Practical help to eat well and flourish.

🎉 Everything we created on Kitchen Monk™ is free to use, print and share, starting 2026. Nurses especially: bring our recipes and tools to your patients, your unit and your community. Just credit us and link back.

👥 Who it’s for

Everyone: nurses, patients, families, teachers, churches and community groups. There is no application, membership or fee.

🔓 How to get it

Everything is already on this site. Open any recipe or tool we wrote, then print it, save it or share the link. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy.

✅ You may

  • 🖨️ Print our recipes, grocery lists and food tools for patients, families and friends.
  • 🍲 Cook, teach and demonstrate them in classes, clinics, churches and community kitchens.
  • 🌍 Adapt and translate them. Please note what you changed.
  • 📣 Share them on social media, in newsletters and in presentations.

🙏 Please credit us

Copy this line onto anything you share:

From Kitchen Monk™ by Nathanael Elijah Smith, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, DipACLM · kitchenmonk.org

⚠️ What this does not cover

  • 🤝 Recipes, videos, books, quotes and photos by other chefs, doctors and organizations we feature. Follow their own terms and credit them.
  • 📷 Photos of people.
  • ™ Our names and logos. Use them to credit us, but not as the name of your own program or to suggest we endorse it.

🌿 Two sites, one mission

Kitchen Monk™ is for patients, families and anyone cooking for health. Nurses and clinicians will find professional resources on its companion site, Flourishing Nursing™. Both are free, from the same founder.

🩺 Our materials are for education and do not replace care from your own clinician.

🌺 #Ohana · Nathanael’s favorite lifestyle medicine teacher

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“…challenging us to carry the light forward.”

🍎 Mrs. Barbara Weaver · Amazon review of The Book of the Lamp
🌲 Flourishing EVERgreen Guardian™ of the Pacific Northwest
🩺 Chief Flourishing Lifestyle Medicine Patient Representative™
🤝 Chief Flourishing Community Belonging Guardian™

Our golden lamp: in loving memory of Grandpa Kenneth and Grandma Carolyn Smith