Food, Culinary and Lifestyle Education Programme — with Live Practice

Six months to learn to nourish yourself independently: the science of nutrition, cooking techniques, organising your week and everything around the table, supported by a better lifestyle: stress management, sleep, social relationships and movement.

Overview

Almost everyone arrives with a precise goal: to lose weight, to feel better, to get back on track, or to manage a medical condition better. This is why the programme starts exactly there: a complete assessment, with a medical doctor present, an eating plan and a written report to face the path ahead of you.

But knowing what to eat is not enough. What is missing, almost always, is the time, the practical skill and the organisation to actually do it. This programme works exactly there: every month we meet in the kitchen, half an hour to understand the why, two hours to learn the how, and every month we meet one-to-one to talk about you.

And then there is everything around the table that decides how well we really eat: how much we move, how much we sleep, how much stress we bring to dinner, which risks we can reduce with simple choices. This is why, alongside nutrition and cooking, there are an exercise professional, a psychologist and a medical doctor.

The lessons take place in Live in Kitchen: everything live, nothing recorded. 100% online but live: cooking, movement, psychological support, the valuable presence of a medical doctor. We meet twice a month, in the comfort of your own home: in the kitchen for Live in Kitchen, and for the monthly conversation wherever you like, as long as it is a calm place away from distractions.

A team, not a single professional

Marilena Cutino: food, nutrition, cooking and organisation: leads the programme
A medical doctor: takes part in the initial complete assessment and gives an opinion on general health status
Chef Francesco Cutino: Culinary Developer for Qatar Airways: takes part in the first meeting, on kitchen spaces and management, and in the session on handling and cooking fish and proteins
A psychologist: one conversation included: your relationship with food, stress management and sleep
An exercise professional: leads the weekly physical activity appointment, live, for the whole six months

How it works

1.
To begin: the Complete Consultation. Within a programme, only the first meeting is needed: there is no point repeating the whole assessment, because from then on we start a project together. A seven-day food diary and questionnaire to send five to seven days beforehand; a first 90-minute meeting with the participation of a medical doctor; a written report with an interpretation of what emerged and the eating plan.
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Every month: Live in Kitchen, between cooking and theory. Once a month, including on Saturdays, two and a half or three hours: thirty minutes on the topic of the day and the scientific background on food and nutrition, then we start cooking. Theory does not stop when the hob is switched on: it runs right through it.
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Every month: one-to-one meeting online. Forty-five minutes dedicated to you: how it is going, what works, what needs adapting, your questions.
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Every week: forty-five minutes of physical activity, live. Same day, same time, for the whole six months, with an exercise professional. You join from home and do it, together. Because telling someone to join a gym does not work: having a fixed appointment in the calendar does.
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Whenever you want: the conversation with a psychologist. Our relationship with food also depends on how we are: hunger that arrives under pressure, meals eaten in a rush, food used to compensate. Stress management and sleep are also discussed. You book it yourself, whenever you wish.
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At the end: final assessment. A review meeting in which parameters and, above all, the skills acquired are reassessed. Because a successful programme is not one that achieves a temporary result, but one that leaves you more skilled and more confident than you were at the start.
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Afterwards: two follow-up meetings. One month and three months after the end, to consolidate what you have built.

The six sessions in the kitchen

Live in Kitchen · one session a month · 2h 30 (the second and sixth 3h)

	Topic	Theory	Practice
1	Scientific information and the metamorphosis of food	1h · Recognising a reliable source, dismantling myths and fad diets, reading labels, headlines and social media critically. What happens to a food from the field to the plate and inside us	1h 30 · Kitchen basics and management: everyone shows their own spaces, worktops, chopping boards and separation, equipment, pantry, fridge and freezer. Hygiene and safety applied to what we see, mindful shopping, organising time and space. No cooking: we observe and organise. With the participation of Chef Francesco Cutino
2	Food groups and composing the plate	30 min · How foods are classified. Water and fibre, prebiotics and probiotics, managing added sugar, salt and alcohol. How a plate is organised	2h 30 · The preparations of the first BOX: planning ahead, batch cooking, storage. I put the BOX together following the food groups: a grain, vegetables, legumes, animal protein and a dessert
3	Micronutrients and phytochemicals · vegetables	30 min · Vitamins, minerals and bioactive compounds: their food sources and how to preserve them with correct preparation	2h · Vegetables and cooking techniques: their effect on nutritional value, how to preserve or enhance nutrients and how to make vegetables tasty rather than boring, with sauces to dress them
4	Macronutrients · legumes and grains	30 min · Carbohydrates, proteins and fats: structure, function, quality of sources. Correct preparation against process contaminants, reducing exposure to risk	2h · Legumes: soaking, cooking, digestibility and how to include them often during the week. Whole grains. Types of pasta
5	Macronutrients · fish and other proteins · Requirements and the culinary week	30 min · How to estimate your energy and nutrient requirements and what they depend on. Quantities and frequencies according to the guidelines	2h · Fish and other protein sources, including plant-based ones. How to include more fish during the week in a simple way. With the participation of Chef Francesco Cutino
6	Your week, on your own	—	3h · Everyone makes their own preparations live, with their own BOX and with the foods they have chosen, for their own week

The thread of the programme

The goal is not to follow someone else's recipes, but to no longer need them. Here we do not carry out recipes: you learn the tools to cook the food groups and turn them into the dishes you prefer, your way, as you and your family like them.

What is included

Complete Consultation to begin: food diary, questionnaire, 90-minute meeting with the participation of a medical doctor, written report and eating plan. Further assessment tools, if needed
6 Live in Kitchen sessions between cooking and theory (2h 30 each, the second and sixth 3h)
6 one-to-one meetings (45 min each)
45 minutes of physical activity a week, live, for the whole six months
One conversation with a psychologist: your relationship with food, stress management and sleep
5 BOX: 2 mixed ones for the weekly preparations, the first put together by me and the last by you, plus the vegetable BOX, the legumes and grains BOX and the fish and protein BOX, all to replicate to your taste
Slides and digital materials
Final assessment (60 min)
2 follow-up meetings: 1 month and 3 months after the end

Physical activity is for everyone. There is a single weekly movement appointment, bringing together everyone on the programme, whatever the format. It is not a second best for those in the group or an extra for those one-to-one: it is the moment when everyone comes together.

Duration, format and cost

Duration: Six months, plus two meetings in the following months
Format: Entirely online, entirely live
Start: From mid-January 2027 with the first consultation; the first Live in Kitchen in February 2027
Payment: Instalments available, terms to be agreed

Group

The six Live in Kitchen sessions take place in a group, from a minimum of three to a maximum of eight to ten people. Everyone cooks in their own kitchen, connected together. The consultation and one-to-one meetings remain individual.

€990Full price: €1,190Launch price

One-to-one

Identical in every respect: the same six Live in Kitchen sessions at full length, the same content, the same materials, the same entitlements. The difference is that the kitchen is just yours, on the day and at the time we agree. What you pay extra for is exclusivity, not a different programme.

€1,690Full price: €1,990Launch price

If you have already done the Complete Consultation and decide to continue, you do not pay for it again: €200 is deducted from the cost of the programme.

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