Easy Allergy-Free Cooking

//*\\ Winner of the 2024 Bronze Medal at the IPPY Book Awards in the Specialty Cookbooks Category! //*\\

A choose-your-own adventure for the healthy at-home cook! Make recipes that YOU can eat!​

In Easy Allergy-Free Cooking, Kayla Cappiello's recipes adhere to any allergies or food intolerances while still providing healthy, flavorful meals. It's all-inclusive, letting the reader choose from a variety of milks, grain substitutes, and meat replacements that work for them.

Gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, and vegetarians—this book welcomes everyone. Kayla’s recipes focus on resourceful ingredient substitutes to satisfy any dietary need so you never have to miss out on your favorite comfort meals while still providing new and innovative recipes to keep things fresh. She includes inventive rice bowls, artisanal cauliflower pizzas, out-of-the-box baked pastas, and one-pan easy weeknight casseroles, while still keeping allergies and healthiness in mind.
 
Featuring sections on how to stock your pantry with healthy options, outlines for food substitutes based on allergies or dietary restrictions, and meal maps, this book is a friendly guide to getting your nutrition on track without cutting out the foods you love. Packed with easy-to-follow diagrams and vibrant photos, you’ll be making these recipes over and over again.

Recipes include:

• Healthy but loaded steak salad with homemade chimichurri vinaigrette
• Clean-Eating Chopped Italian Goddess Salad with a healthy herbed dressing
• Sugar-free cinnamon bun French toast
• Vegetarian Butternut squash and cheddar pizza with chili, honey
• Caramelized onion and Pear pizza with a white balsamic dressing
• Simple, 5-ingredient banana bread
• Salted chocolate and banana bread blondies

 
You’ll love this collection of simple tricks, meal hacks, and 30-minute recipes for the gluten-free, dairy-free, or just plain healthy eater!

Kayla Cappiello has three dietary restrictions. Diagnosed with celiac disease, a lactose intolerance, and a nut allergy, she found a creative outlet in navigating her way through every day recipes and adjusting them to fit her dietary needs. She learned to use this process not only as a way to find inner peace and to accept her body's restrictions, but also as a way to connect with others over what our bodies need most—food. Navigating food can be hard. Kayla likes to keep her recipes fun, bright, and approachable—just like her! She is laid back, enjoys reading a good book, and also appreciates a good cocktail and cooking. She lives just outside New York City with her fiance and their dog, Beans. 

“One of the questions people ask themselves when they go gluten-free (and/or dairy-free) is ‘what the heck am I going to eat?’ In this book, Kayla definitely answers that question and proves that you can prepare delicious food without including these allergens.” —@PhilHatesGluten
 
“Kayla’s recipes never fail to impress and make my mouth water. Full of allergy-free recipes that highlight her love of food and passion for helping others, Kayla’s book will add immeasurable value and deliciousness to your life and plate. With her focus on nourishing and tasty recipes that those with even the strictest food intolerances and allergies can enjoy, there is truly something for everyone. Kayla has taken all of the guess work out of navigating the big question that many people with food intolerances and allergies often ask themselves, which is ‘will I ever be able to eat the foods I enjoy again?’ Kayla shows you that the answer is a big, resounding YES!” —Nicole Keshishian Modic, founder of @kalejunkie and author of Love to Eat
 
“Kayla creates a diverse menu of easy, delicious, and satisfying recipes for those with dietary restrictions to choose from. Her own experience and empathy for her readers shines through in every page, while also introducing them to new ingredients and holding their hand through the process.” —Vasudha Viswanath, author of The Vegetarian Reset and founder of We Ate Well