Plant-Based Projects
Consulting, Audits, Team Training and Cooperation
Plant-Based Consulting Chef
for Cruise Lines, Resorts and Boutique Hotels
Helping my Clients to develop their Plant-Based Menus, Vegan-friendly Food and Drinks, Sourcing Plant-Based & Vegan ingredients and to adjust their Pricing and Communication
- On-Site Audits: Evaluate and elevate plant-based offerings and guest satisfaction.
- Menu Consulting: Transform plant-based menus, wellness experiences, and healthy corners.
- Project Co-Development: Create smoothie/Juice bars, plant-based workshops, wellness retreats, and guest experiences.
- Team Training: Empower your staff with skills in plant-based cuisine, vegan nutrition, and allergen management.
Co-Development of Plant-Based Projects
Audits, Consulting and Co-Development
Juice - Smoothie Bars / Acaï - Power Bowls:
- MSC Explora: Nectar Juicery, Tom Juice Bar, Yi Athens, Oceania
Healthy Corner / Breakfast Buffet:
- Evason Hua Hin, Blue Lotus, MSC Explora: Emporium Market Plant-Based Cuisine Cooking Classes:
- Blue Lotus Hua Hin, MSC Explora Chef's Kitchen, Biophily
Plant-Based Cooking School & Chef Training:
- Blue Lotus Hua Hin, PC Studio Café, Apollo Group
Wellness Retreats:
- Azulfit Yoga Pilates Retreat Center, Blue Lotus Hua Hin
Vegan Grocery and Plant-Based Shopping Center:
- EKM6 BKK, Plenti Grocer
Plant-Based Menus in Restaurants:
- Yi Athens, Evason Hua Hin: Kieng Sha / Bar / Coast, MSC Explora: Sakura / Fil Rouge / Emporium, Oceania + Regent Cruises
Plant-Based Cooking Books:
- les éditions La Plage Paris, En Exergue Paris
Christophe Berg @kristofberg
Wellness Consulting Chef, Lifestyle Business Coach
Turn Ideas into sustainable Wellness Projects.
A Pure Player:
- Wellness Chef, Consultant on Plant-Based Projects
- Director of Education in Plant-Based Cuisine
- Events, Retreats and Wellbeing Experiences Host / Organizer
- Plant-Based Cuisine and Daily Fasting Cookbook Author
- Lifestyle Business Coach
- 20 years of Running & Plant-Based Eating
My background: 30 years of profesionnal experience. Master of Science degree in Project Management (La Rochelle university).
Read on Plant-Based Eating
Series of articles on Plant-Based Cuisine, Plants Eating and Active Living
Unlocking AI for Chefs, A Practical Guide
How AI can change the game for the Chefs?
New AI tools like ChatGPT can act like a personal assistant or co-pilot, so the Chefs focus their creativity, time and energy hands-on in the kitchen with their culinary team.
Read the article Unlocking AI for Chefs
Mindful Eating Plan
Simplify the WHAT (to eat)
• Be Mindful of the WHEN to eat
• Don’t worry so much on the HOW-MUCH
• Care about your recovery
• It is not a diet that matters… it is your lifestyle
+ a Myth Buster on Superfoods
Pure & Simple Plant Food, a manifesto
· Whole plant-based Food
· You are what you DO daily. It’s not just a diet, it’s a lifestyle…
· Pure Energy, a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet for Active People
· Moving Daily over Exercising
· Physical Activity and Recovery Cycle
· Micro-Nutrition and Nutrient Density
· What matters is not only “what” you eat but “when”·
Read the article "Pure & Simple Plant Food, a manifesto"
Forget to "DETOX"
Try a 5-DAY Reset Experience
· What does a 5-DAY Reset Experience mean?
· WHEN? Planing your Experience
· WHAT NOT to eat?
· Why Experimenting?
· How to do the 5-DAY Reset Experience?
· What and When to Eat, transition to whole food plant-based
· Day by Day Reset Experience
· What I appreciate with the 5-DAY Reset Experience
Read the article Forget to Detox, Try a 5-Day Reset Experience
Plant-Based Cuisine, a new Speciality
Looking at the evolution of plant-based speciality cuisine
· Times are Changing
· The food industry got the message pretty quickly…
· There is still room for a creative answer
· Why talking about Plant-Based Cuisine and not vegan food?
· Plant-Based, a new speciality cuisine!
· Fast Casual is the new chic
A Tribute to SOUL Plant-Based Cuisine
Seasonal · Organic · Unique · Local PB Food
Hey Chefs, Plant-Based Cuisine is the creative opportunity of a lifetime!
· Plant-Based Food products are on the rise
· Prepare food in-house and from scratch
· Cultivate your Style
· Set your own Rules
· Start with a Market Challenge
Read the full article on A Tribute to SOUL Plant-Based Cuisine
Why do I run almost every morning?
The Power of a Daily Practice
· The Simplicity of Running
· A Daily Dose of Humility
· A Morning Dose of Positive Energy
· Keep a Creative Mindset, Keep on Learning
· Build-up, slowly but surely
· Run your Personal Best
· Diversity is more fun
· Running Daily? Meaning every single day?
· Born to Move. How did I start running?
Read the article Why do I run almost every morning?
Read on Daily Fasting, Active Living after 40
Series of articles on Daily Fasting, Time Restricted Eating and Intermittent Fasting
Eating Two Meals a Day and Endurance Training
Running and Eating Twice Daily to Stay Fit After 40
- Running and Fasting to Stay Fit after 40?
- How? Self-Defined Simple Rules
- Flexibility is key for Consistency
- To Run after 40, Train Smarter not Harder!
- Training Plan for Half Marathon, Short Trails 20–30K
- Keep Experimenting to keep Learning
- What I Appreciate About Eating Twice a Day
Read the full article on Eating Two Meals a Day
Why Daily Fasting, not Intermittent Fasting?
Daily Fasting to describe a Short Duration Fast
• Why NOT Intermittent Fasting?
• Daily Fasting
• Time to Rest and Recover
• My Daily Fasting habits
• Most Common Terms around Fasting
6-DAY BREAK-FAST Experiment
Eating Once a Day After My Morning Run
· BREAK-FAST, What?
· Why?
· Self-Defined Constraints
· Planning the 6-DAY Experiment
· How it went?
· Hungry?
· Running Daily? > Why do I run almost every morning?
Read the article 6-Day Break-Fast Experiment
6-Day "Eating Twice a Day" Experiment
Early Time Restricted Eating put to the test.
• What is Time Restricted Eating?
• What is early TRE?
• How-to plan your 6-day Experiment?
• Frequent Questions on early TRE
The Inconvenient truth about TRE
Is it OK to skip eating breakfast?
· Why are people more likely to skip breakfast?· What is Time Restricted Eating?· What is the Circadian Rhythm?Read the article The inconvenient Truth about TRE?Time Restricted Eating?
What did I learn from 3 years practicing TRE?
· What does TRE mean?
· Who I am? and what I am doing?
· Why Fasting? And Why Time Restricted Eating?
· How I restrict my eating window ?
· What I appreciate with Time Restricted Eating
or Intermittent Fasting 16:8
Read the full article What did I learn from practicing TRE?
Secrets du Jeûne au Quotidien
Principes, Bienfaits et Programmes Personnalisés
Cet ouvrage est un « guide pratique » sur le jeûne au quotidien, associé à un mode de vie actif et une alimentation végétale, avec des objectifs précis et faciles à atteindre.
• Arrêter les régimes amaigrissants
• Trouver et stabiliser son poids de santé
• Profiter pleinement d’une vie active
• Mieux récupérer après l’effort
• Être au meilleur de sa forme
• Prendre son bien-être en main
Une approche simple, sans risque et durable, avec 10 programmes de jeûne sur 7 jours et un plan sur 4 semaines, accompagnés d’une semaine de menus 100 % vegan.
Auteur : Christophe Berg. Éditeur: les éditions La Plage. Voir l'album photos ou des extraits sur le site des éditions La Plage.
Listen to the Blue Lotus Café Podcast
Plant-Based Learning Center. Educational Content in 20 minutes lectures. 80 episodes.
The Blue Lotus Café
A podcast co-hosted by Christophe Berg & Ivor Madžar
We started this podcast as I was the director of education and founder of Blue Lotus Hua Hin. Ivor was instructor in plant-based cuisine, nutrition and our social media manager.
Both passionate about learning & teaching, as we were starting a Plant-Based Cooking Instructor Program, we decided to share what can be useful for our listeners and our students. We selected the topics based on what was the most meaningful, intriguing and fun for us. We kept our conversations, lectures in 20 minutes episodes.
Our idea was:
• Exploring our interests
• Sharing crazy ideas, practical things to experiment & learn
• Keeping up with the Plant-based world evolution!
• Talking about self-development & lifestyle design
Below your can see the 80 topics that we covered by categories.
Listen to Blue Lotus Café on Apple - Spotify - Google podcasts
- Anchor.fm, our recording, hosting and distribution platform. We also hosted a weekly live on the Blue Lotus IG channel.
Read about Our Podcasting Experience
Backstage Tour about our Podcasting Flow
• The Original Idea
• What is the Blue Lotus Café podcast about?
• Our Audience
• Our Manifesto
• Our Podcasting Workflow: Pre-Production, Recording, Post-Production
• What I like about Podcasting?
• What I enjoy about the Experience?
• Some of the most popular episodes of the podcast
Read the article "Our Experience of Podcasting" on MEDIUM
Plant-Based Opportunities
The Future is plant-based!
• Future of Vegan Junk Food
• Future of Dining
• Future of Catering
• Food Costing as a Chef
• Opening a Cooking Studio
• Trends 2020
• Cooking Workshop Development
• Recipe Development
• Becoming a Chef
• Evaluating Food Costs
• Vegan Gold Rush
• Opportunities beyond a plant-based café
Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.
Self Management
Project Management Tools & Methods made easy
• Self-Management
• Backlog
• Exit Rule
• Profit & Loss
• Essentialism, Explore, Execute & Eliminate
• Financial Independence
• Time Management techniques
• Attention Management
• Deal with Change
• Mind Mapping
• What is Enough?
• Bootstrapping your Project
• Resilience with John Fisher
• Positive Cash Flow Model
Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.
How-to become an Independent Knowledge Worker?
Freely inspired by "How to get Rich?" Naval Ravikant
• Find your Niche, develop a Specific Knowledge?
• Avoid renting your time. Create Wealth from Assets
• Create leverage. Make one time + Sell X times
Listen this episode on Apple, Spotify or Google podcasts.Insights for Independent Knowledge Worker
Follow-up to "How-to Become an Independent Worker?"
• Earn with your Mind, not with your Time
• You are never going to get rich by renting your time
• Get Paid for your Judgment
• Set a High personal Hourly Rate
• Business Networking is a waste of time
• Learn to MAKE, to SELL
• Play iterated long-term game
• Cooperate with honest people
Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify.
Self-Development,
Learning, Personal Branding & Lifestyle Design
• Select ideas as a multi-passionate / polymath
• Develop your Audience
• First Principles
• Fixed vs Growth Mindset
• Personal Branding
• Autodidact
• Show Your Work, the book
• Steal like An Artists, the book
• Four Agreements, the book
• Coaching, Mentoring
• Teaching, Training
• Self-Knowledge
• Cultivating Mindsets
• Set your Price as a Freelancer
• Teaching & Training
• Learning How-to Learn
• Autodidact
• Becoming a Teacher
• Storytelling
• Creating Content
• 6 Communication Tactics
• Creativity by Constraints
• Sabbatical Project
• Write Your Manifesto
• Stoicism
• IKIGAI
• Dopamine Fast
Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.
Plant-Based Cuisine
+ Active Living
• Plant-Based Speciality Cuisine
• SOUL Plant Food
• Pure & Simple WFPB lifestyle
• Time Restricted Eating
• Water Fasting
• 5-DAYTOX Challenge
• Fit after 40
• Hydration
• Blue Zones, the Book
• Zen Cuisine
• Green Thai Cuisine
• Water Fasting
• Active Resort
• Acute vs Chronic Stress
• Sleeping Habits
Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.
Circadian Rhythm
Synchronize your Lifestyle with your Internal Clocks
• What is the Circadian Rhythm?
• Look-up on the 24-hour Cycle, hour by hour
• The effects of cycle
• How to synchronize with your internal clocks
- eating habits
- physical activities
- rest and sleep
Listen this episode on the Circadian Rhythm on Apple or Spotify.
Immune System
How works the Immune System? How to Boost it?
• What is the Immune System?
• How it works?
• What strengthen the Immune System?
• Can you boost your Immune System?
• What to do / eat for a stronger Immune System?
Listen the Blue Lotus Café on Apple podcast or Spotify.Healthy Microbiome
Trust your Gut!
• What's the Microbiome?
• What can you eat for a healthier microbiome?
• What's the difference between probiotics and prebiotics?
• What can you do for a healthier gut flora?
• What can reveal a microbiome analysis?
• How the microbiome can support your Immune System?
Listen the episode on Apple podcast or Spotify.
(C) Christophe Berg • Consulting Studio | Lifestyle Business Coach | Bureau d'études • kristofberg.com • 2024