MIND • BELLY • SPIRIT
Are you dealing with a chronic health condition that makes cooking difficult, transitioning to a new way of eating, or just trying to incorporate more fresh, nutrient-packed ingredients into your diet? Are you vacationing in the beautiful Tampa Bay region and don’t want to waste precious time grocery shopping or cooking? Do you love nutritious, homecooked meals? Then, All Ways Nourished is for you!
All Ways Nourished is a personal chef and wellness coaching service feeding the Tampa Bay region. We are unique in that we blend our formal chef training with integrative nutrition and health coaching training in order to help our clients improve their overall wellbeing. And we know from our own health challenges that eating well can be a time consuming endeavor that you don’t always have the energy for. So, instead of relying on takeout or highly processed foods, let us help you! Our meals are homecooked with fresh ingredients, customized to the unique tastes and dietary needs of your family. We offer multiple services to cover all your needs.
Our goal at All Ways Nourished is to help you eat healthier so you feel better and have more time and energy to do the things you love! For some, that may mean inviting All Ways Nourished into your home every week to prepare healthy, nourishing meals for your family. For others, that may mean having All Ways Nourished create weekly meal plans and grocery lists for you, allowing you to enjoy the ritual of shopping and cooking. Yet others may be interested in a multi-week training course where you learn from Chef Abby how to enhance your own cooking skills, allowing you to cook healthy, allergen-friendly meals for your family. No matter your situation, we have a service to make your life easier and your meals more delicious!
At All Ways Nourished, we do not advocate for or promote any particular diet or way of eating. We are staunch believers that there is no one-size-fits-all diet. Each of us is unique, with equally unique nutritional needs and tastes. This is why the initial consultation with you is pivotal. During that initial conversation, we will comprehensively review your and your family’s tastes, allergies, intolerances, and health goals. We then use that information to curate weekly menus that are unique to you. We don’t post an online menu for you to select from because we want to cater to your needs each week. Nor do we want you to get bored with the same few dishes on rotation, so there will be tremendous variety in the meals we select. As our relationship develops over time and meals, we will continue to refine our menu choices based on your feedback on what you like, love, or could do without in each dish. We recognize wellness is a moving target. Over time, your health goals may change. You may develop a new allergy or food insensitivity. With that in mind, we will check in routinely to see how we need to modify the menu selections.
Since we view ourselves as an extension of your family, your health and well-being are vitally important to us. We use as many fresh, whole-food ingredients as possible and limit the use of processed ingredients. We consider ourselves a traveling “scratch kitchen.” If you have a salad on the menu for the week, the dressing will be made from scratch. If you have barbequed cauliflower steaks, your BBQ sauce will not come out of a bottle.
We have a virtual recipe box teeming with delicious meals, but we are always open to requests or making an old family recipe you just can’t live without. Maybe we will even give it a new, healthy makeover!
Step 1 – Consultation
Chef Abby will schedule a 30-minute in-person meeting with you to discuss your family’s specific dietary needs and preferences and determine which of our services are best suited to your needs.
Step 2 – Menu Planning
All Ways Nourished will customize a menu for the week based on the information collected during the consultation. We will send you a detailed menu plan for the week for your review and approval.
Step 3 – Grocery Shopping
Once you approve the menu, All Ways Nourished will create the shopping list and do all the grocery shopping for you.
Step 4 – Cooking
Chef Abby will come to your home and cook your meals for the week in your own kitchen, leaving the meals ready to eat in your refrigerator or freezer, so all you have to do is reheat and enjoy!
Chef Abby works with you to create a personalized menu suited to your unique tastes and dietary needs. Then, she shops, comes right to your home, cooks in your own kitchen, and fills your refrigerator or freezer with delicious meals. All you need to do is heat and eat!
If you love to cook but don't have time to menu plan and create grocery lists, All Ways Nourished will create a weekly menu and shopping list for you, curated to your unique culinary and dietary preferences.
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In-Home Personal Chef Services packages starting at $349 + the cost of groceries for 3 meals, 4 servings per meal for a total of 12 portions!
Menu & Grocery List Planning packages starting at $79!
Meet Chef Abby
I love food! I wake up thinking about bell peppers, I daydream about smoked paprika, and I fall asleep thinking about muffins. Ask me what I plan to make for dinner next Tuesday, and I can probably tell you. And good luck finding space in my pantry or fridge, much to my husband’s annoyance! I love food.
Sadly, though, much of the food I used to eat didn’t love me back. I was constantly in GI distress and bloated, and continuously tired. I didn’t immediately correlate my overall malaise to the food, though. I assumed if I “cheated” and had dairy every few days, knowing my body couldn’t process dairy, that I would only pay for it for a few hours after eating, then everything in my body would settle back to normal. But I was feeling worse and worse, and nothing was helping, so I started experimenting with my diet. I paid attention to which foods my body tolerated well and fueled me to feel my best versus which my body clearly could not handle. These insights led to a new way of cooking and eating for my family and me. As our approach to eating changed, we noticed other changes in our lives too. Because we felt better, we had more energy and were more motivated to make daily movement a part of our lives – walking, biking, yoga, etc. Our moods improved, and our home was a much happier place to be. However, I battle with a chronic health condition, and whenever I experienced a flare-up, cooking was the last thing I wanted to do. Sometimes just getting dressed took all my energy for the day. So, selecting a healthy recipe, going to the store to source the ingredients, prepping everything, and then cooking and cleaning up were entirely out of the question. Instead, I would resort to quick-fix meals full of processed ingredients or takeout. After eating this way for even a day or two, my husband and I would note that our energy had flagged, our moods got gloomy, and even the dog didn’t seem to want to go for walks!
At this point, there was no denying our diets affected our daily lives more than we ever thought. So, I quit my job in corporate America and enrolled concurrently in culinary school thru Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s health coaching program. Through these programs, I learned a holistic approach to wellness AND how to mince, dice, sauté, and braise like a professional! Throughout culinary school, a French-based program, I would make multiple iterations of each assignment – one being the school-assigned meat, butter, heavy cream-riddled French classic and one plant-based and gluten-free version. Holy moly, what an education! I found so many flavorful new ingredients I never knew I loved. Even my husband, who was a firm believer in wheat and meat, loved most of my plant-based, gluten-free recipes. I graduated from the programs with a virtual recipe box full of delicious, nutritious, classically French-influenced meals and an entirely new understanding of health.
And so, All Ways Nourished was born. I started All Ways Nourished to spread the knowledge I gained. All Ways Nourished’s mission is to feed and nourish the mind, belly, and spirit of our community with personalized, fresh, nutritious, homemade meals that delight the senses. I am delighted that you found us!
We would love to hear from you! Please let us know which services you are interested in and what questions you have. We look forward to speaking with you soon!