About

Welcome to Fresh Food Diet, my site where I write on my passion for eating a diet made up of fresh whole foods. I'm Jay Burry and I admit I like to be healthy and eat healthy!

If you like to do likewise, feel free to follow me in my own ramblings on the subject of how eating wholesome foods can dramatically improve your health. I'm talking about foods that are fresh and in their natural state when you buy them or pull them from your own vegetable garden and not the junk in packets that the grocery store sells!

What's Fresh?

If you're in any doubt as to what is actually fresh, it's pretty easy to figure out. Fresh produce comes just as nature made it, harvested today (or as recently as possible) and still with its leaves on (sometimes its roots too). So if you pick up a bunch of carrots for example, they'll still have their leaves on and probably some dirt on them too.

I know there are plenty of people that would (for some crazy reason) balk at the sight of "dirty" carrots on sale. But hey! This is what real stuff looks like before it has been sanitized, de-naturized and processed in some way, even if it means having the leaves cut off and all the fine hair roots removed!

The freshest food is the stuff you actually go out into a vegetable garden and pick yourself just before you take it to the kitchen to clean and prep for cooking.

Don't have a garden?

Buy some big flower pots and grow stuff in them. Or make your own planters from planks of wood and line it with some plastic with holes punched in the bottom. Fill them with a propriety growing medium or get some dirt, sand and compost mixed up and use that.

When I lived in an apartment, that's how I grew my own salad crops (lettuce, tomatoes, celery, bell peppers) on a sunny balcony. I expanded to growing carrots, onions, Swiss chard, French beans and some herbs like basil, rosemary, thyme and chives.

Anyways, that's the short version of my story and a taste of what's to come in the main part of this site!