Meet the Team
About Nutrition Intuition
Nutrition Intuition is a full team of female, health focused personal chefs based out of Scottsdale, Arizona. Our mission is to provide busy homes with nutrient dense meals, made the with freshest and highest quality ingredients. We set ourselves apart by being at the forefront of health movements and thrive most when providing meals for varied and modified diets to all lifestyles and family sizes.
The Nutrition Intuition Team
Amber Barcellos
Nutrition Intuition was founded by Amber Barcellos, grocery store guru and whole food nutritionist.
She was born and raised in the valley of the sun and attend local college Arizona State University where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition. After college Amber wanted to combine her love for nutrition education and her passion to create in the kitchen, into something more. She began cooking professionally in 2014 and is currently putting all her ambition into the development of other health conscious chefs and the expansion of Nutrition Intuition.
Mahala Rainbow
Mahala Rainbow has been in love with cooking since she was a 2 year old little girl. Sitting on her mothers counter in Phoenix, Arizona, stirring whatever was being made that night. She knew she wanted to be a chef while watching Chopped on Food Network, her heart started to race and she got butterflies in her stomach. Thats when she knew she wanted to go to culinary school to follow her dream of one day saying she too was a chef. That dream came true when she attended and graduated culinary school in Scottsdale in 2012. She joined the Nutrition Intuition team in 2016 because she wanted to help families fulfill their health goals, and put her passion for nutrition and cooking to good use.
Aubrie Herelle
Holistic health was instilled in Aubrie from a very young age. She learned all of her kitchen skills through trial and error at home with the help of recipe blogs and cookbooks. In 2017 she opened a farm-to-table café in her hometown in New Jersey. It was there where she felt like she truly found her purpose as a chef. She is so grateful to have made her way to Arizona and become a part of a team that provides real food and quality service in people's homes. Alongside her weekly meal prep schedule with Nutrition Intuition, Aubrie also loves incorporating her passion for visual design to create custom cakes and pastries.
Elizabeth Meinz
A 35+ year veteran of the F+B, hospitality and culinary industries, chef Elizabeth Meinz, originally from the midwest, graduated from the scottsdale culinary institute le cordon bleu in 2008 in order to round out her extensive front of the house experience. Since then, Meinz has worked and excelled in the multi million dollar world of event catering with the valley’s top catering company and has opened (and, sadly, closed) several renowned valley restaurants including Digest, Petite Maison, and Binkley’s. Most notably, Meinz is the former chef owner of the locally beloved Orange Table cafe+bar+griddle where she won several awards including the New Times “best neighborhood breakfast” and “best brunch.” since OrangeTable, Meinz has stayed relevant in the valley restaurant scene filling in around town as needed at spots such as Rancho Pinot and vending at the Old Town Farmers Market. Currently, Meinz is an active flagship volunteer member of the Blue Watermelon Project and putting her efforts to the holistic private chef world with Nutrition Intuition.
“Amber is extremely talented. Her and her team are true professionals and culinary geniuses! She makes our life so much easier by coming to our home and making fresh delicious meals each week, We couldn’t have our crazy life and eat healthy too without her!”