What Are Traditional Foods Diets and How to Get Started

So what exactly do we mean when we use the term Traditional Diets or Traditional Foods Diets? Well, the truth is that the term means different things to different people. A lot has to do with where people live and what is available to them locally.

But the bottom line is that all traditional foods diets have certain principles in common that we can apply to our own home cooking as we make the journey from a processed foods kitchen to a traditional foods kitchen.

These conversational vodcasts are available to the Kitchen Pioneers who have joined my YouTube membership community—The Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy.

Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy

My detailed vodcasts are exclusively available to members of the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy, who we call Kitchen Pioneers. You can learn more about my optional YouTube membership community, including members-only videos and exclusive perks.

This membership community is optional. I’m still publishing my weekly detailed instructional cooking videos on my public YouTube channel that you can watch for free. (Thanks so much for being a Sweet Friend and subscriber!)

In addition to links to the latest Kitchen Academy vodcasts, this blog post lists some of the public videos that I talk about in my vodcast.

Making Ultra-Pasteurized Milk Better

I’m not a fan of ultra-pasteurized milk, but you only have access to this type of milk, you can culture it to make it more nutritious for your traditional foods diet. In the following videos, I show you how to make yogurt from milk and sour cream and butter from cream. And you can use ultra-pasteurized milk and cream to start these recipes.

Recipes to Start Your Traditional Foods Diet

If you’re just beginning on your traditional foods journey, start out with the following three recipes:

• Roast Chicken
• Roast Chicken Bone Broth
• Sauerkraut

The first two chicken recipes go well together. After you roast your chicken, save the bones to make chicken bone broth.

For the third recipe, sauerkraut is the easiest way to get started making probiotic-rich foods. Once you master the sauerkraut recipe, you’ll have the confidence to take on other fermentation recipes.

More About Nourishing Traditions and Foods

Watch the following videos to learn more about the Nourishing Traditions book and philosophy and discover more about traditional foods.

• What is Nourishing Traditions?
• What Are Traditional Foods?
• Traditional Foods – Your Top Questions Answered
• 10 Essential Foods for the Traditional Foods Kitchen

More Kitchen Pioneer Videos

Catch up on some of the recent videos in our membership community:

• Watch the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy playlist

Stay in Touch with Mary’s Nest

1. Subscribe to My YouTube Channel for Traditional Foods Videos (Free) - When you subscribe, be sure to click on the notification bell that will let you know each time I upload a new video.
2. Subscribe to Mary’s Traditional Foods Newsletter (Free) - Get a free 36-page eBook for signing up: How to Stock Your Essential Traditional Foods Four-Corners Pantry.
3. Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy - For more detailed videos and exclusive members-only perks, join my YouTube membership community.
4. Order The Modern Pioneer Cookbook - Get a hardcover book of Mary's nourishing recipes from a Traditional Foods Kitchen. This bestselling cookbook is published by Penguin Random House with their DK imprint.
5. Preorder The Modern Pioneer Pantry - Be one of the first to get Mary's hardcover book about preserving food and making delicious meals from your Four Corners Pantry. Mary's second cookbook is also published by Penguin Random House.

I look forward to having you join me in my Texas Hill Country Kitchen!

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Favorite Roast Chicken Supplies

• Chef’s Knife
• Paring Knife
• Kitchen Shears
• Bamboo Cutting Board
• Lodge Cast Iron Frying Pan

Favorite Chicken Bone Broth Supplies

• Large Stock Pot
• Stainless Steel Strainer
• Flour Sack Towels
• Fat Separator

Favorite Sauerkraut Supplies

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Recommended Reading

• The Modern Pioneer Cookbook
• Nourishing Traditions
• Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate
• The 3-Season Diet: Eat the Way Nature Intended: Lose Weight, Beat Food Cravings, and Get Fit
• Eat Wheat: A Scientific and Clinically-Proven Approach to Safely Bringing Wheat and Dairy Back Into Your Diet
• Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World
• Nourishing Fats: Why We Need Animal Fats for Health and Happiness