What are Traditional Foods?
Traditional foods are foods that have nourished people for thousands or millions of years. Industrial foods are foods that have been created in the past 100 years. If you could eat the food 100 years ago, it is probably a traditional food.
Traditional foods are also foods that have been properly prepared so that maximum nutrition can be obtained from the food.
Here are the top 10 traditional foods:
1. Meat from grass-fed, free roaming animals
2. Bone broths (fish, chicken, and beef)
3. Lacto-fermented vegetables (think saurkraut or kim-chi)
4. Milk, cheese, butter, and other dairy products – preferably raw from grass- fed, free range animals
5. Sourdough bread
6. Eggs from free-roaming chickens outside getting plenty of sunshine and insects
7. Vegetables from organic, bio-diverse local sources
8. Lacto-fermented beverages such as kombucha, kefir, beet kvass
9. Properly prepared nuts, seeds, and grains
10. Cod liver oil and other nutrient-dense seafood
Don’t worry if you are not currently eating any of the foods on this list. You start exactly where you are. My intention for introducing you to new foods (well, technically old foods) is to make the experience delicious and nourishing. I would never recommend you eat something unless you are going to enjoy it.