Favourite healthy cookbooks

willow00
willow00 Posts: 21 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone, hope this hasn't already been posted, but I'm looking for some cookbook recommendations. I'm cooking for a family, so looking for meals kids will eat, which I can make in under an hour. Thanks :)

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited August 2017
    Kids will eat what you serve them, if they have no alternative. They like what they are used to. What do they like? Get them involved, according to age/skills, in planning meals, shopping for groceries and cooking. Do you make balanced meals, and vary them? That is healthy. Do you make elaborate meals? That takes time, and you don't have to do that. Any combination of protein, starch and vegetable can make up a balanced and delicious meal, and fast if you want it fast. You don't need cookbooks/recipes for that, but they can help if you need to learn how to cook.
  • scarlett_k
    scarlett_k Posts: 812 Member
    Nadiya's British Food Adventure and her previous book Nadiya's Kitchen are my current favourites.
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,500 Member
    Prevention's Quick & Healthy Cookbook is good...but I don't know if it is still in print. Lots of very fast, tasty dishes, says serves 4 but is sometimes a little bit of an understatement...plus great pix. Rachel Ray has a 30 minute cook book ( I don't love it as she uses a lot of pig, which is to say bacon, ham, chops, etc...I don't eat pig).
  • CTcutie
    CTcutie Posts: 649 Member
    I really like Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry. There's a new one that will be released next week, too. The recipes are great (I love the black bean burgers!) & there are things kids will like, too.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Simple learn-to-cook book I always recommend is Bittman's How to Cook Everything. Just cooking simply from a variety of whole foods is healthy, you don't need special healthy cookbooks.

    He also has one for Vegetarian cooking and one for fish (that I used when I first started cooking fish).

    Another good option is vegetable-based books -- Barbara Kafka's Vegetable Love is good, and Greene on Greens (it's all vegetables) is a classic. Season or farm based cookbooks are often fun and have photos, but tend to be more quirky and less generally helpful (I have a lot, but I collect cookbooks and read them for ideas, although I never use recipes).

    Good websites for ideas are 100cookbooks and epicurious (you can search for specific ingredients and types of recipes).
  • willow00
    willow00 Posts: 21 Member
    Thanks for the replies. I enjoy cooking, but don't like making the same things all the time. I have lots of new ideas now :)
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    its a website, but I'm a fan of skinnytaste and she tags recipes as kid friendly
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