Do you like meatloaf for dinner or on a sandwich? Chef AJ shows how to make a very healthy alternative to a traditional meatloaf. She only needs a food processor and an oven. However, she did use a coffee grinder to create a powder from sun dried tomatoes packaged without oil, which she uses as a seasoning. This recipe includes healthy grains and legumes, no salt, and no oil. She uses oats instead of an egg to act as a binder. It gets better after is sits for a day. So, it can be a good make ahead dish. Enjoy.
“Chef AJ has followed a plant-based diet for over 36 years. She is a chef, culinary instructor, professional speaker, and author. With her comedy background, she has made appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, David Letterman, and more.
In Los Angeles, Chef AJ teaches her popular Intro Class, which includes cooking instruction, nutritional advice, song parodies and flat-out fun. She discusses food addiction and addresses the emotional side of eating. Never content to leave her audience with mere just do it advice, she teaches:
- How to create meals to transform your health
- How to deal with cravings
- How to deal with food addiction
Chef AJ is author of the popular book Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight. The book is half confessional memoir, half delectable recipes. It chronicles her journey from junk-food vegan faced with a diagnosis of pre-cancerous polyps, to learning how to create foods that heal the body. Many of her recipes can be seen on her YouTube cooking show The Chef and the Dietitian.
She holds a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from Cornell University and is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.”
You can learn more about Chef AJ here, eatunprocessed.com.
Chef AJ and Dr. Matt have a DVD with recipes available on Amazon.
Chef AJ also stars in an on-line cooking series together with Julianna Hever, The Chef andThe Dietician, on youtube here.
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Here is a brief biography for Dr. Matt Lederman-
“Dr. Lederman is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician with an avid interest in the field of nutrition and lifestyle medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at The University of Michigan where he graduated with distinction. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree at Temple University School of Medicine and completed his residencyin Internal Medicine at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. After initially practicing as a hospital-based Internist, Dr. Lederman quickly switched his direction towards the field of nutrition and lifestyle medicine, having had the honor of learning from some of the greats in this field.
Dr. Lederman has been seeking to change the way chronic illness is treated, with an emphasis on medication elimination and disease reversal through diet and lifestyle change. Dr. Lederman has participated in projects such as lecturing for the eCornell Certificate Program in Plant Based Nutrition and films such as Healing Cancer and Forks Over Knives. He also coauthored the popular new book, “Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole: Your Guide to Optimum Health.””