"How to Feed a Kid" with Asata Reid, MPH

Asata Reid MPH, MS Ed​., is a professional chef and community health educator, and the founder of Life Chef LLC - a culinary education service focused on healthy cooking and nutrition for all of life’s stages. 

As a partner of Small Bites Adventure Club, Chef Asata helps to develop recipes and activities for Farm to Home Explorer Kits and the Taste Test Boxes that are sent to classrooms and organizations. These turnkey activities help children discover, love and eat fruits and vegetables. 

Asata has worked with Kaiser Permanente for over 13 years as a Health Educator, and facilitates classes in smoking cessation, sleep improvement, diabetes prevention and other wellness topics that impact the community.

With partners such as Georgia Organics, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the Georgia Department of Public Health, and Quality Care for Children, she provides nutrition and culinary training for youth, adults and seniors, as well as professional development for school nutrition staff, and technical assistance for Farm to School/ECE programs. 

Chef Asata teaches cooking and nutrition in the afterschool program at  Drew Charter School where she also recently (2018/19)  launched a life skills Cooking Club for upperclassmen as a continuation of the work from Michelle Obama’s health initiative Chefs Move to Schools. She co-founded the Cooking School at Irwin Street, served as the Health Education Director for Sevananda Natural Foods Market and Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, and is the former Nutrition Health Educator at the HEALing Community Center in Atlanta’s historic West End.

Asata completed her Master of Public Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health where she completed a thesis on the complexities of picky eating. Asata also holds a Master of Science in Education from the University of Kansas where she developed a plan for integrating health and nutrition into PreK to 5th grade STEM curriculum. She is an honors graduate of Florida A&M University where she earned her BS in Journalism, and graduated with honors from the International Culinary School at the Arts Institute of Atlanta. 

As a wife and mother, Asata enjoys slow family meals and her superpower is getting people to love eating their vegetables.  In 2021, she self-published her first book “How to Feed a Kid: A Parent’s Guide”.

To learn more please visit:

• New self-published book, How to Feed a Kid: A Parent's Guide available on Amazon for print or download.
• Ongoing virtual kids' cooking classes with the Hand Heart and Soul Project.
• Farm to Home Explorer Kits and Farm to School Taste Test Boxes with Small Bites Adventure Club: https://smallbites.club/

Good Food Good Mood series with Atlanta Eats and Kaiser Permanente (for Peachtree TV) GOOD FOOD GOOD MOOD RECIPE SERIES: 

• Pistachio Crusted Salmon and Kale Salad
• Power Up Breakfast
• Southwestern Black Bean Burger
• Antioxidant Bomb Parfait
• Butternut Squash & Black Bean Chili

Social Media:

• Instagram: @chefasata.lifechef
• FB: https://www.facebook.com/lifechef/
• Twitter: @Chefasata

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