Cookbook Collection

In Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking, Jim Peyton presents easy-to-prepare recipes that have exceptional nutrition profiles and taste delicious. You'll find tasty, highly nutritious, low-calorie dishes from the various schools of Mexican and Mexican American cooking. From traditional meat, seafood, vegetarian entrees and antojitos mexicanos, including tacos, enchiladas, and tamales, to upscale alta cocina mexicana, such as shrimp ceviche and mango salsa, these recipes are authentic, simple for home cooks to prepare with supermarket ingredients, flavorful, and fully satisfying in moderate portions. There are hundreds of authentic Mexican dishes that are naturally healthy and completely delectable! Every recipe includes a nutritional analysis of calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, fiber, sugar, and sodium. Peyton also offers helpful information on diet and healthy eating, Mexican cooking and nutrition, ingredients, cooking techniques, and cooking equipment. Try the recipes and you'll discover that comfort food can be both delicious and good for you. ¡Buen provecho!

In Afro-Vegan, Bryant Terry reworks and remixes the favorite staples, ingredients, and classic dishes of the African Diaspora to present more than 100 wholly new, creative culinary combinations that will amaze vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores alike. Blending African, Caribbean, and southern cuisines results in delicious recipes inspired by Kenyan, Moroccan, Brazilian, Caribbean, Ethiopian, Deep South and North African dishes. Afro-Vegan takes you on an international food journey. For anyone interested in improving their well-being Afro-Vegan's groundbreaking recipes offer innovative, plant-based global cuisine that is fresh, healthy, and forges a new direction in vegan cooking.

Here is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to improve cardiac health and lose weight, offering 800 recipes--100 all new, 150 refreshed--that cut saturated fat and cholesterol. The American Heart Association's cornerstone cookbook has sold more than three million copies and it's now fully updated and expanded to reflect the association's latest guidelines as well as current tastes, with a fresh focus on quick and easy. This invaluable, one-stop-shopping resource -- including updated heart-health information, strategies and tips for meal planning, shopping, and cooking healthfully -- by the most recognized and respected name in heart health is certain to become a staple in American kitchens.

If you're a parent or a caregiver, you know that kids are hungry all the time. And while you want to give them the best, snack time can be a true test. How do you avoid the convenient-but-unhealthy storebought treats and instead provide something that not only tastes good, but is good for them them too? With The Best Homemade Kids' Snacks on the Planet, you'll find more than 200+ great ideas for solving the snack conundrum. Recipes and ideas you can whip up in minutes, without fuss in the kitchen, or fuss from your kid! So whether you're packing snacks for your purse, the school bag, the sports bag, or the can't-make-it-until-dinner whining hour, you'll find quick and healthy ideas everyone in your family will love.

People often think diabetes meal plans mean bland, tasteless foods and tiny portions. But did you know that you can still eat tasty dishes from classic Latino cuisine? Enjoy traditional meals from all over Latin America with Diabetic Cooking for Latinos. This bilingual Latino cookbook, with English and Spanish versions of each recipe, is chock full of healthy meals for people with diabetes. Readers can enjoy authentic, wholesome food and work to manage blood glucose levels at the same time! Each recipe is tested to meet the American Diabetes Association nutrition guidelines, ensuring that the recipes are healthy and suitable for any diabetes meal plan. Ever wonder whatepazote is or the difference betweenguajillo chiles andhabanero chiles? Go to the glossary! Feeling lost in the grocery store aisles? Check out the specialized shopping lists in the back! Want to know which chiles to use in an upcoming dinner party? See which chiles are the hottest in the chile chart! Ready to walk off some extra calories from these great meals? There's a 13-week walking program, too! With more than 100 recipes full of the flavors of Latin America, complete nutrition information for each recipe, and diabetic exchanges, meal planning is a breeze.

Cookies packed with protein. Savory crackers that help balance blood sugar. Chocolate truffles bursting with anti-aging antioxidants. With benefits like these, you'll never look at snacks the same way again! Julie Morris, author of the bestselling Superfood Kitchen and Superfood Smoothies (both Sterling), proves that crave-worthy treats can be abundantly healthy too. Revolutionary superfoods like chia seeds, acai, and maca combine with whole food ingredients in 100 recipes, which creatively transform "guilty" pleasures into incredible snacks loaded with premium nutrients. From superfood standbys like the Every Berry Smoothie Bowl to adventurous must-tries like the Maqui Mint Truffles or Brussels Sprout Crisps, these wholesome snacks and sweets will nourish, delight, and energize the whole family.

Dozens of easy menus and tips to help you give your children healthy lunch-on-the-go alternativesThis upbeat guide is full of healthy alternatives to junk food–laden lunches. Drawing on her years of experience as both an educator and a mother, Marie McLendon has created a book loaded with recipes, menus, tips, and suggestions. This resource rescues you from the mundane and stressful task of figuring out how to pack a healthy lunch that your kids will actually eat.

Brought to you by the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) and Oldways, the culturally relevent Good for Me cookbook focuses on promoting positive nutrition for children and their families, and is particularly inclusive of children of color. The cookbook is designed to engage children three to five years old in healthy eating by introducing them to a diverse range of fruits and vegetables - from Avocados to Zucchini. There are 26 recipes (one for each letter of the alphabet), all kid-tested and approved. Most of the dishes are inspired by African heritage, using staple ingredients from Africa, South America, the Caribbean and the American South. The rest are inspired by Mediterranean and Asian cuisines.

Snacks are yummy, quick, and healthy. Learn about how MyPlate helps kids make great food choices every day, including healthy snacks!

The China Study, with 850,000 copies sold, has been hailed as one of the most important health and nutrition books ever published. It revealed that the traditional Western diet has led to our modern health crisis and the widespread growth of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Based on the most comprehensive nutrition study ever conducted, the book reveals that a plant-based diet leads to optimal health with the power to halt or reverse many diseases. The China Study Cookbook takes these scientific findings and puts them to action. Written by LeAnne Campbell, daughter ofThe China Study author T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and mother of two hungry teenagers,The China Study Cookbook features delicious, easily prepared plant-based recipes with no added fat and minimal sugar and salt that promote optimal health. From herBreakfast Home-Fry Hash andFabulous Sweet Potato Enchiladas toNo-Bake Peanut Butter Bars andCheese(less) Cake, all of LeAnne's recipes follow three important principles: 1. Optimal nutrition is based on eating food rather than nutrient supplements 2. The closer that foods are to their native states--prepared with minimal cooking, salting, and processing--the greater the long-term health benefits of eating them 3. It is best to choose locally and organically grown produce whenever possible Filled with helpful tips on substitutions, keeping foods nutrient-rich, and transitioning to a plant-based diet,The China Study Cookbook shows how to transform individual health and the health of the entire family.