The Eat Beautiful: Grain-free, Sugar-Free and Loving It cookbook contains everything you need to get started, including delicious recipes, helpful tips and inspiration! Featuring over 100 recipes free from grains and sugar, this collection also has dozens of recipes free of nuts, dairy, eggs, coconut and more. Whatever your food intolerance, this recipe book has a feast or treat for you. Stuck in a rut with almond butter, almond flour and coconut flour? Need a new baking technique that's healthier, easier to digest and super easy to put together? Eat Beautiful: Grain-free, Sugar-free and Loving It shares with you this new approach to grain-free baking! The technique is fast, easy, creates a great texture in baked goods and most importantly, provides easy-to-digest nutrition. The cookbook is primarily a book of treats. While eating a diet of bone broth soups (as is the case with the healing GAPS and AIP diets), or any healing diet inherent with limitations, it is helpful to have muffins, custards, sauces, cakes, porridges, scones, cookies, pies, gelatins and beverages to enliven meals. These are the treats the author also serves at her gut-healing cafe, located in Eugene, Or. Megan teaches these recipes through her cooking classes, too. The cookbook does contain savory goodies as well: convenient meat and veggie muffins for whole foods snacks on the go, big casseroles and pizza for special dinners, loaf bread, and simple, hearty breakfasts that aren't sweet. The goal of the book is to empower those on grain-free, sugar-free diets to succeed, to feel free instead of deprived! It is a book that will equip you to make every meal into a feast. Whether you're on a healing diet or just want easy-to-digest, no sugar treats, this book is sure to please, educate and nourish. "Focusing on desserts, the beautifully-photographed and inspiring new cookbook by chef and activist Megan Stevens makes trading in unhealthy processed ingredients for natural and nutritious ingredients that uplift and nourish your body, simple and straight-forward ... and, for a variety of diets and food allergies, for people with all levels of baking experience. With careful attention to flavor, texture, and ingredients, Megan beckons a return to ways people once prepared foods which have supported health for thousands of years." - Raine Saunders , author at HealYourGutwithFood.com "Maybe you're not grain-free/sugar-free due to health problems or allergies, but like me, you want to include lower-carb meals in your diet for help in maintaining a healthy weight, or just to change things up -- this book is loaded with easy and delicious ways to do just that!" - Kelly the Kitchen Kop , author of Real Food for Rookies "Our family has been on a GAPS, Paleo diet for 5 years now. It's easy to get in a rut when cooking from scratch. Megan brings new life to any family's menu with creativity and innovation. I highly recommend!" - Andrea Fabry , author at It-Takes-Time.com "I'm so impressed with the care Megan has taken with her recipes, and I know that she's not only had dozens of recipe testers helping her refine every step, but also thousands of customers in her real life, brick-and-mortar café to be taste testers for her process...this is the kind of baking balance and mastery that I couldn't even dream of achieving, and I love that someone else has done it for me! - Katie Kimball , author of Healthy Snacks to Go, Better Than a Box and 8 others, at KitchenStewardship.com "You'll find waffles and pancakes, muffins and loaves, cakes and cookies, and all sorts of other delectable foods to satisfy your sweet tooth without getting in the way of your healing." - Stephanie Langford , author of Plan It, Don't Panic and Real Food on a Real Budget among others, at KeeperoftheHome.org " I'm delighted that Megan Stevens has a new cookbook out. I recommend it to anyone looking for great gluten-free and grain-free recipes." - Jennifer Margulis , author of Your Baby, Your Way and The Business of Baby among others "As you turn the pages and try the recipes in Eat Beautiful , I know you will feel and experience the same thing I did when I first met Megan: hope. Hope that your healing journey will end someday, and that along the way, the food you eat will deeply nourish your body, as well as thrill your soul (and your tastebuds) with its beauty." - Wardeh Harmon , author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fermenting Foods , at TraditionalCookingSchool.com Megan has an obvious heart to share what she's learned with others on a similar journey to her own. Born and raised in southern California, with cooking influences ranging from Mexican, French, Japanese and Jewish, her flair for the gourmet took a turn in its course when she was diagnosed with her first of three autoimmune diseases in her early 20's. With two in remission, and she and her family in the final legs of their healing journey, Megan is content and basking in the glory of the bea