I’ve gotta make this fast because my friend is coming over to garden with me today! In honor of having reached (and flown past) the one-half-million-visitors mile marker to Your Health is on Your Plate (YHIOYP) this past week, and in response to recent requests for direction on where to go and what to read first, I’ve compiled a list of the most popular blog posts of all.  They include recipes, food history, food chemistry, and a little bit about words.

Let’s make this crystal–mountain spring water–clear. These are not necessarily my own favorite blog posts, though I am fond of several. They’re yours! These are the posts most visited by you, my readers, since I began blogging back in September 2009.

So enjoy, share with your friends and other people you love, and spread the word!  There is a world of difference between real food and manufactured calories. Your pants will feel the difference, your body will know the difference, and your brain will thank you for the difference. Sit back, relax, taste the flavor, enjoy your meals, and don’t forget to eat an ounce of dark chocolate every day.

• Leaves, Stems, and Buds: Cruciferous Vegetables
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Lia Huber’s Guacamole
• Why You Should Be Drinking Whole Milk
• Don’t Eat Bread for Breakfast
• Instant Oatmeal, Steel-Cut Oats, and Everything In Between
• Intact Carbohydrates
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Fresh Tomato Salad
• What the Vegan, Mayo Clinic, and Atkins Diets Have in Common
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Bok Choy plus
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Zucchini Frittata
• Coffee Whiteners
• The Maxwell House Haggadah Project
• Keep Your Enemies Closer
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Roasted Red Cabbage
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Cold Borscht (beet soup)
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Butternut Coconut Soup
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Randi’s Sunshine Salad
• YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Japanese Eggplant Stir fry

As always, this is a work in progress. I’ll continue to check where you go most, and share the data. Thank you again for all your support.