Take family meals to new heights

Our Philosophy

The discovery of fire and the cooking and preservation of food through techniques such as fermentation allowed humans to better digest what they ate and pushed us up the evolutionary curve. Somewhere over the last century though, some of those techniques that proved so beneficial in the past have been waylaid or forgotten as we have moved towards more processed foods.

The bread we buy in supermarkets today for instance is much different from that cooked by our grandparents and great-grandparents. Fermented foods that help promote beneficial gut bacteria are missing from many people’s diets, as is fibre that can help feed and promote those bacteria. Conversely, highly processed foods can strip out many of much-needed vitamins and minerals, while high levels of processed sugars promote inflammation, weight gain and many other illnesses so prevalent in society.

When one looks at many of the world cuisines associated with the famed Blue Zones where people are said to live the longest, they all retain an element of that ancestral way of eating. We’re not talking a Paleo caveman-style diet, but cooking food the way it used to be cooked.

At Elevated, we believe in taking some of these concepts and marrying them with elements of cutting edge biohacking to produce an eating plan that is not about fad restrictive foods and crash weight-loss programmes but one that includes tasty, natural ingredients to enhance familiar and not-so-familiar meal time dishes.

Your gut health and your metabolism will benefit from a philosophy that the more you put in, the more you get out. That’s why our meals include nutrient dense, wild and organic ingredients that are treated with respect and sensitively prepared to optimise both their organoleptic qualities and their health values.

That doesn’t mean everything has to be wild and organic – we know people don’t all have the time to forage their own greens or perhaps can’t always afford to buy organic, and so we always offer ideas for the best substitutes that will give you the best return from both a taste and a health-giving perspective.

We don’t count calories, but we do count chemicals