The recipes I share on my website contain whole food ingredients but occasionally there is an ingredient that is not a whole food. I have discovered there is always a way to substitute in a whole food. You can also substitute ingredients that you do not eat in these recipes. If you need help figuring out a substitute feel free to reach out. There is not a one size fits all nutrition lifestyle. Some of these recipes also fit the Whole 30, Autoimmune Protocol, Low Histamine, Keto, and FODMAP diets. For some additional information on these diets, go to DIETS. I use the word diet because it is short and fits on my website menu list better than nutrition lifestyle. For me discovering a lifestyle of what foods to eat has been the key to my wellbeing. It is always good to do your own research and read more information to become the expert of you to discover what will be best for your nutrition needs.
I love delicious and nutritious recipes that are easy! It took me some time to find nutritious recipes that I really liked. I found many recipes online and some in cookbooks. It also took some time to increase the number of ingredients in a recipe I was comfortable with. I started with five ingredients and slowly increased over time as my confidence grew. These tasty recipes now make shopping for food, preparing the food, and cooking enjoyable because the dish turns out so delicious, others like them, and they are nutritious!
Something that helped me build cooking skills was to make a little time each day for either picking out what recipe or recipes I wanted to cook for the week, food shopping, food preparation, or cooking. I started by setting aside an hour a day. Some days when I have more time available I will cook several recipes or brave a new longer recipe. For some weeks I do all the shopping and food preparations on Saturday and then cook enough meals on Sunday for one week, sometimes two.. Having storage containers and space in the freezer to store one or two weeks of meals helps have healthy food available when I don't have time to cook. Other weeks I cook every day or every other day depending if I have leftovers to eat. In addition, I have found healthy prepared foods when wanting a meal that is quick.
To present the feeling of being overwhelmed when cooking, I learned to take the cooking process slow,, be patient with myself, watch You Tube cooking videos for tips and information, ask others cooking questions, have friends come over to help cook with me, continue to try new things, and celebrate the little steps.