One of the internet’s most popular “trad-wives” has revealed how her “ancestral diet” keeps her and her family in good shape and prevents them from getting sick.
Gretchen Adler has more than half a million followers on social media, who tune in to follow her recipes and her “tradwife” lifestyle, a term used to describe women who are in traditional, family-centered marriages.
Traditional wives take care of the home and children while their husband works and are often known for being kitchen geniuses who cook everything from scratch.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, Adler, a mother of three, said focusing on home-cooked meals with only unprocessed ingredients and whole foods was the secret to staying slim and healthy.
“Years ago I would never have imagined eating the way I do now because you look at (public) food and think: ‘That’s not healthy, it will make you gain weight.’ “I can’t eat a cookie. I can’t eat bread. I can’t eat butter.” But it is false and I have proven it to myself time and time again,” he explained.
Viral ‘tradwife’ Gretchen Adler (pictured) has revealed how her ‘ancestral diet’ keeps her and her family in good shape and prevents them from getting sick.
Some of Adler’s favorite “fun foods” include homemade versions of McDonald’s Oreos and McChicken burgers, pumpkin cheesecake, cookie dough ice cream, and chicken nuggets.
Adler has a strict list of ingredients that she avoids at all costs when cooking, including seed oils, artificial sugars, and anything containing food dyes.
“Everything I make has to be something that makes me feel good about eating it and makes me feel confident telling someone else that they can eat it and they won’t or won’t get fat.” get sick,” he said.
“All the ingredients I use to make these recipes are quality, so I can eat whatever I want, which is amazing and that’s how it should be.”
Adler’s ‘ancestral diet’ focuses on non-industrialized, minimally processed foods that our ancestors would have consumed.
It consists of unprocessed whole foods, grass-fed and wild-caught meats, and sustainably raised and grown animals and crops.
It also includes seasonal fruits and vegetables, healthy fats, nuts and seeds.
Some of Adler’s favorite ‘fun foods’ include homemade versions of McDonald’s Oreos and McChicken burgers, pumpkin cheesecake, cookie dough ice cream, and chicken nuggets.
“It’s all quality ingredients that I use to make these recipes, so I can eat whatever I want, which is amazing and that’s how it should be,” she told DailyMail.com.
Her favorite meal is pasture-raised meat with salad from her garden and homemade sourdough.
Adler said that thanks to the “nutrient-dense” ingredients in all her cooking, she was able to feel full sooner and therefore avoided overeating by listening to her body.
‘Many of the foods we have in this country are made by food scientists, and the goal is to make them as addictive as possible. That’s why I make everything from scratch, so I know what ingredients I use,” he explained.
‘And we can still enjoy the food we eat. It’s not like we have to follow a diet of lean chicken and steamed broccoli. “We can eat everything and we can nourish our bodies at the same time, which is incredibly exciting.”
Despite enjoying a lot of “fun food,” Adler admits that family meals are often simpler compared to what she shows on social media.
“I don’t give my family hamburgers every day,” he said.
‘The base of our meals is quality pasture-raised meat, so I’ll do a slow-cooked piece of meat or I’ll cook a whole roast chicken and that’s the basics of the meal.
“And then from there, we might have a loaf of whole wheat sourdough bread that I made with some raw, pasture-grown butter, and then I’ll make a salad from my garden or using local ingredients from a nearby farm and then a vinaigrette.’
Adler said her children rarely get sick and don’t suffer from behavioral problems because they avoid unprocessed foods.
Because of the diet, Adler said her children rarely got sick and, on the rare chance that they did, they were able to recover within 24 hours.
She also said that her children also did not suffer from any behavioral problems, which she believed was because they avoided ultra-processed foods.
In April, California state lawmakers passed a bill, the first in the country, that would ban schools from serving foods containing six artificial ingredients that have been linked to low IQ, behavioral problems and cancer.
In April, California lawmakers passed a bill, the first in the country, that would ban schools from serving foods containing six artificial ingredients that have been linked to low IQ, behavioral problems and cancer.
When it comes to identifying as a “tradwife,” which has become a controversial label lately, Adler says she prefers to be known as “tradwife 2.0.”
“I understand the criticism it gets because I think it really needs a more modern definition,” he said.
‘Tradwife is really a blast from the past, a 50s housewife with no feminist rights, so with Tradwife 2.0, I combined the best of 50s tradwife along with everything women could get from the feminist movement .
‘So we combine the best of both worlds in tradwife 2.0. I think it’s really just about educating people about what it means and what it’s like to be a midwife.’
