Books

I added a book list to the blog to showcase a few of the books that started me on this "real" food path. I began with Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food and while it is highly informative and interesting it will make your head spin just a little. There are food rules but no set recipes or a real guide on how to get started.

For this I would suggest that Mark Bittman. His writing is very easy to read and he offers plenty of tips on how to ease in to the changes in diet. He also provides recipes and food guides that are awesome and I still can't put the book down.

Super Natural Cooking rounds out the list and is mainly a cookbook. However, Heidi Swanson provides great tools on how to build a natural pantry and how to substitute the healthy for unhealthy. She also runs a website called 101 Cookbooks which is full of amazing recipes.