A Living Flourishing Learning Orchard™

Find excellent resources. Go to the source. Bring the learning home.

There is already extraordinary educational work in the world. Kitchen Monk™ does not need to recreate all of it. Our role is to help you find trustworthy resources, understand what each one offers, and carry useful knowledge from the screen into the kitchen, home, clinic, family, and community.

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Every card tells you what it is, who it’s best for, whether it’s free or paid, and whether it’s a Kitchen Monk resource or an independent one. Tap a topic to jump to it.

🍲 Food & Cooking · 🥡 Convenience & Travel · 🚶 Movement · 🌙 Sleep, Stress & Caregivers · 🤝 Community · 🦉 Kids & Families · 🌈 Faith & Compassion · 📖 Books & Stories · 🩺 For Professionals

🍲 Food & Cooking

FREE · KITCHEN MONK

The Start Your Journey cooking trail

What it is: a gentle path into the VA’s free Practical Plant-Based Cooking guide.
Best for: beginners and anyone rebuilding kitchen confidence.
Keep in mind: some recipes include eggs or dairy; check ingredients for your needs.

Start the Cooking Trail →

FREE · KITCHEN MONK

The Flourishing Table

What it is: Kitchen Monk’s approach to learning food skills, from the classroom to the cutting board to the community.
Best for: people who learn best by doing, together.

Explore The Flourishing Table →

FREE · INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

NutritionFacts.org

What it is: short, free videos and articles about nutrition research, from a nonprofit.
Best for: people who want to understand the “why.”

Explore NutritionFacts.org →

FREE · INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

Full Plate Living

What it is: a free program for adding more whole, fiber-rich foods to meals you already eat, including free group visits.
Best for: anyone who prefers small steps over big overhauls.

Explore Full Plate Living →

FREE & MEMBERSHIP · INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

National Health Association

What it is: recipes made without added salt, oil, or sugar, plus a podcast, a magazine, and an annual conference.
Best for: families and people who like learning in community.
Keep in mind: some resources require a paid membership.

Explore the NHA →

INDEPENDENT RESOURCE · CHECK CURRENT ACCESS

Teaching Kitchens

What it is: the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, a network of hands-on cooking classrooms in hospitals, schools, and communities.
Best for: learning by cooking with others.
Keep in mind: class availability varies by location.

Explore Teaching Kitchens →

🥡 Convenience & Travel

FREE · KITCHEN MONK

The Healthy Convenience guide

What it is: our guide to cooking yourself, cooking with community, and choosing better convenience, without shame.
Best for: busy, tired, caregiving, or traveling people.

Read the Healthy Convenience Guide →

PAID · INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

LeafSide

What it is: shelf-stable, whole-food, plant-based meals you make by adding water.
Best for: travel, backup meals, workdays, and days when cooking isn’t realistic.
Keep in mind: review ingredients, allergens, pricing, and shipping. Not medical treatment or individualized nutrition therapy.

Visit LeafSide ↗

PAID · INDEPENDENT RESOURCES

Ready-made meals & pantry helpers

What they are: Chef James Nutrition, Enliven Foods, WellBean, and Well Your World.
Best for: weeks when cooking isn’t realistic.
Keep in mind: Enliven Foods was co-founded by Chef Robin Jeep, Nathanael’s co-author.

See All Convenience Options →

PAID · INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

NHA Plant-Based Travel

What it is: whole-food, plant-based group trips, including cruises.
Best for: travelers who want support keeping healthy habits on vacation.

Explore Plant-Based Travel →

🚶 Movement

◐ IN DEVELOPMENT · KITCHEN MONK

Move With a Nurse™

What it is: walking, rolling, cycling, stretching, and movement people enjoy, with nurses moving alongside.
Best for: beginners, older adults, families, and people living with chronic illness or disability.
Keep in mind: community gatherings are still in development.

See Move With a Nurse →

FREE · KITCHEN MONK

One small movement step

What it is: three simple ideas you can try today, like a five-minute walk or one song of stretching.
Best for: anyone starting from zero.

Choose a Movement Step →

🌙 Sleep, Stress & Caregivers

FREE · KITCHEN MONK

Who Cares for the Caregiver?

What it is: reflection and support ideas for nurses, family caregivers, and anyone feeling worn down.
Best for: people who spend much of their life caring for others.

Read the Caregiver Page →

FREE & PAID · INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

American College of Lifestyle Medicine

What it is: education on six areas of health, including sleep, stress, and relationships, plus a way to find a lifestyle medicine clinician.
Best for: anyone, with a deeper track for professionals.
Keep in mind: some resources need a free account.

Explore ACLM Resources →

FREE · KITCHEN MONK

One small rest step

What it is: simple ideas for tonight’s sleep or today’s stress.
Best for: anyone who feels stretched thin.

Choose a Sleep Step →
Choose a Calming Step →

Ongoing trouble sleeping, loud snoring, or low mood that won’t lift are worth raising with your clinician. In the US, if you’re in crisis, call or text 988 any time.

🤝 Community & Relationships

● AVAILABLE NOW · FREE · KITCHEN MONK

Kitchen Monk free communities

What it is: free online groups for encouragement, questions, and shared ideas.
Best for: anyone who doesn’t want to do this alone.

Join a Free Community →

● SIGN-UP AVAILABLE NOW · KITCHEN MONK

The Community Map

What it is: share your approximate area and interests so we can see where community is growing.
Keep in mind: the interactive map itself is in development.

Put Your Light on the Map →

INDEPENDENT RESOURCE · CHECK CURRENT ACCESS

Plant Based Support

What it is: peer encouragement, recipes, and a place to ask questions about plant-based living.
Best for: people who want ongoing support from others making similar changes.

Explore Plant Based Support →

INDEPENDENT RESOURCE · NONPROFIT

Plant Based Nutrition Movement

What it is: a nonprofit offering community nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, and teaching kitchens, with a focus on children and families.
Best for: families and communities looking for hands-on learning.

Explore the Plant Based Nutrition Movement →

🦉 Kids & Families

FREE · KITCHEN MONK 📖 STORY

Flourishing Guardians™

What it is: stories and activities for children, with a separate guide for parents and caregivers.
Best for: families who want to read, cook, and move together.
Keep in mind: the stories are fiction and do not replace pediatric care.

Open the Grown-Up Guide →

FREE · INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

The Jaroudi Family

What it is: Brittany Jaroudi’s whole-food, plant-based recipes her own family loves, plus a podcast about raising kids on plant-based food.
Best for: parents cooking for picky or busy households.

Visit The Jaroudi Family ↗

INDEPENDENT RESOURCE

Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster & Nourish Wellness

What it is: a pediatrician’s book and podcast on raising kids who enjoy healthy food, plus her pediatric lifestyle medicine practice in Yakima, Washington.
Best for: parents who want help without food fights or shame.

Meet Dr. Yami →

🌈 Faith & Compassion (optional)

You are welcome at Kitchen Monk regardless of faith background. These are here for those who want them.

OPTIONAL · ◐ IN DEVELOPMENT · KITCHEN MONK

Faith Communities

What it is: an invitation to congregations of every faith to help bring lifestyle education home through their own nurses and volunteers.
Best for: faith communities and members who want faith-connected support.

Explore Faith Communities →

OPTIONAL · FREE · KITCHEN MONK 📖 STORY

Faith & Flourishing: Willow’s Teaching

What it is: an optional Christian faith trail for families within Flourishing Guardians, with Scripture and story clearly labeled.
Best for: Christian families who want faith woven into stories.

Explore Willow’s Teaching →

📖 Books & Stories

📖 STORY / FICTION · FREE ON KINDLE

The Book of the Lamp

What it is: Book I of The EVERgreen Chronicles, a story about finding light for the next step.
Best for: readers, caregivers, and nurses who love a reflective story.

Read It Free on Kindle ↗
See All the Books →

FREE · OUTSIDE VOICES

Kitchen Monk in the World

What it is: published stories about Kitchen Monk, including Robin Jeep’s feature in Women’s Wellness / OptiMYz.
Best for: anyone curious about where Kitchen Monk came from.

Read Press & Stories →

🩺 For Nurses & Health Professionals

🩺 PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

See the Full Organization Guide Below ↓

CURATE → EXPLAIN → ATTRIBUTE → CONNECT → APPLY
Skip to the resources ↓

The Kitchen Monk Learning Path

1. READ THE SCIENCE. NutritionFacts.org
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2. JOIN THE COMMUNITY. National Health Association
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3. DEEPEN THE PRACTICE. The Plantrician Project + Plantrician University
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4. LEARN THE FRAMEWORK. American College of Lifestyle Medicine
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5. CONNECT WITH SUPPORT. Nurse Coaches, our Flourishing Care Connectors™ (in development)
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6. BRING IT HOME. Family, kitchen, and community, and in the future, Flourishing CNAs™ (future vision)
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7. LIVE YOUR FLOURISHING JOURNEY.

This is a trail map, not a required order. Start wherever you are.

Five Streams Into the Orchard

Each organization keeps its own name, leadership, and mission. Kitchen Monk is simply the trail guide.

Stream One · Science · 🟢 Free public resource

NutritionFacts.org

Free, non-commercial videos, articles, podcasts, and guides on nutrition research, in English and Spanish. Best for: everyone.

Stream Two · Community · Free & member resources

National Health Association

Recipes made without added salt, oil, or sugar, the NHA Today podcast, Health Science magazine, and an annual conference where clinicians and community learn together. Best for: patients, families, caregivers, and clinicians with the people they love.

Stream Three · Education + Changemakers · Free & paid

The Plantrician Project + Plantrician University

Free Quick Start Guides, free webinars, an open-access journal, Plantrician University, and the Power of the Plate conference. Best for: clinicians, students, educators, and changemakers.

Stream Four · Lifestyle Medicine Framework · Mixed access

American College of Lifestyle Medicine

The six pillars, a free account with complimentary resources, a Culinary Medicine Curriculum, professional education, and a way to find a lifestyle medicine clinician. Best for: everyone, with a deep professional track.

🍲 The Culinary Stream: Teaching Kitchens

Where knowing becomes knowing how. The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative connects teaching kitchens in hospitals, schools, workplaces, and communities, and builds the research showing what hands-on cooking education can do. Pair it with Food for Life classes from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the ACLM Culinary Medicine Curriculum.

Explore Teaching Kitchens → · The Flourishing Table →


Choose Your Door

🏡 For Everyone

Patients, families, caregivers, friends, and the newly curious: start with NutritionFacts.org, NHA recipes and community, Plantrician Quick Start Guides, ACLM patient resources, and our cooking guide.

🩺 For Healthcare Professionals

RNs, APRNs, NPs, physicians, PAs, RDNs, pharmacists, PTs, OTs, behavioral health, health coaches, public health, and faculty: build your practice with the ACLM Learning Center, Plantrician University, and NutritionFacts.org.

🤝 Clinicians + Friends + Family

Health knowledge should not stop at the clinician’s office door. The nurse and her spouse, the NP and her parent, the physician and his best friend: learn together at the NHA Conference and, where eligibility permits, Power of the Plate.

👩‍⚕️ For Nurses

Move nursing forward with ACLM education, Plantrician University, NutritionFacts.org, NHA community learning, and the Flourishing Care Ecosystem, where Nurse Coaches are the water and Flourishing CNAs are the roots.

🎒 For Students

Nursing, medical, PA, dietetic, pharmacy, public-health, and CNA students: start earlier with ACLM’s academic curricula, Plantrician University, free Quick Start Guides, and NutritionFacts.org.

👪 For Families

Bring flourishing home with NHA recipes, Plantrician pediatric Quick Start material, NutritionFacts.org, shared meals, family walks, gardening, and good sleep routines.

🪔 A Moment by the Lamp

Where does your life need a little more light right now?


Sample Journeys

“I was just told I have prediabetes.”
NutritionFacts.org research → ACLM patient resources → Plantrician Quick Start Guide → NHA recipes → talk with your healthcare team about an individualized plan.

“I’m a nurse who wants to teach nutrition.”
ACLM education → Plantrician University → NutritionFacts.org science library → NHA community resources for patients → Flourishing Nursing Forward™.

“My family wants to eat more plants.”
Plantrician Quick Start Guide → NHA recipes → NutritionFacts.org → a shared family meal this week.

“I want my kids to love healthy food, without fights or shame.”
Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster‘s book A Parent’s Guide to Intuitive Eating and her podcast → family recipes from The Jaroudi Family → a Flourishing Guardians story at bedtime. In Yakima? Dr. Yami’s pediatric practice, Nourish Wellness, is one Nathanael personally recommends. (Independent; not affiliated with Kitchen Monk.)

General education and individualized care are different

The resources on this page offer general education. Individualized nutrition care comes from a registered dietitian or another appropriately credentialed professional, and diagnosis and medication decisions belong with your clinician. Need a lifestyle medicine clinician? Find one through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

◐ IN DEVELOPMENT In the future, Kitchen Monk hopes Nurse Coaches (our Flourishing Care Connectors™) can help people set goals and connect with the right resources and care team. This is not available yet.

Featured reading about Kitchen Monk: The Kitchen Monk: Reinventing Healthcare, One Meal at a Time, written by Robin Jeep for Women’s Wellness / OptiMYz (September 1, 2026). 🟢 Free. Read it at the source ↗ · Kitchen Monk in the World

🌱 Robin’s next chapter: Chef Robin Jeep is co-author, with Nathanael, of The Book of the Garden: The Cup of Flourishing, and is leading an effort to bring Kitchen Monk to a community college in New Mexico. Meet Robin

🎞 Historical Conversations & Mentorship

Two archived Chef AJ conversations featuring Dr. Ron Weiss, DipABLM, one of Nathanael’s earlier lifestyle medicine mentors, are preserved in the Kitchen Monk Mentorship Archive: an iodine discussion (March 2023) and a Lyme disease discussion (March 2024).

View the Mentorship Archive →

Included for their place in the founder story, not as current clinical guidance. Archived discussions may not reflect current evidence or Kitchen Monk™ recommendations and are not medical advice.

🪶 Mindfulness, calm & the whole toolbox

Mindfulness is one helpful tool among many, never a universal cure. See how it fits alongside food, movement, sleep, connection, and the wider care team in the Flourishing Nursing Coach Ninja™ toolbox, including the Mindfulness Feather, the Caregiver’s Calm Toolbox, and Nurse Blake’s Code Calm for nurses.


The Go-to-the-Source Promise

For every outside organization, we name it, describe it, attribute it, link to the original, and label access where we can. Link, don’t lift: we never copy another organization’s articles, handouts, recipes, courses, or recordings. Sometimes the best thing we can say is, “This organization explains it better. Go learn directly from them.”

Access labels: 🟢 Free · Free sample · 🔵 Free account required · 🟡 Membership required · 🟠 Paid or registration required · 🟣 Professional eligibility may apply · ⚪ Check current access


🦅 She does not build her nest on one leaf.

Momma Eagle builds where thousands of roots, drops of water, branches, seasons, and acts of care have made the tree strong. No single organization owns the orchard. No single profession owns flourishing. No single resource has every answer. But excellent science, education, community, nursing, culinary support, families, and compassionate connection can create stronger conditions for flourishing.

Grow the roots. Share the water. Strengthen the trunk. Open the branches. Cultivate the fruit. Build a place where the next generation can land.

Momma Eagle is a Kitchen Monk storytelling image and is not associated with any organization listed here.

Independent Resource Disclosure

Kitchen Monk™ independently recommends selected organizations, educational resources, conferences, and learning opportunities that may be useful to patients, families, healthcare professionals, and communities. Inclusion in the Kitchen Monk™ Lifestyle Medicine Library does not imply sponsorship, partnership, affiliation, certification, approval, or endorsement of Kitchen Monk™, Flourishing Nursing, Flourishing Care Connectors™, Flourishing CNAs™, or any other Kitchen Monk initiative by the referenced organization unless a formal relationship is expressly disclosed. All names, trademarks, educational materials, and intellectual property remain the property of their respective owners. Availability, eligibility, cost, content, and access requirements are determined by the originating organizations and may change. This includes NutritionFacts.org, the National Health Association, The Plantrician Project, Plantrician University, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

Medical Disclaimer

Educational information provided or linked through Kitchen Monk™ is for general education and is not a substitute for individualized medical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency care. Please consult your doctor or other healthcare provider before making any lifestyle changes.

External Content

Kitchen Monk™ does not control external websites and cannot guarantee that external content, pricing, availability, or policies will remain unchanged. Links are provided for educational convenience. Information last reviewed: September 2026.