100 Best Blogs for Healthy, Home-Cooked Meals
If you are looking for ways to make healthy meals from your home but don’t have time to read a cookbook or watch a show, then visit these 100 blogs by amateurs, chefs, and world renowned professionals.
General Blogs
These blogs discuss healthy eating from home from shopping for food, to preparing, to storing it properly.
1. Meals Matter: Registered dietitians write the nutrition articles and online tools on Meals Matter. This blog shows you the importance of healthy meal planning, as well as a variety of tools and recipes. Learn how to shop for food, and prepare it quickly and simply.
2. Whole Gourmet: Alison is a Certified Nutritional Chef, food writer, and culinary instructor. Her blog is full of tips for healthy living, food selection, and recipes.
3. Nutrition and Health Eating: Jennifer and Katherine are nutritionists with the Mayo Clinic. Get a ton of expert advice from them on how to eat right while staying on a budget.
4. The Healthy Gourmet: A blog written by Scott and Ruth Parsons, co-directors of The Healthy Gourmet Food and Lifestyle School, it contains a ton of information on the finer side of eating healthy. Get recipes, book recommendations, articles, photos, links, and other useful information.
5. The Recipe Ring: This site is a collection of low calorie, healthy recipes. Choose from the over 100 recipes for main dishes, sides, drinks, bread, and dessert.
6. Taste of Home: This health oriented magazine has a community of bloggers contributing. Get recipes for turkey burgers, macaroni pizza, and even recommendations from the editor.
7. Cookus Interruptsus: Part of Local Harvest, this blogger focuses on how to cook fresh local organic whole foods despite life’s interruptions. Get a ton of recipes including pecan bon bons, mole con pollo, and a tasty broccoli side dish.
8. Diet Blog: Get healthy by eating right with the help of this blog. It contains the latest news in diets, eating disorders, and reviews for products and delivery services.
9. Eat Like Me: Part of “Self” Magazine, Cristin blogs mostly about health snacking. Discover what a nutritionist really eats and pick up healthy meal ideas.
10. The 99 Cent Chef: This chef searches the city for meals that cost only 99 cents. Get an array of healthy recipes from breakfast to dessert on this blog.
11. The World’s Healthiest Foods: The George Mateljan Foundation runs this blog as a force for change to help make a healthier you and a healthier world. Get loads of free information on how to choose the healthiest foods as well as preparation techniques.
12. Lunch in a Box: Biggie is the mom of a young child who lived in Japan. She will show you how to make a tasty, healthy lunch to take to the office or to put in your child’s lunch box.
13. Healthy Yet Yummy Food: This blog is full of tips, ideas and recipes on how to make quick, delicious and healthy meals. Get recipes on everything from light salads to dessert.
14. The Eggland’s Best Blog: From the people who offer a healthier egg, comes this blog full of tips for healthy living. Be sure to read the ” Healthy Meal Makeovers for Busy Families” before getting a recipe on this site.
15. Kitchen Table Medicine: This blog is written by three medical professionals who give a ton of advice on living healthy using the items found in your kitchen. Get recipes, cheap allergy food buying guides, herbal medicine information, and much, much more on this useful and informative site.
16. Make it From Scratch: Like the title says, the below recipes use only basic ingredients. Learn how to make healthy meals at home like whole wheat banana bread or homemade granola.
17. Divine Caroline: This community of bloggers have a ton of entries by contributors from all over the nation. With a special section for healthy choices, you can get recipes for lasagna, something healthy for the kids, or learn how to fight addictions to junk food.
18. Still Tasty: This guide to your food shelf helps you save money, eat better, and help the environment. Learn how to store food, the truth behind expiration dates, and when to throw it out on this blog.
19. Love Food Hate Waste: The healthiest foods usually have quick expiration dates. Learn how to buy and store properly for the best in healthy eating.
20. The Left Over Queen: Much like the title suggests, this blogger shows you how to take ingredients you already have and turn them into a masterpiece. Jenn loves creating delicious, healthy, and original menus for all to enjoy.
21. Cheap Healthy Good: Like the title promises, this blog contains articles on recipes for eating healthy on a budget. Recent recipes include black bean soup, cactus chili, and a grassland herb salsa.
22. Slashfood: Learn about healthy and cheap sugar substitutes, choose a recipe from the hundreds available, or watch a video. Visitors also can choose recipes by preparation, meal, and country.
23. Food & Water Watch: As the name suggests, get the latest in food and water news before you buy. Learn about hormones, organic food, and water purity in this blog.
24. Food By Jude: Jude is a chef and caterer who is obsessed with cooking. Her focus is on healthier recipes, lower in fat, sodium, and lighter on the carbs – but all within reason.
25. Chef Jeena’s Food Recipes: This professional blog contains a wide range of recipes from around the world. From meat eaters to vegan, Jeena has a recipe for everyone.
26. Becoming Whole: Meg is a two time cancer survivor. Learn how she found her way back to health via a plant-based diet, also known as a macrobiotic diet, and get useful tips.
27. The Perfect Pantry: Get cooking tips and recipes from this food writer, cookbook author, and instructor. Recent recipes include tortilla and lime soup, turkey lasagna, and cooking with fennel seeds.
28. David Lebovits: David is a pastry chef who has received critical acclaim in such publications as “Bon Appétit,” “Chocolatier,” and “Cooking Light.” Get his award winning recipes and more on this blog.
29. Feed Yourself: Never eat from a box or package again with the help of this blog. Learn how to make your own bread, get recommendations, as well as a ton of recipes from this helpful site.
30. Cooking 4 Chumps: Get simple recipes delivered in a humorous manner from this group of bloggers. Ninja helps you polish your cooking skills, Cowboy helps you avoid mistakes, and Zest shows you how to lose weight and cook healthy recipes.
31. Foods That Fit: This blogger is an ER nurse with a love for a love for food, cooking, and anything dealing with health and nutrition. Learn which foods she chooses, read product reviews, or get a recipe from this helpful blog.
32. Epi Log: Visit here for the latest in food news, the culinary arts, and cooking. Categories for this blog include cooking, drinking, kitchen tools, top ten lists, and health living.
34. Lisa’s Blog: Lisa is a chef, food writer, and nutrition instructor with more than 25 years of professional experience. Some of her more popular recipes include baked cod, watercress, mushroom and asparagus frittata, and a lemon-violet sorbet.
35. The Skinny Gourmet: Erin believes the key to food is deriving pleasure from quality, not quantity. Recent recipes include those for beef, salmon, and chickpeas.
36. Health and Wellness Blog: Dotty is from Vancouver and gives a common sense approach to health and wellness. Categories of her blog include general health, fruits, vegetables, and cooking.
37. Tri to Cook: This blogger is always on the search for healthy food. Get recipes, recommendations, and reviews from this site.
38. Eating Bender: Jenn hopes to someday combine her passion for writing with health and nutrition. Learn how to portion, get a ton of recipes, and be sure to check out the variety of healthy smoothies.
39. Eating Bird Food: This blogger believes healthy food can be tasty. Get a variety of recommendations for healthy food from this blog.
40. Kath Eats Real Food: Kath gives a ton of recipes using everyday food with a healthy lifestyle in mind. Highlights include an apple cheddar bacon frittata, banana hot dogs, and carrot cake oatmeal.
41. Angel’s Food: Allyson is attempting to lead a healthy and whole life. She chronicles her journey in this blog, as well as giving advice and recipes.
42. Do Better: This blog is the journal of an ordinary housewife who wants to do better for her family. Get tips for healthy family meals, exercise, and more.
43. Get Real or Get Out: Ryane is attempting to live a healthy lifestyle without excluding the fun. Her blog includes her favorite foods, as well as tips for planning a weekly menu.
44. I Ate A Pie: Get the latest news, coupons, reviews, and more from this blog. Be sure to visit the low calorie meal ideas sections for many simple ways to change a meal or snack for the better.
Best Blogs for Weight Loss
These blogs contain recipes and more for those who are eating healthy to lose weight.
45. 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet: Suzanne, Jennifer, and Amy were overweight sisters who began this blog as a website for them to share diet tips, recipes, and other helpful information. It has now grown into a nationally recognized site and contains a ton of recipes, tips, recommendations, and stories.
46. Escape From Obesity: Learn how this 238 pound woman is escaping obesity from this tell all blog. Get recipes, tips, and inspiration from this stay at home mom.
47. Weighty Matters: Yoni is a doctor specializing in obese medicine. Visit for tips on fast food, calorie counting, and how to get off medication.
48. A Weight Lifted: This blog is all about healthy weight loss for women tired of dieting. In addition to recipes, visitors can also get book reviews, diabetes information, fitness tips, and learning how to love your body.
49. Fast Weight Loss?: Can you really lose weight quickly? This site believes so and offers tips for exercise, calorie burning, and many recipes.
50. Diabetes Daily: Learn how to live with or avoid diabetes through this community of bloggers. Regularly updated with recipes of the week, you can also join a forum, get a guide, or hear from the experts.
52. Fit Bottomed Girls: These two bloggers focus on keeping a lid on the junk in the trunk. In addition to a great deal fitness tips, you can also get advice on healthy eating, as well as recipes.
53. Nearly a Normal Eater: WifeMomChocoholic shares her thoughts about dieting, exercise, and leaving bingeing and overeating behind. Learn how to eat right with recipes and tips from this blog.
54. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl: Shauna lives in Scotland and used to weigh 351 pounds. Learn how she lost half that weight through diet, fitness, as well as her favorite recipes.
55. The F-Word: These three F words actually stand for food, fat, and feminism. Learn how to deal with or avoid an eating disorder, unhealthy body image, aw well as recipe recommendations.
56. Eve Collette’s Blog: Part of CalorieCounter.com, Eve tells you everything you need to know about weight loss. Recent posts include white versus wheat bread, crash diets, and the benefits of an apple a day.
57. Natural Weight Loss: This blog is run by the Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic. Get step by step tips for weight loss with natural foods and remedies in mind.
58. CalorieLab Diet News: With many guest bloggers, get the latest in diet news and tips from this blog. A recent post weighed the benefits of natural versus organic foods.
59. Megan’s Munchies: Learn how to lose weight by eating in moderation from Megan. A recent post included a recipe for Mexican brownies.
60. Meals From the Girl in the Little Black Dress: Anna is a young woman living in Washington, DC and blogs on an array of issues surrounding a healthy life style: vegan, eating disorders, pregnancy, and weight loss. Get ideas for meals to have you breaking out your own little black dress.
61. Down Home Dieting: Amanda is a twenty something who recently joined Weight Watchers. With a husband determined to eat what he wants, she shares the challenges of eating healthy, as well as discussing what she eats.
62. The Token Fat Girl: Lorrie is an overweight woman who is not afraid to post pictures of her weight loss journey. Read what she is eating, how much weight she is losing, and more on this tell all blog.
63. Fat Man Unleashed: Weight loss from the male perspective, learn Israel’s tips for losing weight, as well as information on diet and health.
Specialty Diets
From uncooked meat to vegan, learn the healthy benefits of an alternative diet.
64. Hangry Pants: Always wanted to try a specialty diet but didn’t have the money or willpower? Then let Heather and Mark to do them for you. Together they have tried every diet from vegetarian to no fructose.
65. Connelly’s Kitchen: This blog is ideal for those looking for recipes with little or no carbohydrates. Choose from cabbage casserole, sweet and sour green beans, and even nutty coconut stones.
66. Karina’s Kitchen: Those with food allergies or vegetarians should stop by this site. Karina shows visitors an array of healthy recipes, as well as her favorite food picks.
67. DK Mommy Spot: This site is devoted to herbal wisdom, chemical free living, and all natural giveaways. Find recipes for main courses, soups, side dishes, salads, desserts, and even drinks.
68. Raw Food Right Now: Heidi and JS are two health conscious people who are passionate about raw food. Learn some quick and easy tips and recipes that will have you enjoying uncooked meals.
69. We Like It Raw: As the title suggests, get loads of recipes for food for those who don’t like stoves, ovens, or microwaves. Be sure to view the before and after pictures, or listen to a podcast.
70. Raw Food Blog: Visit this site for the latest in raw food news and testimonials. You can also get tips for starting a raw diet, as well as many recipes.
71. Goddess of the Garden: The author of two related books, this blog contains a great deal of tips for those on a raw or vegan diet. In addition to recipes, you can videos, news, and more.
72. The Raw Food Coach: Need help getting started or continuing a raw diet? Then visit Karen’s blog, where you can get the latest news, reviews, articles, and recipes.
73. Awesome to be Rawsome: After developing hypothyroidism, this blogger in her sixties turned to raw foods. Learn how she turned her life around and make sure to check out one of her many illustrated recipes.
74. Becoming Raw Vegan: Visit this blog to learn the basics of a raw, vegan diet. Get tips on the benefits, recipes, and more.
75. Fatfree Vegan Kitchen: This blog is dedicated to the sinlessly delicious. Susan is a health conscious vegan who likes good food and shares tons of recipes, many of which are low cost.
76. Vegan YumYum: Lolo does her best to make vegan food tasty and appealing to vegans and non-vegans alike. Visit her blog to get dozens of vegan recipes, or even watch her appearance on The Martha Stewart Show.
77. BitterSweet: The author of “My Sweet Vegan” takes you through the benefits of making the switch. With recipes, eBooks, and an FAQ section, learn all you need to know about this lifestyle.
78. Vive Le Vegan: Dreena is a best selling author and stay at home mom. On her blog she shares her pantry list and recommendations, in addition to many recipes.
79. The Witchen Kitchen: Interested in using natural herbs in your diet? Then visit here for the basics, as well as a great deal of uses for herbs.
80. The Herbwife’s Kitchen: This blog is the place for traditional, grounded, common-sense Appalachian herbwifery. Among many other herbal topics, you can get recipes, foods to avoid, and nutrition information.
81. Blog of Herbs & Health: Sean is a Chinese and Western Herbalist. Visit his blog for recipes, the Herb of the Week, advice, and ask him your questions.
82. Herbal Recipe Journal: This blog is a comprehensive journal of many herbal recipes and remedies. Learn everything about herbs from how to cure the common cold or prepare a simple tea.
83. Nutrition with Sonia: Sonia is a nutritionist from England who is interested in food, health, educating, teaching, and cooking. Get natural remedies for common diseases, as well as recipes for using food as medicine.
84. Fran’s House of Ayurveda: This is a system of traditional medicine native to India. Fran gives a ton of recipes on how to utilize it with a ton of quick and tasty recipes.
Videos and Podcasts
Cooking can be a difficult task, especially when taught only in text. These podcasts and videos feature professionals dedicated to teaching viewers how to cook healthy, just as they do.
85. Food Network: Get hundreds of recipes and full episodes from this leading cooking network. Among the many healthy eating recipes, you can also get meals that are quick, holiday related, and more.
86. iFood.tv: This team of culinary professionals share their recipes for just about every type of food imaginable. The healthy recipes are divided into hot, fresh, best, and most commented.
87. Food Wishes: Chef John offers a wide array of recipes and has videos to show you exactly how to prepare them. Those interested in healthy meals should view the diet, fruit, grains, and low carb categories.
88. Grace Before Meals: Learn how to cook meals with the spiritual side in mind with Father Leo. With an array of seafood recipes, this site is definitely worth a visit.
89. The Splendid Table: Jane and Michael Stern discuss the best in food and drink. Get the latest in food news, reviews, as well as recipes.
90. Inside Out Weight Loss: Hypnotherapist Renee Stephens aligns body and mind for lasting change. Get a ton of tips on diet and weight loss from this site.
91. Food Podcast: From NPR, get recipes, interviews, and the story behind the most popular foods. Listen to an episode to get a healthy recipe or hear the latest food scam.
92. Start Cooking: Are you new to cooking? Then visit this site for the basics. Get tips for using utensils and working with different types of food, as well as an array of simple recipes.
93. Food Philosophy: Jennifer is the co-creator of the Culinary Media Network and the world’s first all food podcast. Since 2004, she has interviewed top chefs from around the world and gotten a great deal of recipes, many for the health minded.
94. eLivingHealth: Join healthy vegan, raw, and living foods chef Dina Knight in her kitchen. Watch as she prepares delicious low allergen foods without gluten and dairy and answers questions of her many viewers.
95. Fat Fighter TV: This site has a ton of videos for those battling the bulge. In addition to work out tips, you can get recipes for protein pancakes, tips for how to make your own light snacks, and much more.
96. The Renegade Health Show: These nearly 300 videos are a fun and enlightening show on natural health, holistic nutrition, vegan, and raw foods. Host Kevin Gianni give tips and tricks as well as interviews experts in the natural health field.
97. Jenna Norwood: This award winning filmmaker is the force behind “Supercharge Me.” With 49 videos to choose from, she will teach you all about raw food, including how people from around the world prepare their food.
98. Sexy Bitches Like it Raw: Amae and Mystique guide viewers through the world of raw food. Get recipes and more on this alternative lifestyle.
99. Bauman College: This culinary institute offers expert advice and recipes in these audio and video recordings. Choose from obesity, raw cooking, healthy recipes, and more.
100. Healthy Living ABC’s: Learn about a healthy diet from these 12 videos. Topics include sugar, Omega 3, and coconuts.
With the help of these 100 blogs you will find everything for preparing meals from breakfast to a late night snack with a healthy lifestyle in mind.