Nude Cooking Day - 1st Sept annually
The New Zealand Naturist Federation (NZNF) wishes to introduce to you Nude Cooking Day, which is held on the first day of spring (1 Sept) for the Southern Hemisphere (or the first day of Autumn for Northern) and has been celebrated since 2022.
Nude cooking day seeks to promote healthy body image and healthy eating, as well as sustainability by reducing food packaging.
Discover a new dimension to nudity in your own home. Unless you are a naturist, chances are you're frequently nude in your bedroom and bathroom, but less so your kitchen. By being nude while preparing food, you become more aware of your body and what you put into it.
Our bodies are our true homes. When we strip down and can feel secure and confident in our own skin, those feelings get carried over into all other aspects of life.
And the best place to start that journey of love and acceptance is in your own home, in your kitchen.
Anna Cruse on Nude Cooking Day
Anna Cruse, who passed away in 2025 at age 54 from cancer, had the following to say about “Nude Cooking Day”:
"People are used to being naked in their bathroom and bedroom, but being naked in the kitchen would be a new experience for many. Discovering the sensation of being nude in a new space, and becoming more aware of yourself and your body as you’re preparing food - also makes you aware of what you’re putting into that food and that body.
As I’m battling terminal cancer right now, I can’t help but wonder how all the unknown things in prepared foods - preservatives, colourants, thickeners, sweeteners etc., - what kind of long-term effects they might be having on our bodies. And perhaps we need to move to nude food - more raw ingredients from the Earth, preparing our own food; rather than just buying prepared meals which might contain all sorts of things that we aren’t aware of. Another benefit of this is less packaging - meaning less waste, which is better for the planet too.
New Zealand is a country of contradictions. Farming is our biggest sector. Food is our biggest export. We have - what is widely considered - the best diary products in the world. Our beef and lamb, is arguably the best you can find anywhere. We produce these amazing fruit and vegetables. We have some of the highest standards of farming globally. We’re an island in the middle of the ocean surrounded by all these gorgeous edible fish. We should be one of the healthiest counties in the world. But we are consistently ranked as one of the worse. Obesity top 10 world global index. As is diabetes and heart disease. We seem to be addicted to fast food. Food and drinks high in sugar and fat seem to be our go to place.
Nude cooking of nude food might be the revolution this country needs right now."
You can read more about Anna’s thoughts and recipes around Nude Cooking Day from this document ….
https://gonatural.co.nz/uploads/PDFs/AnnasNakedKitchen.pdf
What is nude food?
When we buy packaged foods, or takeaways or eat at a restaurant - we are often unaware of all the hidden artificial ingredients put in that is designed to enhance the taste and lifetime of the food. But these artificial ingredients are quite often high in salt or refined sugar or fat. So what you end up consuming - is quite different to what you think you might be eating.
The philosophy of nude food is to undress your food, and to prepare your meals from raw, unprocessed ingredients. It's an awareness of what's in our food and what we put in our bodies. Less from factories, more from the earth.
We have one of the biggest advocates for nude food in the world, right here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Follow Nadia Lim* for loads of information, resources and recipes on nude food:
https://nadialim.com/nude-food/
Nude Cooking
Undress Yourself
Take off those winter layers and become enchanted with the sights, smells and tastes of cooking nude at home and enjoying the free-body awareness that goes along with the food you eat.
Find the natural rhythm and connection to your body and what you put into it.
Nude Food
Undress Your Food
Nude Food refers to preparing food in your home from their natural state. Cooking from raw, unprocessed ingredients.
The food we buy - particularly meals of convenience - are saturated in a host of processed and artificial ingredients. Most of these ingredients preserve food longer, or enhance the taste, but is quite often very bad for our health and bodies.
Nude food takes us back to simpler, healthier eating by undressing your food and consuming it as nature intended.
The Nude food philosophy also focuses on reducing packaging around foods, particularly plastic - the less plastic and packaging we can use, the better for our environment and ecosystem.
Body Awareness
Become aware of your body and what you put into it
Have you tried dieting and failed? Have your tried eating healthier but can't?
Well, what do you have to lose by being nude in your kitchen and gaining a higher level of awareness of yourself and your body?
By becoming more aware of our bodies, and stripping ourselves down, we also become more aware of what we put into our bodies - and can then undress the food just like ourselves. Thereby gaining an understanding of exactly what we are eating and cutting out what we shouldn't be.
