About.
We say:
Good-bye to chemicals, preservatives, and processed ingredients.
Adieu to frozen pizzas and inconvenient trips to pick up food from restaurants.
Bon voyage to cooking daily meals and never having enough time.
Adios to the stress of rigid meal planning.
Farewell to wasteful packaging from national meal delivery services.
Howdy to ingredients from local farms & artisan producers.
Hello to organic, unrefined ingredients.
Welcome to grass-fed dairy and meat from local, pastured, humanely treated animals.
Bonjour to compostable & glass packaging that is whisked away weekly, sanitized and reused.
Bon appetit to marvelous tasting prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner.
And, most of all, THANK YOU for the gift of time to mindfully reconnect to yourself and the people who matter most in your life.
Local
Not only is it socially responsible to eat local, but it is incredibly delicious here in Middle Tennessee. The last few years have seen an explosion of creative farmers raising colorful heirloom ingredients. Dinner Belle will source as many local ingredients as possible and all the meals revolve around the harvest seasons. All local sources will be listed in each Dinner Belle recipe.
Organic
There are wonderful, certified organic farms here in Middle Tennessee. There are also many farms that use organic practices but are not yet certified because the certification process is too expensive for smaller farms. Dinner Belle visits farms that are not certified or has a representative visit to make sure they really are using organic practices. We try to use organic ingredients as much as possible and never use any non-organic produce on the “Dirty Dozen” list; however, we may occasionally use a non-organic ingredients from the “Clean Fifteen” list.
No Processed Foods
Instead of foods made with refined flour or sugar, Dinner Belle uses only whole foods like rice, potatoes, corn and whole grains like barley, farro and quinoa. The only sweeteners we use are local honey, local sorghum, or unrefined cane sugar.
High Protein Meatless Meals
We encourage you to eat a few meatless meals every week. It is good for your health and more sustainable. Unfortunately, factory farming has made many Americans accustom to eating meat at almost every meal, but high-quality meat cannot be produced in that volume.
Pastured Meat
The hilly Middle Tennessee landscape actually makes it more conductive to raise meat here than to grow crops. We only offer meat from free-range animals that have been treated humanely and never given hormones or steroids. Cows are grassfed, but may be finished with organic, GMO-free grain. Chickens are never given antibiotics. Pigs and cows are never given antibiotics unless in an extreme, isolated circumstance where it is inhumane not to treat them.
Less waste
Instead of plastic, we package your food in reusable Mason jars or compostable casserole dishes made from plant fibers. Each week Dinner Belle sterilizes the returned glass packaging for use again.
Know Your Farmer.
Our Heroes this week.
Some of our Producers:
- Green Door Gourmet, Nashville, TN
- S.E. Daugherty and Sons, Nashville, TN
- Bloomsbury Farms, Smyrna, TN
- Bountiful Blessings Farm, Williamsport, TN
- Greener Roots, Nashville, TN
- No. 9 Farm, Ashland City, TN
- Athenas Havest, Santa Fe, TN
- Lupine and Poppies, Franklin, TN
- Bushel and A Peck Homestead, Cumberland City, TN
- KLD Farm, Ashland City, TN
- Rittenbery Farm, Burna, KY
- Nobel Springs, Franklin, TN
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