Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's Personal Chef Reveals the Couple's Veggie Diet



Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's Personal Chef Reveals the Couple's Veggie Diet



BOSTON, MA - When your money maker is your body, you don’t mess around with anything less than the best. That's why when superstar model Gisele Bundchen and her NFL husband Tom Brady pick out their menus they won't settle for anything but an 80 percent vegetable-based diet, according to their personal chef Allen Campbell. 

Allen Campbell recently sat down with Boston.com to dish all the details about the diet that helps shape two of the world’s most beautiful bodies. The secret? Plants, plants, and more plants. 

Allen Campbell, Personal Chef to Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady. Photo via Allen Campbell and Boston.com.“Around the time I met them, I had started really focusing on plant-based diets, because that’s where all the nutrition is,” Campbell told the online magazine. “My philosophy is that a plant-based diet has the power to reverse and prevent disease.”

Both Bundchen and Brady eat plant-based diets with the remaining 20 percent allotment going to whole grains like brown rice, quinoa, millet, beans, and lean meats like grass-fed organic steak, duck, chicken (rarely), and wild salmon, Campbell says.

“It’s very different than a traditional American diet. But if you just eat sugar and carbs—which a lot of people do—your body is so acidic, and that causes disease,” Campbell continued. “Sugar is the death of people.”

Maki style vegetable sushi prepared by Campbell for Tom & Gisele’s children. Via Boston.com.Sugar isn’t the only product banned from the couple’s diets either, the chef says. It seems like he’s eliminated all processed goods from entering the temple of Gisele and Tom.

“No white flour,” he proclaims. “No MSG. I’ll use raw olive oil, but I never cook with olive oil. I only cook with coconut oil. Fats like canola oil turn into trans fats... I use Himalayan pink salt as the sodium. I never use iodized salt.” 

What else? No dairy. No coffee. No caffeine at all.

Don’t get me wrong readers, I love a great vegetable-based meal, I’m even a frequent participator of Meatless-Mondays. But keep me away from cheese and caffeine for too long and I will be too miserable to enjoy my new Gisele Bundchen-esque bod.

All the more power to you, though, Tom and Gisele!