Nourishing Traditions The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
April 6, 2009 by Healthier Eating · Leave a Comment
A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message–animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Awesome book
Even if you never make a single recipe from this book, reading the first seventy two pages of nutritional background will change the way you eat. The author has taken the time to include references and cite research that support some amazing dietary choices. Good reading!
5 Stars Have I had an AH-HA moment with this book….
This book goes to great detail about what foods we should be eating and which ones should be avoided at all costs….can you say “trans fats”? Very indepth and educational. I’ve worked in the weight loss industry for almost 15 years. Today, much of us dieters are cutting back or eliminating fat (especially the animal fat) and going with canola or spreadable diet butters. Let me tell you…reading this book has opened my eyes. I had a few great ah-ha moments and have changed the way I look at meat and dairy. She gives the background and the data of what she’s talking about.
Previously, I’d read the book called IN DEFENSE OF FOOD…that lead me to this book. How the food industry has most of us wrapped around their little fingers…adding sugar to almost anything they over process…that book is also a good read.
About the recipes in this huge book:
I’ve tried a few of the recipes and like everything that I’ve tried. This is a fantastic book that I will not lend out to anyone! Get your own.
5 Stars A Mandatory Kitchen Tool
From ketchup to baby formula to kombucha, this cookbook has it all!
I try to avoid as much packaging as I can, but now, making homemade condiments and other delectables (much healthier versions too) I will be able to avoid countless plastic bottles!
I love this cookbook!!!
4 Stars great resource
I am really enjoying this book, both for the recipes and the extensive information in it. Most of the recipes are really good, I give it 4 stars because sometimes the instructions are not very clear and there are a few recipes that are not very good as written. But a great starting off point for changing my diet and I rely heavily on this as a base for all my cooking.
4 Stars A real eye-opener
This book is a real eye opener. It will tell you exactly why the politically correct nutrition is mostly wrong. By looking at the traditions of our ancestors and at the work of the nutrition Pioneer Weston A.Price, the authors were able to deliver both a invaluable source of knowledge backed up with scientific evidences, and a practical manual of great cooking. Some recipes may seems a little bit challenging or daunting at first, but once you will get your hands “dirty” in the kitchen, and most of all once you will have sample the recipes, you will be hooked. Just try to soak and slowly roast some organics nuts and you will enjoy an amazing taste compared to commercial nuts, which are not properly prepared to be fully assimiled by your body. And the list goes on and on : homemade yoghourt, sourdough bread, saurekraut…
To conclude, a fantastic book which definitely challenges modern nutrition. As usual do not belive the hype : try for yourself, and see how you feel! I am myself recovering from many dietetic mistakes (raw veganism etc:) which compromised my digestive system, thanks to Weston A: Price and Nourrishing Traditions!
The Biggest Loser Cookbook More Than 125 Healthy Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBCs Hit Show
April 6, 2009 by Healthier Eating · Leave a Comment
The Biggest Loser Cookbook More Than 125 Healthy Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBCs Hit Show
More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes From The Biggest Loser Experts and Cast–As Seen On NBC’s Hit Show!
By The Biggest Loser experts and cast
Building on the groundbreaking success of The Biggest Loser brand, this sequel to last year’s best-selling book is sure to be a hit!
The Biggest Loser Cookbook offers:
* 125 recipes from The Biggest Loser cast, trainers, and fans
* motivational before-and-after photographs of the cast
* 50 beautiful 4-color food shots
* dozens of trainer tips from The Biggest Loser trainers
* inspiring stories of how the cast members did it
* at-a-glance guides to The Biggest Loser Diet and The Biggest Loser Exercise plan
Armed with this arsenal of nutritional information and training tips, readers will be inspired to achieve the dramatic weight loss transformations that have amazed TV fans around the country.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent
I received this cook book promptly and the recipes are fantastic. I love having pictures along with the recipes.
5 Stars Tastey
I really enjoy these recipes. I hate eating bland healthy food and I really thought these were practical and had flavor.
3 Stars Pretty good!
I’ve been watching the TV show for the past three seasons. My only wish is that this book were not so “old” as it contains information from previous contestants with whom I am unfamiliar. I’ve tried out a few of the recipes and have started to incorporate some of the principles in my grocery shopping. So far, pretty good!
2 Stars Cookbook
Wonderful cookbook. Hated the shipping. Took too long. Ordered it on the 21st of Feb and didn’t get it until March 4th.
5 Stars Biggest Loser Cookbook
The cookbook was in great condition and I received the book in the mail right away.
The Food You Crave Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life
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The Food You Crave Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life
She had me at the macaroni and cheese. Before I received Ellie Krieger’s new cookbook, I had never heard of her or Healthy Appetite, the Food Network show she hosts. But in my preliminary flip through the book I stopped at the photo of Macaroni and Four Cheeses and knew I had found a healthful-eating philosophy I could embrace. Krieger’s smart, sensible approach to diet uses healthful fats, whole grains and plenty of fruits and vegetables in recipes for beloved comfort foods. –The Baltimore Sun
Ellie Krieger, host of the Food Network’s show “Healthy Appetite,” advances her sensible and appealing approach to nutrition in “The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life”. Krieger, a registered dietitian, eschews processed foods - including the fat-free and sugar-free products that are the mainstays of many so-called healthy regimens. Her straightforward recipes emphasize fresh produce and meats, whole grains and judicious amounts of real ingredients, such as good cheese and olive oil that are full of flavor and nutrients. –Newsday (New York)
You’d think a book titled The Food You Crave would be all about meat loaf, mashed potatoes and chocolate cake. Think again. According to author Ellie Krieger, the foods we really crave are fresh, healthy, nutritious. The beauty of this cookbook is that she’s found a way to turn all those old-time comfort foods into healthy, nutritious meals — providing all the flavor and satisfaction without all the fat and guilt. Krieger does it by using loads of fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fats such as olive oil, whole-wheat flours, nonfat yogurts and the like. And the results are delicious. –The Kansas City Star
Among the rash of “healthy eating” cookbooks appearing since New Year’s, one stands out: Ellie Krieger’s new book, “The Food You Crave”. Krieger recognizes the stress and guilt baggage associated with diets; her book emphasizes the joy of eating. Although the title may seem to be the antithesis of a healthful diet, the “craved-for-foods” fit nicely with Krieger’s two-part method: prepare old favorites in a healthier way, and follow the “Usually-Sometimes-Rarely” philosophy. –El Paso Times
If you’ve planned to change the way you eat for 2008, a new book, “The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life” by Ellie Krieger is a must for your cookbook collection. Ms. Krieger’s name may be familiar to devotees of TV Food Network’s “Healthy Appetite” show. She’s a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia University. Her accomplishments aside, she’s one good cook as evidenced by the numerous recipes in her new book that sent my taste buds tingling. All recipes include nutritional information along with tips that will help make each recipe a success in your kitchen. Color photography of many of the dishes made me want to jump from my desk and into my kitchen. This book is a keeper when I’m looking for ways to please the family while keeping to my plan of improving the way I eat. –Anne Patterson Braly, Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)
Ellie Krieger has a simple philosophy about healthy eating - it shouldn’t hurt. That’s the message behind the Food Network star’s recent cookbook, The Food You Crave - that a healthy diet can taste and look satisfying. And her recipes make her case. Krieger calls for sensible cuts and swaps, the sort of changes that are easy to live with. For example, the New York Breakfast uses full-fat whipped cream cheese, which has the same calories as the low-fat version but tastes better. The book is nicely illustrated and contains plenty of tips for giving your own recipes a healthy overhaul. –The Associated Press
For those who pledged to start the new year eating more healthful food but don’t want to forfeit flavor, has Ellie Krieger got the book for you. The host of the Food Network’s Healthy Appetite, she has written The Food You Crave and that title shows she understands. She knows that turkey burgers aren’t for everyone and a good chicken or pasta recipe is worth its weight in gold. But she has managed to use ingredients we love — pasta, sugar and even a tiny bit of red meat — strategically so you get the flavor but the overall recipe is still on the healthy side. Krieger’s book, subtitled Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life offers 200 recipes and I could print anyone on these pages without a second thought. They look good in the color photographs, have ingredient lists that sound great and calorie and fat counts that are entirely reasonable for those watching what they eat. From soups to sides to desserts, she offers a variety of dishes with an endless array of wonderful ingredients. It’s a fine place to start as having healthful food at your fingertips is important when life gets hectic. –The Providence Journal (RI)
Healthy recipes, good-looking food. Ellie Krieger has a simple philosophy about healthy eating: It shouldn’t hurt. That’s the message behind the Food Network star’s recent cookbook, The Food You Crave. A healthy diet can taste and look satisfying, and her recipes prove it. The book is nicely illustrated and contains plenty of tips for giving your own recipes a healthy overhaul. –St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars After a year, one of my main “go-to” cookbooks
I feel a little redundant reviewing THE FOOD YOU CRAVE because I doubt I have anything new to add to all of these positive reviews. But after using this cookbook for over a year, I really wanted to show my respect and gratitude by offering my own plug.
I own almost 100 cookbooks, and in the year I’ve owned this one, I think I’ve used it the most. Every recipe I’ve tried is something I have added to my repertoire to be made again (and again). This recently includes Steak Tacos with Cucumber-Avocado Salsa, Macaroni and Four Cheeses, Aromatic Noodles with Lime-Peanut Sauce, and Fettuccine Bolognese. This is healthy cooking? Yes! And I’m grateful for it.
I love to cook, and although I consider myself fairly experienced, I do not gravitate toward recipes with exotic, hard-to-find ingredients or hours-long preparation. This book is chock-full of recipes that are tempting in both flavor and ease. There are a few involved recipes that I’m looking to try, but most (by far) are approachable and inviting to a cook who, like me, wants to make something good-looking and delicious without spending an entire day shopping, cooking, and cleaning multiple pots, pans, bowls, and appliances.
All recipes come with very detailed nutritional information. I especially like the fact that she identifies each recipe as an “excellent” (at least 20% of the daily value) or “good” (at least 10% of the daily value) source of certain nutrients, both obvious (such as various vitamins, like A, C, and E) and less “famous” (such as molybdenum and pantothenic acid). By the way, if you’re wondering what any of the nutrients are, she lists them and their functions in the first, pre-recipe chapter.
The book is filled with color pictures, although from my unscientific calculation, it only comes to about one color picture for every three recipes. The pictures are so enticing; I wish all the recipes came with one.
I spent the week perusing my cookbooks and trying to decide on something new to make. I kept coming back to an untried recipe in this book even though I feel a little guilty for neglecting my other cookbooks. 
Nevertheless, THE FOOD YOU CRAVE is a great cookbook for me to use as my “go-to” cookbook for healthy, comfort-type food.
5 Stars The Food You Crave review
An excellent cookbook. Ellie Krieger does a good job of making the dishes easy to make. This is an essential cookbook for those who want to eat great-tasting food that is easy to make and is beneficial to your health.
5 Stars The Food you Crave
This books hits the mark for fresh, easy, and calorie concious…good sized pictures and easy ingredients.
5 Stars A great Value
The recipes taste even better than I imagined. The photos are great and get me excited to cook.
5 Stars Every recipe has been a hit so far
We are 6 for 6 so far in loving these recipes. They are simple and often prepare quickly. We have fallen in love with the steak tacos, with fresh cucumber salsa and cabbage.
Food Matters A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
April 6, 2009 by Healthier Eating · Leave a Comment
Food Matters A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
Cookbook author Bittman (How to Cook Everything) offers this no-nonsense volume loaded with compelling information about how the food we eat is doing damage to the environment, what changes to make and why. Authors have covered this topic before (Michael Pollan, for example, in The Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food), but Bittman takes a practical turn by concluding with 77 recipes that make earth-friendly eating doable and appealing. His collection of reliable recipes even includes such meat dishes as Thai beef salad, which isnt meat-heavy, but rather has just the right balance of meat to greens. There are also such staples as super-simple mixed rice; chicken not pie; and modern bouillabaisse. Bittman decries consumption of over-refined carbohydrates, but doesnt leave off without some sweets, including chocolate semolina pudding and nutty oatmeal cookies—suggesting, as the whole book does, that a diet in synch with the needs of the earth doesnt result in a sense of utter deprivation. (Jan.)
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User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars I want to spread the word
I would love to share this book with more of my friends. Is it available in Spanish?
5 Stars Great information
A lot of food for thought, pun intended. Will change the way I eat. Definitely a worthwhile read.
5 Stars Quick read, good information
I enjoyed reading this book, it’s concise and to the point. Much of what the author argues has been said before, but I must confess I had missed the magnitude of these issues in the past. You won’t find a whole lot of details about global warming or diets and nutrition matters, but you will understand why we should all pay more attention to the impact of food to our health and to the environment.
3 Stars A Food Writer and Cookbook Author Describes How to Eat Healthier and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Food Matters is a lightweight (pun intended) look at how your eating choices affect the environment, your health, and your weight. Mark Bittman provides familiar arguments in favor of enjoying food choices that don’t use as many resources that are also good for you to eat. To underscore the point, he describes how he lost weight by changing to more environmentally friendly choices (fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, and relatively little eggs, dairy, fish, chicken, and beef). The book ends with some recipes to help you switch from animal-protein-centered dishes to ones that either have little protein or none. He also teaches you how to prepare and keep masses of vegetable- and fruit-based ingredients ready to go for tasty eating.
As far as this book goes, it’s well done . . . but it’s just not enough for many people to buy and use the book. Here are some examples of problems with the book:
1. He argues that you shouldn’t buy out-of-season fruits and vegetables from halfway around the world because of all energy expended. In many developing countries, out-of-season fruits and vegetables are the way that poor farmers are trying to get out of poverty and use less environmentally damaging methods. Mr. Bittman doesn’t differentiate between who is producing the out-of-season fruits and vegetables and how they are produced. In some cases at least, doing the opposite of his advice can be an environmentally friendly decision.
2. He focuses on food-related ways to reduce the carbon footprint without considering how you cook and store the food and that impact on carbon footprint.
3. He talks about the wonders of various fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain alternatives without usually giving you the details about what each one offers in the way of nutrition and digestion characteristics, depending on how they are prepared.
4. He expounds upon all of the problems of feed-lot produced beef, likes the idea of grass-fed beef, but never tells you in detail the benefits of grass-fed cattle.
5. The list of recipes is a good one, but it’s hardly enough to provide all of your eating needs. Why not provide a full cookbook to support his concept?
6. I went to the store to check out those dastardly food manufacturers to see if they were in fact pulling all of the tricks that he described. Some were and some weren’t. It made me realize that I need to develop a list of items that I’ve researched and why I chose them so that I can then compare them to new offerings when those are provided.
7. When all was said and done, I was struck that what he was telling me to do was pretty similar to what I do already. So what did I gain from the book that I didn’t know already? Mainly that seltzer bottles use a lot of energy in their production. I’ll skip seltzer in the future and go back to tap water exclusively. If I had bought a vegetarian cookbook, I think I would have been better off.
3 Stars Originality matters
I have no conflicting interests involving any of the authors mentioned in this review.
Mr. Bittman is a renowned food writer who has previously authored several successful cookbooks. In this work, however, he has written a half-cookbook, half-nutritional commentary. The recipes are undeniably appealing and clearly written, which leads me to suspect it might have been better as a cookbook with the nutritional overview confined to an introduction. Instead, the first half of the book is a rather superficial, subjective invocation to fight back against a perceived agribusiness-governmental conspiracy to malnourish us and destroy the planet. The message is that by shifting from an animal to plant-based diet, we can live healthier and indirectly reduce the ecologic footprint of our diets. After a career of living and writing as an omnivorous gourmand, the author shares an almost quaint excitement in his discovery that such a diet is not only more sensitive to global needs, but also helped him lose weight! And since we are wisely advised to take a “sane” approach and not totally eliminate comfort food, we can have our nobility and eat cake, too!
The nutritional approach that is revealed as such a personal epiphany here has already been more thoroughly developed and better written about in Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, which is acknowledged as source material. And as for a convincing argument of the benefits of a “whole food, plant-based diet”, The China Study by T.C. Campbell achieved that goal by relying solely on evidence, not the personal anecdote and opinion which are stirred so generously into this chef’s creation.
Top 100 Baby Purees 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby
April 6, 2009 by Healthier Eating · Leave a Comment
Top 100 Baby Purees 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby
Babies grow more rapidly in their first year than at any other time in their lives, so how you feed your newborn will be one of the most important decisions you make for your new baby.
Making your own baby food is not only more economical than buying commercial brands, it also assures that your child consumes only the freshest, top-quality ingredients. British television personality and children’s nutrition expert Annabel Karmel’s essential collection of best-ever purees grants new parents their wish: one hundred quick and easy recipes that will make for a healthy and happy baby. From first tastes and weaning, right through to meals for older babies, all the recipes are suitable for children aged six months and older. And with all these fruit and vegetable favorites, and innovative fish, meat, and chicken purees, the dishes are so tasty you will want to eat them yourself!
In addition to easy and delicious recipes, Top 100 Baby Purees also includes information on:
- Weaning your baby and transitioning to solid foods
- Food allergies
- Time-saving food preparation tips
- Freezing and reheating your homemade baby food
- Tricks on finding the hidden nutrition in everyday foods
Featuring a preface by Dr. Michel Cohen, New York pediatrician and author of The New Basics: A-to-Z Baby & Child Care for the Modern Parent
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars So simple… so good
I LOVE this book!! I borrowed it from the library a few times before I bought it on Amazon. The purees are so simple to make and my baby just loves the healthy baby food. The pictures in the book and the fast facts on the edges of the pages are filled with nutritional info and helpful tips. My baby loves food making day. She gets to lick the bowl. I would definitely recommend it to anyone wishing to make their own baby food but were afraid of the time it would take to do it. Most recipes only take 5 to 10 minutes for a full batch of food.
5 Stars Top 100 Baby Purees
Book is excellent book for starting to go about making your own baby food. Recipes are simple & easy to follow w/additional tips placed throughout. Highly recommend!!!!!!!!
5 Stars Great recipes, beautiful book
I love this book. The recipes are simple, delicious and age-appropriate. I’ve even served the leftovers to the adults in the family with just a little added salt. The layout and photos are beautiful and inspiring.
I also recommend the Williams-Sonoma baby cookbook, which answered some questions I had about why it’s okay to cook with dairy for babies are too young to drink cow’s milk (because you are only using a little bit and because milk is more indigestible than other forms of dairy, like yogurt or cheese).
5 Stars Perfect Cookbook!!!!
This book is so wonderful! I have used it to make all of my baby’s first purees! I wouldn’t have known what to do without it, it has been a lifesaver! It is so easy to follow, anyone can do it! You won’t be disappointed with this book!
5 Stars so helpful!
this book is so helpful…it really makes starting solids easy. very easy to read through & get great ideas for every stage of solid feeding. I refer back to it for baby’s meal ideas all the time.
