Mondays, we build your grocery list with one food, focusing on this month’s main topic.
New month, new topic! We’ll be zeroing in on all good foods to help reduce your own high personal burden of stress. Item #1 may come to some as a surprise…
FOCUS ON THE REAL FOODS.
For those who wish to know the ‘why’ behind this idea, I’ll give you three things to think about.
BECAUSE ANCESTRAL WISDOM
Real food is what nourished your ancestors, and their genetics. It is what fuelled their growth + development, fuelled how they moved through this world. It’s how our cells know to function, how our agricultural systems know to work, how Ma Nature works. With us as a part of it, a recipient of it, and a receiver of the food gifts. Until the last 100 years, it has always been about the slow food. Although then it was only called food.
So listen. I want to make it clear: I want to take labels off. I want to encourage you to eat real food. Just real food. The more you can reach for that, the better it’ll be for your digestion, for your liver health, for your metabolism, and for the world. The only people who’ll miss out are those who profit off of making the highly flavour and texture prized pre-made foods.
BECAUSE LESS PACKAGED (if none, or almost none)
When you start incorporating more real foods into your day, you stop relying on packaged foods. It is the content of those packaged foods that can be massive contributors to leakiness at the gut, to fanning the flames of inflammation. Of disrupting your microbiome. Of disrupting your inner ecosystem. Read up on more here, should you wish to dive deeper. And this work, honey pies, is the work of supporting vitality + resiliency. It is the work of reducing your own personal internal burden of stress.
BECAUSE VARIETY
One of the key components that was a feature of the Ancestral ways of eating is that they ate a diverse amount of foods, switching it up every season. Not like they consciously did this, but that that was the way to move through the world. Featuring different foods in their meals at different times of the year was just what you did, you had to base your meals on what was available locally at that time of year.
For those who need the science, the ‘science’ is now validating this fact: that bringing diversity into your diet is one of the best ways of ensuring a variety of nutrients, vitamins and essential minerals. That bringing in diversity is one of the ways to support your microbiome and encourage diversity in gut flora. So switch it up every season, buttercup.
Real food. For every meal.
Need some help getting the real food thang started?
I have a few things for you.
Check out these mini recipe cookbooks I have pulled together with original recipes. Pick an organ you want to support. If you don’t know where to start, I’ll tell you that Spring is the season of the Liver.
Check out this self-directed on demand 10-class-series I did with my kiddo. We call it the Scratch Cooking Fundamentals, and it’ll help you make the real food version of some of your favourites. LOVE this series. (I pay her every time one of these programs sells, by the by.)
I’m leading a Saturday morning class on May 15th on how to do the Ancestral prep wisdom for nuts / beans / seeds / grains + legumes. If you are a frequent consumer of these plant based morsels, consider joining us for this one! Link here for info + registration.
We are just about to wrap up the Spring season in Eating With the Seasons, but I assure you we have one more season left. Want to think of Ancestral Ways of connecting with the season, and those foods that will best support you as the heat waves come ‘round? Check this out, and get your name on the waitlist.
Aiming to Keep Well? Got a high burden of stress? Want to start taming that inflammation dragon? Need some help in feeling real good?
Get in touch by clicking here. Let’s meet up to start drawing up your road map to support you in both quantity and quality of life.
*This is not medical advice.