Our pick of the best healthy cookbooks (2024)

Bored of Lunch Healthy Slow Cooker: Even Easier

by Nathan Anthony

In this latest instalment of recipes from Bored of Lunch, you’ll find 80 even easier recipes to make in your slow cooker. With a handy calorie count on each dish and a focus on lighter versions of your favourite recipes, this is the perfect fuss-free healthy cookbook.

Tasty High Protein

by Fraser Reynolds

We all know that protein is a key part of any healthy diet, but science tells us that following a high-protein diet has plenty of additional benefits, from reducing appetite and improving sleep, to helping to burn calories and increase muscle mass. With this in mind, Fraser Reynolds has come up with 100 fuss-free, high-protein recipes, all under 600 calories per portion. As well as calorie counts, the recipes include nutritional information and barcodes so you can scan your meals straight into your food tracking app.

High Protein Meal Prep Manual

by Niall Kirkland

With his debut cookbook, Niall Kirkland, known to his huge online following as The Good Bite, has come up with 80 recipes that are easy to prep, simple to cook, and delicious to eat – so you too can harness the power of protein. With recipes covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks, as well as full nutritional breakdowns and barcodes that will feed into your food-tracking app, this is the ultimate guide to staying healthy, strong and nourished.

Dr Rupy Cooks: Healthy. Easy. Flavour

by Dr Rupy Aujla

In Dr Rupy Cooks, you’ll find over 100 easy and accessible recipes that are as flavourful as they are nutritious. There are weekday dinners, one-pot dishes, quick lunches and plenty of vegetarian, vegan, nut-free and gluten-free options. Every dish is meticulously researched and developed for maximum health benefit, accessibility and, of course, taste.

Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Book

by Nathan Anthony

Nathan Anthony, aka Bored of Lunch, shares 80 brand-new recipes to help you eat well and save money with your air fryer. With the popularity of air fryers growing every year, you might be wondering how much use you can get out of them. Designed for busy individuals and families alike, The Healthy Air Fryer Book is packed with recipes that are quick and easy to put together without compromising on taste. Discover a wide selection of interesting ways to get the most out of this nifty kitchen appliance, from starters and snacks to quick lunches, midweek dinners, fakeaways for the weekend and even some sweet treats. You will also find a helpful oven-to-air fryer conversion chart, plenty of fan-favourites and calorie counts on every recipe.

Simply Good For You

by Amelia Freer

In Simply Good For You, nutritionist Amelia Freer showcases simple, fresh and uplifting food. In place of complicated dietary advice and restrictive plans you’ll find nutrition packed but laid-back recipes. Dishes includecomfortingslow-cooker meals and one-pan ideas, game-changing seasonal roasted salads, speedy and filling breakfasts, and packed-lunches to look forward to. There are also plenty of ways to use leftovers, ingenious ‘instant’ soups, as well astemptingsweet things (hello gooey courgette chocolate brownies) and weekend and special occasion dishes.

The Fitness Chef: Still Tasty

Graeme Tomlinson is the nutrition coach behind the popular Instagram account, The Fitness Chef, where he dishes out easy-to-digest nutrition facts and busts diet culture myths. His cookbook, Still Tasty, is founded on the simple belief that you don’t need to make extreme changes to your diet to lose weight and can enjoy lighter versions of your favourite foods with a few simple tweaks. With pasta and pizza, toasties and subs, curries and kebabs and a whole chapter dedicated to desserts, Still Tasty is not about shaming food groups and guilt-tripping you for wanting a sticky toffee pudding.

Eat Happy

Eat Happy is Melissa Hemsley’s first solo cookbook. With a focus on 30-minute recipes that make you feel as good as they taste, it’s also full of handy tips and tricks for using up leftovers.

Buddha Bowls

by Hannah Pemberton

If you are behind on the trend for colourful plant-based bowls brimming with vegetables and meat-free protein, Buddha Bowls will bring you up to speed in no time. Each recipe is packed with produce to help you eat more fruit and veg and there are ideas for every meal of the day, including enticing breakfast bowls. Plus, with a dedicated section on substitutions for vegans, it’s also suitable for anyone following an animal product-free diet.

Rainbow Bowls

by Niki Webster

For more inspiring bowl-based ideas, try Rainbow Bowls a collection of vibrant, nutrition-packed recipes for every meal of the day. Designed to help you eat the rainbow, each recipe is packed with different fruit and vegetables and just happens to be vegan too.

Mindful Chef

by Myles Hopper, Giles Humphries

Myles Hopper and Giles Humphries are the talented team behind Mindful Chef, the UK’s most popular healthy recipe box service. This, their first cookbook, ispacked with recipes that take under 30 minutes and use less than 10 ingredients. It’s all about fresh, healthy recipes that don’t demand hours in the kitchen.

Eat Better Live Longer

by Dr Sarah Brewer, Juliette Kellow

Written by registered dietician, Juliette Kellow, and medical nutritionist, Dr Sarah Brewe, this cookbook comes with recipes, tips, meal-plans and advice that you can trust isfounded in scientific research. Recipes include:prawn, pomegranate and quinoa bowl, banana pancakes with spiced apple rings and barley risotto with roasted squash.

Feel Good

Feel Good is speedy, accessible and flexible cooking at its finest. You’ll find vibrant, flavoursome recipes designed with both mental and physical health at the forefront with favourites including Spring Veg Broth with Miso-Ginger Drizzle and One-Tray Chicken with Ginger and Spring Onion Salsa.