Real Healthy

Unprocess your diet with easy, everyday recipes

Melissa Hemsley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:11th Jul '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Real Healthy cover

This cookbook offers practical, delicious recipes designed to help you reduce ultra-processed foods in your diet. Real Healthy makes healthy eating accessible and enjoyable.

With a foreword by nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert, Real Healthy serves as a practical cookbook tailored for individuals who are pressed for time yet wish to reduce their intake of ultra-processed foods. Melissa Hemsley presents a collection of delicious, wholesome recipes that are not only quick and convenient but also packed with vegetables. The book addresses the growing concern over the health implications of ultra-processed foods, which are linked to various serious illnesses, including high blood pressure and heart disease. It aims to make healthy eating enjoyable rather than burdensome.

The recipes in Real Healthy cater to everyday situations, providing solutions for on-the-go breakfasts, satisfying lunches, snacks, and even sweet treats. Hemsley also includes valuable insights on batch cooking, traybakes, and meals that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. Each recipe is designed to help readers navigate their weekly cooking and shopping with ease, ensuring that healthy choices are always within reach.

From One-Pot Lazy Lasagne to Cherry Bakewell Granola and Take-To-Work White Bean Chilli, the book offers a variety of nourishing alternatives to help diminish the presence of ultra-processed foods in daily meals. Real Healthy is positioned as a go-to resource for anyone looking to embrace a healthier lifestyle while enjoying the process of cooking and eating well.

Real Healthy untangles the complicated world of ultra-processed foods and puts us back into the calm and comforting space of simple, sublime and tasty cooking. Embracing great ingredients, cooked with ease and simplicity but with Melissa’s own take of exciting and interesting twists to keep us all super interested and want to try every recipe in the book. Beautiful photography, amazing put together recipes that really are perfect for the home cook. -- Tom Kerridge, Michelin-starred chef & restauranteur
A practical guide for busy lives, Hemsley serves up all the delicious and nutritious solutions to our everyday eating dilemmas with recipes you'll turn to again and again and know, without question, that they’ll make you feel great. It's real, good food. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
A delicious guide to eating the healthy way. -- Tim Spector
Jam-packed full of simple and delicious recipes – this book will become your go-to – making eating well a joy, not a chore. -- Dr Rupy Aujla, author of The Doctor's Kitchen
Melissa leads us to ingredients that will help us feel well, and dishes them up in ways that will make us lick our lips. -- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, cook, writer, broadcaster and founder of River Cottage
This has everything you want from a cookbook: nourishing and scrumptious meals with accessible ingredients. -- Dr Amir Khan, GP and broadcaster
I love Melissa’s real-life take on making healthier food easy and accessible. -- Liz Earle MBE
A game changer in the kitchen! -- Laura Whitmore, broadcaster
A delightful guide to shifting the focus onto eating more plants, cooking more intuitively and fostering a more sustainable and wholesome approach to mealtimes. -- Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, NHS gastroenterology doctor, author & MasterChef winner
I talk a lot about adding "extras" into family meals to help up the veggies and also increase the nutrition of our family foods – this book offers plenty of extras with fresh and nutritious ingredients, but in really simple recipes with lots of store cupboard ingredients too. -- Charlotte Stirling-Reed, the baby and child nutritionist

ISBN: 9781529940251

Dimensions: 246mm x 176mm x 19mm

Weight: 778g

224 pages