Better health through healthy meals

Hello and welcome to our blog! My name is Ella Elman and I am the owner and founder of The Secret Ingredient. It’s been a goal of mine for quite a while to update the website and start a blog to share nutrition and lifestyle information. And here we are!

You see, we are not your typical personal chef service. We can definitely come to your house and make you a special dinner or cater your company event (and we love doing that!), but the vast majority of our clients are people with multiple food sensitivities who are gluten, dairy and sugar free. As a result, we tend to view healthy food with a different lens. If you’ve had a chance to look at the rest of our website, you will know that we really focus on organic ingredients and real food made from scratch. The reason is that we believe that most of the additives in processed food are quite toxic to the human body and are totally unnecessary for food to taste good.

Many people are finding that the key to losing weight and feeling good is to reduce the amount of carbohydrates and sugars in their diet. They are switching their diet to one that is high in vegetables and protein, which is sometimes called the paleo diet. Most people that I know who have tried to lose weight using this approach have been quite successful and have not had to count calories, points or suffer hunger pangs. In fact, most of the clients we cook for eat in this way and we specialize in this type of cooking.

This blog will explore a wide variety of health and nutrition topics and provide useful, practical information that you can put to use immediately. Due to the fact that we partner with a number of naturopathic clinics, nutritionists and other alternative health care providers, we will also invite guest bloggers to discuss nutrition from their perspective and talk about their approach to health and wellness.

Meanwhile, to celebrate our new website and blog, we would like to offer a 10% discount to all new clients during the month of March! We hope to see you back here soon for the next installment of our blog!