Cooking for yourself is the foundation of vibrant health. Learn to create beautiful meals that nourish your body and soul. Rediscover the joy of cooking and be inspired to cook healthful meals more often at home!
Chef Rachel changed my life. I used to rarely cook for myself, because it was too much hassle to find recipes and get the ingredients. Now I can just open my refrigerator and make something delicious with whatever is there, and I know that it will be healthy. I'm so grateful!
You know cooking for yourself is better for your health, but you never seem to find the time. It always seems easier to just go out to eat or get prepared food from the store because there is too much going on in your life.
You’ve tried all kinds of diets but have a hard time sticking to them. Whenever you try a new diet it makes you feel good for a while, but eventually you can’t keep up with it and it makes you feel bad about yourself.
Every time you think you’ve figured out how to eat, you read something new saying that everything has changed. You tried gluten-free, and then maybe raw, vegetarian, paleo, or keto. You’re getting tired of trying to figure out what’s best to eat.
Sometimes you don’t cook because it’s just too hard to think of what to make. You look into the refrigerator and nothing looks good. You have a bookshelf of cookbooks but you don’t open them often, because you’d have to make a special trip to the store for some ingredient that you don’t have.
I struggled with these all of these issues for years, and I used to beat myself up about them until I learned how to cook for myself, naturally and easily.
When I was young I suffered from an eating disorder and took a lot of antibiotics. As a young adult, I found myself saddled with leaky gut syndrome and a whole host of associated ailments. I spent so many years trying all the things everyone said would make me healthy. I exercised every day and tried different health food diets, but I kept getting worse.
Eventually I got off the exercise and diet hamster wheel and took an introductory course to macrobiotic cooking. I learned how food could be medicine, how to take responsibility for my own health, and how good health equals freedom. Most importantly, I learned about how to create balance in my life. I had studied biology in both college and graduate school, but this was a different type of learning. I learned the practical things I could do in my every day life to create better health.
I learned first hand that we are literally what we eat – and our health is also directly tied to how we eat and how we treat ourselves. But to really benefit from this knowledge, we have to learn how to cook for and nourish ourselves.
At this point, I wasted no time to enroll in a macrobiotic and natural foods culinary school and learned everything I could. After a few years of learning, cooking, and healing myself I became an instructor at the school and eventually revamped their curriculum. Now I’ve spent the last fifteen years teaching people from around the world, and I’ve learned even more from helping students who have come to me with all kinds of backgrounds and challenges.
I’ve put together this short course to get you started on this same journey to better health through cooking for yourself.
Cooking naturally is a long-term, balanced approach to creating your best health. Dieting may work for a little while, but it is someone else’s solution not yours. When you cook for yourself, you can find what works best for you.
BREAK YOURSELF FROM THE DIET HABIT • Diets are big business, because we live in a society that sells us processed foods but glamorizes skinny models. A diet may help you in the short run, but they aren’t a good long-term solution. Very few diets are balanced and most of them are too difficult to stick to for long periods of time. More importantly, there is more to good health than just your weight!
The reality is that everyone’s needs are different. The best thing you can do for yourself is to learn how to cook using quality ingredients, and pay attention to how different foods make your feel. When you cook for yourself you can adjust as you go, always moving in the direction of good health and always making your food more and more delicious!
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Chef Rachel Zierzow helps people create healthy lives through her down to earth approach to cooking, eating, and enjoying life. Check out her delicious recipes and useful healthy living tips at cookloveheal.com.
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Now that we are all stuck at home I am creating more ways to help you connect to the community through healthy and delicious food. Every Wednesday at noon I am doing a Facebook Live show featuring cooking demos, tips and guest chefs from around the country. You can find that on my personal facebook page facebook.com/rachel.zierzow
I also just started a low-cost subscription called Cooking Together to help people stay healthy while we all work to get through these challenging times. One of the most important things to me is community, so more than ever I want to focus on the community side of Cook Love Heal. Find out more about it here.
Just like before this started, when you join the Cook Love Heal Community I’ll send you my Natural Health Starter Kit for free, along with regular recipes & tips every week.
We’re all in this together. Let’s help each other build a better future
