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Feel Good

'Not just good food, great food, to brighten every day.'

Melissa's food is delicious, adventurous and always makes me smile! I always have her books to hand.

This is a beauty, full of life-affirming food.

A roster of feel-good recipes for all occasions.

It's a legal requirement to buy this book!

Incredible and really easy to make the recipes.

'Not just good food, great food, to brighten every day.' - Nadiya Hussain 
 
'Melissa's food is delicious, adventurous and always makes me smile! I always have her books to hand.' - Dr Rupy Aujla 
 
'This is a beauty; full of life-affirming food.' - Thomasina Miers 
 
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100 delicious recipes for fuss-free healthy cooking. 
 
Melissa Hemsley, bestselling author of Eat Happy and co-author of The Art of Eating Well, brings simple, nutritious recipes to help you feel your best, whether it's a quick dinner after a long day, cook-ahead lunches to see you through the week or easy one-tin traybake for a cosy night in. 
 
Find energising veg dishes, flexible meat and fish recipes, flavour-packed feasts to share with friends, and easy snacks and desserts. 
 
Many recipes take less than half an hour, and all use readily available ingredients. 
 
Includes Mushroom and Aubergine Pancakes with Sesame Sauce, Halloumi and Chickpea Rainbow Salad, Mum's Filipino Chicken with Mango-Tomato Salsa and Three-Ingredient Chocolate Pots.

Delicious flexitarian recipes for planet-friendly eating

Eat Green

Bestselling author Melissa Hemsley offers easy veg-packed flexitarian recipes. Will appeal to fans of River Cottage Veg Every Day!, A Modern Way to Eat and No. More. Plastic.

Her latest recipe book, Eat Green, is ... set to become a new kitchen classic

If, like me, cooking doesn't exactly play to your strengths, then this book was practically made for you. Most recipes can be made in 30 minutes or batch-cooked, perfect for all of us time-poor Londoners

Consider Eat Green your new kitchen commandments for greener, cleaner home cooking

The best thing about Melissa Hemsley’s Eat Green is her all-embracing attitude in making a positive planet impact through our kitchens

‘A delicious and much-needed nudge towards a healthier and more sustainable kitchen’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 
 
'More than a recipe book, this is a guide for how to shop and eat now!' Skye Gyngell 
 
Foreword by Guy Singh-Watson, farmer and founder of Riverford. 
 
Bestselling author and home cook, Melissa Hemsley gives you over 100 easy recipes that focus on UK-grown, easy-to-buy ingredients, cutting down on food waste and putting flavour first. Eat Green is a helping hand towards eating a lot more vegetables in a way everyone can enjoy together. 
 
These veg-packed and veg-centric recipes are simple to make and perfect for the whole family. Chapters include: One Pot and One Tray; Cook Now, Eat Later; Family Favourites; and 30 Minutes or Less. 
 
Simple swaps mean that meat and fish can be added in or taken away, so everyone can enjoy a delicious meal, whether they are vegan, vegetarian, enjoying a meat-free Monday or something in between. 
 
Melissa’s down-to-earth approach to joyful eating encourages us to cook healthy food from scratch while being mindful of life’s pressures and time constraints. Eat Green includes plenty of: 
 
- easy swaps to use up food you have to hand and reinvent your leftovers 
- batch cooking advice and meals to stock up your freezer 
- quick 30-minute midweek dinners and one-pot meals 
- make-ahead packed lunches for work or weekend trips 
- family-friendly dishes and healthy spins on comfort food favourites 
- ideas for using up odds and ends that you might usually throw away 
 
Eat Green celebrates the pleasure of really good food anyone can cook and everyone can savour.

Eat Happy: 30-minute Feelgood Food

Eat Happy is packed with 120 quick and easy recipes that can be whipped up in 30 minutes or less.

Eat Happy? I’m always happy when I eat Melissa's food!

Brilliant advice and tips for times-savvy, good-for-you meals.

Her recipes are wonderfully simple to make yet filling and healthy.

I want to buy whatever Melissa Hemsley is selling.

Her kitchen tactics couldn’t be more down to earth.

Colourful and vibrantly flavoured...Your next must-read... It’s feelgood food that’s filling, flavoursome and foolproof too.

Melissa is balanced, colourful and multi-faceted.

Eat Happy is one of the best healthy cookbooks if you're into comfort food.

"Eat Happy? I’m always happy when I eat Melissa’s food!" GARY BARLOW 
"I adore Melissa and her food. This is carefree, quick cooking with a sense of fun, and just happens to be good for you.” ANNA JONES 
"I'm a huge fan and love how Melissa champions the message that good healthy food needn't be complicated, scary or time consuming. This beautiful new book is packed with dreamy recipes.” FEARNE COTTON 
"Don't think I've ever met anyone with such a passion, love and joy for food. She's amazing!” GIOVANNA FLETCHER 
 
 Delicious quick and easy meals with a Hemsley twist. 
 
Bestselling home cook and co-author of The Art of Eating Well and Good + Simple, Melissa Hemsley of Hemsley + Hemsley, presents flavourful and veg-packed dishes. 
 
Featuring supermarket ingredients, simple methods, and tips and tricks to make no-fuss great food, Eat Happy is designed to see you through the whole week - tempting breakfasts to family dinners and lunches, as well as party food, snacks, baking, desserts, drinks, and simple, healthier versions of takeaway favourites. 
 
Comfort and indulgence are at the heart of Melissa healthy food, with plenty of ideas for everyday meals, batch cooking, cutting down on kitchen waste, and dishes that can be enjoyed for supper and leftovers for a packed lunch. 
 
 Amongst the 120 brand-new recipes are, Breaded Chicken Katsu Curry, Sesame Salmon with Miso Veg Traybake, Roast Carrots with Pomegranate Molasses and Pistachios, Coconut Chocolate Clusters and Ginger Fruit Loaf. 
 
 These are delicious alternatives and satisfying treats that encourage even the most time-poor cook to take pleasure in healthy fast food that puts taste first.

Good + Simple

Look and feel your very best with Hemsley + Hemsley’s inventive, nutritious recipes that are simple to make and always good for you.

My three most-used cookery books - Nigella, Ottolenghi and these girls [Hemsley + Hemsley]. I live on their stuff. It is JOYOUS!

I love everything these gorgeous sisters create.

The Hemsley sisters deliver dishes that are as nutritious as they are delicious.

When it comes to healthy, nutritious, sustainable eating, they are quite simply hors pair.

Meet Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley, the cool sisters with an A-list clientele who promise to change the way you feel by reinventing the way you eat.

Wholesome recipes aimed at keeping your gut healthy and your digestion efficient. It ticks all my boxes.

Jasmine Hemsley (Author) Sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley have taken the UK by storm since launching their family-run food business for people who want to live healthier, happier lives. Within two weeks of creating their blog in 2012 the girls were asked to write for Vogue.co.uk, where they are still regular contributors. 
 
The Art of Eating Well is Jasmine and Melissa’s bestselling first cookbook; Good + Simple is their second. In 2015 the Hemsleys launched their sell-out spiralizer, which quickly became a must-have kitchen utensil. Their Channel 4 TV series Eating Well with Hemsley + Hemsley aired on 9 May 2016. 
 
Hemsley + Hemsley continue to cook and consult for celebrities and high-profile events around the world. Melissa Hemsley (Author) Sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley have taken the UK by storm since launching their family-run food business for people who want to live healthier, happier lives. Within two weeks of creating their blog in 2012 the girls were asked to write for Vogue.co.uk, where they are still regular contributors. 
 
The Art of Eating Well is Jasmine and Melissa’s bestselling first cookbook; Good + Simple is their second. In 2015 the Hemsleys launched their sell-out spiralizer, which quickly became a must-have kitchen utensil. Hemsley + Hemsley continue to cook and consult for celebrities and high-profile events around the world. 
 
hemsleyandhemsley.com 
@HemsleyHemsley

The bestselling second cookbook from Hemsley + Hemsley, including recipes from Jasmine and Melissa's Channel 4 series Eating Well with Hemsley + Hemsley. 
 
Good + Simple celebrates the pleasure of delicious food that is simple to make, a joy to share and just so happens to be good for you. Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley’s principles of healthy home cooking built around gut health, whole foods and affordable ingredients show how tasty and achievable eating well can be. 
 
The sisters have created 140 nutritious and exciting new recipes – reworked classics, prepare ahead dishes, fast suppers with leftovers for packed lunches, energising breakfasts and snacks, satisfying breads, desserts and bakes. Infused with Jasmine and Melissa’s love of cooking and eating, Good + Simple includes plenty of practical tips and down-to-earth advice to help you gain confidence in the kitchen, plan for the coming week and cook for 
you and your family with ease. Enjoy real food. Look and feel amazing every day.

The Art of Eating Well

A definitive healthy eating bible. Over 150 nutritious, delicious recipes that are good for the body and mind, and will make you look and feel amazing.

The sisterly cooking brand, Hemsley + Hemsley, is fast becoming a household name, like Marmite or Nutella. But unlike Marmite, you either love them, or you really love them, and unlike Nutella, they spread deliciously healthy food stories around the world.

Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley's cookbook has arguably been the most popular cookbook all year so far… It is a massive hit; a triumphant treatise on eating real, unprocessed and nourishing food.

I love everything these gorgeous sisters create

Model looks and a food blog for Vogue have made Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley the go-to caterers for the fashion set. Now they have shared their recipes…so we civilians can get in on their healthy eating ways

The Hemsley sisters might have impeccable fashion credentials but that only serves to add sparkle and old-school elegance to what is an unchallenged heavyweight reputation. When it comes to healthy, nutritious, sustainable eating, they are quite simply hors pair. Their approach is thorough, their fare meaty and sumptuous, and their method easily built into the madness of a working lifestyle.

wholesome recipes aimed at keeping your gut healthy and your digestion efficient.  It ticks all my boxes

This is the kind of book that will ease you gently into healthier ways of cooking and eating

practical as well as stylish…fresh fun food at its absolute best

If skin as radiant as the Hemsley and Hemsley’s can be achieved through healthy tweaks to familiar recipes, then count us in!

Meet Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley, the cool sisters with an A-list clientele who promise to change the way you feel by reinventing the way you eat...Their book is packed full of delicious recipes

Meet Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley, the cool sisters with an A-list clientele who promise to change the way you feel by reinventing the way you eat

Jasmine Hemsley (Author) 
 Sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley have taken the UK by storm since launching their family-run food business for people who want to live healthier, happier lives. Within two weeks of creating their blog in 2012 the girls were asked to write for Vogue.co.uk, where they are still regular contributors. 
 
The Art of Eating Well is Jasmine and Melissa’s bestselling first cookbook; Good + Simple is their second. In 2015 the Hemsleys launched their sell-out spiralizer, which quickly became a must-have kitchen utensil. Their Channel 4 TV series Eating Well with Hemsley + Hemsley aired on 9 May 2016. 
 
Hemsley + Hemsley continue to cook and consult for celebrities and high-profile events around the world. 
 
Melissa Hemsley (Author) 
 Sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley have taken the UK by storm since launching their family-run food business for people who want to live healthier, happier lives. Within two weeks of creating their blog in 2012 the girls were asked to write for Vogue.co.uk, where they are still regular contributors. 
 
The Art of Eating Well is Jasmine and Melissa’s bestselling first cookbook; Good + Simple is their second. In 2015 the Hemsleys launched their sell-out spiralizer, which quickly became a must-have kitchen utensil. Hemsley + Hemsley continue to cook and consult for celebrities and high-profile events around the world. 
 
hemsleyandhemsley.com 
@HemsleyHemsley

The bestselling cookbook from Hemsley + Hemsley, including recipes from Jasmine and Melissa's Channel 4 series Eating Well with Hemsley + Hemsley. 
 
The Art of Eating Well is a revolutionary cookbook that will help anyone who wishes to feel better, lose weight or have more energy. Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley teach their principles of life-long healthy eating with exciting and inventive recipes that are so delicious you forget the purpose is good health and nourishment. 
 
 Jasmine and Melissa’s philosophy is simple: a healthy gut leads to a healthy body and mind, and a better, happier you; that changing the way you eat doesn’t have to involve deprivation, but can be enjoyed everyday - whether you are home, work, with family or friends, or eating out. 
 
 This stunning book includes over 150 mouth-watering recipes - all of which are free from grain, gluten, refined sugar and high starch. 
 
 The sisters’ down-to-earth, encouraging and practical guidance will motivate you to try new foods and no longer crave high sugar and processed foods. They include comprehensive advice on ingredients, techniques, equipment, cooking in advance, meal plans, juicing, and packed lunches and snacks that fit busy lifestyles. 
 
 The Art of Eating Well is divided into clear categories – Kitchen and Store Cupboard Basics; Cooking in Advance; Breakfast; Soups; Salads; Sides and Snacks; Main Meals, including meat, poultry, fish and vegetarian; Baking and Desserts; Dips, Dressings and Sauces; Juices and Smoothies; Basics. 
 
 Beautifully photographed and designed, The Art of Eating Well is a kitchen bible that delivers maximum taste and maximum nutrition. A bold and beautiful cooking companion for food lovers that will change the way you eat leaving you energized, healthy, slimmer and strong.

Melissa Hemsley

Unprocess your diet with easy, everyday recipes

'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 
 
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Delicious, wholesome, life-friendly recipes to help you eat well, every day. 
 
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&rsquo;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 &ndash; on-the-go breakfasts, working lunches, snacks and sweet treats &ndash; as well as chapters on batch cooking, traybakes and 30 minute meals. She&rsquo;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&rsquo;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

Melissa Hemsley

Real Healthy

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