Food Understanding Workbook
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A practical companion for decoding ingredient labels and understanding how your food is made and sourced.
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Understand Your Food
A welcoming resource center for learning about food, nutrition, ingredients, and labels — and the practical knowledge that helps you make more intentional choices. Explore workbooks, learning guides, reference materials, and trusted sources, with new resources added over time.
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Don Diego Wellness Cooking Masterclass
A Workbook for the Aspiring Home Chef
Connect closer with the earth. Eat with intention. Try your best.
Explore food as medicine, seasonal eating, soil-to-self connections, ingredient intelligence, kitchen foundations, knife skills, cooking fundamentals, cooking for healing, functional ingredients, understanding taste, eating with awareness, and the Don Diego Framework.
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The Don Diego Safe Kitchen Project
Better tools. Better choices. Better everyday living. A guided look at the everyday products in your kitchen — cookware, food storage, water, bakeware, and more — with the Don Diego Method for understanding, investigating, and choosing better alternatives.
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Workbooks
Workbooks
A growing collection of practical workbooks to help you decode labels, understand ingredients, and build confidence in the kitchen. Each workbook is a self-paced companion you can return to anytime.
Learning Guides
Learning Guides
Short, focused guides on practical food knowledge — from reading a label to choosing seasonal produce. Designed to be read in a few minutes and applied right away.
Reading Ingredient Labels
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A plain-language guide to the parts of an ingredient label and what to look for first.
Seasonal & Local Eating
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How to recognize what is in season near you and why it matters for flavor and nutrition.
Kitchen Foundations
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The core habits — cleaning, knife skills, heat, and seasoning — that make cooking easier.
Reference Materials
Reference Materials
Quick-reference resources you can bookmark and return to while shopping or cooking. Built to be scanned fast and trusted at a glance.
Glossary of Food Terms
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Clear definitions for common food, labeling, and ingredient terms you encounter at the store.
Ingredient Sourcing Notes
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A reference for understanding where common ingredients come from and how they are made.
Storage & Shelf Life
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A practical reference for keeping ingredients fresh and knowing when to use them.
Trusted Sources
Trusted Sources
A curated list of organizations, references, and further reading we are reviewing for inclusion. Links and attributions will be added here once each source is vetted.
Vetted Organizations
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Recognized organizations and institutions will be listed here after review.
Further Reading
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Books, articles, and references we recommend will be added here over time.
More resources on the way
This learning hub is designed to grow. Additional workbooks, guides, and references will be added here as they are ready. Please check back soon.
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