Healthy Recipe Searching

Skinnytaste.com and Instantloss.com have good recipes. Another blogger I like is Kalyn's Kitchen. If you like vegetarian Moosewood cookbooks are good.

My sister gave me some recipe tips a few years ago that answered the question for me; maybe it will work for you.

This is quite simplistic, but, as a basis for creation, it offers untold variations. I've come up with some tam dasty meals this way.

The way it works it to put food into one of a few categories:
filler, flavor, binder.
Fillers are the bulk, the substance - protein, carb, fat
Flavors are what makes the taste buds happy - salt, sugar, herbs, spices
Binders hold it all together - eggs, sticky substances (let the imagination run).

You have to be brave and have an open mind to new taste combinations. The best part of this method is that all the ingredients are already in your kitchen.

today I had brown rice&black beans(filler), mixed with sweet potato (binder) and soy sauce (flavor).

have fun!

I don't really go anywhere special to look for "healthy", by which I'm assuming you mean low calorie, recipes. What I do do is alter some recipes to make the calorie count lower. Things like using less oil, a different cut of meat (though that's pretty rare and has to do with non-health related dietary preferences), etc. Essentially I quickly learned what makes a recipe more or less calorie dense, which wasn't especially difficult. I suppose it also helps that I don't eat most cheeses and consume very little dairy more broadly.

The online places I get recipes from include the recipe section of the NYTime's website (without a subscription I think you can view five recipes a month), Viet World Kitchen, The Guardian, various indian food blogs/websites, Serious Eats, and The Woks of Life. None of those sites specialize in "healthy" foods.

Cerdwin wrote: »

If you're looking for healthy Forks over Knives is a good place to start. Forewarned, it is no/avoid meat, dairy, oil, and salt. Its a bunch of veggies, fruits, legumes, and whole food pastas. I have yet to make a recipe out of their cookbook that I don't like.

No salt?

janejellyroll wrote: »

aokoye wrote: »

Cerdwin wrote: »

If you're looking for healthy Forks over Knives is a good place to start. Forewarned, it is no/avoid meat, dairy, oil, and salt. Its a bunch of veggies, fruits, legumes, and whole food pastas. I have yet to make a recipe out of their cookbook that I don't like.

No salt?

I'm not sure where that "no salt" bit comes from because even a quick review of their recipes show that they call for both salt and condiments that contain salt (hot sauce, mustard, etc).

Yeah I just checked and almost all of the recipes that I looked at have at salt in them. Some of the recipes definitely sound good though.