Real Healthy - Unprocess your diet with easy, everyday recipes: The Sunday Times bestseller

'A delicious guide to eating the healthy way.' - Tim Spector

'Real, good food.' - Yotam Ottolenghi

'This book will become your go-to, making eating well a joy, not a chore.' - Dr Rupy Aujla

Delicious, wholesome, life-friendly recipes to help you eat well, every day.

With a foreword by nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert, Real Healthy is a practical cookbook for time-poor people who want to cut back on ultra-processed foods, with healthy, veg-packed food that’s quick, convenient and tasty.

Research has shown that ultra-processed foods have been linked to high-blood pressure, heart disease and other serious illnesses, yet the average person in the UK gets a whopping 56% of their calories from UPFs. Here, Melissa Hemsley provides simple, doable and delicious recipes to help you tackle those tricky problem areas – on-the-go breakfasts, working lunches, snacks and sweet treats – as well as chapters on batch cooking, traybakes and 30 minute meals. She’s also includes tips on what to look out for when trying to avoid UPFs, making this your new go-to book for everyday cooking.

With recipes such as One-Pot Lazy Lasagne, Cherry Bakewell Granola and Take-To-Work White Bean Chilli, as well as ideas to help you stay on top of the week’s shopping and cooking, Real Healthy provides easy and nourishing alternatives to help you reduce the amount of UPFs that end up on your plate.

'Melissa untangles the complicated world of ultra-processed foods and puts us back into the calm and comforting space of simple, sublime and tasty cooking.' - Tom Kerridge

Sunday Times bestseller, July 2024