I found "Well Fed" to be a book well worth reading (though I have to admit I have not purchased it yet I just borrowed it for free on my kindle). She eats a little differently than I do but her recipes and tips about eating Paleo long term are top notch and helpful. I just add in the other stuff I eat and use a lot of her base recipe and meal planning and preparing ideas as I go.

I fell into Paleo accidentally when I got an autoimmune disease and discovered "IBS Low Starch Diet" by Carol Sinclair. With that and advice from my doc to eat more natural foods and a hand-out about eating a Paleo type diet I then started researching and tailoring my diet to myself and my family. I do still eat junk occasionally, but I find that as long as 90% of my eating is healthy, whole and natural I do well.

I have tried a few other books but not found them as helpful. Most of mine has been internet research and common sense and what works for my body, you will find once you get off the processed food you can tell which foods bother you if you eat them again.

Hope this helps!

Have you checked your local library? Borrowing a book might give you a better idea if you want to buy it or not.

It Starts With Food has some recipes in the back, but it's much more of a why and how-to sort of book. It's awesome and I've been recommending it to everyone (even a lady in the hospital waiting room last week!). If you're interested in the science behind paleo, it's a great book. So is Practical Paleo, which has the science and great recipes.

I just finished reading ISWF. Definitely a kindle read, not hard copy. They provide some menu mix/match charts, but it's not a cookbook.

I downloaded the free sample of well-fed, and was very impressed. I'm going to purchase the PDF version to have on my iPad, since I cook with the iPad as a reference tool a lot!

I also think the nomnompaleo app for iPad is AMAZING! I think it's worth every penny and I love supporting my favorite blogger. It's a gorgeous cooking app, with great functionality and step by step pictures. You can do in-app purchases just of the things you want. I purchased most of it.

Thanks for that blog Naturalnut, I found it inspiring that eating naturally is working for you and can work for me too. I,m buying Well Fed.

I haven't bought any books yet; so far I've relied on websites and podcasts. But, I do want to get a couple of the books, like Well Fed, and maybe Eat Like a Dinosaur for my kids. But I'm a little worried it might be out of their age range? They're 10 (almost 11) and 9?

Yeah, that's the other thing. I am wondering if I should change my kids' eating habits as well. They eat a lot of sandwiches and pasta, wheat products, etc. I fear that if I remove all that there would be very little left. I dunno.

I have been trying to send my kids primal lunches for school, and start them off with a good breakfast that isn't SAD, and when I ask them if they stayed full all day, they said "yah, we weren't hungry at all!". So I do try to use that and explain that when they have a breakfast that isn't cereal but rather full of proteins and fat, that they stay fuller longer, and they don't seem to have that mid day crash that they used to. They usually do eat the dinners I fix (with a little complaining) but they aren't on it as much as I'd like them to be. I don't wanna be so tight with them about it that they aren't allowed to have a cupcake at a birthday party now and then, but if nothing else, I'd like them to be 80/20.

I have a son who is GF and has a bunch of food allergies as well so it is easier to get him to eat healthy. I can't get my daughter or my husband to go off the grains and bad things though. I do have them eat the natural healthy food I prepare in addition to the grains they eat. I also go out of my way to make food that they like as much as I do. I do a lot of cooking with coconut flour for sweets and treats for them as well as replacement for my son and I for the grains and starches we do not eat.

Meanwhile I am just teaching my kids about how food can affect your body and your life and teaching them what is healthy. At 12 and 14 they know how to read a food label and say no to things that are bad (within their own limits of course). I teach them how to make healthier choices of junk food basically.

I purchased the Practical Paleo book by Diane Sanfilippo of www.balancedbites.com, and it is WONDERFUL. I may have to buy the print copy. She goes into the reasons people choose to eat Paleo, and how to tweak your diet to target that purpose. There are over 100 recipes included, and everything is just so easy to understand.

I've been gathering information from both books and the internet. Luckily, all of the Primal/Paleo books I've bought were helpful, and it's good to have them around for reference and motivation. I just bought Practical Paleo, a newer book that is worth buying and going back to every now and then for a Paleo overview and some decent recipes.