Meet the Team

About Nutrition Intuition

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.

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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.

Carey Shindler

Ever since childhood, Carey has had a fondness for food, in general, and cooking, specifically. Raised on the original chefs of the Food Network and PBS, she would often recreate dishes she saw prepared on some of her favorite shows - The Frugal Gourmet, Yen Can Cook, Essence of Emeril, Two Hot Tamales and Ready, Set, Cook! to name a few. Cooking has always been a passion of Carey’s as it’s provided an opportunity to be creative and nurturing, while hosting and entertaining her friends and family. She refers to the kitchen as her “zen space” and honed her craft with lots of practice, over the last 3 decades. When not in the kitchen, you can find Carey enjoying a bite around town with her husband, Matt, chasing their two busy boys, Emmett and Grover, or hitting a hot yoga class. Carey is thrilled to bring her love of good food to the Nutrition Intuition Team!

A 35+ year veteran of the food and beverage, 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,barand 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.

Matt Dewey