Clean up your diet and look and feel better than ever with this simple, beautiful cookbook featuring more than 100 recipes that make it easy and delicious to eat clean and green.
We all know we should eat more green foods, but after a few variations on the same salad, juice or smoothie, it’s easy to run out of ideas that excite our taste buds. In Clean Green Eats, celebrity chef Candice Kumai offers an answer to that dilemma, offering more than 100 simple, unique and delicious recipes made from whole foods packed with of nutrients that will help you lose weight, detox, and look amazing. All of her recipes are effortlessly gluten free (no complicated ingredients required!) and while a plant-based diet is the focus, the idea of “meat as a treat”—eating high-quality, sensible portions of animal protein—is also central to her plan.
Clean Green Eats kicks off with Candice’s one week cleanse, which includes juices, smoothies, and simple meals, and continues with a six-week plan to develop healthy practices that will last a lifetime. There’s no deprivation with Candice’s delicious drinks, breakfasts, snacks, soups, salads, sides, mains, and desserts. Start your day with a Coconut Almond Green Smooth or Cinnamon-Spiced Granola. For lunch, fill up on Farro, Edamame, and Pea Salad. Whip up Asian Ginger Garlic Steak Salad, Superfood Curry Salmon Salad, or Chili Lime Shrimp Tostadas for a delicious dinner. For a fabulous finale, she includes desserts like Vegan Dark-Chocolate Avocado Cake and Banana Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ‘Ice Cream.’
Banish the processed food, sugar, and carb habits that lead to fatigue, belly bloat, poor digestion, and constant cravings—let Clean Green Eats help you look and feel better than ever, no deprivation required!
Publisher : Harper Wave
Publication date : June 23, 2015
Edition : Illustrated
Language : English
Print length : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062388738
ISBN-13 : 978-0062388735
Item Weight : 1 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 0.93 x 9 inches
8 reviews for Clean Green Eats: 100+ Clean-Eating Recipes to Improve Your Whole Life
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Amazon Customer –
Tons of flavor without any guilt!
I cannot recommend this cookbook highly enough!I’m not much of a cook, but I’m trying to learn, and I want to cook healthy food that actually tastes good.My fiance loves butter and cream and fried foods, but I want to eat healthy, and the recipes in this cookbook make BOTH of us happy! He loves all the avocado and the tangy salad dressings; I love the cleansing soups and smoothies.I heard about Candice through a recipe featured on darlingmagazine.org and I also tested some recipes from Candice’s blog before I broke down and bought the book. It is WORTH IT. I use it to plan my meals each week.The recipes are super flavorful and simple to make. Many of the recipes use similar ingredients, so once you pick up the basics you can mix and match to make them all.There is an awesome introduction giving interesting descriptions and facts about all the ingredients she recommends.The chapters on soups, salads, mains, and veggie mains have enough recipes for variety but not so many that you feel overwhelmed.The salad dressings are my favorites! With only 4 or 5 ingredients, I can make DELICIOUS dressing without any added sugar, preservatives, or random soy or corn products.There is also a great introduction to green drinks and smoothies. If you like those, you can get more with another book by Candice Clean Green Drinks: 100+ Cleansing Recipes to Renew & Restore Your Body and MindA couple of people have complained about the lack of calorie counts in the book, but Candice explains that this is not about counting calories. Honestly, if you eat these recipes, you can eat until you are full with NO GUILT because everything you’re putting in your body is good for you.Basically, if you are looking for a book to help you cook with flavor without using a ton of butter and cream, THIS IS THE ONE.
Lauresqnc –
What a gem!
This is a very well written and informative book that is more than just a “cook book”. It’s not about going vegan, vegetarian, or about going on a diet, although I’m confident weight loss will be a side effect of following these easy and healthy recipes! Candice spends the first part of the book explaining benefits of the key ingredients she uses in her recipes, as well as how to properly store them for maximum shelf life. A lot of the ingredients are new to me and aren’t cheap since they come from specialty organic markets, so this book paid for itself with the first recipe when I finally started properly storing nuts, grains, seeds, etc. She has many great tips on making smoothies properly and choosing good produce as well. For a former junk food junkie like me who is now trying to get healthy as a result of an auto immune disorder, this book is a wealth of knowledge because I don’t know a lot about the ingredients and what you don’t know can hurt you if you try to cook with expensive, foreign ingredients that you’ve never used. I’m ashamed to say that I don’t have much experience with Brussel sprouts, fennel, and quinoa, but no worries! Candice explains it all before diving into her well organized recipes! Another reason why I like this book is that she repeats ingredients. There is a lot of variety, but when you’re buying expensive organic ingredients, it’s nice to be able to use up what you’ve purchased. I hate “cleanses” and other books that have you buy a ten or twenty dollar novelty food item that you’ll never use again. Candice has carefully thought out her recipes, and she won’t leave you with half eaten anything! I also appreciate that she doesn’t dump peppers into all her recipes. I have a sensitive stomach and most healthy recipes I find are loaded with all sorts of peppers and spicy fare. She does add curry and spice here and there, but it isn’t EVERYWHERE. it’s nice to finally find something that works for me and that I can actually manage! There are no strict rules, just great information and recipes!
Amazon Customer –
It’s not what you’d normallly throw together but still practical
I’d researched this book and read and read and read before finally deciding to buy it. I can’t say that I’m disappointed. I initially passed on it because on the surface, it just didn’t seem like there were a lot of recipes I wanted to eat. The ingredients weren’t things I’d use everyday. Even the cover photo just looks like something people say we should eat but we know, although it may be very good for us, we probably won’t like it. I would say, to a certain extent, I was right. But in a good way. I think this book is for people who wants a lifestyle change and not simply low fat versions of things you already eat. With that being said, the foods are familiar, but she somehow puts a spin on it. It has an ethnic twist in one way or another. What I like about the book is that yes, some of the ingredients were foreign to me, but we did use those ingredients again and again. It’s not like you use it once and that’s it. I found that I am a big fan of Tamari Soy Sauce. I had to google what it was but was able to find it at Target and Albertsons. And yes, it is different from regular soy sauce and it is the reason I like quacamole. Some stuff I made, like the shrimp and tortillas, tasted restaurant quality. And surprisingly, meals were simple and inexpensive. Obviously, there are some things I would probably like better at year 3 of healthy eating rather than year 1. I have yet to try that cover photo. But I’m not disappointed with my purchase. It contributes to making me more mindful of what I eat and to make healthy choices, not just low cal choices. I think this is a good cookbook for anyone who wants to eat whole/real foods and who wants to learn who to make actual food in this day of instant and quick everything. The only very minor con is that there may be a few omissions recipe wise. It may pause you for a second because you may have an ingredient but no step for it. But because everything is just going in a big pot it really doesn’t make that big of a difference when you think about it.
NubIanGem –
This book is great, tasty health recipes that are easy to follow with beautifully pictures. I’m glad I bought it.
Sandra –
Ce que j’aime avec les livres de Candice Kumai est qu’il y a une bonne variété de recettes et elles sont toutes bonnes pour la santé.
Merlin –
Loved this book; great recipes.
Carole –
Very healthy and interesting recipes. Enjoyed this book very much.
Adrienn Ferko –
Great book. I really like that she explains what goodness in all the different salads, vegetables and seeds/nuts is.