Download or read book Quick Healthy Cooking For Dummies written by Lynn Fischer and published by For Dummies. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think eating healthy is too expensive and too much trouble? Think the Food Pyramid just can’t stack up against a double order of Big Mac and fries? Well, eating sensibly can be as delicious and easy as picking up an order at McDonald’s. With the right preparation and cooking tips, you’ll soon have your family beating a path to the kitchen for food that is truly fast—a cinch to make and so delicious, it’s gone in an instant. In Quick & Healthy Cooking For Dummies, TV food host and expert Lynn Fischer shows you how to restyle all of your old favorites—from Barbecued Chicken and Beef Stroganoff to Eggplant Parmesan—into light, healthy, and flavor-rich dishes. She gives you tips on daily food requirements and on turning your kitchen into a storehouse of healthy eating even a spa chef would envy. Page after page brings you up to speed on maintaining a dietary lifestyle that keeps you in optimal health, with tips on: Measuring nutritional values for saturated fat, high and low cholesterol, calories, sodium, and fiber Age-appropriate food pyramids—including ones for young children and adults over 70 Creating a lowfat and fatfree pantry—including peanut butter, jams, jellies, preserves, dried fruit, candy and cookies Mastering quick and healthy cooking techniques And once you start cooking, you’ll be surprised and delighted at how much flavor your new cooking regimen contains as well as how quick and easy it all is. Let your kitchen and palate become acquainted with these mouthwatering selections: Speedy salads and salad dressings—including Nicoise Salad, Egg Salad with Dill, Waldorf Turkey Salad, Thai Peanut Dressing, Poppyseed Dressing Savory soups, snacks, and sandwiches—including Chicken Noodle Soup, Onion Soup, Mexicali Burgers, Walnut Chicken Salad Sandwich Delicious entrées—including Panfried Barbecued Chicken, Pork and Apples, Shrimp with White Wine Sauce Pasta and rice—including Macaroni and Cheese, Linguine with Creamed Clam Sauce, Beef Stroganoff over Noodles, Mexican Rice and Beans Fabulous desserts—including Apple Brie Pockets, Key Lime Pie, Quick and Easy Chocolate Mousse, and Lemon Cloud With its over 140 recipes, a cheat sheet of handy cooking tips, sixteen pages of tempting, full-color photos, black-and-white illustrations, and humorous cartoons, Quick & Healthy Cooking For Dummies lets you fulfill every food craving you’ve ever had, while styling recipes to the daily demands of schedule and dietary needs. With Quick & Healthy Cooking For Dummies you can feast like a king and feel like an athlete—all year-round!

Download or read book Lowfat Cooking For Dummies written by Lynn Fischer and published by For Dummies. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan lowfat meals for any occasion.

Download or read book The Healthy Heart Cookbook For Dummies written by James M. Rippe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart healthy regimen needn’t be torture. Two hours on a stationary bike, followed by a dish of low-fat cottage cheese topped with a lonely sprig of parsley may be your idea of what it takes to maintain heart health—but it’s actually a lot more enjoyable and fun! Cardiac fitness, like any new lifestyle plan, can be achieved with only a few basic modifications to your diet and activity level. With The Healthy Heart Cookbook For Dummies, you’ll follow an exciting and delicious food regimen, destined to give you and your heart a boost. Written by James Rippe, a leading cardiologist and chef, and with over 100 recipes from a cadre of expert dietitians and fifty top chefs, you’ll discover some of the secrets to heart health, some common fallacies, and get the lowdown on a few life-saving basics: The risk factors for heart disease—and how to control them The eight key eating habits affecting heart health—includ ing the number of calories, cholesterol and fat, and antioxidant-rich foods you consume “Bad” versus “good” cholesterol—the world of saturated, monosaturated, and polyunsaturated fats Nature’s gift to health—phytochemicals and what foods contain them Smart shopping tips—including common supermarket traps, and how to select produce, meats, seafood, dairy, grains, and from the deli counter You’ll discover what a snap it is to prepare your own menu, assemble meals that are nutritious and balanced and also meet every sort of dietary need (including high blood pressure, diabetes, and food allergies). The book’s rich cornucopia of recipes will help you explore the delicious possibilities of every meal and dish, including: Breakfast and brunch—including Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins, Peach Scones, and Eggs Benedict with Asparagus and Low-Fat Hollandaise Sauce Appetizers and snacks—including Homemade Dill and Celery Seed Hummus and Chilled Hapa Shrimp Rolls and Thai Citrus Dipping Sauce Seafood—including Red Snapper with Braised Fennel and Spinach and Seared Scallops in Grilled Eggplant with Mango Salad Poultry and Meat—including Lemon-Grilled Cornish Hens, Healthy Heart Beef Stroganoff, and Herb-Crusted Lamb Loin with Braised Fennel and Fresh Mint Vegetarian Entrees—including Curried Tofu and Vegetable-Stuffed Pitas with Cashews and Raisins With sixteen pages of full-color photos, black-and-white how-to illustrations, a summary cheat sheet of need-to-know info, and humorous cartoons, The Healthy Heart For Dummies Cookbook helps you build a sensible foundation for overall fitness—beginning with your heart.

Download or read book Steven Raichlen s High Flavor Low Fat Cooking written by Steven Raichlen and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare delicious low-fat meals with 125 creative recipes culled from Steve Raichlen's award-winning book. Included are recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, fish and meat dishes, desserts, and more. Each recipe emphasizes flavor, and many borrow their ingredients and preparation from different ethnic cuisines. Slipcase. Wire-O binding. 2-color illustrations throughout.

Download or read book The Complete Low Fat Cookbook written by Jane Price and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us would like to cut down on fat and this is the book to help us do it. It is not a diet book but a selection of family meals, adapted to reduce the fat content so you can still eat potato wedges without worrying about your waistline.

Download or read book Down Home Wholesome written by Danella Carter and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 300 recipes in this book conquer the seemingly impossible when it comes to a low-fat, low cholesterol yet full-flavor diet: trimming the fat, sugar, and salt from popular soul recipes and offering a sparkling variety of taste alternatives to traditional dishes.

Download or read book Weight Watchers for Dummies Starting a Diet and Need Help Simple Beginners Plan to Lose 20 Pounds in 31 Days written by Adrienne Ferolli and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weight Watchers21 Satisfying Weight Watchers Breakfast Recipes To Jumpstart Your Day The human body drives all the human struggles and lifelong challenges. The body is comprised of various systems and functions which are highly related and dependent upon each other. Even a slight level of sub optimal function in one of the functions can lead to the overall malfunctioning of the human body. As there is a mounting attention towards eradicating and combating obesity and weight gain, there have been a number of different ways which have been introduced to help such people. In case of weight loss one of the major milestones is to attain a healthy dietary pattern. Among the different meals the breakfast accounts a maximum portion of overall energy and vigor provided to the human body. In this book I have listed one of my best collections of recipes which are the most suitable breakfast recipes for all the champs out there, who are a little extra conspicuous about their successively increasing weight pounds. While weight loss may be a long journey, you can get bored by the monotonous routine. So this book will guide you in the best possible way for adding flavor in your weight conscious recipes. The major discussions which you will come across while unfolding this book, will embrace the following highlighting features: A beginning discussion regarding the need of the modern man for sustaining a healthier life style and a concern towards the healthy food and nourishment An account of different breakfast recipes for enabling a healthy lifestyle and weight loss. Download your E book "Weight Watchers: 21 Satisfying Weight Watchers Breakfast Recipes To Jumpstart Your Day" by scrolling up and clicking "Buy Now with 1-Click" button!

Download or read book The Healthy Heart Cookbook for Dummies written by James M. Rippe and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Child in her classic book, The Way to Cook (published by Knopf), writes of her concern that low-fat cooking may rob us of ''the pleasures of the table.'' I couldn't agree more! There is no reason for low-fat, low-cholesterol, heart-healthy cooking to rob us of the pleasures of food. Eating is one of the great joys of life. And food doesn't have to be grim and punishing in order for it to be healthy for your heart. In this book, with the assistance of over 50 top chefs, I show you how to make heart-healthy cooking one of the great ''pleasures of the table.'' You'll be surprised at how simple measures can help you cut the fat without cutting the taste. The recipes in this book are not your run-of-the-mill low-fat recipes. Here, you'll find gourmet recipes that are easy to make and taste great. Although I care passionately about the links between nutrition and the healthy heart, I am not a food cop. My background as both a cardiologist and a chef make me uniquely suited not only to care for your heart but also to provide you with meals that won't leave you feeling deprived. I recognize that in order for people to change their habits, they must be given food options that are tasty and exciting. The nutrition aspects of food must meld with pleasure and taste. So The Healthy Heart Cookbook For Dummies is about great tasting, heart-healthy nutrition. I want to make you the heart-healthiest, most satisfied eater - and reader - ever to walk this planet.

Download or read book Fabulous Fat Free Cooking written by Lynn Fischer and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fat-free flavorings, favorite food lore, and low-fat menus for all occasions highlight this cookbook of more than 225 healthy recipes--many of which are vegetarian. 64 full-color photos.

Download or read book Betty Crocker s Easy Low fat Cooking written by Betty Crocker and published by Betty Crocker. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 recipes for easy, low-fat meals, including Crab Fettuccine, Baked Eggplant with Two Cheeses, and Skillet Beef Fajitas.

Download or read book Better Homes Gardens Ultimate Low Calorie Meals written by Better Homes & Gardens and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll never run out of healthy, nutritious family meals with this extensive collection of low-calorie recipes New in the Ultimate series, The Ultimate Low-Calorie Meals Book offers hundreds of recipes and ideas that make eating healthy and watching your weight easy and delicious. These recipes are ideal for light and nutritious everyday meals that form the basis of a healthy lifestyle. Filled with dishes the entire family will love, recipes are clearly marked with icons that let you quickly identify recipes that are ready in 30 minutes or less, high in fiber, and low in sodium. Packed with more than 400 delicious and nutritious low-calorie meals and hundreds of beautiful photos, The Ultimate Low-Calorie Meals Book is a great resource at a great price. Features more than 400 flavorful calorie- and fat-conscious recipes, including main dishes, snacks, sandwiches, pizza, desserts, restaurant favorites, and make-ahead meals Includes more than 300 gorgeous full-color photographs that make every page inspiring and easy to follow Special Healthy Eating Basics chapter Special features include substitution charts that help make every meal more calorie-conscious, up-to-date diet and nutrition advice, and much more Whether you're trying to adopt new, low-calorie eating habits or looking for new recipes to help you maintain your already-healthy lifestyle, this is the ultimate guide to tasty, healthy eating.

Download or read book DASH Diet For Dummies written by Sarah Samaan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lower your blood pressure in just two weeks with the #1 rated diet When high blood pressure becomes chronic, it's called hypertension—a condition that affects 970 million people worldwide, and is classified by the World Health Organization as a leading cause of premature death. While medications can help, nothing beats dietary and lifestyle modifications in the fight against high blood pressure, and the DASH diet is a powerful tool in your arsenal. Focusing on lowering sodium intake and increasing fiber, vitamins, and minerals can help lower your blood pressure in as little as two weeks. It's no wonder that the DASH Diet is ranked as the number 1 diet for three years in a row and is endorsed by the American Heart Association, The National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, and The Mayo Clinic. DASH Diet for Dummies is your ultimate guide to taking control of your body once and for all. Originally conceived to alleviate hypertension, the DASH Diet has been proven effective against a number of conditions including Type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, PCOS, weight loss, and more. DASH Diet for Dummies contains all the information you need to put the diet into practice, including: Over 40 DASH-approved recipes, including meals, snacks, and desserts 100+ DASH-approved foods, including meats, seafood, sweets, and more Tips for navigating the grocery store and choosing healthier fare A 14-day Menu Planner to help you get started today The DASH Diet is built upon the principles of healthy eating and getting the most nutritional bang for your buck. Doctors even recommend DASH to their healthy patients as an easy, stress-free way to adopt the food habits that will serve them for life. DASH Diet for Dummies is your roadmap on the journey to good health, so get ready to start feeling better every day.

Download or read book 365 Tasty Low Fat Recipes written by Ella Putnam and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Believe in a Magic Making You Touch a Healthy Lifestyle in Both Mind and Body?✩ Read this book for FREE on the Kindle Unlimited NOW! ✩If you say "I do", congrats to you since you are exactly a great person with a healthy mind! And healthy body? Let the recipes in the "365 Tasty Low-Fat Recipes" help you. But if you say "No, I don't", congrats to you too. Why? Because when you are still reading the words, you are on the way to reach the healthy mind and healthy body. And let the book inspire you all the rest.So, what is the magic? It is you! It is your own choice! Only you make your life become healthy and happy! I want to tell you that you are right when choosing and putting your belief in the book.With some part listed below, my cookbook called "365 Tasty Low-Fat Recipes" will make your cooking easier, quicker, happier but still delicious and eye-catching: 365 Awesome Low-Fat Recipes As you know, currently, there are numerous unhealthy, or processed food making our health become poor seriously with millions of alarming diseases such as inflammation, headaches, insomnia, back pain, high blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, skin problems, high cholesterol, cancer, etc. So, having a healthy mindset plays a key role in getting rid of the diseases and living longer. Let's get started with healthy recipes made by yourself!A healthy diet is really important to your health, your body and your mind. It provides energy with full of healthy nutrition such as fat, carb, protein, fiber for your body all day. It also helps you to have a very nice body and a flexible mind. So, why don't you stop going to the restaurants and start a healthy life with the recipes from "365 Tasty Low-Fat Recipes"Today is a nice day, so let's get a random recipe in "365 Tasty Low-Fat Recipes" to start your healthy day!You also see more different types of recipes such as: Popsicle Recipes Macaroni And Cheese Recipe Carrot Cake Recipes Shrimp Salad Recipes Artichoke Dip Recipe Tomato Sauce Cookbook Meatloaf Recipe ✩ DOWNLOAD FREE eBook (PDF) included FULL of ILLUSTRATIONS for EVERY RECIPES right after conclusion ✩I really hope that each book in the series will go with you on the way to touch the healthy lifestyle and be always your best friend in your little kitchen.Let's live happily and make more healthy food every day!Healthy Mind + Healthy Body= Happy Life!Enjoy the book,

Download or read book The Low Calorie Cookbook written by Megan Olson and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eat Your Way to a Healthier, Happier You The key to losing weight is not to deprive yourself until the scale hits a certain number, but to eat properly balanced meals that leave you feeling fuller for longer. Megan Olson, certified nutritionist and founder of the blog Skinny Fitalicious, gets this. In her breakthrough collection, Megan not only shows you how to make delicious breakfasts, lunches, dinners and desserts—all amazingly under 500 calories—but how to cook meals rich in protein, fiber and healthy fats, so you can curb your cravings and effortlessly cut the junk from your diet. These flavorful recipes replace high-calorie ingredients with creative, lowcalorie swap outs, such as subbing Greek yogurt for mayo or ground oats for white flour, to naturally (and deliciously!) make each meal leaner. Find healthier ways to enjoy your favorite dishes, with recipes like Chicken Pad Thai, replacing noodles with spiralized sweet potato, or Stuffed Pepper Soup, which ditches the rice and beef for low-calorie cauliflower rice and ground turkey. You’ll never settle for a bland breakfast again thanks to Megan’s incredible, low-carb PB&J Doughnuts or Cheesy Tex-Mex Cauliflower Casserole. And if you thought losing weight meant ditching sweets, think again. Enjoy an array of processed sugar–free treats like Tahini, Vanilla and Espresso Chocolate Bites and No-Bake Cookie Dough. Plus each of these incredible recipes is accompanied with helpful nutritional information so you know exactly what you’re nourishing your body with. With Megan’s wholesome, balanced recipes, you’ll lose weight and build a better relationship with food, all while enjoying delicious, leaner meals.

Download or read book The Wellness Lowfat Cookbook written by Wellness Cooking School and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine enjoying Guacamole. Nachos, Pesto Pizza, Macaroni and Cheese, Strawberry Shortcake or Hazelnut Cheesecake without the slightest bit of guilt because you know they're all low in fat. You'll find each of these taste-tempting recipes and some 300 others in The Wellness Lowfat Cookbook, a book that proves once and for all that lowfat eating doesn't mean giving up the foods you love. Here are kitchen-tested recipes for lowfat appetizers and snacks, soups, meat, poultry and fish dishes, meatless main courses, pastas, main-course salads, sandwiches, desserts, breads and breakfasts -- each accompanied by a comprehensive nutritional breakdown that lets you see at a glance just how healthful these dishes are. And every recipe is easy, requiring no fancy cooking techniques, exotic ingredients or special equipment. But The Wellness Lowfat Cookbook is far more than a collection of delicious, healthy recipes. The book also features a revolutionary new lowfat eating plan called "The Healthy Heart Solution," which can help lower your risk of heart disease. Developed by doctors and nutritionists at The University of California at Berkeley in conjunction with The Wellness Cooking School, this easy-to-follow plan teaches you how to cut fat from your diet meal by meal. No more tedious calculations: You simply establish a "daily fat-gram target" and then go for it. And as long as you don't exceed your target, you can eat all your favorite foods -- even butter, cheese, steak, cookies, ice cream, peanut butter and pizza. Included in the book as well is an extensive food glossary to help you shop for lowfat foods; a guide to ordering lowfat meals when dining out; and a comprehensive chartdetailing the fat and cholesterol content of more than 350 commonly eaten foods. The book also offers the latest information on the role diet plays in preventing heart disease. You'll learn what causes heart attacks; where cholesterol comes from; whether the antioxidants -- vitamins C and E and beta carotene -- an really help fight heart disease; and how dietary fiber, potassium, iron, sodium and alcohol affect your heart. With The Wellness Lowfat Cookbook you'll not only be preparing delicious, satisfying food, you will also be adopting a healthful way of eating that could well add years to your life.

Download or read book Cooking Basics For Dummies written by Marie Rama and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get started cooking now with Cooking Basics For Dummies, 5th Edition! Are you looking to dig yourself out of microwave dinners and learn the ropes of home cooking? Cooking Basics For Dummies, 5th Edition takes the intimidation out of cooking and helps you start cultivating your culinary prowess in no time. From learning fundamental cooking techniques like dicing, chopping, and saut?ing to creating delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, you'll discover how to cook up crowd-pleasing meals the whole family will enjoy—all without breaking a sweat! Even if you've never cracked an egg, this friendly, practical guide gives you all the ingredients to become a superior home cook. In plain English, it explains step-by-step how to master popular cooking techniques, such as dicing vegetables, hard boiling an egg, making quick and delicious sauces, planning menus, stocking your pantry, and so much more. Packed with more than 150 easy-to-follow recipes for every meal of the day, from mouth-watering mains to sumptuous sides to delectable desserts Helps you master grilling, slow cooking, baking, roasting, pressure cooking, and more Includes tips on adapting meals to meet the latest dietary trends, such as low-sugar, low-sodium, low-fat, plant-based, and vegetarian diets Covers shopping at farmer's markets and buying organic foods Cooking Basics For Dummies, 5th edition is for every beginner cook or polished chef looking for a refresher on breathing new life into home-cooked meals. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you’re probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Cooking Basics For Dummies (9781118922316). The book you see here shouldn’t be considered a new or updated product. But if you’re in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We’re always writing about new topics!

Download or read book Ainsley Harriott s Low Fat Meals in Minutes written by Ainsley Harriott and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Britain's favourite TV chefs here concocts the best in low-fat, tasty food. Ainsley Harriott is the master of sensational and speedy cooking and his recipe books have sold a total of two million copies worldwide.