It is interesting to hear what kind of food and/or diet people consider to be healthy. I have seen and heard many different view points on this very hot topic in the western world. Personally, I am very much so a health freak. My personal preference on health in food and eating is quite simple. I feel that eating according to cuisine is the most common sense and healthy kind of diet. What I mean by this is very basic, although it might seem confusing to some. Whenever I cook, serve, and/or eat a meal, I am sure that it is balanced in cuisine. For example, if I decided to make souvlakia as the main dish, then I would make certain kinds of side dishes/appitizers/dessert/ect. to properly accompany it such as pita bread, greens, tomatoes, onions, and tzatziki as the side dish, maybe a some Greek olives as an appitizer, and baklava for dessert - all of which are fairly healthy on there own but more so when put together. If I were to pare the souvlakia with whole wheat bread, cucumber sunomono salad, and fruit with yogurt, the meal would simply not work. It wouldn't taste good, it wouldn't sit well in the stomach, and it would't be healthy (even though all of those non-working accompaniments were fairly healthy) all because the food didn't work together - it didn't follow cuisine. If I were to properly pare the souvlakia with the dishes mentioned before, then I would have a complete, delicious, and healthy Greek meal. In my view, healthy eating is all about cuisine. Even if a dish in the meal isn't necessarily so healthy on its own, the meal can be considered healthy because the dish is properly balanced with something else that completes it. To much salt is bad for the heart, which is why we don't consume it alone. We enjoy a little bit of it with our healthy fish - which we also don't eat alone. It really is like common sense. I personally don't believe in all of the nutrition science. Food is food. Nothing more nothing less. What do you think? What is healthy food to you?

Healthy Diet is a difficult topic to say the least. There are so many different opinions about what is healthy out there. What works about rouxbe is that rouxbe is more about improving cooking techniques and skills which can be applied to whatever style of cooking a person considers healthy. What I don't necessary like is references in rouxbe lessons about what is or is not healthy. I don't think it is within the scope of a cooking school to get into nutritional issues as a matter of curriculum - although I do think it's appropriate in a forum situation to discuss the issue.

For our family, we try to follow the nutritional guidelines of the Weston A Price Foundation. We try to eat whole, unprocessed foods, make copious amounts of bone broths and stocks which we try to incorporate into as much of our cooking as possible, drink whole raw milk from a local farm, cook with lots of cream, butter, olive oil and animal fats from healthy pastured animals, eat grass fed local beef and fresh vegetables and home fermented foods, prepare any grains or dried legumes with a preliminary soaking or sprouting, avoid sugar and vegetable oils like grapeseed, soy, canola, corn, and such as well as man made fats like margarine and vegetable shortening. We know we are supposed to be eating organ meats like liver too, but I don't know how to prepare them yet. I'm thinking maybe homemade sausage?

Since our diet is centered on unprocessed whole foods, local foods, and of the best quality we can find or afford, it's really important to us to know how to prepare these foods with respect and deliciousness. I think most people want food that is delicious and healthy, but not everyone is going to agree specifically on what healthy is, and that's OK.

When I say that I know people disagree about what healthy is and that that is ok with me, I don't mean that good nutrition is subjective or relative. I mean that I value the freedom of each individual, myself included, to do his or her own research, to make his or her own decisions, and especially, to have the freedom to choose what to eat and what not to eat.

Weston price is my way to eat too but I avoid grains anyway (even soaked and sprouted) and I use quite less natural swetener but I use stevia ...