Low-fat, low-salt, good-tasting? Need a new cookbook.

I haven't yet decided to go vegetarian.  But very persuaded by 28% reduction in heart disease and 39% reduction in cancer mortality for vegetarians over meat-eaters.  Sounds like a much better idea than Lipitor. 

I have reduced red-meat to once every few weeks.  Learning to love legumes, actually.  And home-made food of all kinds.

Anyway--since I still need to lose another ten pounds or so before reaching my ideal weight, and I must limit my sodium, can you suggest a vegetarian cookbook that also actually lists the nutrition content for the recipes, and tries to limit fat, salt, and calories?  Thanks.

For the nutrition content I find the CC recipe analyser is more useful than looking for books to provide the info.  Means I can take any dish whatsoever, work out the nutrition content per portion and (best of all) tweak it to match my needs.... such as reducing the fat content, trimming the quantities or adding less salt.   Once saved, I can keep it in the database here and pull it up as required.

Try Skinny Bitch in the Kitch...mmm...super yummy and vegetarian!

Another good website is:http://recipes.sparkpeople.com.

On a side note any particular reason why you think you must limit sodium?

UD

The skinny bitch "cookbook" (if one could even call it that) does NOT have nutritional info and is surprisingly full of processed food.  Some people apparently buy the book for the entertainment.  It's more a rant against meat production with mostly meat-based recipes with vegan ingredients substituted for the meat.  Don't waste your money, especially for only 150 recipes.  Do you really need a recipe to tell you how to make a vegan burger, by replacing the meat with a vegan patty?  Honestly, that's one of the "recipes"!

I do the same as gijane in looking up individual ingredients in CC then saving the lot in the database.  You would have to do that anyway if you wanted to tweak recipes in any cookbook to suit your needs. 

I have cooked professionally and am rated a "good cook" by friends and family; the best vegetarian cookbook I have ever used is Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone".  There are useful and informative ideas for any whole food you can think of as well as basic info & variations on how to cook each thing and is for anyone who eats, whether a newbie or more experienced cook.  Another good one is "Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant"; some of the recipes are more involved, but still easy to follow and I especially like the different ethnic food chapters with whole suggested menus (and all the recipes) for special meals.  Another one I am just beginning to use and am loving it more and more is Mollie Katzen's "Vegetable Heaven".  It's a slim volume, but the dishes are the kind that people clamor for the recipe when you take the dish to a party!  I have a whole bookshelf of cookbooks, but these are the ones I turn to angain and again.  Disclaimer: I am not compensated in any way by recommending these books, neither am I related in any way to the publishers/authors/etc.

Hi there!

I've been vegetarian for nearly 3 years now and I love it! One of things with cooking vegetarian is that dishes are soo colorful.  If you're trying to cut sodium from your diet, you should definitely look for dishes that include A LOT of other spices that will definitely pack in the flavor without using salt. That's one of the reasons why I love Indian and Thai inspired foods.

I'm a big fan of Vegetarian Times: fast and easy, great foods you can make in minutes and also Steven Raichlen's high-flavor, low fat vegetarian cooking.

The pictures and explanations are fantastic and I'm pretty sure both have nutritional info.

Good luck!

blog.fatfreevegan.com

While this isn't strictly vegetarian, I just got it and it has some great low salt/low fat recipes many that would fall into vegetarian friendly. 

American Heart Association Low-salt Cookbook, 3rd Edition: A Complete Guide To Reducing Sodium And Fat.

Original Post by adolphs:

blog.fatfreevegan.com

 

 I second this reccomendation.

If you like regular cookbooks, any Moosewood.

I also reccomend Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker and Vegan Fire & Spice (same author)

I've found some of the vegan cookbooks to have more interesting and different recipes than the just vegetarian cookbooks.

Here are some cookbooks (both vegetarian and vegan) we can't live without:

Moosewood Simple Suppers

Vegan with a Vengeance

Complete Vegan Cookbook

Vegetarian Express

Vegetarian Express Lane Cookbook

Veganomicon

How it All Vegan

Garden of Vegan

For the cookbooks without nutrition info, I analyze the recipes here on CC and sometimes adjust them.  I almost always cut the amout of oil in 1/2 or even 1/3.    Vegetarian Times magazine also has a huge, free searchable database of recipes, all with nutrition info.

Did your doctor recommend that you go low sodium? If not, then you may not have to worry about it. My dietitian told me that if I totally wipe out processed foods from my diet that I would probably not need to watch sodium. ( I had high BP) I just wait and add salt at the table, if needed. I also cook a lot with dry rubs as regular seasoning. They usually have some salt, but not much, and the flavor blends are really great/new way to eat.