A Few Good Food Websites For Real Food Cooking
Tasty Tips from Favorite Foodie Sites Across the WebWe're serving up our chosen recipe and food websites that celebrate real cooking with real food that's healthy and delicious too.
The What, Why, How & Wow of Healthy Cooking Recipe and Food Websites
Go Local! Go Organic! Go Seasonal! And try out Mavenjoy's very own recipes too!
We've included a real tour de force for healthy cooking that walks us through planning, menus, shopping and recipes that are frugal, eco-friendly and delicious. Plus there's our tried and true staples from the print world that never disappoint for an endless supply of healthy cooking recipes and ideas. And of course there are always a few tips and extras thrown in for good measure.
Favorite Food Websites
Mavenjoy Extra: Don't miss our Featured Pick for the Mother of all recipe blogs and food websites...
- **New Listing** NYT Cooking
We're finding our new all-time favorite recipes and cooking techniques from this New York Time's Cooking site and app. Love its collections, its super simple and convenient recipe box for organization and potent search functionality for specific preferences. Two of our recipe favorites are Feta-Brined Roast Chicken and Shakshuka (check our tweaked version.)
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Culinate
Culinate brings together taste, health and environment with simple recipes focused squarely on fresh ingredients, relevant articles and an "ongoing conversation about eating well" for a "community of eaters".
Discover some of our very favorite natural and organic food finds from sustainable seafood and artisan cheeses to falafel chips and truffled popcorn!
- Good Food on a Tight Budget
Another exceptional resource from the Environmental Working Group that is organized by which foods pack the most nutrition at a good price. Highlighting best buys in all foods categories plus extremely helpful tips, cautions and nutritional facts. Recipes are conveniently organized with a mix and match method for picking and choosing your favorite combinations. Well done!
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food52
Food52 is home to the best in home cooking from honest to goodness home cooks! Especially love the "Most Buzz Overall" to zero in on recipes most raved about and "FoodPickle" where you can get solutions for your food challenges practically in real-time + contests, conversations and more!
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Cook for Good
Linda Watson is a home cook with a gift for organization who has undertaken the worthy mission to share how to save money, eat well, and make a difference. And she does so with really helpful detail and dedication providing seasonal menu plans with associated costs plus shopping lists, including green, thrifty and seasonal versions. And yes, indeedy there are RECIPES! Job well done, Linda! Thanks for proving that we absolutely can afford to eat well with foods that are good for us, the planet and for so thoroughly and thoughtfully showing us how to do it -- step by step, menu by menu, and list by list with videos and recipes to boot!
Coupons? Coupons? Who wants coupons? Get your natural and organic food coupons!
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EatingWell Recipes
EatingWell magazine in print is a favorite, so being able to access its recipes with a few keystrokes is very handy indeed. You can browse recipe collections like Quick & Easy, Gluten Free and Healthy Kids. EatingWell does a really good job at simplifying healthy food by delivering recipes that are long on whole, healthy foods and taste and short on ingredients and steps.
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MyRecipes.com
MyRecipes.com is a one-stop for recipes straight from the pages of magazines and cookbooks that we've come to know and trust for tasty food including Southern Living, Food & Wine, Real Simple and Cooking Light. To hone in on the really healthy cooking recipes, use the Enhanced Search where you can choose dietary considerations, cooking methods, specific publications or simply by ingredient(s). Try typing in a main ingredient or two in the Find box, then choose form the Course and Cuisine options to quickly match up what you have to cook with what you want to eat. Recipes from Cooking Light remain tried and true favorites, in print and on MyRecipes.com. It paved the way for making healthy cooking recipes doable, affordable and delicious so when in doubt, use the Enhanced Search and click Cooking Light under the publication option for good ol', failsafe healthy recipes!
Healthy Eating Tips and Tools...
An online database of foods and their healing potential. You can search by health condition or food. Each food is provided with a list of specific health conditions they may help address, which body organs and systems they help support, and the nutrients they deliver. Who knew one avocado has 3x the potassium of a banana? Speaking of avocados. try out this decadent dessert recipe made with avocados, yes avocados!
Presented by the University of Michigan Health System of Integrative Medicine, 7+ servings of fruits and vegetables and 1-3 servings of beans, peas and lentils are recommended daily.
Carmen Yuen's "The Eightfold Path to Mindful Eating" provides wonderful words of wisdom to eat by in eight practical steps that help remind us what a joy and a blessing eating is. Try reading one before each meal...like a mini meal meditation.
Healthy Eating Tips and Tools...
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An online database of foods and their healing potential. You can search by health condition or food. Each food is provided with a list of specific health conditions they may help address, which body organs and systems they help support, and the nutrients they deliver. Who knew one avocado has 3x the potassium of a banana? Speaking of avocados. try out this decadent dessert recipe made with avocados, yes avocados! |
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Presented by the University of Michigan Health System of Integrative Medicine, 7+ servings of fruits and vegetables and 1-3 servings of beans, peas and lentils are recommended daily. |
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Carmen Yuen's "The Eightfold Path to Mindful Eating" provides wonderful words of wisdom to eat by in eight practical steps that help remind us what a joy and a blessing eating is. Try reading one before each meal...like a mini meal meditation. |
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