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When I started cooking without seed oils, there was no single place to find recipes. Most cookbooks call for canola oil on page one. Vegetable oil appears in the sauce. Sunflower oil is in the dressing. Every recipe required translation before you could cook it, and even then the result was a compromise.

The 25 books in this collection exist because I needed them and they didn't. Each one covers a different cuisine or topic — African, Hawaiian, Indian, Mediterranean, Asian, American family dinners, baking, growing your own ingredients — and every recipe in every book uses only butter, ghee, tallow, lard, coconut oil, or olive oil. No canola. No soybean oil. No vegetable shortening. No seed oils of any kind.

This guide covers every title: what's in each book, which recipes it covers, and how it connects to the free recipes already on this site. If you're new to seed oil free cooking and unsure where to start, the guide at the bottom will help you choose.

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The Savor Cuisine Series

Ten books covering the world's major culinary traditions — each one rewritten from the ground up without a single seed oil. Every recipe has been tested to ensure that replacing canola, sunflower, or vegetable oil with an ancestral fat produces an equal or better result. In most cases it produces a noticeably better one.

American & Family
Savor Family — 50 Seed Oil Free Meals Your Kids Will Actually EatFREE on KU

The most practical book in the series. Fifty complete dinners, a 4-week family meal plan, a school lunchbox chapter, and a guide to converting your most-used family recipes. Everything is in butter, ghee, tallow, or lard. Paperback also available for the kitchen counter.

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Tallow Smash BurgersSouthern Fried ChickenClassic MeatloafButter Mac and CheeseNew England Clam Chowder
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African
Savor African — West and East African Recipes in Traditional FatsFREE on KU

Thirty recipes from Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Morocco — jollof rice, egusi soup, suya, doro wat, thiéboudienne, Moroccan lamb tagine — cooked in red palm oil, groundnut oil, and rendered animal fats exactly as they were before seed oils entered the continent's cooking.

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Egusi Soup in Palm OilWest African SuyaMoroccan ChickenNigerian Jollof RiceEast African Nyama Choma
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Hawaiian
Savor Hawaiian — Island Recipes in Coconut Oil, Butter, and TallowFREE on KU

Hawaii is one of the few American food cultures with deep roots in coconut oil and animal fat — kalua pig roasted in its own fat, poke dressed in sesame oil, loco moco with a tallow-seared patty. This book covers the full Hawaiian table without replacing those fats with anything industrial.

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Coconut Oil Poke BowlSlow Roasted Kalua PigHuli Huli ChickenLoco Moco in TallowSpam Musubi
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Indian
Savor Indian — Ghee-Based Indian Recipes from Across the SubcontinentFREE on KU

Indian cooking at its best has always been built on ghee — clarified butter that has been central to Ayurvedic tradition for thousands of years. This book covers butter chicken, dal makhani, lamb biryani, saag paneer, chicken korma, and 25 more dishes, all cooked in ghee without the vegetable oil substitutions that have corrupted most restaurant versions.

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Ghee Butter ChickenLamb Biryani in GheeChana Masala in GheeSaag PaneerPalak Dal in Ghee
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Mediterranean
Savor Mediterranean — Greek, Lebanese, Italian, and North African Recipes in Olive Oil and ButterFREE on KU

The Mediterranean diet is frequently described as the world's healthiest — and when it centres on extra virgin olive oil, grass-fed butter, and minimal processed food, the research supports that. This book covers moussaka, mujaddara, souvlaki, baba ganoush, lamb kleftiko, and shakshuka, with every recipe using the original fat rather than a modern substitute.

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Lebanese MujaddaraMoroccan Lamb TagineGhee ShakshukaGreek Lamb KleftikoFrench Onion Soup
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Asian
Savor Asian — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Southeast Asian Recipes in Lard and Coconut OilFREE on KU

Asian street food and home cooking relied on lard for most of its history. The shift to soybean and palm olein happened in the mid-twentieth century for cost reasons, not culinary ones. This book goes back: lard fried rice, coconut oil teriyaki, ghee scrambled eggs with kimchi, pad thai in lard, Korean bulgogi in tallow, and Japanese ramen in tallow.

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Lard Fried RicePad Thai in LardKorean Beef BulgogiJapanese Miso RamenCoconut Oil Teriyaki
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Chicken
Savor Chicken — 40 Chicken Recipes in Ancestral Fats, Every Cut and TechniqueFREE on KU

A single-subject deep dive covering whole roast chicken in butter, coq au vin, tallow fried chicken, ghee butter chicken, Moroccan chicken with preserved lemon, Korean dakgalbi, Peruvian pollo a la brasa, and more. Every cut, every cooking method, across eight cuisines.

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Tallow Fried ChickenCoq au Vin in ButterGhee Butter ChickenMoroccan ChickenHuli Huli Chicken
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Cookies & Baking
Savor Cookies — Seed Oil Free Baking in Butter and LardFREE on KU

Every baked good in this book uses butter, lard, or coconut oil. No vegetable shortening, no margarine, no canola. Brown butter chocolate chip cookies, Scottish shortbread, lard pastry, butter tarts, coconut oil granola bars, and 25 more recipes for the baker who has gone seed oil free and wants to keep baking.

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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesScottish Butter ShortbreadApple Pie with Lard CrustLard Flour TortillasCoconut Oil Chocolate Bark
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The Health and Reset Series

Two books focused on the broader health picture — the physiology behind seed oil damage, the practical reset protocol, and the connection between diet, stress hormones, and metabolic health.

The 7 Day Reset — A Seed Oil Free Week from Breakfast Through DinnerFREE on KU

Seven complete days of seed oil free eating — every meal, breakfast through dinner — with grocery lists for each day and an explanation of what changes in the first week when you remove seed oils from your diet. The fastest entry point for someone who wants to start immediately rather than research first.

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Ghee Scrambled EggsTallow Smash BurgersGhee Butter ChickenBrown Butter PancakesThe Seed Oil Free Pantry Guide
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The Ancestral Cortisol Reset — Seed Oil Free Eating for Stress, Sleep, and Hormonal BalanceFREE on KU

The book also sets out the author’s view of how diet, stress and seed oils interact. A practical protocol for reducing seed oil intake specifically to improve sleep quality, reduce chronic stress response, and support hormonal balance, with a 30-day meal structure and supporting recipes.

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Ghee Golden MilkTallow Bone BrothWhat Is Ghee and Why It MattersHow to Detox Seed OilsThe Complete Seed Oil Free Pantry
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The Grow-Your-Own Series

Ten books covering the most useful food plants you can grow at home — in containers, raised beds, windowsills, or small gardens. Each book pairs practical growing guidance with seed oil free recipes that use the harvested ingredient. At 99 cents each on Kindle, the entire series costs less than a single restaurant meal.

Grow Your Own Garlic
Container and garden growing. Pairs with every recipe that calls for garlic — butter chicken, mujaddara, pot roast.
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How to Grow Tomatoes Upside Down
Space-saving container method. Pairs with shakshuka, ratatouille, groundnut stew.
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How to Grow Mushrooms on Logs
Home log inoculation method. Pairs with ramen, doenjang jjigae, mapo tofu.
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How to Grow Potatoes
Container and raised bed method. Pairs with tallow roast potatoes and shepherd's pie.
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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes
Warm-climate and container growing. Pairs with bibimbap and African stews.
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How to Grow Lettuce Year-Round
Cold frame and indoor method. Pairs with poke bowls and grain salads.
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How to Grow Strawberries
Container, hanging basket, and bed growing. Pairs with Dutch baby and coconut oil granola.
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How to Grow Avocado from Seed
Indoor growing method from supermarket avocados. Pairs with ghee avocado toast and poke bowls.
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How to Grow Ginger and Turmeric
Indoor pot method. Pairs with ghee golden milk, tom kha gai, and rendang.
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How to Grow Microgreens at Home
No-garden method — windowsill growing. Pairs with ghee scrambled eggs and avocado toast.
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How to Choose Your First Book

Answer one question: what do you actually cook most?

Family dinners and weeknight meals → Savor Family
Indian and South Asian food → Savor Indian
Asian and Southeast Asian food → Savor Asian
Mediterranean and Middle Eastern → Savor Mediterranean
Want to start a complete reset → The 7 Day Reset
Chicken is your most-cooked protein → Savor Chicken
Baking without seed oils → Savor Cookies
You grow some of your own food → the Grow-Your-Own series

If you're on the fence, the 7 Day Reset is the lowest-commitment entry point — seven days of structured meals with every decision made for you. Most people who complete it have enough momentum to continue on their own.

Before you start cooking
The Seed Oil Free Pantry Guide
Every fat, every brand, every price — where to buy tallow, lard, ghee, and coconut oil on Amazon.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions
Are all 25 books really seed oil free?

Yes. Every recipe in every book uses only butter, ghee, beef tallow, pasture-raised lard, coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, or red palm oil. No canola, soybean, sunflower, safflower, corn, rice bran, cottonseed, or grapeseed oil appears anywhere in any of the 25 titles.

Are all the books available on Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. Every title across all three series is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. If you have an active KU subscription, you can read all 25 books at no additional cost. The Grow-Your-Own books are 99 cents each on Kindle if you purchase individually.

What is the difference between the Savor series and the 7 Day Reset?

The Savor books are cuisine-based recipe collections — you pick recipes from them the same way you would any cookbook. The 7 Day Reset is a structured 7-day programme with every meal planned, grocery lists included, and no decisions required. It is designed for people who want to start immediately rather than browse.

I'm new to seed oil free cooking. Where do I even begin?

Start with the 10-minute kitchen audit — it tells you what to remove from your pantry. Then read what are seed oils for the background. Then pick any recipe from the site that matches a dish you already cook and make it this week. The ghee scrambled eggs are three minutes and require no new equipment.

Can I find these books in print?

Savor Family and The Ancestral Cortisol Reset are both available in paperback. The remainder of the series are currently Kindle-only, with additional paperback editions planned.

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