OMG. That's Paleo?

There is a lot to like about this book and a little that could be improved.First the positive! The author clearly does a much higher carb version of Paleo than I but still there were plenty of recipes for me and the higher carb ones can be saved for splurges or customized with little difficulty.The recipes are easy to make and use accessible ingredients that you are likely to have on hand. The Cilantro Chicken Nuggets are amazing. I use ground pork instead and add fish sauce to them as I think it boosts the flavor. The Filet with grapes, Ginger Mushroom Chicken, Blackberry Pork Chops, Salmon Asparagus Frittata, and Caramelized Onion Frittata are delicious. I would have made more recipes but I can't stop making the Chicken (Pork) Cilantro Nuggets! I'm not crazy about the dipping sauce though but usually just sprinkle them with coconut aminos and am good to go.The dessert recipes look mouthwatering but they are pretty high in carbs so I haven't made any yet.Now for the not so good. The quality of the printing is terrible. I can make better pictures on my home printer. The pictures are so low res it's hard to tell what some of them are. It's just very unprofessional and makes the food look unappetizing. Somehow the recipes overcome the horrible photos but Paleo cookbooks like Against All Grain have really raised the bar in this genre and future Paleo cookbook authors are going to have to up their game to compete with books like that.Finally, she uses a lot of self-deprecating humor throughout the book (and her blog) and while a little bit of it is endearing it can get to be too much. It makes me think this author, despite basically being a beautiful Crossfit goddess and a damn good cook, is really sort of insecure. I feel like giving her a hug and telling her how great she is.Hopefully if a second book is forthcoming the quality of the print will dramatically improve but I really do like this cookbook despite the aforementioned issues. There are still a ton of recipes I want to try from it and I will keep making the awesome chicken nuggets for the foreseeable future.

Juli, please go with a different publisher for your future cookbooks. Seriously.I'm glad I bought this for myself, and didn't ask for it as a gift. This book isn't gift quality. The photos are dull and washed out and look like they came from an ink jet printer that was low on ink. Some photos look stretched and distorted. The pages are really thin. Yeah, all this I read in the reviews here before I bought it. So why did I buy a book with subpar printing? Because it is a Paleo cookbook with Juli's whit and tasty creativity. And who wouldn't want a book with a picture of Juli snuggling with her crock pot in a field of flowers?The table of contents and the index are organized beautifully.The short section on the Paleo explanation and what foods to eat and avoid are good for the newbies.And the sweet potato brownies? - top of my list, for sure.I'll just be sure to use my  Clear Solutions Jumbo Cookbook Holder.  to protect the flimsy pages.I'll be waiting for your next cookbook, with killer photos that pop off the pages, larger text, thicker pages, and a different publisher.UPDATE:I'm raising my rating from 3 stars to 4 stars. Yeah, the printing job is VERY bad, but damn this food is fantastic. Try the sweet potato meatloaf for dinner. And have the freezer pumpkin fudge for dessert. It tastes like frozen pumpkin pie filling. So good...

I know a lot of other reviews have been dissing this book. Honestly, I love the paleOMG website and I would have no problem spending $20 on a cookbook so she will keep cooking and allowing me not only to buy a cook book for cheap but to get all her recipes off her website for FREE!! I honestly don't mind that the pages are on regular printer paper (just means I need to be careful while cooking) or that the pictures are a bit grainy, remember this is her first cookbook she has to learn as she goes. If you use her free recipes from her website why not pay $20 for her cookbook to give her a payment in some way? And I'm done with the rant on with the review. I love this product and can't wait to buy more of Juli's cookbooks in the future and cook more of her delicious recipes! On another note, I am going to purchase more for gifts for family members because she is just so refreshing when reading the cookbook, I can't help but wish she was a friend I could hang out with on a daily basis with every recipe I read about.

I love this book. I've already made many of the recipes (either from her website or from the book) and she has literally NEVER let us down. If I want to try a new recipe, hers will be the first book I open. Of all the paleo recipes we go back to, most of them are from her.You also can't beat the woman's sense of humor. Paleo can be tough, and we've had her ups and downs, but she really feels like she's with you every step of the way. Nothing helps more than knowing you're not the only one that feels completely incompetent sometimes!Paleo can also be hard to stick to, just because many of the recipes are.. well, weird combinations that you wouldn't normally think of (or sometimes even consider making) but Juli's either a genius or has a similar palate to myself and my family. I've made many recipes that were complete flops. They turned out okay but tasted awful, and that has never happened with anything I've made of hers. BUY THIS BOOK!

It's easy to read and i've just made my first recipe from it and we've thoroughly enjoyed it :o) (the chicken and basil meatloaf if anyone is interested). Some of the measurements are in 'cups' which took me back to my childhood when my Mum used to measure everything by a 'cupful of flour' or 'half a cup of milk' but the recipe worked fine using one of my standard tea mugs as a guess'timate. I have found it easy reading, easy to follow as a recipe book and the way Juli Bauer writes is cheerful and encouraging to those starting out on Paleo as a way of eating.

I love the author of this book and her blog though this book wasn't as good as I was expecting. Some lovely recipes but a few didn't turn out to well such as the chocolate blueberry loaf which was a soggy disaster. I don't know if that was my fault but otherwise it's still a good addition to a Paleo collection. Some people had commented that the book looked cheap quality, I think it's a lovely book and well layed out. Would still recommend.

A great cookery book & recipes & written in such a fun way. One of my favourite paleo cookery books.

this book is particually good easy to follow recipes tried quite a few of them

Great book well put together and easy to follow would recommend this to a friend if they wanted something different.