Culinary Medicine
Meets Your Kitchen.
Bringing clinical expertise directly to your kitchen with recipes
tailored for your child's unique health needs.
Recipes that Nourish Food for families to enjoy

Welcome to Our Kitchen

Our team of clinical experts has carefully crafted these recipes to prove that therapeutic nutrition can be accessible, tasty, and fun for the whole family. We believe every meal is an opportunity for joy, designed to nourish your child’s body while bringing a sense of play and deliciousness back to the table.
Culinary Medicine is an interdisciplinary, evidence-based field that integrates nutrition with cooking knowledge and techniques across all aspects of meal planning and preparation to support the prevention, management, and treatment of disease. It focuses on teaching and empowering individuals to translate nutritional needs into actionable, culturally meaningful, and enjoyable meals, while acknowledging that food choices are shaped by accessibility, inequities, and social context.

Why Trust Our Recipes?

We know that preventing and/or managing health through diet can feel overwhelming- that’s why our Culinary Medicine team at CHOP focuses on three pillars for every dish we share:

Chef Crafted

Each recipe is vetted to meet specific nutritional milestones.

Simple Success

We use ingredients and methods that fit into your busy life.

Kid-Approved Flavor

If it doesn’t taste great, it doesn’t make the list.

About Our Program

At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), our Culinary Medicine Program helps families learn how food can support health, healing, and everyday life. The program began in 2014 with the start of the CHOP’s Integrative Health Program. The addition of a medical chef educator allowed us to focus on helping children with severe seizures through specialized nutrition, namely the ketogenic diet. Today, the program supports patients and families with many different health needs, including cancer, food allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, heart conditions, kidney disease, and healthy weight management. We also work closely with underserved communities to make nutrition education more accessible for all. Our team—made up of physicians, registered dietitians, and a medical chef educator—works together to provide practical, family-friendly nutrition guidance. We offer easy-to-follow recipes, hands-on and virtual cooking classes, and on-demand educational videos designed to fit real life. Many of these resources are created not only for patients and families, but also to help train pediatric residents and medical students. Through partnerships with the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, CHOP also helps teach future healthcare providers how to use culinary medicine to support patients—bringing knowledge from the kitchen to the clinic.

Who we are

CHOP offers the largest pediatric Clinical Nutrition department in the United States with more than 85 nutrition team members including registered dietitians, registered dietetic technicians and a medical chef educator. Our Clinical Nutrition team provides specialized, expert care to children at the hospital and throughout CHOP’s Care Network.

Fun Recipes to Try!

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Breakfast Burrito

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Berry Nut Oatmeal

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Cauliflower Crust Pizza

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Where we practice?

CHOP’s Clinical Nutrition team provides comprehensive nutrition consultation services to patients of all ages at CHOP’s University City Campus, and at 11 satellite offices throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This allows for continuity of clinical nutrition care from the hospital setting, to outpatient visits, and back home.

What's Cooking!

Stay informed on all that is going on with the Culinary Team at CHOP! Here, you’ll find new, kid-approved recipes and simple tips and resources from our team of doctors and chefs to help your family fuel up, as well as upcoming cooking events for the whole family to enjoy and more!

Welcome to Our Kitchen: Creating Healthy Memories Together

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Food is Fuel: Powering Your Child’s Play and Growth

At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, we know that kids aren’t just small adults—they are constant explorers, fast growers, and high-energy bundles of potential. To ...
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Join Us in the Kitchen: A “Fuel Your Fun” Family Cooking Event!

We are so excited to invite our CHOP families to our upcoming community cooking session! This isn’t a classroom—it’s a hands-on kitchen party where kids ...
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