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    Recipe books, recommendations?

    Posts: 136 Member
    edited December 2024 in Recipes
    Hey, well I'm all up for cooking, and making delicious healthy foods. I'm trying to find some healthy and wholesome cook books (preferably UK friendly) that really place emphasis on vegetables and fruits etc. Generally more about raw foods I think. (Though the only meat I eat is fish.)

    Can anyone recommend me any good books for such recipes?
    Thanks :)

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    • Posts: 27
      The innocent smoothie cookbook (all meals with emphasis on 5 a day)
      Any of Bill granger's books! they're all amazing and healthy :)
      the river cottage Veg book
      the superfoods cookbook :)
      the clean and lean cook book

      all these are great and well worth the money
    • Posts: 136 Member
      The innocent smoothie cookbook (all meals with emphasis on 5 a day)
      Any of Bill granger's books! they're all amazing and healthy :)
      the river cottage Veg book
      the superfoods cookbook :)
      the clean and lean cook book

      all these are great and well worth the money

      This is amazing advice, THANK YOU! :)

      Though, if you were really pressed. Which one would you purchase? I can only afford the one! haha :')
      xx
    • Posts: 376 Member
      yay cookbooks!

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    • Posts: 27
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      This is amazing advice, THANK YOU! :)

      Though, if you were really pressed. Which one would you purchase? I can only afford the one! haha :')
      xx

      hm, i'm not sure actually i love them all haha - but my favourites have always been one of bill grangers, Best of Bill is probably the best one or his sydney odessy (i think thats it's name ahah) as they're really focused on vegetables, fish and are really good with spices and flavors :)

      but if you want one purely on veggies and wholefoods i'd reccommend the superfoods cookbook, it has barely any meat in it at all and honestly it's the one i've found most helpful for my current diet. - it's also really informative on all the different types of wholefoods too :)
    • Posts: 695 Member
      Good post...bumping for later.
    • Posts: 142 Member
      Betty Crocker diabetic cookbook.
    • Posts: 184 Member
      I'm a huge fan of Mark Bittman. He has a cookbook called How to Cook Everything Vegetarian which is good, but I think you could get a really good feeling for how he writes and cooks via his old New York Times column "The Minimalist": http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/dining/26mini.html?_r=1&ref=dining
    • Posts: 2,055 Member
      Joy of Cooking - simple conversions... substitutions are available within and it's got lots of info, I'm still looking for an old version that has far less microwave instructions ;)

      Ball - canning book
    • Posts: 245 Member
      i'm obsessed with "appetite for reduction", easy vegan cookbook by isa chandra moskowitz
    • Posts: 1,238 Member
      Mark Bittman "How to Cook Everything" (and all his other books)
      "The New American Plate" - excellent book with nutritional info for each serving included
      "The Art of Simple Food" by Alice Waters
      "Around My French Table" by Dorie Greenspan
      "How to be a Domestic Goddess" by Nigella Lawson - AWESOME dessert recipes!

      Those are the main ones I use, oh, and also Julia Child's books. I also google a LOT on allrecipes.com
    • Posts: 493
      I don't know about books but I love http://allrecipes.com You can look up anything you may be interested in, the recipe is there with the calorie count and comments from people who have tried it. They even have a section for 1200 calorie menus and how to prepare section for those foods that are more on the rare side to prepare.
    • Posts: 1,932 Member
      The Flat Belly Diet Cookbook is awesome!
    • Posts: 100 Member
      The Everyday Happy Herbivore by Lindsay Nixon (www.happyherbivore.com) - she does simple, inexpensive meal plans through her website.

      Vegan Planet by Robin Robertson. Robin has TONS of great cookbooks, but I've not had ONE failed recipe from this book. LOVE IT!

      :flowerforyou:
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