Hi guys. Today I want to share my top ten healthy cookbooks.
I don’t want to make this too long but I wanted to show them to you because this is
actually inspired by my friend, Liz - Hi Liz! - who sent me a text last week after eating
a lot of delicious food over the holidays, like I’m sure we all did,
and wanting to eat a little bit cleaner.
So I sent her a picture of my bookshelf and then I thought maybe this is something that
other people would be interested in and I certainly watch videos like this all the time.
So here are my top ten healthy cookbooks and these are in no particular order by the way.
So the first one is by Jolene Hart. It’s called Eat Pretty and this is very simple.
It says if you want to be more beautiful - better skin, better hair, better nails, just be better
looking - then eat these foods and don’t eat these foods.
And it breaks it down into the real science of it: why you should eat certain foods that
boost, you know, cell production in your skin and others that are going to break down collagen and
cause aging more quickly and those types of things.
So it’s really, really helpful and there’s also some great recipes in there. So Eat Pretty.
This is by Kris Carr. You probably have seen this before if you’re interested in healthy eating.
It’s called Crazy Sexy Diet.
Kris Carr is an amazing person.
If you don’t know her story I highly recommend her documentary that she made called Crazy Sexy Cancer
which…I think you can watch the full thing on YouTube.
She talks about having cancer. She has a very rare and incurable form of cancer. She also
falls in love with her cameraperson in the documentary which is very sweet to watch and
they get married during the documentary. It’s a fun subplot.
So that’s great to watch. She is incredible and has been living with this cancer for over
ten years and here she talks about how she eats and her kind of overall theory on wellness
which is really interesting.
And she’s really into juicing so if juicing is something that you have been interested
in and wanting to try, this is a really great book.
But just in general she’s got some amazing tips. So Crazy Sexy Diet.
This is kind of a new one to me. It’s by Amelia Freer. I hope I’m saying that right
It’s called Eat Nourish Glow.
And she’s got a really nice theory about making new habits.
Not necessarily being super restrictive but trying to make healthy habits in the kitchen
and really enjoy eating healthy food and she’s got some tips on that.
She has a new book coming out as well so I’m excited for her second cookbook.
This is called the Art of Eating Well by Hemsley and Hemsley.
They’re two sisters from the UK. They have an awesome website as well.
And they’re really into clean eating, avoiding processed foods, but trying to do it in a
way that’s still manageable where you’re not going to feel as if it’s impossible.
They really cater to having a, you know, regular busy kind of lifestyle like most of us do
and still trying to eat well.
And they have some beautiful photographs in here too.
This is by Angela Liddon. It’s called the Oh She Glows cookbook and you may have seen this before
She’s from Canada and these are all vegan recipes. She has a second cookbook coming out soon.
Some of the ingredients in here are a little bit harder to find than in other books
but overall they’re really easy.
You can see that I’ve earmarked a ton of them.
All of these books, for the most part, have places where I’ve gone through and marked
the ones that I want to try.
She is awesome and beautiful photographs as well.
She does all her own photography and it’s just a lovely book and it’s really easy to find as well.
So a good one to try if you’re just getting into it.
This book is new to me. It’s another beautiful British girl.
This is Madeleine Shaw’s book called Get The Glow.
And I haven’t had a chance to go through it cover to cover yet but I have had a read
through and I’ve been so excited about it finally being available in Canada to buy.
When I first discovered her I immediately felt a connection because she’s from the UK
but she actually went to the University of Sydney in Australia and that’s where I went to grad school
And she also says that she got interested in healthy eating in Bondi - Bondi Beach you’ve probably
heard of - where she worked at an organic cafe.
And I lived near Bondi for part of my time in Australia so always felt kind of a connection to her.
And looking through here I’m so excited to try some more of the recipes.
I’ve tried some from her website before and thought they were great.
So this is definitely one that I’d recommend.
This is My New Roots. It’s by Sarah Britton. She does the My New Roots blog which you should
definitely go and take a look at if you haven’t already.
Her bread recipe is my absolute favourite. I make it probably twice a week.
It’s the bread that’s kind of always around the house.
She’s actually Canadian and she was born and raised in Toronto, I think, and she fell
in love and moved to Copenhagen which is where she lives and works from now.
And she’s also a nutritionist so there’s lots of good information in here and beautiful,
beautiful photographs.
The next two are kind of a cheat because they’re by the same people but they have two amazing
books and I love them both so here they both are.
The first one is called Vegetarian Everyday.
This is by the couple who does the Green Kitchen Stories blog - another amazing blog that you should
check out with lots of free recipes.
So it’s a husband and wife couple who are behind the blog and the cookbook and he is a vegetarian.
He, I think, has been for all of his life. She’s not vegetarian but eats mostly vegetables.
Sometimes she’ll have some poultry or fish. They both eat a lot of eggs and cheese and
so if that’s the kind of eating that you are into then this is definitely the book that you want to get.
This is their latest cookbook. It’s called Green Kitchen Travels and I love the idea behind this.
They took their beautiful family around the world and got inspiration for different recipes
at their stops all over, took beautiful photographs along the way, and all of them are here.
And here’s, like, Pumpkin and Almond Waffles, Lentil and Strawberry Tacos.
Oh there’s like a Moroccan Hotel that they stayed at.
It’s not only inspirational, I think, for cooking but also for travelling which are
two of my favourite things.
So this is a gorgeous one to just leaf through and have a lot of fun looking at the different
ingredients and where they went on their travels.
And then I’ve saved ’til last Deliciously Ella by Ella Woodward who I absolutely love.
I just…I love her story. She was inspired by Kris Carr because Ella also…I don’t
know what it’s called but she had a disease which was very limiting and she wasn’t able to do a lot.
She was very tired and lethargic feeling and she was inspired by Kris Carr, who did the
Crazy Sexy Diet book, and has now done, you know, a cookbook, she has a second cookbook coming out
And her recipes are so easy.
Of all of the books here they’re probably the easiest to do as well as having the least complicated ingredients
So if you’re just wanting to buy one book or get it from the library or flip through one,
these are all plant based and they’re naturally gluten free.
So they use things like oats in recipes that are naturally gluten free as opposed to using processed ingredients.
And she just has lovely photographs and a great attitude about healthy eating
and I absolutely love her book.
She also has an app which I think costs about 5 dollars.
Oh - I love my new phone case.
And the app is fantastic. My favourite recipe - oh, it’s crashing on me now. This is your moment!
Ok this is the app here and she’s got breakfast, smoothies and juices, mains, salads,
a whole bunch of recipes.
My favourite one is a dessert. You could’ve guessed that.
And it’s this one: it’s Superfood Almond Butter Cups and they’re insanely good.
They’re in my freezer right now.
It’s really hard to not eat them all at once but you just basically need to melt down,
like, cacao butter, raw cacao, and some natural sweetener like maple syrup, put some almond
butter in the middle, peanut butter, whatever you feel like.
They’re insanely good and so easy to make. I think sometimes it’s a bit intimidating
when you’re starting out and she just makes it seem really easy and fun.
So this is an amazing book.
Those are my top ten healthy cookbooks.
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I’ll see you in my next video. Bye!
Almond chocolate…no.
What are they called?
Um they’re like Reese Peanut Butter Cups but with almond butter. Yeah.
What are they called?!
Almond chocolate.
Her almond…chocolate cups.
I think I just burped. Excuse me.
Her chocolate almond butter cups.
Her recipe for um for chocolate cups with almond butter inside them?
It’s SO good.