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by Jessica Lockyer-Palmer
published on 4 January 2024
From nutritionist-led meal plans to batch cooking tips, plant-based bowls to lighter twists on your comfort food favourites, these cookbooks are brimming with recipes, advice and guidance for lighter eating.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Over 100 easy and accessible flavour packed recipes
From healthy weekday dinners to nutritious one-pot dishes
Developed for maximum health benefit, accessibility and taste
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.
80 quick and healthy air fryer recipes.
Fan favourites and brand new recipes.
From speedy lunches and midweek dinners, to fakeaways and desserts.
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.
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Delicious and unashamedly straightforward dishes for everyday life.
Full of simple, fresh, and uplifting recipes to suit every dietary need.
From healthy breakfasts to weeknight dinners.
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.
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The Fitness Chef uses nutritional science to bust dieting myths
Empowering readers to eat the foods they love and lose weight
Packed with over 100 recipes for lighter versions of popular 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.
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Easy midweek meals
Vegetarian mains
Feelgood desserts
Eat Happy
by Melissa Hemsley
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.
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Make delicious and nourishing Buddha Bowls at home
Creative recipes for every meal of the day
A simple formula of grain + green + protein
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.
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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.
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Inspiring recipes to nourish the body and mind
30-minute meals for busy weeknights
Stress-reducing and energy-boosting tips
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.
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A nourishing guide to a longer, healthier life
Easy, delicious recipes with helpful nutritional advice
Classic dishes with a health-conscious twist
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.
Nourishing and flavourful recipes to make you feel good
Fast and simple ideas for every occasion
From midweek meals to celebrations, breakfasts to desserts
Feel Good
by Melissa Hemsley
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.
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