Resources

These are business we promote and support with confidence, because they provide the highest quality products and services to support you in sustaining a healthy body and lifestyle.

Eat healthy and move you body! You’ll feel and look better!

These are services that will help you do just that.

 

Organic Foods:

Be Wise Ranch
Be Wise Ranch is a certified organic farm that has been growing organic produce since 1977 in the Santa Fe Valley, just twenty miles north of San Diego.  Be Wise Ranch organic vegetables and fruits are known nationally for their delicious flavor and fresh, sun-ripened quality.  They offer a wide selection of CCOF certified organic fruit and vegetables for wholesale distribution throughout the country, including vine-ripe heirloom tomatoes, strawberries, squash, and melons.

 

Gluten Free & Celiac Dieting Info:

2Good2B^®
2Good2B^® is your source for Gluten, Corn and Soy Free foods that help you feel and live your absolute best. Experience a renewed and improved level of energy, vitality, and happiness!

Gluten-Free.com
Since 1995, they have been offering gluten-free products to people on this diet. Their company was founded by professional chef and food writer, Beth Hillson who, along with her son, is gluten-free.  They are always on the lookout for new products and ideas to help make it easier and tastier for their customers to thrive on a gluten-free diet. Their customers appreciate their great products, informative website and reliable and friendly customer service.

Gluten Free Club
An online community packed with information and resources for people on a gluten-free diet.  On this website you’ll find recipes, articles, forums, gluten free restaurant lists, videos, audios and member stories.  Check it out today as membership in the club is limited.

Gluten Free Works
This website is a great resource for gluten-free products, information and resources.  They offer a diet guide, a health guide and a gluten-free gazette which is free to members.

Celiac Central – National Foundation for Celiac Awareness

When people with celiac disease eat foods containing gluten, their immune system responds by damaging the fingerlike villi of the small intestine. When the villi become damaged, the body is unable to absorb nutrients into the bloodstream, which can lead to malnourishment. Celiac disease is also known as celiac sprue, nontropical sprue, and gluten-sensitive enteropathy.Researchers have determined that celiac disease is a genetic condition, meaning that it is inherited.  In some cases, celiac becomes active or is triggered by events such as surgery, pregnancy, childbirth, viral infection, or severe emotional stress.

Roughly one out of every 133 Americans has celiac disease, but 97% remain undiagnosed.  This means that almost three million Americans have celiac disease and only about 100,000 know they have it.

This site has information on food and recipes, books and videos, foundations and societies, government resources, support groups and more.

Celicac Disease Foundation
Celiac Disease Foundation (CDF) is a highly-regarded national organization recognized throughout the world. CDF strives to promote awareness and build a supportive community for patients, families and health care professionals. CDF is actively involved in advocating for patient concerns and networking with other national and international organizations.

 

Recommended Products:

Bob’s Red Mill Almond Meal/Flour

Educate your mind to feed it information that stimulates it. An active mind is a healthy, happy mind. Just like your body needs healthy nutrition and exercise to be healthy and fit, so too does your mind need to be fed and exercised by learning something new on a daily basis. Here are several books Donna recommends to keep both your body and mind healthy and happy for many more years to come.

Ingest and digest reliable information about health, nutrition and exercise to keep your motivation and commitment strong. Give yourself the gift of health. It is the best wealth you will ever invest in. Be healthy, wealthy and wise. Read a book on health each and every month. Your body and mind will love you for it.

For starters try this:

Amazon.com – Read eBooks using the FREE Kindle Reading App on Most Devices

Here’s one of Donna’s favorites:

“Perfection Salad: Women & Cooking at the Turn of the Century” by Laura Shapiro.

In the introduction, Ruth Reichl says, “What makes Perfection Salad so valuable is that it is history told as ordinary people tried to live it, meal by meal. The book is based on a belief that food is culture.” It’s largely about the Boston Cooking School, Fanny Farmer and so-called “scientific cooking.

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Read them and eat, drink and be healthy!

1. The Kitchen Shrink by Natalie Savona
2. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
3. “The United States of Arugula” by David Kamp is a really fun read, for foodies
4. What To Eat by Marion Nestle is a huge tome, but it covers all the
consumer-y issues people want to know about or any of her other books
5. Why French Women Don’t Get Fat series.
6. Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler is
wonderful. It’s short stories by famous foodies about cooking for
one and dining alone…
7. Four Seasons in Five Senses by David Mas Masumoto
8. Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan
Books 7 and 8 – Coming Home and Four Seasons, offer a story, a journey, and an
opportunity for reflection and some beautiful reading.
9. Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by
Alisa Smith and JB Mackinnon
10. Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
and Anna Lappe.
11. Anything by MFK Fisher
12. Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen
13. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
14. Ruth Reichl books: Tender to the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples and
Garlic and Sapphires. They are a trilogy of her journey from being a hippie cook
in a commune in Berkeley, to becoming a respected editor of Gourmet.
15. Anatomy of a Dish by Diane Forley
16. A Thousand Years Over A Hot Stove by Laura Schenone. This book reviews the history
of American women told through food and recipes. It argues that settlement of the new world could not have happened without the women who fed us from prehistory to current day.
17. From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks
and Meals by Barbara Haber was fascinating.
18. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. This is a fun
read, but not necessarily intellectually stimulating.
19. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
20. French Lessons by Peter Mayle
21. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
22. We Are What We Ate 24 Memories of Food
Some of America’s best writers recall how food defined their families,
changed their lives and made them who they are today
23. Grateful Heart Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the
Beatles
24. Backstage with Julia My Years with Julia Child by Nancy Verde Barr.
25. The Unprejudiced Palate by Angelo Pellegrini
26. The Food Lover’s Garden by Angelo Pellegrini’s (both classics)
27. Fran Gage’s memoir/cookbook/love letter to San Francisco: Bread and
Chocolate
28. Diane Mott Davidson culinary mysteries. Her 14th just came out this
week Sweet Revenge.
29. A Gracious Plenty by John T. Edge and other books by this author.
30. The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong by Barry Glassner
31. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flynn
32. My Year of Meats and All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
33. 10th Muse by Judith Jones
34. The Book Club Cook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp
35. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia(Paperback) by Elizabeth Gilbert
36. Why Some Like it Hot on Food ,Genes and Cultural Diversity by Gary Paul Nabhan and other books by this author.
37. Out of the Frying Pan: A Chef’s memoir of Hot Kitchens, Single Motherhood and the Family Meal by Gillian Clark
38. Will Write for Food by Dianne Jacobs – For anyone who ever considered a career in food writing, this book explains all the in’s and out’s of all types of food writing.
39. The Tummy Triology by Calvin Trillin

40.  Simply Vegan – Holiday Gifts

In the fifth edition of Simply Vegan,VRG’s nutrition advisor Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, updated the nutrition section, with information about Protein, Fat, Calcium, Iron, Vitamin B-12, Sources of Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Pregnancy and the Vegan Diet, and more. Plus they’ve added the new four color My Vegan Plate (VRG’s vegan version of the U.S.D.A. My Plate) to the center of the book. [ http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/MyVeganPlate.pdf ]

Simply Vegan also features 160 vegan recipes that can be prepared quickly, sample menus, and an updated cruelty-free shopping list. With 100,000 copies in print, the pioneering Simply Vegan was one of the first popular vegan cookbooks. It’s so gratifying to us the number of vegan business owners in their 20’s and 30’s who tell us how much Simply Vegan helped them when they first became vegan. This updated edition should continue to be of assistance to thousands of people who are interested in becoming vegan, but need simple recipes and easy to understand nutrition information.

41.  A Bone to Pick: The Good and Bad News About Food by Mark Bittman

42. How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food by Mark Bittman

43.  The VB6 Cookbook: 350 All-New Vegan and Flexitarian Recipes by Mark Bittman

44.  How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman

45.  How to Cook Everything (10th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bittman

46.  VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health for Good by Mark Bittman

47.  Nutrition CHAMPS by Jill Nussinow    

Registered dietitian, Jill Nussinow, says her cookbook “Nutrition CHAMPS is about the “superfoods of plant foods,” including cruciferous vegetables, herbs and spices, alliums, mushrooms, legumes, seeds and nuts. These foods have anti-cancer properties and antioxidants, can help control cholesterol and blood sugar, or are good sources health omega-3 fatty acid.”

Happy reading to your health!

Download these healthy recipes for Free. They are yummy! Eat Well to Live Well!

Greens Super Smoothie

Gluten Free HD Artichoke & White Bean Dip

Kid Friendly Healthy Snack Recipes

Healthy Snacks for All Ages

Salmon Steak with Orange Balsamic Glaze

Recipes for Halloween Treats

Chicken Pesto Stir-fry

Cinnamon Baked Apples with Currants and Almonds

Gluten Free Pizza Crust and Foccacia Bread

Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread

Pork Loin with Peppers and Pineapple

Sauces and Dressings

Sauces – Ingredients

If you aren’t much of a cook and would like Donna to show you how, call 858-335-2140 or email her donna@healthydirectionsforyou.com to schedule your own private cooking class. She will show you how planning and preparing your meals can be fun and creative.