Healing Kitchen: 175+ Quick & Easy Paleo Recipes to Help You Thrive

I purchased a digital copy to us on my Kindle app on my ipad. I love how the book is laid out. There are links to each chapter in the table of contents, for easy access to the chapter or recipe section that I want. There are some great sections at the beginning reviewing the AIP process and cooking tips for turning your kitchen into a place to cook for healing. I like how the various recipe sections begin with a list of the recipes with links to click to move right to the one you want instead of having to swipe through page after page to find it. I especially like how the recipes are listed in the "meal plan" sections with a small picture of each recipe and a link. There are 4 meal plans, with shopping lists and links to recipes, as well as special sections linking to recipes that fall into useful categories such as One-Pot meals, 5 ingredients or less, 20 minutes or less and so on. Very helpful when needing to keep things simple. In reviewing the recipes, I was pleased to find them easy and not overwhelming. When trying to heal, one does not have a lot of energy or stamina for complicated recipes that call for hard to find ingredients. This cookbook fits the bill with recipes that anyone can make that are packed full of spices and sauces so they taste good too! The authors also include numerous recipes for sauces and other substitutions needed to adapt to a healing diet. These recipes are needed to complete some of the recipes in the book, but are also great to use in adapting your own favorite recipes to fit the protocol. I'm glad to have this tool to use in continuing to grow my own "healing kitchen."

I don't usually write reviews...but this book needs one. I can't say enough about how wonderful this book is, but I will try. 1. Best Gifting AIP cookbook ever! With the 70 pages of awesome narrative at the front, this is the least intimidating AIP narrative in the history of books. (Granted I'm a science gal who also appreciates laymen science...thus I LOVE The Paleo Approach by Sarah Ballantyne, but newbies that aren't like me might get a little lost if its a first introduction to AIP) I would give this book as a gift to someone thinking about or wanting information on AIP. There are even weekly meal plans. This makes AIP as simple as you can get to kick off your healing journey. 2. This book has such awesome things that AIP people miss in their lives.....like creamy Cesar dressing, pizza crust, and marinara sauce to name a few. There aren't a ton of recipes that have been done over and over and over like some books. 3. The recipes are so down to earth, but useful. Sometimes a book comes along and you think...why did I buy this, because I put this kind of thing together all the time, and I already have three books that give me basically the same recipe. However....that is NOT the case with this book. I love the simple but well built flavors and concepts that these women have put together. 4. It makes AIP easy. You don't need to go out and buy six specialty items to make the dish. I literally picked out meals to make that I already had items for and granted, I have some of the traditional AIP cooking items to begin with, but there are so many that don't need those kinds of things. You can literally pick up the book and start making stuff today. Honestly, I expected a lot from these women knowing their other work..... and they truly went above and beyond any of my expectations for this book. I am SO thankful for both of them, and their very hard work so that we can have this awesome resource. So what are you waiting for? Go order this book TODAY! Happy healing.

I don't buy a lot of cookbooks, so I have to be pretty convinced that a cookbook is going to be a winner before I add it to my small collection. Having recently developed a sensitivity to nightshades, I was struggling to find recipes in my regular Paleo cookbooks, so I started looking at AIP recipes to help make things easier. If you're not familiar with AIP, the beginning pages of this book will lay the foundation. There are beautiful, detailed charts about which foods to eat and avoid, how to stock your pantry, etc. The recipes are simple, and many make use of pantry items or produce/meat that I usually have on hand. (In that way, this book is a lot like an AIP version of Real Life Paleo by the Paleo Parents.) Sometimes I struggle with Paleo cookbooks because they call for cuts of meat I can't find locally or don't have any idea how to cook. This book has a good variety but is really reasonable about the ingredients and cuts of meat called for. Almost everything needed is something I can find in my small town that only has regular grocery stores (plantains are the exception). I received this book in the middle of the week and was able to make a couple of meals out of it just by using things I had in my freezer or pantry. My family has enjoyed everything I've made, and I have many more recipes marked to try in the next few weeks/months. Above all, this cookbook doesn't make me feel like I'm missing out. Being on a restricted diet, even temporarily, is tough. Cooking every meal gets old fast. But these recipes get me in and out of the kitchen quickly, and they're as good as (or better than!) any non-AIP recipes I've made. It's so nice to be able to page through a cookbook and not have to think about substitutions. At this stage in my healing journey, I am incredibly thankful to have found this resource.

Great book for AIP diet followers. Many of the recipes are simple and easy to follow and taste delicious.

Excellent book, found the recipes very easy to follow and, unusually for a kindle book, easy to navigate. This is my AIP cookbook for the caravan and when travelling. I can stand in a strange supermarket and pick out the ingredients for a recipe from my phone. Lots of ideas for adapting the recipes too and love the fact she gives recipes for various sauces that are impossibly hard to find as gluten, dairy, soy, onion (I am FODMAP challenged too) legume, nightshade free varieties. Love the Worcestershire Sauce recipe.

This is by far the best cookbook I've ever used. I can use ten times the recipes in it than I ever could, simply because the authors understand my autoimmune condition. It's beautifully laid out, encourages variety in your diet, does all they say it does, and I love the recipes in it. They are simple, easy to use, and I don't even feel like I'm on an elimination diet. I'm eating better than ever thanks to all the hard work that went into this cookbook. Thank you so much, Alaena and Sarah!

Ich fand das Buch hilfreich und inspirierend über die Vielzahl der Rezepte die man trotz aip Protokoll kochen kann. Man bekommt ein Gefühl dafür welche Zutaten zusammen passen. Es sind viele mexikanisch angehauchte Rezepte dabei. Mahlzeitenplaene und eine Übersicht über schnelle Gerichte und kochzeiten erleichtern die Arbeit.

I returned this. It’s well laid out but I don’t like the recipes; candied bacon - so much syrup baked on bacon - I don’t see how this is good for our immune systems with that kind of glucose spike. I also live in Western Australia where we don’t have access to plantains and unfortunately so many recipes includes these. I’m also not a huge fan of sweet potatoes and they’re also prevalent in this book. As the title says, just not for me.

This is my favorite cookbook at the moment. I try at least 4 new recipes a week. So far, most of them have been excellent! My mom is diabetic, we have stomach issues and most of my family are on a healthy diet of some kind. That means these recipes are suitable for many different plans. Some have become weekly staples in our house like Teriyaki Chicken, Taco Beef and Roasted Garlic Broccoli. I appreciate the photos with every recipe. If it looks good - I'll try it.