100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It, What We Learned, and 100 Easy, Wholesome Recipes Your Family Will Love

Lisa Leake

Aug 2014 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

#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. 

Ratings and reviews

There's nothing special at all about this book. The recipes have too much fat, dairy, and meat, which is very typical of the American diet. There's little imagination to the recipes. I'm very disappointed.

Teriffic book! I found it helpful, well written, chock full of good sound advice and then the recipes to round everything out! A delight!

I love these recipes and so do my kids! Thank you! We are saving money making our own chicken stock now and tomato sauce. You made it very simple and tasty!!

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.