Anybody recommend a good cookbook?

I don't have a cookbook to recommend, but I know I get TONS of ideas off the internet. Put in the search engine the criteria you are looking for. I also know that people on here have put many links to sites with fabulous recipes and ideas.

As for nothing stopping you from eating the low cal muffins - sure there is... There is YOU ! :-) Not easy - but you can DO it! Give yourself the power !

Good luck !

I'm a huge foodie, so I mostly focus on eating food that has a lot of flavor. If it doesn't, I'm going to binge on other crap because I'm not satisfied. I make most things from scratch, and I don't apologize for flour, sugar, salt, etc., as long as I made it myself.

That said, my favorite never-fail cookbooks and websites:

Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys, by Lucinda Scala Quinn - This book sounds absurd, especially for a woman with no men or boys in her house, but it's the best cookbook in my collection. The food is all delicious, filling, satisfying, and made from scratch. My favorites are the chicken pot pie, the vinegar glossed chicken, the porkchops with apples and onions, the spaghetti bolognese, and the char-baked tomato, zucchini, and eggplant. If you get this book, take my word for it and don't cook any of her Asian dishes. She's great with Italian and American, but her grasp of Asian flavors is totally off.

Eat This Book, by Tyler Florence - Tyler Florence does amazing things with food, and in spite of the fact that he's white, he really knows what he's doing with Asian cuisine. My favorites are the grilled pizza with mozzarella di bufala, sausage, and fresh tomatoes (I'm allergic to dairy, so I can tell you reliably: this doesn't need the cheese to be delicious), African-spiced chicken with green olive sauce and couscous, cold sesame noodles, Martin Yan's Szechuan eggplant, and pan-roasted chicken with mushrooms, shallots, and rosemary.

Whole Grains: Every Day Every Way, by Lorna Sass - While I haven't had a ton of recipes from this book, the few I've tried have been really delicious.

As for websites, my favorites are thekitchn.com and smittenkitchen.com. Thekitchn.com has a delicious recipe for sweet corn risotto that's perfect for spring and summer, zucchini and olive breakfast cake (I had forgotten this one! Time to break it out for next week's breakfasts), roasted tomato tartine, and roasted eggplant caviar (eating this one this week again! so good!). The instructions on Smitten Kitchen are a little long-winded and could definitely use some help, but the writer gets the point across just fine, and all the recipes I've tried from both websites have been amazing. Smitten Kitchen has a recipe for smooth hummus that's really delicious if you don't mind spending an extra 10 minutes on it, garlic butter roasted mushrooms, spinach salad with warm bacon vinaigrette...

Anyway, I hope this is helpful! And enjoy cooking!

Comfort Food Diet Cookbook
LOVE IT!! so does the kid...

I really like allrecipes.com. I believe that the recipes are user submitted, but they also include reviews, so you can tell if the recipes actually worked or not or if they needed some sort of improvement.
It also helps that you can usually sub some of the full fat options for low fat/fat free options without hurting the recipe.
I've tried quite a few so far (the quinoa black bean burger recipe was AWESOME) and I haven't had any issues yet.

I've made 10-15 recipes from skinnytaste.com. They are excellent! They are often lightened-up versions of our traditional favorites, along with new stuff. The only one I didn't like was the Chicken Pot Pie soup, but my boyfriend made it so who knows if he actually followed the recipe!

I made the Fiesta Bean Salad from skinnytaste this week for lunches and it's dynamite.

I LOVE my "Low Fat, Low Calorie, low Cholesterol Light Cooking" cook book. I found it at a resale shop-and it was published in 94. I am probably going to see if they have more versions of it. Anyway, tons of recipes from all meats, deserts, drinks, and breads. It even includes a calorie counter below the recipes. And I discovered last night that it has fat, cal, chol counter for other foods. For example Ground patty, regular, broiled for 3 oz is 245 cal. It also lists calories of some fast food places (I guess the most sold items)
Perhaps it not amazing to some. But I love to know how much everything is right away. I dont want to go on a wild goose chase online to figure out how much it is before I make it. haha

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