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Teaching Others to Cook

Deb Kennedy, PhD - Teaching Others to Cook

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Question:

How do you charge for teaching? Is it per class, per hour? What is a good number to start?

— Lillian Jones

Answer:

You can have people love bundled payments, right? So, uh, my cooking class is 99, uh, for the first lesson. Or you can get four lessons for 350, but again, you are going to exclude a lot of people who need your help, right? So that's why if you can do something as a group, people will be able to afford it. So it really depends on who your, what your socio economic status is of the people that you are teaching. But for an hour long, I would say, um, anywhere from 75 to a hundred dollars depending on how much, uh, how much experience that you have. Uh, I would start with maybe doing some, uh, teaching kitchen opportunities. You might do one for free and get clients that way, uh, or are actually having a group of people and they pay $25. I do know in the Food is Medicine movement that this question has come up again and again and again. And actually I just heard about one of the hospitals charging, I wanna say $350 for eight sessions. Uh, that sounds like a lot of money for, for, um, rural individuals. But, uh, what I find is that you have to kind of start where the people are at.
Deb Kennedy, PhD

Deb Kennedy, PhD

PhD Nutritionist

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