Welcome

Hi, I’m Emily

I’m a certified nutrition coach with a passion for food. I love food- the flavors, the colors, the textures, how it benefits your body, how it can make you feel good and create memories, and how it can convey love. I believe we’d all feel better and be healthier if we just ate real food – no added man-made chemicals, no fillers, no artificial colors – just food. Creating meals and snacks that taste wonderful and fuel my body for all the things I require of it each day is a simple joy that I truly love.

Cooking is definitely how I show my love to others. I feel that by giving people food that will fuel their bodies as well as their tastebuds, I’m loving them in a healthy way – helping rather than harming. With so many wonderfully delicious real foods out there to eat, I don’t believe healthy eating is a sacrifice.

This is a journey to share what I have learned through personal experience and thousands of hours of food and nutrition study in hopes that it will help you a bit on your journey. I’d be honored if you join me.

Fun Facts About Me

I’d rather be

Outside

Listening to

Zach Williams

grateful for

my family and friends

Favorite Vacation place

Italy

my favorite place in the whole world

home

hobbies other than cooking

painting & gardening

My Favorite Recipe

My Favorite Healthy habit Post

My Favorite Food Feature

Emily Haygood chopping vegetables in the kitchen

Where this all began

My earliest cooking memory was when I was 3 years old. It was a lazy, boring, long summer day. I’m sure my sister and I were driving my mom crazy. Being the wonderful creative mom that she is, she said, “Why don’t y’all each invent a recipe and then we’ll make it!” I don’t remember the exact recipe I made up (it was some sort of ball made of crushed cookies), but I do remember the joy I felt in my little heart. I was so enamored with the idea of making something up from nothing and then eating the final product!

In middle school, I began baking for my friends and family. The summer before I started college, my job was cooking dinner for my parents and me each weeknight. In college, I was so excited to have a kitchen to cook in the year I got my first apartment. Even then, I loved making up my own recipes and cooking for those I loved.

While I would earn a degree and work for a time as a speech language pathologist, I was always cooking, baking, and learning about food. I even owned a bakery for several years in Macon, Ga. As a young mom, my passion for food would increasingly turn towards nutrition and what food could do for our health. In my free time, I was constantly reading about food and nutrition. Finally, in 2023, I decided to put all that personal knowledge I had gained over two decades to work and earned my nutrition coaching certification. The Savored Joy you’ll find in these pages is the culmination of all of this.