Hi, I'm Elizabeth
I'm a recipe developer, certified health coach, and the founder of ElizabethRider.com, where I've been sharing healthy recipes and practical wellness advice for more than 15 years.
These days a few hundred thousand people read along each month, which still surprises me. I also built Butler, a cooking app that takes the daily guesswork out of dinner.
The SHort Story
I've loved food for as long as I can remember. I grew up in a small Montana town with a mom who cooked, and I think that's where it started, this habit of tasting something wonderful and immediately wanting to make it myself. The more I traveled, the worse it got. I'd come home from a trip set on recreating everything I'd eaten. That's still the whole idea here: I travel, I taste, I cook, and I bring the flavors I love back to my own kitchen as real food that actually works in a regular life.
Recipe-wise:
What I do here.
I develop and test every recipe in my own kitchen before it goes on the site. When I tell you something works, it's because I've made it more times than I can count, and usually messed it up a few ways first so you don't have to. I'd rather tell you the honest version, including what didn't work, than sell you a perfect-looking photo.
I'm a certified holistic health coach, trained at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and I hold a Plant-Based Nutrition certificate from Cornell. But the credential I lean on most is 15 years of cooking real meals for real people and writing about it honestly. My work has been featured on Forbes, Good Morning America, Entrepreneur, Insider, and ABC News. I wrote a book called The Health Habit, and I share recipes and cooking videos with a growing community over on YouTube.
Here's How I think about
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There isn't one right way, and I'm not going to hand you a rigid diet.
Good health is bigger than what's on your plate. It's what you listen to, how you think, who you spend time with, and whether you actually enjoy your life along the way. So you'll find options here, not commandments. Take what works for you and leave the rest.
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A few other things I've built
The Friday 5 is my weekly newsletter, where more than 60,000 people get five things I'm loving, cooking, reading, or thinking about that week. It's the most "me" thing I make, and it's the best way to keep in touch. You can subscribe right here.
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I also built Butler, a cooking app that fixes the part of dinner that was always hardest for me. The cooking was never really the problem. The constant deciding was. After 15 years of feeding my own family and still standing in my kitchen at 5pm asking "what's for dinner," I wanted something that adapts to real life instead of handing me a plan I'd abandon by Wednesday. So I built it.
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Get to know me
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I grew up in Montana and now live in the Seattle area with my husband, two stepdaughters, and our golden retriever, Maple. When I'm not in the kitchen or writing, I'm usually in the garden, out on a long walk in the woods or beach, reading a novel, or planning where we're going next. I take the work seriously and try not to take myself too seriously, because none of us get out of here alive.
Thanks for being here. I hope this space nudges you to try something new, take good care of yourself, and enjoy the process while you're at it.
Family Life
Official Bio
Elizabeth Rider is a recipe developer, certified health coach, and the founder of ElizabethRider.com, a healthy-recipe and wellness site she has run for more than 15 years. She is the author of The Health Habit and the founder of Butler, a recipe-organizing and meal-planning app, and she shares recipes and cooking videos with a large audience on YouTube. Based in the Seattle area, she is known for a practical, non-prescriptive approach to healthy eating and is the writer behind the Friday 5, a weekly newsletter with more than 60,000 subscribers. Her work has been featured on Forbes, Good Morning America, Entrepreneur, Insider, and ABC News.
If you're into good food and want recipes that actually work in a real kitchen, then you've come to the right place.
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