After a long day at work, imagine coming home and having a healthy, home-cooked dinner ready for you and your family. No racing to the grocery store. No messy kitchen to clean up. Just a delicious meal, prepared to your liking. Many two-career couples, new parents, and retirees are discovering how a Personal Chef Service allows them to spend more time with each other and their family.

 

Healthy Bites Personal Chef Service is quite economical when you consider this: 

How much food do you throw away because you didn't have time to cook or it was forgotten about in the back of your refrigerator? 

How much money do you spend eating out...and how often do you eat out?

Remember this...Eat well to stay well.

 

You choose the meals in advance from my menu options or maybe you have a favorite family recipe you'd like me to cook.  Low-fat, vegetarian, comfort foods…no problem. I'll work within your dietary requirements and preferences.

 

 

 

 

I have been experimenting with healthy cooking since attending college in the '80's. After gaining the "freshman 15" in the dorms, I moved into an apartment and began "trimming the fat". Despite being active in several different sports, the high fat dorm food destroyed me. My mother always cooked healthy (thank goodness) and that gave me a good base for cooking healthy for myself. I continued my normal exercise regime and soon returned back to a healthy weight, which I have maintained ever since.

 

Now with two young children, I strive to provide healthy meals for them. They are my official "taste testers" as I continue to experiment with new recipes.

 

With a B.A. Degree in Communications and an M.S. Degree in Recreation Administration, I worked for 18 years in the field of Parks and Recreation. Working full-time and coming home to more work - cooking for my family - I felt I never really had quality time to spend with them. I did menu planning and grocery shopping on the weekends, which again, took precious time away from my family. In 2007, I decided to carve a career out for myself that allowed me to spend more time with my family. I have always loved to cook so I enrolled in the Cascade Culinary Institute at COCC right here in Central Oregon. I wanted to help people and families with their cooking needs, menu planning, grocery shopping, etc. so that they could spend more TIME with each other. I created Healthy Bites Personal Chef Services in 2009 and have never looked back.

 

-- Valerie Anderson