Dairy-Free Ice Cream Recipes: 75 Delicious Egg-Free, Gluten-Free, Soy-Free & No Refined Sugar Desserts for Vegan & Allergy-Friendly Diets - Perfect for Summer Treats, Lactose Intolerance & Healthy Lifestyle

I am transitioning to paleo, grain free and dairy free diet per a natropathic doctor's advice to assist me with adrenal issues and fertility issues. My husband also has insulin resistance and we need to reduce sugars and carbs, opting for a higher fat, low carb lifestyle. One of the challenges in getting my husband to buy into the paleo grain free dairy free lifestyle (even though he has issues with dairy) is getting him to give up some of his treats. I bought this book to see if I could create some of these recipies and convince him its not so bad.I love the spunky coconut website/blog and have followed Kelly for a couple months and love all her amazing recipies and blogs. I have another cookbook of hers, but this one is by far my favorite. What sets this cookbook apart is the amazing photography and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that there is a picture of EVERY recipie which makes me want to make it (and also when I do make them and they look a certain way the pictures help me levelset expectations). I did have to stock my pantry with some of these new things, but that was happening anyway this cookbook just helped me do it! I love that the beginning of the book is dedicated to the explanation of the main ingredients used in dairy free ice cream and desserts and Kelly tells you what to expect in differences in the results of the recipe based on what you use.This book contains not only dairy free ice cream, but recipies for toppings, sorbet, desert shells and cookies that compliment the ice cream. There are even recipies for paleo popsicles! All the recipies are well written to easily construct and again, the pictures really set this cookbook apart from other paleo and grain free cookbooks I have purchased. I particularily love that she has pages in the back with her favorite websites and resources to go to for the tools, ingredients, and literature on the healthy benefits of using these types of ingriedents. Kelly's passion pours out of this book and I applaud her attention to detail on not only her recipies and photography but her technical writing on the "how tos".So far I have made the vanilla and chocolate recipies. It really helps to use the tools she suggests in detail in the book and there is a section on her website with direct links to some of them (such as the ice cream maker) that will go directly to amazon for you to purchase them with a click of a button. The chocolate ice cream recipie is absolutely amazing and you wouldn't even know it was dairy free. This book is truly inspiring to those that want to transition to a healthier lifestyle and not give up the sweets. I can't wait to make coconut cream to top my ice cream with! And the blueberry lavendar ice cream is totally calling to me.This book is worth the money for the pictures alone, but for those looking for healthy alternatives, I don't think this book can be beat.