About

Meet Judy, your guide to eating clean for a healthy lifestyle and monthly cooking.

If you try to avoid processed foods and love serving your family nourishing meals, we are passionate about the same things.

Whether you’ve enjoyed a healthy diet for a while or you’re just getting started, you’ll find delicious recipes to fit your focus.

While we cater to a clean eating lifestyle rather than a specific diet, we also include recipes for specialty diets like Keto, Paleo, gluten-free, and low-carb.

Ditching junk food for real food takes effort and we’re here to help with clean eating recipes and tips to make it easier.

Not sure what clean eating is exactly? Check out our Food Philosophy for more info.

Our Focus

I know, the term “healthy” gets tossed about with loose interpretations, one diet cures while another one slims.

We focus on a balanced, clean eating lifestyle we can sustain over fad diets, so we emphasize whole food cooking.

Our quest for nutritional health began by eliminating refined sugar, oils, white flour, and processed foods. We struggled through the resistance to change from the kids and battled our own poor habits to develop meals that weren’t just better for us, but tasted great too!

Seeing your kids grow to embrace healthy food choices into adulthood is truly the best reward for the effort.

Cooking with whole food and avoiding processed foods.

This dietary makeover is explained in more detail in our Food Philosophy and my cookbook Serve and Savor is a collection of our most beloved family recipes.

〉〉 Our Recipe Index makes it easy to find your way around the site with lots of categories to browse and a handy search.

〉〉 Keep in touch through Instagram and Facebook or reach out by email at [email protected]. I love hearing from you!

The Monthly Cooking Connection

A big part of this healthier lifestyle was/is the commitment to preparing our own meals.

Designating a cooking day each month to prep food enabled us to consistently gather our family around delicious meals for more than 15 years.

Because we’re kind of picky, we made it happen without “dump meals” or lining the freezer with casseroles. With particular palates, there was always someone who didn’t like something—all their food touching, or sauces, or big chunks of onions, or food they couldn’t recognize, or …. whatever.

And I didn’t do it alone. I’ve cooked with a good friend in a cooking partnership spanning the entire time. That’s 15 years of meals for TWO families, which means A LOT of food passed through our hands and into our freezers (like more than 5,000 meals!).

We know what foods freeze well and what doesn’t, understanding it is more important to have the menu and the plan than have every part of the meal cooked and frozen. There are casseroles sprinkled in here and there with soups and stews every cook learns to make in big batches, but most of the recipes are everyday favorites with single meats and separate side dishes.

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And There’s Exciting News!

Monthly Cooking Course coming in August!

We are developing an online Monthly Cooking Course, to help you confidently answer the “What’s for dinner?” question we all face every night.

meal & menu planning
shopping & saving tips
video tutorials
cooking instruction
and so much more to help you save time, energy, and money!

Ready to jump in now?

Join our Monthly Cooking Group on Facebook for recipes and tips. We share lots of creative ways to transform family favorites, specialty diets, and inspiring new dishes into a monthly, make-ahead, menu.

Meet the Savoring Today Team

Judy Purcell, Chief Editor & Recipe Developer

As the founder of Savoring Today, Judy oversees content, recipe development, site management, and customer service—essentially wearing all the hats entrepreneurs do.

Kayla Purcell, Recipe Content Partner & Instagram Manager

As an artist, Kayla’s creativity spills over into everything she does, especially in the kitchen. She is passionate about bringing people together around tasty food that’s good for you. This motivates her to develop recipes that foster community and connection.

Kristen Purcell, Sustainability Content Partner

As a medical student who is passionate about emergency medicine and toxicology, Kristen is on a journey to learn more on how to reduce the trash in her personal life, in the products she uses, and that she produces through evidence-based research.

Silas

The Resident Clean-Up Crew

Patiently waiting to take care of mishaps and crumbs.

Ponyo

Comments

Judy Purcell says
December 6, 2013 at 9:44 am
Hi Valerie, thanks for your kind words and encouragement. I hope to post that soup recipe soon ~ we can all use another chicken soup recipe to keep us warm and well. 🙂
Judy Purcell says
August 13, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Hi Heather. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read through my About page and comment. I think you may have misunderstood the reference I made to scripture. The two sentences are in reference to my life — the first sentence had nothing to do with the scripture reference. I was not trying to translate the scripture, just mentioning it in case someone didn’t understand the second sentence’s reference to being an overcomer, since that is not a common word used today. Many talk about surviving, I was encouraging the reader that there is more, hoping they would look the scripture up for themselves.
I’m sad it was only the scripture that caught your attention, there is far more to my story here, and yes, I believe the scripture applies.
Peace to you.
Mimi says
July 10, 2013 at 6:22 am
Very smart words.
- Judy Purcell says
  July 10, 2013 at 6:29 am
  Thanks Mimi, and thanks for taking time to read this loooong about page and saying hi. 🙂
Judy Purcell says
May 5, 2013 at 7:20 am
Hi Lizzy, so good to hear from you again. Your father was wise to pass on such a life-affirming outlook. I am sorry to hear you are dealing with so much and I understand how an adult child can drain emotional, financial, and physical resources. Our oldest had a serious car accident right before her 18th birthday and sustained a closed-head injury. One of those cases where they look fine, but they are not. To say that season of life was exhausting and emotionally stressful would be an understatement. It is even more difficult when they are adults, making costly decisions which affect us, yet we cannot change. I am certain what you deal with is far beyond what we experienced. My heart goes out to you.
I think you are right in considering stress to be a health robber — it is. I pray wisdom for your doctor and victory in your outcome as you pursue health and healing. I would love to know how you are doing, I will continue to pray.
Peace and abundant life to you.
Julie says
May 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Judy,
Stumbled upon your website as the Parmesan zucchini sticks caught my eye. Can’t wait to try it.
I wholeheartedly agree with your position statement. I have always been interested in cooking, nutrition and health for as long as I can remember.
Even though I thought I ate healthy for the most part, save my sweet tooth, my weight was slowly creeping and increasing over the last 10 years (time period included menopause, that scapegoat of an excuse). My endocrinologist suggested (for the second time) that there are drugs to reduce my rising cholesterol. I said no, I want to do it naturally through a change of diet and exercise – and I mean it this time! She looked at me and gave me 6 months.
In those 6 months, I dropped my cholesterol 70 points, lost 30 pounds (lost additional 7 pounds in the two following months). This was achieved through better cocsistent food choices, cutting out the sugar, (my nemesis), fried foods, and began to exercise 3-5 times every week (running). My first 5k was 5 months into my life change and 1/2 marathon 2 months later.
I feel great and enjoy how I look. The interested thing is that it is actually not difficult once you set upon a path and stay with it. It has been 10 months now.
I’ll be looking for more ideas from you. (Sorry for the lengthy message but wanted to add support for your philosophy.)
- Judy says
  May 21, 2012 at 7:57 am
  Hi Julie!
  Thank you so much for your message, it is so encouraging to hear from you and your story. It can be hard to stay on track, I am so glad to hear that you did and you are reaping the reward! Congrats on your 5K and 1/2 marathon, we need goals like that to keep us moving and motivated. 🙂
  I am so glad you took time to comment, please continue to do so as you stop back by.
  All the best to you!
  Judy
CJ at Food Stories says
May 3, 2012 at 11:45 am
I found your site on foodblogs.com and thought I’d stop by and check it out. I just subscribed to your feed and can’t wait to see what your next post will be!
- Judy says
  May 6, 2012 at 6:48 am
  Hi CJ, thank you for taking time to say hello and subscribe, I appreciate that so much! I hope you stop by again and join in the conversation from time to time.
Wendy Davis says
July 10, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Just found your site and your post about savoring is so apt! I think we all need to be reminded now and then (or more frequently) to truly savor everything. There’s no doubt life is hectic but stopping to enjoy our food and truly savoring it will hopefully flow into the rest of our lives and all that we partake in. Thank you!
- Judy says
  July 11, 2011 at 5:54 am
  Thanks so much for stopping by, taking time to comment, and your words of encouragement!