DSANV Cooking Club

Each class will meet from 10:00am – 12:00pm on the following Saturdays:

DSANV is proud to continue our Cooking Club designed to promote families cooking together to encourage healthy eating choices and active (hands on) engagement. Cooking Club Part II classes will be led by self-advocates and their parent/guardians who are graduates of the inaugural Cooking Club. As leaders they will choose recipes, shop for ingredients, and help set up the cafeteria for their session. We invite parent/child pairs to join us onsite at cafeteria in Oakton, VA where we will do the following:

- Provide each family with an award winning book on making healthy eating choices and techniques for teaching cooking skills to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Supply information on adapted cooking tools and additional resources
- Facilitate hands on sessions that cover meal preparation basics like reading a recipe, measuring, opening packaging, and food safety

Chef of the month: Sofia Puritano!!!

DSANV Cooking Club Chef Biographies

Sofia Puritano | Charlotte Woodward | Rachel O’Donnell | Catherine Galdo

Cooking Club Recipes

DSANV thanks Janice Goldschmidt, educator and author of the foundational text we use to teach authentic cooking skills in our Cooking Club! See her recipes here