Healthy Cookbook Suggestions?

[akp]

I have a collection of over 70 cookbooks, but not one is focused on healthy cooking. I would like to add a few since I am attempting to cook a little lighter throughout the week.

Would love to hear what health oriented cookbooks are recommended from fellow food lovers...

Thank you!

[Davwud]

Cooks Illustrated, "The Best Light Recipe"
It's fantastic.

DT

[morebubbles]

I use Julie Van Rosendaal's book 'Grazing' quite a bit. Her focus is on lower fat recipes, very useful and practical, great for every day cooking. (Yet another Canadian.)

[MSK]

All of Jane Brody's books are wonderful and informative!
I think she also writes for the NY Times.

[bogie]

Bonnie Stern's "Heartsmart" is the kind of cookbook that you are looking for, truly gourmet recipes that are healthy. It is a Canadian cookbook, but very popular, so you shouldn't have trouble finding it.

[mrsleny]

Another Canadian author who has several health-oriented cookbooks is Anne Lindsay.

[jsaimd]

I also vote for Eating Well. I didn't like Cooking Light's recipes because they focused too much on "reduced fat" this or that. I have liked the Eating Well Essentials cookbook, but I also use cookbooks as inspiration rather than recipes

[Amuse Bouches]

I have two EatingWell Cookbooks -- the EatingWell Essentials cookbook and the EatingWell Healthy in a Hurry cookbook. Both have a variety of recipes that appeal to me, and I love that they try to make foods healthier through the use of natural ingredients -- adding veggies, subbing in olive oil for another oil, using whole wheat flour instead of regular -- instead of through unnatural ingredients (egg substitutes, low fat margarines, etc.) The recipes have symbols denoting whether they are low-carb, high fiber, or contribute to a healthy weight (low calorie) as well as detailed nutritional breakdowns.

[niki rothman]

I have the Eating Well magazine "Recipe Rescue" cookbook and it is very good - this one is traditional classic items cleaned up nutritionally.

[gansu girl]

Have to put in a plug for the good, reliable and quick cookbooks put out by the American Heart Ass'n. - Meals in Minutes is one I use all the time. There are no exotic or fancy recipes, but they are tasty, solid and fast. All the nutritionals are there. Many of our weeknight meals come from those books.

The new Weight Watchers cookbook is pretty good too. Cooking Light magazine publishes a book every year that's a compilation of their year's recipes - there's a lot more that's interesting in those.

[LauraB]

I receive Cooking Light magazine and generally find their recipes to be quite good (my experience is mainly limited to their non-dessert recipes since I think of dessert as a special treat that is fine to fill with butter). I will admit that I tend to use recipes more as inspiration, but I think the Cooking Light recipes have been tasty when I followed them closely as well as when I deviated from them. I do tend to substitute "reduced-fat" dairy products for the "fat-free" products they suggest so my versions are not quite as healthy, but close. I know they have several cookbooks with compilations of their magazine recipes, but I have not tried any of these since I get the magazine and tear out the recipes that sound interesting. One feature that I really like in the magazine is where they take a really unhealthy recipe and give it a "makeover" - it gives me some ideas on how to make other recipes a little healthier too.

[niki rothman]

Prevention magazine publishes cookbooks focusing on healthy eating. They are good because they do a lot of research around nutrition and are not at all fad oriented. I think the general idea is to take well known dishes/recipes and make them as healthy as possible. Increasing whole grains, decreasing refined sugars and fats - that sort of thing. They probably have a website.