Garlic_Geek Member

Hello! I'm also recently starting over and would love to have more people to talk to and share support with!

Hello! I just started working towards losing ~70 lbs. I work and go to college, so it's easy to neglect my own nutrition most of the time. I would enjoy sharing support with some people!

Budgetbytes.com is a great website for healthy eating on a budget. The girl that runs it breaks every ingredient down to its costs and even has multiple recipes to make your own commonly used items for cheaper (things like broth and such).

You look great! Motivating me to get my workout in today.

Even though I am neither vegan or vegetarian, I recently picked up the Thug Kitchen cookbook and it is amazing! No meat or animal products used. They have a website with free recipes too - thugkitchen.com. As long as you don't mind some cussing (they really try to make the recipes humorous) it is great!

Thanks for the recommendations so far everyone! There are definitely some good looking books in there.

Though probably not quite as healthy as gauc or plain avocado, it can actually be used in place of butter and less healthy fats in some desserts. One of my favorite recipes uses it to make chocolate chunk cookies: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/double-chocolate-chunk-walnut-cookies-51252340