Megan Kimble

I loved this book! I picked it up to read a personal story of moving to eating a more healthy diet. The personal story is interesting, fun to read, entertaining, and very, very well written. A joy to read!

But I got much more than that out of the book. I received an education from the author interwoven in and among all of her personal story details. Of course I've read some of those other healthy eating and food source books, but Megan Kimble incorporates extensive research and relevant details. This book feels like sitting down with a friend that is sharing what she has learned. In this case, the friend is very knowledgeable, thoughtful, and is an excellent writer.

This is an important book as well. Understanding our food supply and how emotions, physical needs, nutrition, and other personal factors interact is important to me.… (plus d'informations)

Very well-written and consistently interesting and informative. If you have an interest in eating a more healthful diet and supporting local food producers, you will find this book inspiring. On one level, it's just not that hard to buy a lot of produce, grains, and beans and then eat them, so she doesn't belabor her feelings of deprivation. (Compare "A Year of No Sugar," for example.) She does try things like canning, grinding her own wheat, and attempting to make almond butter, providing good insight into which of these sorts of things might be practical for the reader. She also tries to eat a healthy produce-based diet on the amount given to SNAP recipients, and she totals up her spending on food for the year - as a real cheapskate I appreciated this financial angle. This book does not come across as entirely a stunt like so many books about doing something weird for a year to get a book contract out of it. Well done, Megan.… (plus d'informations)

I was looking forward to reading this book and gleaming tons of great information about unprocessed foods. For a while now, I have been wanting to move away from processed foods, even though they are quick for meals. I have slowly been making the move. However not to really take anything away from the author but I found this book to be really wordy. I got to chapter 4 and put the book down. I realized when I got ready to pick it up again that I could not process what I had read in the first 4 chapters. This is because the author seemed to put a lot of focus on other things besides the food process and it was not that interesting to me. So I was really just skimming the first 4 chapters. The only parts that were really of interest to me were the "Unprocess Yourself" sections at the back of the book. These sections really told you all you needed to know about Unprocessed foods broken out in sections like Wheat and Sugar.. However not sure how much I will try the recipes or suggestions that the author has. They seem really time consuming. At least I have an idea of what unprocessed food is and how to shop for it.… (plus d'informations)