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Bento Boxes: Japanese Meals on the Go

Naomi Kijima

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Total reviews: 40 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Excellent Bento Lunches 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book is both an excellent introduction to bento lunches and a great inspiration for experienced cooks packing bentos for their loved ones. I have made nearly every recipe in this book and I have not been disappointed. Each recipe is made in a small quantity and most can be made in under 30 minutes, making this an excellent cookbook for small households (1-2 people). I have also increased the quantities to adapt the recipes for dinner. There are pictures to accompany each recipe, but for the beginner it might be worthwhile to pick up an additional guide to Japanese cooking. As with anything it might take some experimentation to adjust the recipes to your liking.

I've been running a bento blog for going on 2 years and found the best way to learn about bento is to search web for Japanese bento blogs. Type the word "bento" in hiragana or try photo sites. This book is an excellent accompaniment to that sort of research because it enables you to identify what many of the items are and provides you with a recipe.

My only complaint is the book should have been spiral bound and laminated. My copy is in pretty bad shape from being used so much.

Editorial Review:

This book offers an elegant way to enjoy delicious, healthy food on the run. Includes more than 40 main dish recipes and step-by-step illustrations.

Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals

Moosewood Collective

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Total reviews: 65 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

My favorite from Moosewood! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The recipes in "Low-Fat Favorites" aren't time-consuming to prepare like the classic Moosewood recipes, making them more weeknight friendly. There are many "tricks" to make a dish seem creamy or cheesy without adding any cream or cheese -- all satisfaction, no fat!

I made Roasted Vegetables Caribbean Style for a potluck the other night to rave reviews. It was easy to prepare and SO good (page 227).

The "Menu Suggestions" feature and the indication of time the recipe takes to prepare are great for planning family dinners or dinner parties, and are included with each recipe.

Editorial Review:

The first Moosewood Cookbook--loved for its cozy, comforting food--mused oil, eggs, and dairy products so lavishly that it was extensively revised in 1992 to fit our changing diet. Now, the Moosewood Collective takes an even more extreme step: recipes in Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites are so intentionally healthful that they put the word right on the cover of this chubby book filled with lean recipes (many dishes get the fat down to a modest 16-17% of their total calories). Still, the 280-plus recipes offer the bold, pan-ethnic flavors that have won the Moosewood Collective cookbooks so many fans.

More-With-Less Cookbook (World Community Cookbook)

Doris Janzen Longacre

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Total reviews: 86 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Wow! I Love This Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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This cookbook is so much more than recipes. It's an approach to food that's gentle, kind, thoughtful and practical. The recipes are great, nothing to out there, just good food my family will love. The ideology behind this book is nothing less than inspirational. Highly recommended for those interested in taking care of our bodies, our families and the entire planet.

Good in every way! 5 out of 5 stars.
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As others have shared, I have had this book since the 70s and find it more applicable than ever now. It got me through the lean days putting my husband through graduate school, through raising two kids on a budget (while working full time outside the home), and now I'm sending a copy to my son and his fiance as they start out. As we strive to simplify our lives, be more "green", be more economical in tough times, and be more healthy with our food, this book is a MUST!!

More With Less Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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It is an excellent book with so much helpful information. It helps us focus on eating more simply with less meat. My old copy has fallen to pieces because I used it so much!

Living the G.I. (Glycemic Index) Diet

Rick Gallop

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The easiest diet going is now even easier--and tastier. Off to an explosive start, The G.I. Diet quickly landed on New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, and required five quick printings (for a total of 190,000 copies) to keep pace with demand after national publicity discovered the "Canadian miracle diet" (Woman's World). Now, continuing to build on the nutritional wisdom of the glycemic index, Rick Gallop follows up with the essential companion--a cookbook and strategy guide for living the G.I. Diet.

Organized around the simple, intuitive principle of green-, yellow-, and red-light foods--if you can follow a traffic light, you can follow this diet--Living the G.I. Diet gets right into the kitchen with 135 dishes that are as easy to prepare as they are unrecognizable as diet food. Grilled Pesto Salmon with Asparagus. Beef and Eggplant Chili. Garlic Shrimp Pasta. Thai Chicken Curry. Pork Tenderloin with Grainy Mustard and Chive Crust. Cinnamon French Toast. Florentine Frittata. And desserts: Baked Chocolate Mousse, Basmati Rice Pudding, Pecan Brownies--that's right, brownies.

In addition, the book spells out how to lose weight (Phase I) and maintain weight loss (Phase II); how to make G.I. eating a family affair; navigating holidays, restaurants, vacation eating; and exploring the psychological and emotional aspects of food and food cravings--everything you need to stay on this proven track.

The Schwarzbein Principle Cookbook

Diana Schwarzbein, Nancy Deville, Evelyn Jacob Jaffe

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Wonderful 4 out of 5 stars.
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Diana Schwarzbein and her co-writers offer a number of incredible recipes to help you change the way you eat, and in return how you feel. It has a great variety and offers something for everyone. If you've read her other books and want to know how to cook in a way to heal your body, this cookbook is a must have.

Schwarzbein 5 out of 5 stars.
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Eliminates the hardest step in following a nutritional diet, finding something different and very tasty to eat.

Editorial Review:

Dr. Schwarzbein teams up with acclaimed professional chef Evelyn Jacob to whip up 300 delicious, healing recipes that prove that eating the Schwarzbein way doesn't have to be difficult, boring or fat-free!

With easy-to-follow directions, tips and comprehensive nutritional breakdowns, the book offers healthy entrees and accompaniments for any meal, with delicacies like: breakfast burritos, mushroom-gorgonzola omelettes with walnuts, chicken sate with peanut sauce, crustless quiche, hot artichoke cheese dip, pecan-baked brie, lobster bisque, Asian shrimp, mint pesto chicken, beef stroganoff, Thai basil beef, barbecued spareribs and kielbasa with sauerkraut.

The Juiceman's Power of Juicing: Delicious Juice Recipes for Energy, Health, Weight Loss, and Relief from Scores of Common Ailments

Jay Kordich

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A simple juicing book with TONS of recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a nice, straight forward juicing book that offers some "extras." It's simple, but it has an extensive array of recipes and leaves no stone unturned.

There's a section on produce that tells the reader what each item is good for (which vitamins and minerals it contains) and how to buy and store them.

The "Juiceman" also includes a crash course in all the nutrients we need to be healthy, WHAT we need them for, and in which juices we can find them in.

At the end of the book, the author includes a Q&A section and tips and points on how to make juicing an integral part of your life and what to eat to compliment a diet chock full of fresh juices.

All in all, this is a great book. It may not appeal to some who are in search of something a little more fancy, with a more complex layout. But, everything considered, it's a sure bet.

Editorial Review:

The secret to staying healthy, looking young, getting trim, and feeling great?

The natural healing power of fresh fruit and vegetable juices.

The Juiceman^®'s Power of Juicing shows how you can use fresh juice combinations to improve your health. Simple, flavorful recipes for drinks such as Grape-Pineapple Punch, Carrot-Cantaloupe Coolers, and Pear-Apple Cocktails can help you lose weight, overcome fatigue, reduce your risk of many serious diseases, and relieve scores of common ailments.

The Juiceman^®'s Power of Juicing is the ultimate guide, for beginners and for avid juicers, to the health revolution that will give you more energy and have you feeling and looking better than you ever dreamed possible!

The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook

Jackie Newgent

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Editorial Review:

The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook won the 2007 Gourmand Best in the World Award in the category of Best Health and Nutrition Cookbook

The only whole food cookbook for people with diabetes—featuring 150 recipes

Eating with diabetes means eating healthy. But many cookbooks for people with diabetes substitute artificial sweeteners and processed foods at the expense of great flavor. Now if you want to make healthier choices, you don’t have to give up good food!

The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook features 150 recipes that focus on whole foods and unprocessed ingredients. YOu can enjoy: Blanco Huevos Rancheros, Creole-Style Red Beans and Rice, Roasted Wild Salmon Fillet with Orange-Miso Sauce, Horseradish Pork Tenderloin on Naan with Arugula, and much,much more! YOu can do away with artificial ingredients that leave you feeling unfulfilled! Forget those “fat-free” products that are really just flavorless! Healthy eating is not only good, it’s also great tasting!

Simply In Season (World Community Cookbook)

Mary Beth Lind, Cathleen Hockman-wert

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Editorial Review:

Not so long ago most fresh food on North American tables came from home gardens and local farmers markets. Today, the average item of food travels more than a thousand miles before it lands on our tables. It's a remarkable technological accomplishment, but has not proven to be healthy for our communities, our land or us.

Through stories and simple "whole foods" recipes, Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert explore how the food we put on our tables impacts our local and global neighbors. They show the importance of eating local, seasonal food—and fairly traded food—and invite readers to make choices that offer security and health for our communities, for the land, for body and spirit.

Simply in Season offers a starting point encouraging you to feed both your body and spirit with nutritious food and challenging ideas about the world around you. Woven throughout the recipe pages of each season are writings, tidbits of information to reflect upon while the onions saute, the soup boils, or the bread bakes.

The Gluten-Free Vegan: 150 Delicious Gluten-Free, Animal-Free Recipes

Susan O'Brien

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Delicious! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This is one of my most favorite cookbooks! The recipes are just delicious. The ingredients used are all natural, whole food type ingredients.

Though we are not vegan, I feel that feeding my family vegan meals is part of a healthy diet. Both of my sons were diagnosed with ADHD about 2 years ago so I put our family on a (healthy) GF /CF diet. The Gluten-Free Vegan is a perfect book for anyone wanting to eat a healthy GF / CF diet.

Our family's favorite recipes are: the Antioxidant Chili, Kale with Peanut Sauce, Mexican Quinoa Salad, Curried Apple and Cauliflower Soup, Super Antioxidant Salad, Zippity Do Da Coleslaw, No-Meat Meatballs, Pumpkin Scones, and the Apple Pie Bars! The author also gives a short ingredient guide in the beginning. Very Helpful.

Great Book! Great Buy!

Editorial Review:

Ideal cookbook for many health conditions: The Gluten-Free Vegan is a groundbreaking cookbook, combining both special diets for healthier, allergy-free eating. Millions of Americans have health conditions like celiac disease, fibromyalgia, or food allergies that require a gluten- and/or dairy-restricted diet. In addition, going vegetarian/vegan is fast becoming mainstream, and many vegans are also looking to cut gluten from their diet. The Gluten-Free Vegan offers solutions for anyone seeking a tasty approach to healthier eating. Quick, easy, and delicious recipes: Written by a food-allergy sufferer and gourmet cook, this collection includes more than 150 healthy recipes for a wide range of dishes that are both gluten-free and vegan. The cookbook also includes guidelines of each dietary restriction, information on sugars, raw foods and organic foods, advice on ingredient preparation, quick-cooking tips, and resources for easily finding ingredients.

Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2008 (Cooking Light Annual Recipes)

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Editorial Review:

Better make room on your cookbook shelf--the 12th volume of this popular collectors' edition is on its way. This must-have compilation features every recipe--more than 1,000--from a year's worth of Cooking Light, the world's most revered and widely read food magazine. It's easy to see why; Cooking Light experts go way beyond anything-but-basic recipes to offer the latest scoop on food trends, international ingredients, cutting-edge tabletop style, and more. Plus tips, techniques, planning, preparation, presentation--they're all here, not to mention updated and innovative dishes in the lighter, guilt-free versions we love.

Jammed with nutritional analyses, photographs, food facts, and menu suggestions, Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2008 will have you cooking healthier and eating smarter without sacrificing great taste in no time.

Features

12th edition of this popular Cooking Light compilation features a year's worth of recipes from the magazine

Emphasizes international cuisines, classic comfort foods, and new twists on traditional favorites--in their skinnier versions, of course

Quadruple-indexed to find what you need in a jiffy

Includes the magazine staff's favorite recipes plus "best-of-the-best" selections