Bought an excellent new cookbook

dustyhockeymom
dustyhockeymom Posts: 537 Member
edited September 27 in Food and Nutrition
I was at a book fair yesterday and I picked up a new cookbook. It is the Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet. It has a diet plan, which is pretty much consistent with here. Eat lower calories, choose proper foods, exercise. Nothing radical but with good inforation about food choices. But the reason I bought it was the recipes. It has recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks and desserts all with listed calorie counts and nutrition information. The thing I like is that included with the nutrition is the proper serving size. Instead of just saying 6 servings, it says serving is 1 1/2 cups. The recipes are also organized from lower to higher calories in each section so you can find recipes consistent with how many calories you want to eat. There are a lot of recipes I want to try, which is the best part of any cookbook.

What are your favorite healthy cookbooks? I am a cookbook-aholic, so I always like to find good new ones.

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  • Sunshine_Girlie
    Sunshine_Girlie Posts: 618 Member
    I don't have many cookbooks, but I've checked some out from the library and taken notes on the recipes that I really enjoy. I like the Lisa Lillien ones. The one I'm reading now has 200 meals/food choices for under 200 calories. Some of them have a lot of sodium, so I'm trying to play around with it and lower the intake. I also have an LA Weight Loss cookbook. Okay, I have two of them. I bought one and this lady gave me hers. It does have some great ideas in it, but nothing about the carbs,cals, or anything else. I like it, just have to measure everything out for myself and keep track.
  • perrytyra
    perrytyra Posts: 357 Member
    I love all the Taste of Home brand cookbooks. They always have the tastiest recipes and they always work great. If a recipe has ingredients that I don't want to use, I just change up the ingredients. For instance, I would never use stick margarine, so I always substitute butter for that. I won't use coolwhip, so I make my own with real cream.

    I found an old cookbook that uses only whole foods. Some of the recipes in there I would never use, but it is nice to have a book that I can look up how to make just about anything myself. Like salad dressings and pasta.
  • nurse_carolyn
    nurse_carolyn Posts: 348
    I love Taste of Home. I get the monthly magazine :)
  • momtothreegirls
    momtothreegirls Posts: 26
    I will have to look that one up. One of my pet peeves is a recipe that just says 6 servings, and doesn't give you the actual amount you are supposed to eat. I look up a lot of recipes on the internet and if it doesn't tell you serving size 1 cup, or whatever, I won't save it or write it down, even if it looks yummy.
  • mizpaden74
    mizpaden74 Posts: 3,838 Member
    TOH rocks. Just got a book for freezer cooking - something like don't panic dinner is in the freezer - and am hoping to get into the routine of prepping and getting at least a weeks worth of real meals at the ready.
  • kparks770
    kparks770 Posts: 113 Member
    I love the Betty Crocker Diabetic cookbook.I bought it for my mom for christmas and she loves it.It uses food that she would actually eat.I would too! Also the Paula deen boys and mom are about to if not already making a southern food thats healthy cookbook-i gotta get it! Being southern it would be perfect! Well yall have a good one!
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