--- title: Tom Brady Wants You to Buy a $200 Cookbook Filled with Highly Restrictive Recipes description: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, known for his restrictive diet, is selling a $200 cookbook with recipes and nutrition tips. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2016-05-05T14:48:02.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T11:08:53.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Books - Cooking - pubdesk - Sports - sports fans word_count: 472 canonical: https://money.com/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady](https://img.money.com/2016/05/tombradycookbook506631728.jpeg?crop=1750px%2C93px%2C2224px%2C1250px&quality=85) *Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots.* Recipes are a dime a dozen online. Actually, they're cheaper than that. Sites like [AllRecipes.com](http://allrecipes.com/) and [Food.com](http://www.food.com/) list tens of thousands of recipes—with ratings from people who've tried them out—totally free of charge. So why would anyone fork over $200 for a book with some nutrition tips and a mere 89 recipes? First off, the book comes from Tom Brady. The New England quarterback and four-time Super Bowl champ is scheduled to be [suspended for four games](http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/04/25/new-england-patriots-deflategate-tom-brady-suspension-reinstated) of the upcoming NFL season for his alleged role in the notorious "Deflategate" scandal, which made many non-Patriots fans view Brady as a cheater. Yet Brady is also infamous for the way he and his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, never ever cheat on their ultra-strict diet. Earlier this year, Allen Campbell, Brady's personal chef, talked about the [quarterback's extreme diet](https://time.com/4168022/tom-brady-diet-personal-chef-gisele-bundchen/) in an interview with [Boston.com](http://www.boston.com/sports/new-england-patriots/2016/01/04/meet-the-chef-who-decides-what-tom-brady-eatsand-what-he-definitely-doesn’t). Brady and Bundchen eat mostly vegetarian meals, always with organic vegetables (but no tomatoes, mushrooms, or peppers), and the restrictions include: > No white sugar. No white flour. No MSG. I’ll use raw olive oil, but I never cook with olive oil. I only cook with coconut oil… I use Himalayan pink salt as the sodium. I never use iodized salt. On talk radio, Brady admitted that he has [never tried coffee](https://time.com/4175972/tom-brady-never-tried-coffee/)—not even once!—and he has credited his diet as a big reason for why he's been so successful as a pro athlete for so long. So these aren't just the recipes of any old celebrity athlete. And the [*TB12 Nutrition Manual*](http://www.tb12store.com/collections/feature-products/products/tb12-nutrition-manual?variant=17174898500), as the new tome is entitled, is clearly no ordinary cookbook. (What's up with TB12? Well, #12 is Brady's jersey number, and he has an entire line of products sold under the TB12 brand name.) Instead, it's referred to as a limited-edition "living document" that can be expanded and updated over time "using its unique screw post binding" as Brady and his team periodically add more recipes and tips. "The manual is printed and hand assembled in the United States, and is printed on thick 100 pound text paper," the sales listing explains. "The covers are made from natural maple with a laser-etched TB12 logo and title." ***Read Next:* 5 Things to Know Before You Buy a (Future) Kentucky Derby-Winning Racehorse** As for the recipes, well, there are 89 "seasonally-inspired" listings that'll clue you in on how to make [avocado ice cream](http://www.boston.com/sports/new-england-patriots/2016/05/04/tom-brady-avocado-ice-cream-book) and sweet potato gnocchi with escarole just like Tom and Gisele eat. The book also features many "core TB12 nutritional philosophies" to absorb. Clearly, there are plenty of fans who think the book's $200 price tag is worth the money. The initial printing is already listed as sold out on Brady's site. If this turn of events is leaving you (sorry) deflated, perhaps an order of Brady-endorsed [electrolytes ($15)](http://www.tb12store.com/collections/nutrition/products/tb12-electrolytes) or TB12 protein ($54) will provide a boost. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Sports", "item": "https://money.com/sports/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Tom Brady Wants You to Buy a $200 Cookbook Filled with Highly Restrictive Recipes" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars/", "name": "Tom Brady Wants You to Buy a $200 Cookbook Filled with Highly Restrictive Recipes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-05-05T14:48:02.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:08:53.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Tom Brady Wants You to Buy a $200 Cookbook Filled with Highly Restrictive Recipes", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/05/tombradycookbook506631728.jpeg?crop=1750px%2C93px%2C2224px%2C1250px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "AFC Championship - New England Patriots v Denver Broncos" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-05-05T14:48:02.000Z", "description": "New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, known for his restrictive diet, is selling a $200 cookbook with recipes and nutrition tips.", "abstract": "New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, known for his restrictive diet, is selling a $200 cookbook with recipes and nutrition tips.", "@id": "https://money.com/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:08:53.000Z", "wordCount": 472, "keywords": [ "Books", "Cooking", "pubdesk", "Sports", "sports fans" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sport", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport" ] } ] } ] } ```