Our 5 Favourite Organic Food Blogs You Should Follow
September 8, 2021
By Mia Krejci
Before we take a look at our favourite organic food blogs, let’s first understand what “organic” actually means. While regulations may vary from country to country, organic products are generally grown without the use of synthetic herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the case of organic meat, dairy products and eggs, animals are usually fed only organic and GMO-free feed without antibiotics or hormones, and must be kept in appropriate living conditions, such as access to the outdoors.
What are the health benefits of organic food?
Eating organic food can have a positive impact on your mental and emotional health. Because organic foods have undergone minimal processing, they are usually fresher and therefore contain more nutritions and antioxidants. Organic food also contains fewer pesticides, preservatives and chemicals that can be harmful to your health.
In recent years, documentaries and stories of people who have improved their health through organic eating have inspired generations. Still, it’s often not easy to know where to start. Whether you want to learn how to cook healthy food at home quickly and/or on a budget, or you’re just curious about new recipes, we’ve rounded up our 5 favourite organic blogs for organic cooking at home.
1. The Minimalist Baker
Fancy quick, simple and healthy dishes that don’t require special ingredients or expensive equipment? Then this food blog is just right for you. All recipes at Minimalist Baker require 10 ingredients or less, 1 bowl, and 30 minutes max to prepare. Many of the recipes are plant-based, but the blog is not exclusively vegan, so all eaters are welcome to expect various sweet and savory dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We especially love the filter tool which makes it super easy to search for recipes by diet (e.g. vegan, gluten-free), cuisine (Italian inspired, Thai inspired), ingredients, and more. And once you’ve selected a recipe, you can also adjust the portion size, and the recipe’s measurements will automatically be adjusted as well. Amazing!
2. Deliciously Ella
If you live in the UK, you’ve probably heard of deliciously ella, a plant-based food and wellness platform sharing yummy feel-good recipes. It all started with Ella’s blog full of plant-based wholefood breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes for anyone who wanted to improve their health through their diet. Since then, she has published 6 best-selling cookbooks and has grown her blog into a plant-based nutrition and wellness app, a podcast, a store with a range of plant-based foods, 7 food lines in 7,000 stores across the UK, a restaurant in London, and a social media community. Wow!
3. Sprouted Kitchen
Sara Forte creates the recipes for this whole foods-focused blog, while her husband Hugh captures all the delicious moments in beautiful photos. Rather than following a particular diet or labelling foods as “good” or “bad,” Sara wishes to inspire families to incorporate healthy eating into their everyday lives with her Mediterranean cooking style and seasonal ingredients. To encourage people to eat “real food,” the couple has also published two cookbooks and runs the weekly meal planning programme Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club @sk_cookingclub.
4. 100 Days of Real Food
In this blog, a family chronicles their 100-day journey to eat with completely unprocessed/unrefined ingredients in this world of processed foods. You can follow the “10 Days of Real Food” pledge from Day 1. Lisa Leake, author of a New York Times best-selling cookbook and founder and blogger of the site, also provides her readers with educational content on the importance to avoid processed foods, as well as free meal ideas, weekly updates, a “100 Days of Real Food on a Budget” ($125/week) section, kid-friendly lunches, numerous recipes and a list of cookbooks.
5. Green Kitchen Stories
Here you’ll find many healthy and simple vegetarian recipes with natural and organic ingredients that contain lots of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, and good fats. All dishes are curated and cooked by partners and parents Luise and David, who cook for their family of three children. Explore a variety of dishes, from raw to cooked, from buckwheat to oats. Because food is about feeling good, not following rules. We think this blog is perfect for the whole family and everyone who wants to convince their kids that vegetables are actually pretty tasty.
