Performance Nutrition
Recipes calibrated for founders — cognitive clarity, sustained energy, and meals you can batch-prep on Sunday so the rest of the week stays execution-mode.
A practical breakfast framework — five components, three formats, twelve minutes total. Built for the morning where you have no time and no patience.
Five components in any reasonable founder breakfast:
Dry beans cooked at home cost a quarter of canned, taste better, and produce a bean broth that is itself a usable ingredient. The technique fits in a Sunday afternoon.
Sandor Katz wrote three books that pulled fermentation out of food-science obscurity and into the home kitchen. Read at least one.
5 minutes of prep the night before buys you a no-decision, high-DHA breakfast that won't spike your glucose.
Most performance advice is built for athletes. We build for founders — asymmetric thinkers running on borrowed time. Every recipe here targets specific cognitive outcomes.
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The omega-3 conversation has been mangled by supplement marketers, but the underlying fact stands. Your brain is roughly 60 percent fat by dry weight, and the long-chain fats EPA and DHA are concentrated in the membranes of your neurons. Diets …
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Founders Food is run out of one home kitchen — the same one batch-prepping these meals for the founders who write here. Every recipe is cooked before it's published, tested at multiple serving sizes, and built to be repeatable on a weeknight after a 12-hour push. The editorial bias is toward technique over novelty: we'd rather get one salmon batch shockingly right than ship twelve halfway-tested experiments.
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