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Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry: Easy All-Natural Recipes for Healthy Eating in the Real World by Lisa Lillien

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Concept: Hungry Girl recipes are focused on realistically eating yummy, healthy in the real world.  The recipes show ways to cut carbs, calories, ect, while still making food delicious. This book specifically focuses on "clean" or all natural recipes (meaning no refined sugars, processed food, or anything artificial).

Author:  Lisa Lillien, aka, the Hungry Girl, is not a nutritionist and has no health-related or medical degrees, but she loves food and has been sharing ways to help people eat better for a long time. Her blog  with recipes, tips,  smart eating restaurant guides, and more can be found at http://www.hungry-girl.com/ .

Food type: Everything

Monologue score (1-10) (how entertaining, not the recipes): 6-7 - after the introductions there isn't really any commentary or stories about the like you find in some cookbooks, but there are pictures of every recipe,  tips on most pages, and the pages are bright and colorful making it a "exciting" read.

Difficulty level: Easy to medium (again, Hungry Girls is about to make recipes realistic, not like from a cooking show. These are all things that can be done easily in the home kitchen, there just might be some prep work, etc involved.)  There are a few out of the ordinary ingredients here and there, but overall not too bad.  

Approximate percentage of recipes I would be willing to try: 85%

Sample recipes I'm interested in trying:

  • Homemade BBQ and Teriyaki sauces
  • Homemade whole wheat tortillas
  • Banana Bread Growing Oatmeal
  • Peach Cobbler Overnight Oats
  • Strawberry Chia Yogurt Bowl
  • Cheesy Italian Egg Mug
  • Apple Cinnamon Waffles
  • Clean and Hungry Shamrock Shakes
  • Slow-cooker beef Barbacoa
  • Hawaiian Chicken with Cauliflower rice
  • Chicken Zucchini So Low Mein
  • Cauliflower hasbrowns and cheesy cauliflower tater tots 
  • Chicken Fajita stuffed peppers
  • Raspberry key lime crepes

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