New to the Nordic diet?
Begin with the food this way of eating is built on: wholegrain rye, oats and barley, root vegetables and cabbage, oily fish, rapeseed oil and berries.
About us
NordicDiet.co.uk is here to help you eat the way the north does: wholegrains, roots, oily fish and berries, cooked simply. Nothing fashionable, nothing imported, nothing you need a special shop for.
If you’ve ever asked these questions, you’re in the right place:
- What actually is the Nordic diet?
- Can I eat this way on a British budget?
- What do I cook in the middle of winter?
What can you get from us?
Explore free articles, practical meal ideas and everyday shopping tips. A free starter ebook, a paid guidebook and an online video course are in preparation.
How our guides help
Turn the ideas into meals you recognise. Learn which grain to choose, which fish to buy and how to cook well through a northern winter.
How to make a start
Choose one familiar meal. Change the grain, add a vegetable that grows here and cook it in rapeseed oil. Build from there at a pace that suits you.
Why eat like a northerner?
Because the Mediterranean diet is built on what grows in the Mediterranean. Olive groves, lemons and ripe tomatoes are someone else’s climate. Ours grows oats, rye, barley, carrots, swede, beetroot, cabbage and blackcurrants, and our seas are full of mackerel and herring.
A northern diet is not a compromise. Wholegrain rye and oats, oily fish twice a week, rapeseed oil and a freezer full of berries make a genuinely good way to eat.
Traditional Nordic eating varies by country and household. We describe a pattern, not a prescription, and you can adjust portions to your own needs.
Explore the approachPractical guides for your everyday life
Good intentions are easier to put into practice when you know what to cook and what to buy. Our articles already offer plain explanations, a shopping list and a flexible seven-day menu.
We’re preparing more resources to help you explore Nordic eating: a free starter ebook, a detailed paid ebook at £27, and an online video course at £47, including the paid ebook.
These products are coming soon. Their final contents and launch dates are still to be confirmed, and no orders or payments are being taken.
Explore the guidesMake northern eating part of your day
Six useful things to learn, practise and make your own.
Understand the approach
Discover what Nordic eating looks like, and why it is often described as the Mediterranean diet of the north.
Choose the wholegrain
Get to know rye, oats, barley and crispbread, and where each one earns its place in an ordinary week.
Make simple food swaps
Explore barley under a stew, an open rye sandwich at lunch and roasted roots in place of chips.
Eat more oily fish
Herring, mackerel, salmon and trout — including the tinned and frozen versions, which cost a fraction of the fresh.
Keep berries all year
Frozen blueberries, blackcurrants and lingonberries make a northern diet work in February as well as July.
Build lasting habits
Keep the pleasure of cooking and eating. Focus on small, repeatable choices and realistic expectations, rather than an all-or-nothing rulebook.
Hi, I’m Jonathan
I’m Jonathan, the owner of NordicDiet.co.uk. My aim with this website is to make a northern way of eating clear, practical and affordable.
You’ll find ideas for real meals, straightforward ingredient choices and small changes you can try in your own kitchen. Start with something useful to you, then build on it.
I’m grateful for you being here. Thank you.
This is a food-education website. We do not provide a clinical service or claim medical qualifications, and the content has not been independently clinically reviewed. Where we discuss health, we link sources and explain the limits of the evidence.
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