RIDLEY'S HOME COOKIN' REPRESENTS HOW WE COOK.  
 RIDLEY'S REAL FOOD REPRESENTS WHAT WE COOK.

Our added name represents the changes in our understanding about food and healthy eating choices. We will regularly update our information to help you make healthier selections in the foods you choose to eat.

 WHY DID RIDLEY'S CLOSE?  

As owner operator of Ridley's Home Cookin' Family Restaurant, I was knocked off my feet by a life threatening case of neural toxicity.  I consumed grapefruit juice while taking a prescription medication that came with a precaution of adverse reaction if I ate grapefruit or drank grapefruit juice.  Altogether I was in the hospital and/or nursing home for a total of five months or 150 consecutive days during 2005.

Towards the end of my confinement, these constant questions kept plaguing my mind.  How did I get here?  Why did this happen to me?  After much reading and studying, I finally came to the conclusion that my present condition began many years ago due to the quality of the types of foods that I had been eating nearly all of my life.  I had been the victim of the SAD diet, meaning Standard American Diet filled with thousands of man made chemicals.  I was ignorant to the harm they would eventually do to my body.

 WHAT'S NEXT FOR RIDLEY'S?

We have reopened for business again, but with some substantial changes.  After many, many hours of studying the customary eating habits of the typical American diet, it becomes apparent that as Americans, we are slowly being poisoned by the over 35,000 FDA approved chemical additives we find in our food; such as MSG, artificial flavoring and other various food enhancers.  All these are added in the name of good tasting food.  Yet these additives are toxic to our bodies, and in reality, foods that taste good can be extremely harmful.

Eat Well.  Stay Well.
William Parker
Owner, Ridley's Real Food Restaurant