Favorite Healthy Cookbook?

I get a TON of the recipes I use on Eatingwell.com, FoodNetwork.com, or even MarthaStewart.com from time to time. But I was wanting a PHYSICAL cook book I could have in the kitchen for eating healthy.

Anyone have a cookbook they are clung to?

I love Christine Ingram's Vegetarian and Vegetable Cooking: The definitive encyclopedia of healthy vegetarian food.

The pictures and explanations for the use of all the beautiful veges are amazing. It also has a great section where she just explains what each vege looks like and how to buy, use and prepare it.

Not just for vegetarians and it is distinctly not vegan. However, if you are looking to add some fab healthy nutrient rich veges to your diet, this books is terrific.

My favorite cookbook of all times is Healthy Homestyle Cooking by Evelyn Tribole.  She takes all the favorites and makes them healthy. The recipes have a ton of flavor! 

I love my Williams Sonoma "Eat Well" cookbook.

It has great, healthy, easy recipes and nutritional information listed at the back so you know exactly how many cals, carbs, fat, protein is in each serving.

Yum!

If you can get them in the States (I'm assuming that's where you live), I really like the Janet and Greta Podleski books.  They've basically taken dishes people usually enjoy, and reworked them to be healthier, lower in fat, and higher in all the good stuff we're supposed to be getting.  

My favorite is Eat, Shrink and Be Merry,  and my favorite muffin recipe ever is from their Looneyspoons book, they're called "Banana Bomberry Muffins".

I have all three of their books, and just love them.  I attribute about 50% of my weightloss (and subsequent success) to the recipes in these great books.

I'm enjoying Meals in Minutes by the American Heart Association.  It's nice to have a cookbook where I can safely eat all the recipes instead of having to modify them for my health.

Ohhh yes the Looneyspoons cook books are great! They include all of the nutritional value, the recipes are easy and most of them don't include weird ingredients that you don't have on hand. A lot of the recipes do use lots of different spices, so you might need to initially invest in some of the spices you're missing. 

Let me know if you want me to send you a few recipes to see if you like them!

I don't have one, but the Hungry-Girl website has some good recipes and I've flipped through her cookbook's (One is just called Hungry-Girl I think and the other one is 200 for under 200) and it looks good too. Also, there is another one called The Decedant Diet.

This won't help you, but I am going to write one, I am currently putting together a list of all the lower-calorie, healthy recipes I've created. I've shared some with friends and family, and have often been told I should write a cookbook! I think I have to wait until I am closer to goal weight, though, so as to have more legitimacy :).

Original Post by meganwilliams2:

I don't have one, but the Hungry-Girl website has some good recipes and I've flipped through her cookbook's (One is just called Hungry-Girl I think and the other one is 200 for under 200) and it looks good too. Also, there is another one called The Decedant Diet.

Hungry Girl's recipes may be low calorie, but that sure does not make them healthy... a lot of her recipes call for lots of fake, chemical contaminated products like FF/SF Cool-Whip, and Splenda, or just lower calorie versions of already nutrient void foods... such as mixing package cake mix with diet coke instead of eggs and oil.

Her recipes I guess are good on occasion to make some less guilty treats... but I wouldn't reccomend it as a "healthy cook book"

The healthiest cook books will use the most natural ingredients, limit added sugars and bad fats, and use more spices and seasonings to flavor foods rather then sugary, fatty, or chemical enriched sauces... they should also list nutrition information per serving