Good seasonal recipes. Unique and healthy. This book discusses balance and shows how to make your pantry a health one.

This book is everything I've been looking for! It has all the information I needed to start understanding food as medicine. It's very well explained and it's easy to read and understand. It has some great recipes for each season, shopping list, tips and notes, and at the end there's a list with what foods to eat to get each one of the vitamins! It's awesome! I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

I think my expectations for this book were wrong. I was expecting a cook book with recipes from a nutritionist, it is that to some extant, but it’s mostly talk about nutritionist’s tips. I don’t mind the tips, but I was expecting more recipes, more diversity in recipes as well.

I haven’t tried anything from this book and I am not sure I ever will. Some of the tips in this book are common sense and normal day to day practice in my household I don’t even think about it anymore. At the very least it is good to know we are doing something well.

This book had a lot of helpful information about how to eat healthy. My only complaint is that there weren't as many recipes as I had hoped.

There is quite a lot of information in this book. If you are looking for instructions on how to eat seasonally, and even, sometimes, more cheaply, this is the book for you. The recipes are not unique but they are thoughtfully written, given you info on why it is best to choose certain ingredients over others. I appreciate the perspective of having a medical option for health. There is instructions on eating seasonally and how what you eat can be used to influence your mental health.

This was a good intro reference, however I was expecting more guidance on seasonal eating and recipes. The meal plans seemed to be an afterthought. I wish the charts in back were more developed.

This is more of a pantry /nonfiction book than a cookbook. It is a nice guide to the labels you see on food containers and useful tips and tricks all around eating, storing and cooking. It's a nice guide to refer and look up informations about macro nutrients and such. With nice pictures this is a nice coffeetable book or a nice gift.

Be forewarned this IS NOT A COOKBOOK, so there aren't very many recipes. However, there is much helpful advice about staples in your fridge and pantry that could be used to bring you to ultimate health. The author discusses the importance of whole foods but doesn't preach about any of the fab diet trends, which is good, but to use the foods you enjoy to your benefit. I gained many helpful hints and realized I am doing most of what she suggests throughout her book.

This is definitely one of the better foo/nutrition books I have read for awhile. It will definitely help with the exercise program I just started to get back into shape. I am not unhealthy but could lose 5lbs and have my body feel much happier. Definitely some good advice and recommended to people who want a change in their food without following a particular diet change.

Thanks to Netgalley, the author and Roost Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Available: 12/15/20

This book had me hooked, if only for the delicious recipes, and General advice e.g. that soy milk is good for your health.
I would recommend it to anyone who is health conscious, as I am, I knew a lot of the material in it, but learned a lot as well. And the recipes are, as I said, enough to buy the book for in themselves.

This strength of this nutritional guide and cookbook is in its information about vitamins, minerals, dietary needs, and the importance of eating truly healthy foods (and what they are). The author is a dietician who saw the effects of deficiencies firsthand and she gives a refreshing perspective of not telling you what to eat or not (vegetarian, paleo, gluten free, etc.) but respecting you to make your own informed decisions based on your own body's needs. The second half of the book is seasonal recipes and they tend to be heavy on plants but also incorporate organic meats, seafood, dairy and eggs, plus whole grains. Photos are provided for many of the recipes. Many are gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, dairy free, etc.

My biggest complaint with the book is that nutritional information is not provided. For people who need to watch their intake of fats, sodium, carbs, protein, fiber, calories, etc. there is just no excuse for a professionally produced cookbook not to have this information, especially one that focuses on dietary needs. I would have appreciated even more than the basic macro information for the recipes since the focus is on eating recipes that are packed with nutrients. I always wish nutrition-based books would also include percents on nutrients they're high in. For example, if a green smoothie contains 60% of the RDA for calcium and 25% of the RDA for vitamin A, add those to the information. That makes it so much easier to keep track of whether we're getting all of our nutritional needs without supplements.

Other than that, it's a well written book with very good information about the importance of a healthy diet.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.