Sometimes we need a little help in learning how to prepare wholesome meals and in this regard we need each other.

1. Cooking SchoolHealthy Living Series
@Health and Salvation- Truth for Today Ministries

2. Preparation of wholesome
meals are important
God regards the preparation of healthful food. He places a high
estimate on those who do faithful service in preparing
wholesome, palatable food. The one who understands the art
of properly preparing food, and who uses this knowledge, is
worthy of higher commendation than those engaged in any
other line of work. This talent should be regarded as equal in
value to ten talents; for its right use has much to do with
keeping the human organism in health. Because so inseparably
connected with life and health, it is the most valuable of all
gifts.
 CD 251.2

3. Give respect where
respect is due!
I prize my seamstress, I value my typist;
but my cook, who knows well how to
prepare the food to sustain life and
nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the
most important place among the
helpers in my family. —
 Testimonies for the Church 2:370, 1870 CD 251.3

4. Bread making is a courtship requirement
 There are very many girls who have married and
have families, who have but little practical
knowledge of the duties devolving upon a wife and
mother. They can read, and play upon an
instrument of music; but they cannot cook. They
cannot make good bread, which is very essential to
the health of the family.... To cook well, to present
healthful food upon the table in an inviting manner,
requires intelligence and experience. The one who
prepares the food that is to be placed in our
stomachs, to be converted into blood to nourish
the system, occupies a most important and
elevated position. The position of copyist,
dressmaker, or music teacher cannot equal in
importance that of the cook. — Testimonies for the Church
3:156 - 158, 1873 CD 252.4

5. Every woman’s duty to be
a skillful cook
Our sisters often do not know how to cook. To such I would
say, I would go to the very best cook that could be found in
the country, and remain there, if necessary, for weeks, until I
had become mistress of the art, — an intelligent, skillful cook. I
would pursue this course if I were forty years old. It is your
duty to know how to cook, and it is your duty to teach your
daughters to cook. When you are teaching them the art of
cookery, you are building around them a barrier that will
preserve them from the folly and vice which they may
otherwise be tempted to engage in. — Testimonies for the Church 2:370,
1870 CD 252.5

6. Taught to be keepers at Home
Tit 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they
be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not
false accusers, not given to much wine,
teachers of good things;
Tit 2:4 That they may teach the young
women to be sober, to love their husbands,
to love their children,
Tit 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at
home, good, obedient to their own
husbands, that the word of God be not
blasphemed.

7. There is nothing wrong with Health Reform
There are only poor cooking
 Many who adopt the health reform complain that it
does not agree with them; but after sitting at their
tables I’ve come to the conclusion that it is not the
health reform that is at fault, but the poorly prepared
food. I appeal to men and women to whom God has
given intelligence: Learn how to cook. I make no
mistake when I say “men,” for they, as well as women,
need to understand the simple, healthful preparation of
food. Their business often takes them where they
cannot obtain wholesome food. They may be called to
remain days and even weeks in families that are entirely
ignorant in this respect. Then, if they have the
knowledge, they can use it to good purpose. — [Christian
Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 56, 57] Counsels on Health, 155, 1890 CD
253.2

8. A needful call for cooking schools
the heath deformity is as a result of
poor cooking
Connected with our sanitariums and schools
there should be cooking schools, where
instruction is given on the proper preparation
of food. In all our schools there should be
those who are fitted to educate the students,
both young men and women, in the art of
cooking. Women especially should learn how
to cook.— Ms 95, 1901 CD 254.3

9. We lost the Earth by Appetite
We must regain the people by Appetite
 There is a way of combining and preparing food that will make it both wholesome and
nourishing. Those in charge of the cooking in our sanitariums should understand how to do
this. The matter should be treated from a Bible standpoint. There is such a thing as robbing the
body of nutrition. The preparation of the food in the best manner possible is to become a
science.—They must have ... the best quality of all sorts of healthful food. Those who have been
in the habit of indulging the appetite with every luxury, if they come to the retreat and find at
their first meal a meager diet, the impression is made at once on their minds that the reports
which they have heard concerning the Adventists living so poor and starving themselves to
death, is true. One meal of short rations will do more to the discredit of the institution than all
the influences in other directions that can be made to counteract it. If we ever expect to meet
the people where they are and bring them up to a sensible health reform diet, we must not
begin by setting before them a radical diet. There must be placed upon the table nicely cooked
dishes, and an abundance of good, palatable food, else those who think so much of what they
eat will think they will surely starve to death. We want to have good dishes nicely
prepared.— Lt 61, 1886 CD 289.2

10. We promote Nutrition and not Starvation.
Cooking schools are to be held. The people
are to be taught how to prepare wholesome
food. They are to be shown the need of
discarding unhealthful foods. But we should
never advocate a starvation diet. It is
possible to have a wholesome, nutritious
diet without the use of tea, coffee, and flesh
food. The work of teaching the people how
to prepare meals that is at once wholesome
and appetizing, is of the utmost importance.
—
 Testimonies for the Church 9:112, 1909 CD 469.2
1 Corinthians 10:31-
So, whether you
eat or drink, or
whatever you do,
do all to the glory
of God.

11. Would you like to learn how to make a
Lentil Pot Roast?

12. Would you like to learn how to make a
Shepard's Pie without Dairy?

13. Would you like to learn how to make Whole
Wheat Bread with a Pak choi cook up?

14. Would you like to learn how to make your
own milk and cookies dairy free?

15. References
 WebMd.com
 Livefood.com
 Various Testimonies of Mrs. Ellen G. White.