Clean Green Eats: 100+ Clean-Eating Recipes to Improve Your Whole Life

Fabulous cookbook outlining recipes for all meals. Got started with Candice Kumai off of a "clean eating plan" online on Shape and was immediately hooked by her foods. All smart choices, fresh, and make you feel good about cooking and eating. These aren't necessarily complicated dishes and so far everything we've made has been a keeper. Have tried several new foods as well based on her suggestions and am happy to have found new options as staples, even as an adult. This is a book we keep out (not tucked away with the other cookbooks accumulated over the years) and use for our meal planning each week. Really enjoy the food and especially enjoy feeling better about what it is that we're putting into our bodies. Thanks!

This is truly how everyone should eat! I have all of Candice's cookbooks and this is my favorite one yet. If you're looking to truly overhaul your health and change the way you look and feel through food, Clean Green Eats is the perfect place to start. This book is a bible for real, whole foods that when put in the body will bring all that inner beauty you already have to the surface through great skin, a youthful glow and more energy! Plus, beyond salad and juice recipes, there's something for pizza, pasta and sweets lovers too that are totally guilt free. I really can't wait to dive into each and every recipe.

I'd researched this book and read and read and read before finally deciding to buy it. I can't say that I'm disappointed. I initially passed on it because on the surface, it just didn't seem like there were a lot of recipes I wanted to eat. The ingredients weren't things I'd use everyday. Even the cover photo just looks like something people say we should eat but we know, although it may be very good for us, we probably won't like it. I would say, to a certain extent, I was right. But in a good way. I think this book is for people who wants a lifestyle change and not simply low fat versions of things you already eat. With that being said, the foods are familiar, but she somehow puts a spin on it. It has an ethnic twist in one way or another. What I like about the book is that yes, some of the ingredients were foreign to me, but we did use those ingredients again and again. It's not like you use it once and that's it. I found that I am a big fan of Tamari Soy Sauce. I had to google what it was but was able to find it at Target and Albertsons. And yes, it is different from regular soy sauce and it is the reason I like quacamole. Some stuff I made, like the shrimp and tortillas, tasted restaurant quality. And surprisingly, meals were simple and inexpensive. Obviously, there are some things I would probably like better at year 3 of healthy eating rather than year 1. I have yet to try that cover photo. But I'm not disappointed with my purchase. It contributes to making me more mindful of what I eat and to make healthy choices, not just low cal choices. I think this is a good cookbook for anyone who wants to eat whole/real foods and who wants to learn who to make actual food in this day of instant and quick everything. The only very minor con is that there may be a few omissions recipe wise. It may pause you for a second because you may have an ingredient but no step for it. But because everything is just going in a big pot it really doesn't make that big of a difference when you think about it.

Clean Green Eats is UNREAL! Candice has the most creative, delicious, and healthy recipes I have come across. The photos are beautiful and inspire you to cook (which we all know doesn't always come easy)! I love her Clean Green Cleansing Juices and Smoothies in Chapter 3 as well as the schedule for the 2 week cleanse! Candice embraces a healthy balance and shows it off perfectly with her Clean Green Burgers and Sandwiches in Chapter 8 which are UNREAL (my boyfriend loves them)! I highly recommend this book to literally ANYONE!

I cannot recommend this cookbook highly enough! I'm not much of a cook, but I'm trying to learn, and I want to cook healthy food that actually tastes good. My fiance loves butter and cream and fried foods, but I want to eat healthy, and the recipes in this cookbook make BOTH of us happy! He loves all the avocado and the tangy salad dressings; I love the cleansing soups and smoothies. I heard about Candice through a recipe featured on darlingmagazine.org and I also tested some recipes from Candice's blog before I broke down and bought the book. It is WORTH IT. I use it to plan my meals each week. The recipes are super flavorful and simple to make. Many of the recipes use similar ingredients, so once you pick up the basics you can mix and match to make them all. There is an awesome introduction giving interesting descriptions and facts about all the ingredients she recommends. The chapters on soups, salads, mains, and veggie mains have enough recipes for variety but not so many that you feel overwhelmed. The salad dressings are my favorites! With only 4 or 5 ingredients, I can make DELICIOUS dressing without any added sugar, preservatives, or random soy or corn products. There is also a great introduction to green drinks and smoothies. If you like those, you can get more with another book by Candice Clean Green Drinks: 100+ Cleansing Recipes to Renew & Restore Your Body and Mind A couple of people have complained about the lack of calorie counts in the book, but Candice explains that this is not about counting calories. Honestly, if you eat these recipes, you can eat until you are full with NO GUILT because everything you're putting in your body is good for you. Basically, if you are looking for a book to help you cook with flavor without using a ton of butter and cream, THIS IS THE ONE.

Absolutely AMAZING book! Candice lives her life with passion and it completely shines through in this book. Every single one of her recipes in this book is just phenomenal. I plan my meals every week and I use this cookbook along with her website as a staple for the recipes. I've cooked and shared many of the meals from this book (they are all my favorite) and I receive complement after complement! So tasty and comforting to know that each recipe is so pure and healthy. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Candice for sharing your love of food and a healthy lifestyle! You make it so much more achievable for the rest of us!

This is a very well written and informative book that is more than just a "cook book". It's not about going vegan, vegetarian, or about going on a diet, although I'm confident weight loss will be a side effect of following these easy and healthy recipes! Candice spends the first part of the book explaining benefits of the key ingredients she uses in her recipes, as well as how to properly store them for maximum shelf life. A lot of the ingredients are new to me and aren't cheap since they come from specialty organic markets, so this book paid for itself with the first recipe when I finally started properly storing nuts, grains, seeds, etc. She has many great tips on making smoothies properly and choosing good produce as well. For a former junk food junkie like me who is now trying to get healthy as a result of an auto immune disorder, this book is a wealth of knowledge because I don't know a lot about the ingredients and what you don't know can hurt you if you try to cook with expensive, foreign ingredients that you've never used. I'm ashamed to say that I don't have much experience with Brussel sprouts, fennel, and quinoa, but no worries! Candice explains it all before diving into her well organized recipes! Another reason why I like this book is that she repeats ingredients. There is a lot of variety, but when you're buying expensive organic ingredients, it's nice to be able to use up what you've purchased. I hate "cleanses" and other books that have you buy a ten or twenty dollar novelty food item that you'll never use again. Candice has carefully thought out her recipes, and she won't leave you with half eaten anything! I also appreciate that she doesn't dump peppers into all her recipes. I have a sensitive stomach and most healthy recipes I find are loaded with all sorts of peppers and spicy fare. She does add curry and spice here and there, but it isn't EVERYWHERE. it's nice to finally find something that works for me and that I can actually manage! There are no strict rules, just great information and recipes!

I am a huge fan of Candice Kumai; I have all her other cookbooks and use them frequently. I was so excited to get this book, especially since my husband and I are newer to clean eating. Overall, this book is exactly what I expect from Candice: beautiful pictures, creative twists on classic recipes, and a lot of Japanese flare! The one thing missing from this book is the nutrition information... As a Type I Diabetic, that is vital information for me. All her previous books included nutrition information so I'm not sure why the publishers felt they didn't need to include that in this book? Regardless, my hubby and I have a long list of recipes we want to try but I'm not happy that I will have to take extra time to figure out the nutrition info for each recipe we try, especially since most recipes use a fair amount of ingredients. This book is definitely worth it though. Lots of variety, almost all recipes are gluten free, there's plenty of vegetarian stuff, and the few recipes we've already tried were delicious.

This book is great, tasty health recipes that are easy to follow with beautifully pictures. I'm glad I bought it.

Ce que j'aime avec les livres de Candice Kumai est qu'il y a une bonne variété de recettes et elles sont toutes bonnes pour la santé.

Loved this book; great recipes.

Very healthy and interesting recipes. Enjoyed this book very much.

Great book. I really like that she explains what goodness in all the different salads, vegetables and seeds/nuts is.