Natural Food Recipes

By Lynn, webmaster of A Natural Food Diet | Natural Food Recipes

Below are some of my recipes for cooking and serving natural, real foods.

The recipes below are my recipes, adapted by me for my all-natural, whole foods diet. Since they represent my own home-cooking, and I'm not a chef, I can't guarantee you'll love them all. However, I will say you should give them a try. I love each and every one of them, and they all fit my new natural food diet lifestyle.

Many of the recipes you already love can easily be adapted to a natural food lifestyle, simply by making a few judicious substitutions, and if you're new to cooking because you've spent most of your life relying on processed foods and convenience foods, don't be afraid to try anything. I've occasionally made some stuff I won't ever revisit. That's a hazard of experimentation. On the flip side, that experimentation led me to my Chili Salad, and that's become one of my favorite dishes.

Healthly Urban Kitchen Cookbook

I don't agree with everything in this book (for example, I think dairy products are fine if they're certified organic), but it's a great place to start if you need help designing your own natural food diet.

Menu Highlights

Ingredients Used

Check out the Healthly Urban Kitchen Cookbook

Section : Natural Food Recipes

Real Food Is...: Guide to choosing and eating real food
Natural Food Diet: Why your diet should contain natural foods
Convenient Natural Food: Natural convenience foods—not an oxymoron

Resources

Organic Gardening Magic

Growing your own organic garden is one way to insure you have the safest, freshest fruit and vegetable produce around. This book can help you start your own organic garden so you can harvest your own natural food.

Book Highlights

What Organic Gardening is and how to get started!
The Do's (and Don'ts!) of Making your Own Compost!
What you should never add to your compost or risk poisoning yourself and your family!
The Secrets of Crop Rotation and Companion Planting!
A Simple Yet Hardly Used Trick to Bring Your Fall Tomato Plants Indoors!
Why You Should Consider Raising Your Own Transplants
How To Build Healthy Soil (Even If You Are Working With Very Unhealthy Soil To Begin With)
Why soil pH is important, and how to correct it!
How to Recognize Your Friends and Your Enemies When It Comes To Insects!
Grow More Vegetables in Less Space Than You Thought Possible
Why Pesticide Use Became Prevalent In The First Place!
Simple Steps to Grow Your Own Organic Lettuce for mouthwatering healthy salads!
What is Green Manure and Should You Use It?
Are There Any Benefits Of Using Pesticides At All?
The Magic Mulch That Kills Diseases and Stops Weeds!
The Four Important Aspects Of Organic Gardening According to the USDA
Grow Organically Indoors!

Check out Organic Gardening Magic

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan is only one of the many books I've read or listened to about eating natural food. The book discuss most of the principles I've incorporated into my lifestyle and of which I talk about on A Natural Food Diet. This book is a must read for anyone who worries about what the culture of nutritionism and the food industry's special interest groups are doing to our food supply.

Buy : audio book | paperback | ebook

About A Natural Food Diet

I'm Lynn, the webmaster of A Natural Food Diet. I had the idea for this site when I realized how few people understood how dangerous our typical American diet is. For years, I have struggled to lose weight. After having children and making changes to my diet that seemed "healthy" at the time, I had gained over 50 pounds. I could never understand why I was gaining so much weight and why I was having such a hard time losing it, because until then, when I was about 25, I had never been overweight.

Slowly, as I researched different issues I was having with diet and health, I discovered the dangers of sugar. I had an allergic reaction to Sucralose. I began to associate a headache with hunger instead of an empty stomach. And after a "good" meal, I often felt light-headed. I worried that I was on the path to diabetes. Then, one day, I came across a book that changed my perspective forever.

Two months into the new natural food diet I had begun, I realized I had to share this information with other people. We have a right to live a truly healthy and natural life, and the profit potential of food products should never be allowed to come between us and our good health... Learn more...