Welcome to SensibleSoulFood.net! We have spent the last several months searching the internet, cookbooks, and recipe files of our favorite down-home cooks. It is our desire to bring together recipes that are full of flavor, but inspire you to eat for good health. We also intend for these recipes to take you back to your grandmother’s kitchen and experience the tastes and aromas of the comfort foods we grew up with. By making small changes in ingredients, our chefs have been able to reproduce many of the savory dishes enjoyed around the Sunday dinner table but with less fat, sodium, and in many cases, calories than the ones we grew up with.

Many of the recipes found here are available at other websites. We have supplied the names of these websites to give the authors and companies the credit due to them. We have also provided healthier alternatives for some of the ingredients to give you nutritional options. Take a few minutes to visit these sites. There are many good creations for you to experience. It is more than a notion to create a recipe that not only tastes good, but is good for you! We respect and are grateful for the hard work that went into their development.

The other recipes are from the kitchens of the women who love and raised us: mothers and grandmothers, aunts and cousins, sisters and play sisters. Nor did we forget the men who also know their way around a kitchen or grill. We have found through much experimentation that the flavors known as “soul food” and “comfort food” can still be enjoyed by using a little common sense and ingenuity!

In an effort to build awareness, we have provided nutrition information powered by Recipe Manager®. We all are paying more attention to fat and sodium intake, along with the number of calories we consume. Hopefully you will find this information useful.

We hope you enjoy visiting our site and trying these new versions of old favorites. We are still “under construction”, so come back frequently and see what new treats have been added. Don’t just eat healthy—eat happy!!