I launched this website in 2006. Part of the initial crop of food blogs on the internet, it was the first grain-free blog to hit the mainstream. During that time I’ve raised two amazing boys, both now in college, and lived with a challenging neurological disorder, multiple sclerosis, sharing my journey with you.
The First Grain-Free Cookbook
During this time, I’ve also written three books for Random House, including the New York Times best selling low-carb cookbook, Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry. My groundbreaking path has meant being the author of the first grain-free cookbook brought to market by a major publisher.
Birthing a Movement
On this journey, I’ve seen fans who made my recipes when going grain-free, and left comments here a decade ago, become forces far bigger than I am, which makes me very proud. Heading into my mid-50s, I feel like the mother hen of the grain-free paleo movement!
Testimonials of Healing
I’m amazed every day, by your beautiful stories of healing with my recipes. There are over 80,000 comments here and being with you in this community has been a gift. Sharing intimate struggles and triumphs with those of you who know the pain and suffering of food allergies and autoimmune disease, is a comfort and blessing. Your comments inspire me every day and I am honored to be on this healing path with you.
New Look, New Features
After all this time together with you, I decided to freshen things up here. I wanted my website to be every bit as user-friendly as the recipes I share. So I invested in a very talented team to redesign this website and provide you with the same great content in an even better format. We’ve also created a bunch of new features that I’m so excited to share with you!
Find Your Recipe
First, we’ve installed recipe filtering so that you can find exactly what you’re looking for. On a dairy-free, Keto Diet? No problem! Just go here! You’ll love the drop-down menus at the top of the site which will guide you to the custom diet plan of your dreams!
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Health and Wellness
Another great feature? Easy access to my health and wellness solutions! Also at the top of the website in the navigation. Now you have my fantastic information on everything from EMFs to Clean Beauty at your fingertips.
Holiday Recipes Section
The holidays are a big part of my family’s life. I’ve now collected all of my holiday recipes in one section of the site for you. Cooking for Rosh Hashanah just got a whole lot easier! I have menus and recipes for other celebrations and festivities as well. You’ll love my healthy low-carb Christmas cookie recipes all year round if you’re a cookie monster like my boys are!
Nutrition Information
One of the most consistent requests I get is for nutrition information. I provide nutrition information for all of the recipes in my books. But, during the coming year, we will be adding nutrition information for all of the recipes on the website. Calculating this will take time and be a significant expense for me, but I know how important this is for you. We will be starting with the most recent recipes and going backwards chronologically through my catalog of creations.
Love Your Recipe
There are over 1,000 pages on this website and it is incredibly costly to host and maintain. Because of this we will be auditing the site this year and eliminating posts that do not have high traffic and engagement. What does this mean for you? If you have a favorite recipe and you want to see it stay, leave a comment letting me know you love it so that it makes the cut!
What Else Are You Looking For?
I hope you love this new design as much as we do! If we missed adding any features or you’re having any trouble finding your way around, leave a comment and I’ll be happy, as always, to answer your comment and help you out!
Dorie says
Elana,
If you will be eliminating some of your recipes and articles, please consider having your team save *each page* to the Internet Archive as it is taken offline.
That way, people will still be able to find the old pages as they last appeared (by finding them on the Internet Archive website), even if you are not actively hosting those pages anymore. It’s like consulting a reference book in a library, even if it’s no longer being printed/published for retail sale.
Here is the main page of the Internet Archive, also called the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/
See the part of that page called “save page now” for information on how to save a page of a website to the archive.
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Note: It may be possible to save an entire website at once on there – I am not sure – I expect that the site explains how to do that if it’s possible —
but I have run into situations where at first it appeared as if an old site that I was looking up in the Internet Archive were completely available, but when I actually dug into it, I found that only a few of the initial pages had been saved while hundreds had not been captured and are now lost.
Your readers could always just take their own initiative and save to that archive website the individual pages from your current website that they personally want to keep (read-only) access to, but that would be hit-and-miss, and probably involve a lot of duplication of effort with a number of people saving the same pages (also using up valuable storage space in the archive website on those duplicates).
If saving an entire site at once is not possible, and if saving each page/recipe/article one-by-one would be too much extra work for your team that will soon be paring down the pages here and taking some of them offline for good, maybe you could draft a group of reader-volunteers to go through all your recipes and save them to the Internet Archive (dividing the job up amongst the volunteers by the first letters of the recipe names, or by dates of the initial blog posts, or however would be best).
Thank you for all your wonderful work!
Elana says
Thanks Dorie!
Veggie says
Hi, I really like your blog and article, in general, everything that concerns healthy food is for me, I would like to write an article for you, please contact me by mail or here in the comments if possible.
Elana says
Veggie, thanks for your comment! I haven’t had any guest writers on the blog to date, I’ve written the 1,000+ posts and pages here all by myself. Thanks for your kind offer :-)
Juliana McLean says
Elana, I have all three of your cookbooks a and have purchased them for my two daughters-in-law and all of our family get togethers include many of your recipes! Love the new site and totally appreciate all that you do for us. I have a history of Crohn’s Disease and both my son’s and two grandsons have issues with wheat so all of your recipes work so well for all of us. I have been recommending them to all my friends lately. It seems everyone has diet related issues lately!
Elana says
Juliana, thanks for your amazing comment! I’m so happy to hear you’re enjoying my books and that your daughters-in-law are too! I’m also incredibly glad to be part of your family celebrations via my recipes. So glad to be on this healing path with you and yours :-)
Robin says
We started eating according to a primal/paleo lifestyle almost 9 years ago and your website was what helped ease the transition. Paleo matzo balls have become a holiday staple! I have all three of your books and consult those and your website frequently. Thank you for all of your wonderful recipes! You cannot imagine how much they are appreciated.
Elana says
Robin, I’m so happy to hear you are enjoying my books and website! We love the Matzo Balls too :-)
Anita Barry says
LOVE the new look! Really easy to navigate. I’ve always loved your personal posts too, sharing your story as well as the wellness solutions. We’re all in this together. If anyone I know has a health challenge, or just wants to eat better, I send them your way.
I’m still crazy for the Mexican wedding cookies. Even if you remove the recipe from the site, I make them so often I think I’ve got it memorized.
A question … if it’s not a massive, unwieldy task… when you start the recipe purge, could you let us know what’s getting dropped? And if it’s already in one of your books? If the recipe list is in the thousands, maybe schedule the purges – monthly, every other month, whatever – and then publish this list? Or do it by type – breads, salads, etc.? And give us an absolute deadline to get our act together? We could then do a simple search (so you don’t have to link everything) for the recipes until they get dropped.
If that paragraph just gave you a migraine, and it’s really not doable, I totally understand! And you can feel free to delete these two paragraphs if you publish this comment rather than unleash whatever reaction the suggestion might generate causing even more headaches! :-)
The fact that you’re going to provide all the nutritional info on older posts is truly generous.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Elana says
Anita, thanks for your fantastic comment! And appreciate all of your suggestions :-)
Zillah Juyal says
Many thanks for writing your cookbooks. My daughter was diagnosed in her twenties with allergies to legumes, dairy and gluten, after many years of ill health. Your books allowed me as her mom to participate in her healing process by being able to make a variety of tasty alternatives that were exciting enough to entertain our daughter and her family as well as many of our guests.
Your recipes walked me through a very difficult stage in our lives and for that I deeply appreciate your work.
Elana says
Zillah, thanks for your unbelievably heartfelt comment! You say, “My daughter was diagnosed in her twenties with allergies to legumes, dairy and gluten, after many years of ill health. Your books allowed me as her mom to participate in her healing process by being able to make a variety of tasty alternatives that were exciting enough to entertain our daughter and her family…” That is exactly why I wrote my books! In order to help heal my son’s gut when he was suffering from refractory celiac disease and I had to put him on a grain-free diet. So glad to be on this healing path with you :-)
Lana says
I love the simplicity of your recipes and am loving the look of your new site. Thanks for all your hard work. Please save your “Best Ever Bars” recipe. They truly are “the best ever”.
Elana says
Lana, I’m so happy to hear you love the simplicity of my recipes and the look of the new site! Thanks for letting me know the Best Ever Bars are truly the best ever!!!
Lisa Vatske says
Hi! I have been a fan for the past 5 years – I especially have appreciated the options and recipes for the Jewish holidays! I most frequently have used the a-z recipe list- is this no longer available? Thanks for investing in the new site- I know most of my favorites so it shouldn’t be too tough to figure it out- but often I have an ingredient and want a recipe to follow- so the a-z is helpful!
Elana says
Lisa, thanks for your awesome comment! I too adored the A-Z list but was told it was too old fashioned. I will speak to my development folks :-)
DrG says
I have been using and recommending your recipes to friends and patients for over 10 years. My sons have had every birthday cake home baked from your recipes even as I was in medical school. Thank you for for all that you do, and all that you are.
Hugs from NYC
Elana says
DrG, I’m so happy to be interwoven into your personal and professional lives via my recipes! Thrilled that every birthday cake your sons have had is from my recipes and hats off to you for making home baked treats during medical school! Thanks also for recommending your patients to my site :-)
Nancy@SaeasonsOfJoy says
Congratulations! I only have one of your cookbooks (so far) . I love the recipes! Happy redesigned website to you! I will have fun exploring, I’m sure. I appreciate all you do!
Nancy
Elana says
Nancy, that is so sweet! Thank you :-)