30 Days Grain-Free: A Day-by-Day Guide and Meal Plan for Beginning a Grain-Free Diet - Improve Your Digestion, Heal Your Gut, Increase Your Energy, Lose Weight, and More!

This book is outstanding! First, I found it in new arrivals in my local library. I've checked it out, brought it home... and in few hours made a certain decision to buy it. Every recipe in this book is awesomely easy and mouthwatering. My family leads a grain-free life. And this book is a top book on my kitchen shelf. I tried at list half of the recipes already and my hubby and kids adore everything from drumsticks to ice cream.Usually, grain free cooking requires tons of weird hard to find in Alaska ingredients. But this book is exceptionally good and every recipe is more than achievable.I would recommend this book to anyone. Even if you not grain-free, it is still ultimately delicious. I bought 1 additional for my mom already!

I use this book several times a week. When my family and I started the Gaps diet we used the author’s intro guide and then I started relying on this book. It’s a great cookbook for the value, and I don’t know where I’d be without some of the recipes.

I was excited about this book, but once I read the recipes and menu plans if found it to be totally unrealistic. In particular felt like the portion sizes recommended were much too small, so if you followed the book exactly you would not be consuming anywhere near an adequate number of calories each day. I read the book through one time and decided it just wasn't for me.

The idea behind 30 Days Grain Free-is that you can pick up this book, buy all the items on the weekly shopping list and feed your family for 30 days, grain-free. While this premise is neat, I honestly can’t imagine following a book for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 30 days. I love to cook too much! I used this book for about a month, making about a quarter of the recipes. Here is my experience.PROS:1. “Normal” Foods—Comini understands that you might not be ready to give up your favorites, so she has created gluten-free versions of pancakes (pg. 47), coconut flour waffles (pg. 54) and zucchini lasagna (pg. 64), coconut bread (pg. 83), sesame-sunflower crackers (pg. 149). If you’ve done a whole30, many of these foods would be considered “sex with your pants on” and discouraged. I appreciate Comini understands my family might not be ready to eat 30 days of totally new foods, and we’ll need variations of our favorite staples (I have a 3-year old pancake fanatic).2. Book is organized well. Comini’s writing is fun and funny, encouraging and thoughtful. She really wants you and your family to succeed in eating grain-free. She’s considerate of including ideas for feeding kids in her meal plans.3. Economic/Efficient use of food—I love that in the morning you might make crepes with berries (pg. 70) and roll ‘em up with nut butter for lunch (pg. 71). You make meatballs at the beginning of the week and use them multiple ways (from the freezer) later in the book.4. The book is organized day by day, i.e. Day 1 Breakfast, Day 1 Lunch, Day 1 Dinner, etc. so it’s great if your ready to pick up this book and try everything (in order) for 30 days. If you’re new to paleo cooking, and need a place to start and no time to find new recipes, this book is for you. Using the shopping list you’ll have everything you’ll need for the whole week.5. Good section of homemade staples in the back (ketchup, pesto, salad dressing, etc). Even better were the “sweet treats.” I’ve made the chocolate truffles three time (pg. 176).CONS:1. I found that I have a hard time following the timeline. We live in rural Maine, with limited access to fresh produce, so I would have had a hard time following all the recipes, even if I wanted to.2. There is a stark absence of seasoning in this book. I find, that when cooking grain-free, fresh spices and other seasonings are essential (once you remove all the sugar and other junk!). I found these recipes great starting places, but I’m not sure I made a single one without adding something. For example, just from the first week: Salmon-Coconut Patties (pg. 28), added lemon pepper and sea salt; Hot Cooked Apples (pg. 39), added lemon and cinnamon; Burgers (pg. 44), added my hamburger seasoning blend of smoked paprika and herbs, etc.3. Solid recipes, just not inspiring. I’m a cookbook fanactic, and love to look through and drool over the future meals I might make. I dog ear pages. After flipping through this book, I had very few dogged pages. The recipes are solid—just not inspiring! She does push the envelope with cultured salsa (pg. 171). Nice!All in all, it’s a thoughtful book, considerate of a parent trying to feed their family healthy food. It’s not the book you pick up for inspiration, but for, “I can make that gluten free? OK!” And, I'll be returning to those delicious lemon poppy seed pancakes before the month is up. It’s also not the book you pick up for meal ideas, as the 30-day organization does not lend its self looking for dinner ideas (I much prefer the organization of the  The Whole30 Cookbook: 150 Delicious and Totally Compliant Recipes to Help You Succeed with the Whole30 and Beyond  by protein type).TIP: She doesn’t introduce “hot-buttered coffee” until page 134…I suggest you start with this on week 1! It’s the only thing that kept me from feeling starved by 10 am when I started my Whole30.SPICES: To make all the recipes in this book, you will need the following spices:• Allspice• Basil• Cayenne• Cinnamon• Chili Seasoning• Cumin (ground)• Curry (seasoning blend)• Coriander (ground)• Dill• Garlic (granules)• Ginger• Italian Seasoning• Lemon Pepper• Mustard (powder)• Onion• Oregano• Nutmeg• Parsley• Paprika• Paprika (Smoked)• Pepper (cracked)• Poppy Seed• Red Pepper Flakes• Rosemary• Sage• Sesame• Sea Salt• White Pepper (ground)I review cookbooks for the blog portion of our Gneiss Spice shop, and figured it might be helpful to post them here. As a maker of spice racks,  Gneiss Spice Everything Spice Kit: 24 Magnetic Jars Filled with Standard Organic Spices / Hanging Magnetic Spice Rack (Small Jars, Silver Lids) , I'm obviously bias for books that really experiment with spices...so make sure you take my review with a grain of salt. Thanks for reading! Please let me know what questions you have.

I love this book! It is extremely helpful if you want to try the grain-free approach. This book makes a grain-free diet very doable. Thank you Cara for putting this together for those of us who can get overwhelmed at the thought of grain-free. I would highly recommend it!

Nicely laid out easy to use cookbook. Cara Comini also has a blog that I have followed for years. Like her recipes in general and it is nice to have a hard copy of many of them.

Full of wonderful recipes! I needed a new boost after making the same things over and over. This is very practical, and doesn't require a lot of ingredients that I didn't have on hand.

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An excellent book for anyone looking to go grain-free. The recipes are delicious and the book layout is very comprehensive. Highly recommend!

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