This book will guide you on a path to creating healthy, delicious meals for your friends and family each day with joy and ease.  It provides 100 recipes plus shopping strategies, pantry and kitchen tool essentials, cooking guides for whole grains, beans and simple proteins along with nourishing advice, better baking tips and holiday delights! 

"Pure Food Joy" is a friendly cooking guide that brings joy and ease to preparing healthy, delicious dishes. This book is a source of yummy recipes, pure food shopping strategies, pantry essentials, basic cooking guides, nourishing advice, better baking tips and holiday delights! Each food chapter unfolds with seasonal ingredients from spring to winter, a rhythm which benefits the family budget and local farmers. The Ingredient Index will help you match the perfect recipe with the food items that you have on hand or that are on sale in the store.  Using this index can help to prevent waste and save money.   The Subject index will direct you quickly to the perfect dish for every meal, situation and diet.  This index lists recipes that are slow-cooker friendly, quick-cooking dishes and lunch box bites, plus recipes for vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, paleo and raw diets. I highly respect that we each have unique needs in terms of nutrition and lifestyle. Therefore I strive to accommodate the taste and traditions of everyone in a healthy way. My hope is that there will be happy faces and healthy bodies for your whole family and the generations to come through the quality foods that are prepared each day!

Vanessa loves to help others indulge and be nourished through the consumption of natural foods. Her book "Pure Food Joy!" is a practical guide on how to shop, prepare and enjoy pure food each day. Healthy bodies, happy faces and a bountiful planet is her motto.  Her background and insight in agriculture combined with her talent in the kitchen blooms in her book!

Vanessa has been creating with food her whole life.  At the age of 8 she began writing, collecting, sharing and preparing recipes for her family and friends.  She strives to help preserve the authentic plant and animal species by supporting the local, sustainable farmers.  She has worked in natural foods and at the farmer's market.  She enjoys entertaining and gardening.  Vanessa's favorite work has been staying home and raising her children.

As a young mother many of her friends would ask for her recipes and tips on how to prepare tasty and nourishing meals for their family.  These requests became an inspiration for this book, a guide that helps others to prepare healthy, delicious dishes in a practical and fun way.