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100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It, What We Learned, and 100 Easy, Wholesome Recipes Your Family Will Love (100 Days of Real Food series) Hardcover – August 26, 2014
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
The creator of the 100 Days of Real Food blog draws from her hugely popular website to offer simple, affordable, family-friendly recipes and practical advice for eliminating processed foods from your family's diet.
Inspired by Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, Lisa Leake decided her family's eating habits needed an overhaul. She, her husband, and their two small girls pledged to go 100 days without eating highly processed or refined foods—a challenge she opened to readers on her blog.
Now, she shares their story, offering insights and cost-conscious recipes everyone can use to enjoy wholesome natural food—whole grains, fruits and vegetables, seafood, locally raised meats, natural juices, dried fruit, seeds, popcorn, natural honey, and more.
Illustrated with 125 photographs and filled with step-by-step instructions, this hands-on cookbook and guide includes:
- Advice for navigating the grocery store and making smart purchases
- Tips for reading ingredient labels
- 100 quick and easy recipes for such favorites as Homemade Chicken Nuggets, Whole Wheat Pasta with Kale Pesto Cream Sauce, and Cinnamon Glazed Popcorn
- Meal plans and suggestions for kid-pleasing school lunches, parties, and snacks
- "Real Food" anecdotes from the Leakes' own experiences
- A 10-day mini starter-program, and much more.
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow Cookbooks
- Publication dateAugust 26, 2014
- Dimensions8 x 1.15 x 9 inches
- ISBN-109780062252555
- ISBN-13978-0062252555
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“Very detailed and comprehensive.…If you’re ready to take the challenge, this is an excellent handbook.” -- Charleston Post & Courier
“Perfect for those who are trying to ditch processed foods.” -- wellandgood.com
“For practical pointers on making real food a family affair, there’s no better resource than Lisa Leake’s 100 Days of Real Food. It offers both gradual and wholesale approaches to relinquishing synthetics.” -- Portland Press Herald
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Simple, family-friendly recipes and practical advice to help you ditch processed food and eat better every day!
Thanks to Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, Lisa Leake was given the wake-up call of her life when she realized that many of the foods she was feeding her family were actually "foodlike substances." So she, her husband, and their two young girls completely overhauled their diets by pledging to go 100 days without eating highly processed or refined foods—a challenge she opened to readers on her blog. What she thought would be a short-term experiment turned out to have a huge impact on her personally. After wading through their fair share of challenges, experiencing unexpected improvements in health, and gaining a preference for fresh, wholesome meals, the Leakes happily adopted their commitment to real food as their "new normal."
Now Lisa shares her family's story, offering insights and cost-conscious recipes everyone can use to enjoy wholesome natural food prepared with easily found ingredients such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, seafood, locally raised meats, whole-milk dairy products, nuts, natural sweeteners, and more.
Filled with step-by-step instructions, this hands-on cookbook and guide includes:
- Advice for navigating the grocery store and making smart real food purchases
- Tips for reading ingredient labels
- 100 quick-and-easy recipes for such favorites as Homemade Chicken Nuggets, Whole Wheat Pasta with Kale Pesto Cream Sauce, Cheesy Broccoli Casserole, The Best Pulled Pork in the Slow Cooker, and Cinnamon-Glazed Popcorn
- Meal plans and suggestions for kid-pleasing school lunches, parties, and snacks
- A 10-day mini-starter program, and much more.
100 Days of Real Food offers all the support, encouragement, and guidance you'll need to make these incredibly important and timely life changes.
About the Author
Lisa Leake’s “100 Days of Real Food” pledge, chronicled on her popular blog, started as a simple challenge but led to a valuable resource read by millions around the globe that spawned the #1 New York Times bestselling cookbook 100 Days of Real Food and two others: 100 Days of Real Food: Fast and Fabulous and 100 Days of Real Food: On a Budget. She lives with her family in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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- ASIN : 0062252550
- Publisher : William Morrow Cookbooks; Illustrated edition (August 26, 2014)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780062252555
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062252555
- Item Weight : 2.74 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 1.15 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #146,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #186 in Seasonal Cooking (Books)
- #334 in Natural Food Cooking
- #435 in Fryer Recipes
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About the author

Lisa Leake is a wife, mother, foodie, blogger and author of the #1 New York Times Best Seller, 100 Days of Real Food. She began chronicling her family’s journey on 100DaysofRealFood.com when in 2010 they decided to start seeking out the real food in our processed food world. What started as a simple pledge has turned into a valuable and practical resource that’s now read by millions around the globe. Lisa has appeared on Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, CNN, and The Doctors TV Show.
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Some of our favorites so far include the slow cooker whole chicken (and we rarely like meat from a slow cooker...), which we used the leftovers in the cheesy broccoli rice casserole for a one-dish dinner. Fantastic! But the overall family favorites are the tomato bisque and the cheesy sausage breakfast casserole. I even bought a set of 4 mini cast iron pans just for this breakfast recipe and so that we can continue to experiment and build upon the concept of real food at breakfast and controlled serving size. The variations on this recipe are endless.
Yummy oatmeal, pumpkin muffins, THE BEST whole chicken in the crockpot, macaroni casserole, to name a few.... REAL FOODS!
In addition to the great recipes, the author offers very easy to follow advice to help you make the switch from processed foods to whole foods. She even gives you some baby steps so you don't feel overwhelmed!
This book is a must have for anyone who wants to stop feeding their family processed junk!
I only wish that there were more original recipes in this book and fewer recipes that are available for free on her website. It was kind of a steep price for something that has a large portion of its content accessible for free.
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I am so glad I decided to buy this book! I'm excited to put things into practice now that I can make informed decisions about food.











