Eating real food was sidelined, while ultra-processed food was treated as normal. That framing is no longer holding.
Author Archives: Val Criswell
If food has felt harder than it should be, start here. This puts words to the friction and explains the lens behind everything else on the site.
Start here
Let’s Get Started Edit categories if you want to. Paste the system that’s at the bottom of this post into your AI chat. Chat GPT works best here. It’s important that you not make any other changes. Then type: Initialize A/B Meal Planning System. Feel free to chat with your AI. However, that’s how it […]
You’re here because you want real food to work.
You’re tired. Or annoyed. Or quietly convinced that feeding yourself shouldn’t feel this hard.
You care enough to want better, but not enough to tolerate lectures, perfection, or another plan that collapses by Thursday.
That’s a reasonable place to start.
Grow Cook Eat is built on a simple idea: real food works best when you understand where it comes from, how it fits into real life, and why small decisions matter.
This is Grow Cook Eat








