and track your own personal healing journey

  • All profits from this course go towards the 22M Tour

  • Be showcased on our podcast, on our website, on our 22M Restaurant Map and during our 22M tour as being a restaurant that is making a difference to reverse chronic disease in Canada

Why do you need this? 

One hundred years of evidence-based medicine has shown that food is medicine, and how food can either heal the body or harm the body. Policies will soon be coming down the pipelines of the Public Health Agency of Canada and other health agencies, putting stricter guidelines on processed and refined foods, and encouraging restaurants to provide healthier foods for their guests.

Nicolette has been teaching on the interconnectedness of food health and the environment for nearly twenty-five years. As an expert in the field, she wants to share this knowledge, so that you can get ahead of your competition and set yourself apart from restaurants that continue to serve foods which harm. You’ll become recognized as a leader in your field, providing customers with the healthiest, most healing and delicious food out there.

Nicolette has five award-winning plant-based restaurants and is expanding into the United States with 10 more locations in New York. She knows that Chefs and Cooks need to partner together to provide quick service, café, and restaurant food to the public if we are going to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic that as touched each and every one of us.

If you knew that you could play a part in reversing disease simply by learning the Art and Science of using plant-based whole-foods in your restaurant, while still maintaining a profit, and attracting more customers to your locations, why wouldn’t you do it?

All profits from this course go directly to fund Nicolette’s 22 Million Campaign Tour with a mission to help 22 million people reverse chronic disease by 2030. Join the movement today.