Plant-Based Cooking Classes: Live Healthier, Feel Better

Healthy vegan cooking and nutrition resources

As of 2026, Planted Platter is no longer offering plant-based cooking classes. However, the following resources are excellent options for you to pursue your interest in adding more plants to your daily meals:

Food for Life Classes and PCRM.org
Food for Life classes are offered by specially-trained instructors throughout the United States and in many countries around the world. (Planted Platter’s founder, Deb Czech, taught Food for Life classes in person and online from 2019 through 2025.) The Food for Life program focuses on how healthful eating can reduce and sometimes reverse diet-related chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and some forms of cancer.

The Food for Life program is part of the impressive work of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). In addition to its plant-based nutrition classes, PCRM also has a team helping to shape U.S. nutrition policy, an advocacy group seeking to end the use of live animals in medical school training and research, and a medical research department that regularly issues evidence-based analyses about the impact of nutrition on human health. Also, Planted Platter highly recommends PCRM’s podcast, The Exam Room, which features informative and fun interviews with plant-based nutrition experts.

Forks Over Knives
Perhaps you’ve seen the Forks Over Knives movie? (Watch it to learn why eating healthy foods with your fork can help you avoid going under the knife!) The Forks Over Knives website has meal plans, self-study classes, and many other resources.

NutritionFacts.org
This is a leading online resource covering evidence-based nutrition research. Dr. Michael Greger reviews medical studies and provides comprehensive videos about many topics. Learn about Dr. Greger’s recommended Daily Dozen, for example.