Seasonal Food 

Eating seasonal food requires creativity, the ability to cook, and an adventuresome spirit! The seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, form the never ending circle of life. Although the seasons change every three months, some things stay the same.

We must meal plan, buy, and cook each day for nourishment. We must deal with various holidays, and continue on our quest for great weight control, and healthy eating. Eating seasonally provides the best way to enjoy great food.

Our meals and healthy cooking habits are cyclical, just like the trees changing their colors. Soups and stews sound heavenly in the colder months, but heavy and unappetizing in the warmer months. Salads just don’t cut it when it’s cold and we’re looking for comfort food, but hit the spot in summer! 

Winter foods tend to be heavy to keep us warm, and summer foods tend to be light to keep us cool. The barbecue is rarely used in winter and the crock pot is rarely used in the summer! The seasons definitely affect our cooking methods and food choices!

Eating seasonal food is a healthy diet habit that most of us don’t practice though. Back in the day, foods and meals were much more seasonal. Certain foods were only available at certain times of the year. Each food had its season, and that season was known by home chefs. Families knew and understood the importance of canning and properly storing foods.

Today, most of us don’t know when certain produce is even in season. We go to the grocery store and foods are trucked in from all over the globe. If we want cauliflower, we can eat it all year long. We have no clue as to when, where, or how our produce arrived at our local grocers. Most of us simply fill our carts with what looks good, cook our meals, and call it a day. Yet seasonal food, raised locally, far surpasses the taste of that which comes from afar. Few of us know this.

My hope is that in the coming year, we will all learn to incorporate the seasonal approach to healthy eating into the way we do life. Simple fresh foods, that are picked and eaten in season, are a delight to the taste buds. Let’s get back to eating simple seasonal food prepared at home. Let’s eliminate packaged foods, full of junk; food products and not real food at all.

Since our kitchen food choices and cooking methods tend to vary with the seasons; I have created four new sections that are specific to Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter!

Each section will focus on seasonal weight loss tips, specific holidays, seasonal produce, healthy recipes, healthy cooking, and anything else food related that I can possibly think of for each season.

Join Us In Eating Seasonal Food

Spring

Spring Season

March 20, 2025 - June 19, 2025

Spring Weight Loss Tips

Summer

Summer Cooking

Summer Weight Loss Tips

Fall

Fall Season

Sept 22 - Dec 20, 2025

Fall Cooking

Fall Foods

Fall Snacks

Fall Weight Loss Tips

Winter

Winter Season

December 21, 2025 - March 19, 2026

Winter Foods

Winter Weight Gain

Winter Weight Loss Tips