Good for Your Gut
A Plant-Based Digestive Health Guide and Nourishing Recipes for Living Well
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
*2023 IACP COOKBOOK AWARDS WINNER*
*2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD GOLD WINNER*
A gut-friendly, plant-based approach to digestive health with delicious recipes you can feel good about eating.
Understanding how our gut impacts our overall well-being has grown to the point that better digestive health is essential for everyone—not just for those with digestive conditions. A well-functioning gut means a healthy body and a healthy life. Registered dietitian Desiree Nielsen explains the gut health and mind-body connection and guides you toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be healthy, with strategies to heal your gut when it’s imbalanced.
In Good for Your Gut, you’ll discover how to fuel gut health with anti-inflammatory plant-based foods and lifestyle strategies—from movement to managing stress—for a truly holistic approach to health and wellness. Featuring over 90 beautifully illustrated plant-based recipes created to protect, heal, or soothe your gut, with meal plans for each core area of digestive health. All the recipes are packed with flavour and delicious to eat, even if you don’t have tummy troubles, and are ideal for a healthy plant-forward lifestyle.
Inside you’ll find delicious, gut-friendly recipes including:
• Pumpkin Oat Pancakes
• Chickpea Umami Burgers
• Lentil Walnut Loaf
• Sticky Sesame Tofu with Bok Choy
• Spiced Tahini Roasted Squash
• Amazing Seeded Grain-Free Bread
• Matcha Chocolate Cups
• Lemon Olive Oil Cake
Along with expert advice and the latest research, Good for Your Gut is packed with information on the best foods to improve your digestion and the most effective ways to support your gut health.
Customer Reviews
LOVE This Book!
I wasn’t a huge fan of the author’s first cookbook, Eat More Plants, because I stumbled across it at a time when I stubbornly refused to not indulge my junk food fantasies. But when an email with a photo of this cookbook popped up in my inbox, I bought it within seconds. I never do that otherwise. One look at the salad pictured on the cover had me drooling and it looked delicious enough for me to buy the book just for that recipe. (If that recipe looked so good, there had to be others within the book, right?)
Once I got the book in my hot little hands, I was delighted with the huge number of recipes that actually had me daydreaming of when I’d make them. And I’m not even vegan. (Full disclosure - I was vegan from 2001-2014 and while I have eaten mostly vegetarian since then this cookbook is amazing enough to inspire me to try and make the effort to eat vegan again).
Chronic illness means it’s often hard for me to cook anything because of extreme fatigue and pain. And the recipes in this book are accessible enough that I can easily make them a part of my regular repertoire of go-to meals. They’re delicious and appealing while not requiring exotic ingredients and hours of time standing in the kitchen.
I was also delighted to have so many of the recipes work out so well, which is definitely not the experience I’ve had with other more popular vegan authors (*cough* Gaz Oakley *cough*). It’s really frustrating to spend time and money on a recipe to have it fail spectacularly. Desiree’s recipes turn out every time, and their success lends even more pleasure to eating really good food. In fact, the granola recipe in the book is so good it has set a much higher bar for me that has me refusing to spend a penny on any store bought granolas. And the breakfast cookies? They’re leagues better than the similar breakfast cookies Whole Foods has been making in their Canadian stores for a few decades. And I will never again be without a supply of the delicious lentil salad Desiree included in the cookbook - it’s become a go-to for a hearty, simple, and affordable buy insanely delicious meal to keep in my fridge.
There’s a running joke in my house that should there ever be a fire in my home, there are certain cookbooks I would grab on my out the door. This latest gem from Desiree is one of them.