Welcome! I'm Ali, the founder and owner of NourishingMeals.com. I'm here to guide you through your Nourishing Meals® membership portal. With my background in nutrition and experience as a mom of five, I understand the importance of quick, nourishing meals for specific dietary needs. Join me for a tour of the site's features and recipes to elevate your health journey.
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Search our Recipe Library or start with recipes for your diet. On the search page click the "My Diet" link on the sidebar to easily get back to your specific diet search criteria.
Save Recipes. Use the pin icon in the top left of any recipe thumbnail to earmark it, or the "save" button when viewing a recipe.
Create Meal Plans from any recipe page or thumbnail. You can create as many meal plans as you would like. All of your saved meal plans can be found here. Use the Meal Plans feature to save a week's menu, create a few lists of favorite recipes, or create a meal plan to send to clients (your client needs to be a member to save and use your meal plans).
Schedule Recipes to your Calendar, from a recipe page or an entire meal plan at once. Use the green button on all recipes to schedule that recipe to any day on your calendar. You can also edit your calendar and move recipes to different days, just remember to click "Done" to save your changes!
Add items to your Shopping List, from an entire meal plan, or date range in your calendar. Update your shopping list after or during shopping to delete ingredients you have already purchased. You can also generate a quick shopping list by adding ingredients directly from several recipes you would like to cook by using the "Add to Shopping List" button on top of each ingredient list.
Recipe
Thai Cabbage and Peanut Slaw
This easy Thai-inspired cabbage slaw is a great way to add more raw vegetables to your diet. Serve this in place of a green salad with a weeknight meal. It pairs well with these Thai Turkey Burgers and Roasted Sweet Potato Rounds for a balanced, nourishing meal.
This gluten-free and egg-free cupcake recipe uses unrefined ingredients to create a delicious and moist vegan cupcake. Reduce the spices and use this recipe for your child’s first birthday cake! I like to frost these with the Dairy-Free Buttercream Frosting (using white-fleshed sweet potatoes) and decorate them with finely grated fresh nutmeg.
Serve this roasted chicken with a large green salad for a balanced meal. If you can’t find fresh fennel bulbs, consider replacing them with carrots or parsnips.
I often make some variation of this cabbage slaw about once a week at my house. Cabbage slaws and salads are very easy to prep as a side dish for dinner, and my children love them. Leftovers also store well in your fridge for several days. Serve this cabbage slaw with roasted chicken and potatoes, or fish and baked winter squash for a nourishing winter meal.
If you are looking for more ways to get a variety of anti-inflammatory veggies into your diet, try a stir-fry! This simple veggie dish takes just minutes to prepare and cook. Stir in some leftover meat or beans for a simple, light lunch or dinner. This stir-fry also works well as a side dish along with roasted salmon or easy baked chicken breasts, or with a simple legume-based main dish.
This light and refreshing brown rice salad is packed with flavor, fiber, and raw vegetables! It makes a lovely side dish to an evening meal or a light lunch to take with you to work or school.
Roasted Romanesco and Sweet Potatoes with Pomegranate and Feta
This colorful, antioxidant-rich side dish can be served as part of a festive holiday meal, or as a light vegetarian dinner along with some cooked black rice. Lightly roasted and chopped almonds are another great addition to this recipe!
Homemade almond milk recipes often require soaking almonds overnight, blending, and then straining. This is great if you want delicious raw almond milk for drinking or for smoothies, but what if you need almond milk or non-dairy milk for baking? This recipe uses almond flour and water to create a very easy almond milk that can be used in sweet and savory recipes. I have been making it for over a decade; it is so easy to prepare! This recipe comes from my Nourishing Meals Cookbook.
Frittatas are a very easy meal to make when you are short on time in the evenings; you can add just about any type of vegetables and cheese to them! They are also great on lazy weekend mornings. Serve this hearty frittata with Breakfast Greens and a light Lemon-Garlic Dressing.
When you are short on time but need a nutrient-dense meal, try making a sheet pan meal. This recipe is so simple to prepare! Other vegetables can be used in place of the potatoes; try carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, or rutabaga! Serve chicken and potatoes with a simple lettuce and cucumber salad and this Creamy Lemon Vinaigrette.
Baharat is a middle Eastern spice blend that literally means “spices” in Arabic. You can create your own blend of spices or buy a pre-made blend. I like to use the Baharat Seasoning from Simply Organic (this is what is pictured here). It is a blend of ground cumin, coriander, black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, allspice, rose petals, ginger, and nutmeg. This Middle Eastern chicken and rice dish is easy enough to make for a family weeknight dinner, yet elegant enough to be served as a main dish for a special occasion.
This tomato-free vegetarian chili uses soaked dry beans and is made in an Instant Pot to save time. Serve with grated cheese, extra sliced jalapeños, and plenty of chopped cilantro. Top each bowl with diced avocado and a squeeze of lime.
Lentil and rice stew is such an easy plant-based meal to put together. Lentils cook easily without needing to be soaked first, on top of just being high in plant-based protein, antioxidants, and fiber! This Middle Eastern lentil and rice stew is deeply flavored, warming, and perfect for a cozy winter meal.
Serve this flavorful red bean and rice stew with plenty of chopped fresh cilantro, sliced jalapeños, and cooked basmati rice. If you eat meat, try sautéing a few sliced andouille sausages and serving them with this stew.
Stewed sweet potatoes and apples create a nutrient-dense winter dessert, without all of the sugar. If you are working towards eliminating sugary treats, try including a naturally sweet dessert like this one. Whole-food-based desserts replenish you instead of contributing to the depletion that can happen with refined, high-sugar foods.
Save money and time with customized grocery shopping lists.
Generate shopping lists from date ranges on the calendar
Or use the ingredients list on your meal plans to shop from
Quickly generate shopping lists as you browse through recipes
Delete ingredients you already have
Edit ingredient amounts
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Join Nourishing Meals® today to get access to over 1800 nutrient-dense member-only recipes and our easy-to-use meal planning tools. Get inspired to cook again and take control of your health using the power of real food! Add meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or use our system to only plan your evening meals. It is completely customizable to your unique needs!
Click on any day on your calendar to see the full list of recipes you have added
All recipes are linked, so just click on the link to get cooking!
Easily switch between day view, week view, month view, and list view
You can edit your calendar at any time by deleting recipes, moving recipes to different days, and adding more recipes
Get Nourished
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Find meals.
Plan. Cook. Eat.
Join Nourishing Meals® today to get access to over 1800 nutrient-dense member-only recipes and our easy-to-use meal planning tools. Get inspired to cook again and take control of your health using the power of real food! Add meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or use our system to only plan your evening meals. It is completely customizable to your unique needs!
Fennel and Pomegranate Salad with Toasted Cumin Seeds
Pomegranate arils, or "jewels" as my youngest daughter likes to call them, are a beautiful and nutritious addition to winter salads. They are packed with heart-healthy antioxidants, and they add a juicy sweetness and slight crunch to recipes. My children like to cut open pomegranates, carefully removing all of the arils, and put them into a bowl to eat like cereal for a bedtime snack. Serve this light and refreshing salad with any type of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean main dish.
Serve this delicious and nutritious chocolate cake for a special birthday or holiday dessert. Double the recipe for a layer cake! Dust with powdered coconut sugar or drizzle with a powdered coconut sugar-cacao powder glaze. The Chocolate Avocado Frosting also pairs well with this cake, especially for a double layer cake.
These healthy holiday cookies use ground pecans and blanched almond flour to create a nutrient-dense egg-free, grain-free, and refined sugar-free cookie. You'll need a food processor to make this recipe.
I have been making chicken soup from a whole chicken ever since the birth of my first child nearly 20 years ago. It is a deeply nourishing meal for a postpartum mother, as well as for growing children. The savory aroma of a pot of chicken soup simmering away on the stove will fill your house and draw everyone into the kitchen for a family meal.
Serve this moist and spicy gluten-free and dairy-free gingerbread bundt cake for a Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's Eve gathering. You can make a simple glaze using powdered coconut sugar and almond milk if you would like. Add freshly grated nutmeg after glazing for a beautiful winter cake.
Serve this easy-to-make beef roast with roasted or sweet potatoes, a brussels sprout salad, and a steamed vegetable such as green beans. Sirloin tip roasts are leaner than other cuts of beef (and typically less expensive too), which makes them prone to becoming tough if overcooked.
Raw brussels sprouts are an excellent detox support food. They help to stimulate important biotransformation pathways to safely remove toxicants from the body. Raw cruciferous vegetables are a key anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory food to include in your everyday diet.
Your diet profile tells the site to filter recipes based on what you can eat.
Select the diets and food allergens on the diet set-up page to create your unique diet combination. Then add any additional ingredients you don't tolerate. Nourishing Meals® will then only show you recipes that are safe for that specific combination of diets and food allergens.
If you don't follow a specific diet or have not received a diet protocol from your health care practitioner and you are ready to make some positive dietary changes, choose a Clean Eating Diet or Mediterranean Diet to begin. These diets are foundational lifestyle "diets" that will set you on a life-long path of health. You can also scroll through the information on the Diets page to learn more about different diets and see which diet might be most beneficial to follow.
Try an Elimination Diet.
If you have certain health conditions that you would like to try to resolve with diet, then you may want to explore starting an Elimination Diet. A Basic Elimination Diet removes just a few food groups that most people react to, and a Full Elimination Diet removes additional food groups that many individuals may react to. Food groups are then slowly reintroduced over a period of time to see if your symptoms return.
Use our custom search features to filter all of the recipes in Nourishing Meals®.
Combine your specific diet criteria with the search filters to find exactly what you need. You can even plug in ingredients you have that need to be used and Nourishing Meals® will give you recipe options using those ingredients according to your specific dietary needs!
Name your meal plan and choose Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Meal Prep to add the recipe.
Use the "Meal Prep" tag for recipes you would like to make on a Meal Prep day. This may be a day where you batch cook a number of recipes to use throughout the week. You can also use this tag for recipes like a pot of basic beans that you need to have pre-cooked for another recipe.
Keep adding recipes.
Click "Edit" to change the name of your meal plan, add days, and move recipes around to different days. Click save!
Click the "Schedule" link to add your meal plan to certain days on your calendar.
Create as many Meal Plans as you would like.
Add Meal Plans from our site to your user profile. Click on any diet on the Diets page and the click on the Meal Plans tab to get started right away with a Meal Plan for your diet.
Click on the Meal Plans icon to view all of your saved Meal Plans.
Learn to use our Meal Plans feature so you can create menus and save recipes.
Use Meal Plans In Different Ways
Weekly Staple Menu Plans
Use our Meal Plans feature for creating a plan of your favorite recipes that you would like to use over and over. If every Friday is Taco night, then use the Meal Plans feature to create a menu for Taco night with a set of recipes you would to cook each Friday night. This way you don't have to spend time finding the recipes each week. They are already saved in your Meal Plans.
Create a One Time Menu
Create a special Birthday Menu or Holiday Menu plan that you don't want to add to your weekly meal planning calendar. Your Meal Plan comes with a list of ingredients too so you can shop for exactly what you need. A one time menu is also helpful to create if you are cooking dinner for someone else, perhaps a new mom needing a few meals, or for a friend in a time of need.
Create and Save a List of Favorites
Use Meal Plans to create a list of Favorites that you would like to save for future reference.
Save a Diet Plan
The Meal Plans feature can also be used to create a diet plan for yourself that you would like to repeat again and again, such as a specific 5-day detox diet you like to do every few months.
Create Meal Plans for Clients
The Meal Plans feature can also be used to create custom meal plans for your clients or patients, as long as your client is a member then the meal plan can be copied and saved to another user profile by clicking on the "Copy" button at the top of all Meal Plans. Just share the link with another member.
Stay organized and primed for success in the kitchen with a weekly meal schedule.
Your meal planning calendar can be printed into a beautiful weekly calendar to make it easy to see what's on the menu this week. Add recipes to your calendar using our meal plan generator, add entire meal plans you'd like to schedule on repeat, or add individual recipes. Select a date range on your calendar to shop for all of the ingredients needed for the dates selected.
Using Your Calendar
Schedule your Daily Meals
The Calendar feature can be used to plan your weekly meals. You can send recipes to your calendar from a meal plan, from the meal plan generator, or add recipes from the search page.
Get Prep Note Reminders
When you schedule recipes to your calendar, our site gives you reminders of things you need to do ahead of time, such as soak beans or grains for a certain amount of time before making the recipe.
Create a Shopping List
Easily create a shopping list from chosen days on your calendar. Like to shop for two days worth of meals or seven? No problem, just tell the site to list ingredients for recipes from any given days on your calendar.
Cook Meals from your Calendar
Click on any date on your calendar and the site will give you the full list of recipes you have scheduled for that day. Click on any recipe to start cooking.
Generate a list of ingredients for recipes you have scheduled to your meal planning calendar for any date range. Delete ingredients you already have on hand and update ingredient amounts. Then send it to your Shopping List.
Shop from your Meal Plan
If you have a menu plan that you would like to shop for, just click on Ingredients on your Meal Plan to view the list of ingredients you need for recipes from a specific meal plan. Our system allows you to meal plan and create shopping lists in different ways.
Lean how to use our grocery shopping list feature.
Try ringing in the new year with this vegan Instant Pot version of Hoppin' John! This traditional Southern dish has been thought to bring good luck in the new year. Black-eyed peas represent prosperity and collard greens represent wealth. Whether you believe in this tradition or not, a hearty bowl of beans and greens is packed with anti-inflammatory phytochemicals and nutrients, which will certainly bring health in the new year!
Chicken wings are a fun appetizer or party food. They can also be served as a main dish with sautéed veggies and baked sweet potatoes! This soy-free, Asian-inspired recipe can be used on an Elimination Diet too!
Homemade vegetable stock is incredibly easy to make, especially if you have an electric pressure cooker (Instant Pot)! Pressure cooking the vegetables helps to extract more flavors from the herbs and vegetables. Additionally, the aromatic flavors are not lost through evaporation because everything is sealed during the cooking process. Use your stock as a base for soups and stews; the end result will be much more flavorful compared to using only water.
When you are short on time, sheet pan meals are a great option for an easy and nourishing family dinner. Serve these roasted chicken breasts, fennel, and cherry tomatoes with a simple arugula salad tossed with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Blueberry-Almond Thumbprint Cookies (grain-free + egg-free)
These grain-free and egg-free thumbprint cookies are made with nutrient-dense almond flour and slightly sweetened with pure maple syrup, perfect for an after-school snack for your children with a mug of herbal tea.
Serve these simple gluten-free waffles with fresh raspberries and pure maple syrup for a weekend breakfast or brunch. You can replace the raspberries with fresh or frozen blueberries, diced bananas, or finely diced apples if you would like. Add vanilla extract or raw vanilla powder for extra flavor!
Ginger is one of the best foods to incorporate into your daily diet if you are experiencing chronic inflammation. Fresh ginger has been shown to reduce inflammatory markers and inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-a (this cytokine is elevated in autoimmune diseases such as Ulcerative Colitis and Rheumatoid Arthritis). Ginger also acts as a natural anti-histamine and mast cell stabilizer. Incorporating both raw and cooked ginger into your daily meals can be very beneficial for many different health conditions.
This easy plant-based main dish can be made in minutes as long as you have cooked or canned chickpeas on hand! Serve with Guacamole, Pico De Gallo, and your favorite homemade or store-bought tortillas.
