Change how you fuel.
Change how you feel.
A FREE 4-Saturday in-person culinary medicine program in Chicago, teaching you how to use food to fight inflammation, ease crisis days, and build a Warrior Team that truly gets it.
Sickle Cell isn't just a diagnosis. It's a daily battle and the food on your plate is one of the few things that fights back every single day.
Everything you need to make food your medicine.
Hands-On Cooking
Real skills you'll use all week. Anti-inflammatory plant-based meals your whole family will actually want to eat.
Groceries for Warriors
Warriors take home the ingredients to recreate every meal. No guesswork, no extra grocery run.
Stipend for Warriors
Warriors receive a cash stipend for each session attended and survey completed. We know your time is valuable.
Sickle Cell Health Ed
Understand how inflammation, oxidative stress, and hypermetabolism drive crises so you can stay ahead.
A Warrior Community
Connect with Warriors and Support Partners who understand. Our community continues after the program ends.
Take-Home Recipe Book
Every recipe we cook, plus nutrition brochures and infographics to share with your care team.
4 sessions. 4 breakthroughs.
One Warrior Team.
Knowledge Is Power
The foundation: what sickle cell actually is, how it affects the body, and the three drivers of complication — inflammation, oxidative stress, hypermetabolism.
Putting Out the Fire of Inflammation
Chronic inflammation drives vaso-occlusive crises. Learn the foods that calm it, the ones that fuel it, and how to read a label like a warrior.
Calming Oxidative Stress
Free radicals, antioxidants, and the plants that help your body detox. Fiber, nitric oxide, glutamine, and the nutrients that fight back.
Fueling Good Energy
Hypermetabolism means your body burns through energy faster. Calorie-rich, nutrient-dense, plant-based meals that keep you fueled.
May - June
4 Saturdays. 4 sessions.
A whole new way to eat.
- Sickle Cell health talk (20 min)
- Nutrition education (40 min)
- Hands-on meal prep workshop (2 hrs)
- Groceries for Warriors to take home
- Cash stipend for Warriors who attend + complete survey
Bring your Support Person
Healing is a team sport. Every Warrior brings one Support Person — a parent, partner, sibling, or friend. You register. They register. You show up together.
- When
- May 30 · June 6 · June 13 · June 27
Saturdays, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT - Where
- Kingdom Baptist Church
301 North Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60644 - Eligibility
- Ages 10+. Up to 10 Warrior Teams per cohort. 100% plant-based meals.
Led by clinicians who know this disease.
Registered nurse specializing in public health, Food For Life instructor, and plant-based food expert.
Pediatric Sickle Cell Nurse Practitioner at UIC and Master Gardener. Brings the clinical expertise that turns nutrition info into crisis-reducing action.
Who this is really for.
If you or someone you love is navigating sickle cell disease or trait, this program was built for you and your Warrior Team. Healing is stronger together.
Join us for 4 Saturdays.
Leave with tools for life.
5 spots just opened for the May 30 cohort. Complete this form to claim a seat for your Warrior Team.
Questions? We're here to help.
847-903-7527