Food Concepts

Of primary importance in the successful treatment of chemical dependency is the concept of  satiety and its opposite, namely cravings.  

Food and hunger are similarly based on satiety and cravings.  We’ll show you how to go from being a druggy to a foody.  It’s easy & delicious; no hangovers & nobody goes to jail. 

Our brains are hardwired for hunger from the beginning and chemical dependency rests heavily on this vulnerability.  The satisfaction of growing, selecting, and cooking one‘s own food helps by taking the place of drugs and alcohol.  It’s part of our comprehensive approach that guides you a joyous, contented and sober life.

Gosh it would be so simple if we could just replace our drug of choice with our food of choice but no, food just helps.  However, when approached in the right way it helps a lot…and you’ll need it.  Even with help, getting off drugs or alcohol is not easy and it does not happen by itself.  Engaging food in this mindful way will help you resolve your chemical dependency.  

When you learn to manage food you are engaging important matters essential to the resolution of chemical dependency, namely cravings and self-care.  The choices you make about what to eat have an amazing effect on your physical well being because when you eat well you feel good and suffer less anxiety.  In fact, a number of foods are anxiolytic themselves; for example, lemon balm, valerian root, turkey and salmon.   

Proteins, fats, carbohydrates; we‘ll teach you all about them.  You’ll feel better, live better, look better and you’ll leave here like you just went to cooking school.  

Thankfully, elements of the good diet (as we see it) are commonly woven into the creative recipes of Tik Tok contributors like Canadian girl Kirsten Deneka  with her ultimate grilled cheese, Erika Vetrinni, and her upgraded chicken Parmesan and many others . The recipes are universally simple appetizing and a delightful variation on the same, old same-old.

So, after you’ve read through this page once and the part about the good diet twice, you fire up the iPad and start hopping through one delicious recipe video after another.  They’re all delicious and healthy and easy to make with ingredients listed for making shopping lists.  You’ll stay a day or two ahead with menu planning.  Groceries will be delivered and boom! Yer cookin’ with gas.  It’s fun.  It’s tasty.  And there’s no hangover.  Alternating with outside days, you’ll be following and practicing this method for yourself and others both now and, hopefully, if we did our work right, once you graduate as well.  

One you learn the basics of the good diet and the tricks of tik tok recipes and digital shopping lists, other features of nutritional choices can become part of the daily routine.  The literature is rife with foods to reduce pain, foods to help avoid cancer, and foods to avoid for a bunch of good reasons.  This can be woven into your dietary routine as well.  

Some of us can cook while others of us cannot.  That’s ok, weather learning anew or by reminder, food creation is good for the soul.  Growing your own food and then cooking it is a fantastically therapeutic for anyone, not just the addicted.  Ergo we have the vertical hydroponic garden project; The chicken and goat project and  the outdoor garden project which you can read about elsewhere on the site.

Can you resolve chemical dependency with food and cooking ?  Sadly, no.  But along with medically assisted treatment, evidence based counseling, and complimentary therapies, yer damn straight you can ! Stop by for a nosh ! We’ll show you all about it !