Canadian Living Healthy Family Meals

Looking fresh, fun ideas to answer the question, “What’s for dinner?” Family meals should be delicious, of course, and quick to prepare! Parents need weeknight meals that adapt to kids’ changing palates without sacrificing flavour for the grownups. And more than ever, families are making healthy eating a priority by reducing salt, added sugar and fat. The food editors in the Canadian Living Test Kitchen have gathered our best weeknight dinner recipes. You’ll find terrific ideas for pasta night and meatless Monday, recipes for the barbecue and the slow cooker, as well as easy one-pot meals that save time and clean-up. All of our recipes are Tested Till Perfect so you can be confident they will always taste as good as they did in the Test Kitchen. Recipe types: Easy weeknight meals that can be ready in under 30 minutes Nutritious soups, mains, sides and more, all meeting a Registered Dietician’s criteria for healthy eating Delicious new ideas that the entire family will enjoy

For more than 30 years Canadian Living has provided readers with Tested-Till-Perfect recipes that are guaranteed to work. In Canadian Living Make It Tonight: Delicious, No-Fuss Dinner Solutions for Every Cook, Elizabeth Baird and The Canadian Living Test Kitchen have assembled the best recipes from their popular magazine that cooks of every skill level will want to have in their kitchens. Filled with sidebars of helpful tips and techniques, as well as complete nutritional analysis for each recipe, Canadian Living Make It Tonight is the essential cookbook this fall.

Weeknight dinners have to be good – and, hopefully, good for you. But, most of all, they need to be fast. The faster the better! That’s why The Canadian Living Test Kitchen has created this lineup of weeknight dinners that are ready in 30 minutes or less. No fussy prep, no long cooking methods, no cheating – these family-friendly meals are less expensive and more nutritious than delivery, ready in a snap and totally delicious. Each recipe comes with the Canadian Living Tested-Till-Perfect guarantee, so you can be sure it will turn out perfectly in your kitchen. Our food specialists have also shared their best tips for getting dinner on the table fast – from what to stock in your pantry to weekend ingredient prep that can save you time later in the week. It’s the perfect package for busy cooks.

Catch up with Kary Osmond, the host of CBC Television’s show “Best Recipes Ever” as she explores Canadian Living Magazine’s recipe library and cooks up mealtime solutions for busy home cooks. For 35 years, Canadian Living has been developing creative meal solutions for Canadian families. Whether you’re entertaining or eating a family meal on Wednesday night, the Test Kitchen has meal solutions that taste great and are easy on the cook. This collection showcases all of the recipes featured in the show’s first and second seasons. Peppered with helpful tips and friendly advice, it gives readers the tools they need to make delicious, low-fuss meals at home for any occasion. • Tested-till-perfect recipes • Recipes for every course, from appetizers to desserts • Written for home cooks, with a focus on clarity for easy, no-stress preparation • Canadian sources, products and typical home-cooking techniques • Inspiring full-colour photos • Recipes reflect Canadian multiculturalism, with a broad spectrum of dishes inspired by different groups and traditions • Full nutrient analysis of each recipe • Added-value from cover to cover: full index, family-friendly recipes, plenty of tips and helpful advice • Reputation of The Canadian Living Test Kitchen's food experts

• 90+ recipes for a variety of meals, each containing 400 or fewer calories per serving • 55+ colour photographs • Helpful cooking, shopping and preparing tips scattered throughout • Complete index that groups all recipes into helpful categories; search by type of recipe (such as stew or stir-fry), ingredient (such as green beans or lamb) or recipe name • Full nutrient analysis of each recipe Watching your diet doesn’t mean giving up delicious food. The Canadian Living Test Kitchen knows just how to make the tastiest dinners that are chock-full of flavour and nutrients, without breaking your calorie budget for the day. In this collection of 90+ Tested-Till-Perfect recipes, you’ll find family-friendly meals you won’t believe are calorie-wise. Inside, you’ll discover comfort foods (such as luscious, lightened-up macaroni and cheese), light favourites (veggie-packed stir-fries) and everything in between. There are meals for Meatless Mondays, suppers for laid-back Fridays and even a few dishes for easy entertaining on Saturdays. The Canadian Living Test Kitchen also shares its top ideas for light and easy sides to go with your meals. There are tasty potato, rice and veggie side dish ideas that won’t fill you out as they fill you up. You won’t believe how satisfying healthy eating can be!

To celebrate 40 years of culinary creativity and recipe precision, the Canadian Living Test Kitchen have brought together 300+ of their must-have, must-cook recipes. From appetizers to desserts—and everything in between—this is the ultimate Canadian Living cookbook, celebrating the modern, fresh and healthy way Canadians like to eat. Winner of the Taste Canada Gold, general cookbooks In this book, you will find 300+ recipes for dishes of all kinds, from appetizers to desserts; helpful resource section, with lists of substitutions, temperature and doneness charts, and cooking reference information; 100+ colour photographs; helpful cooking, shopping and preparing tips scattered throughout; complete index that groups all recipes into helpful categories, search by type of recipe (such as soup or frittata), ingredient (such as turkey or cherries) or recipe name and full nutrient analysis of each recipe. Chapters include: • Appetizers, Dips and Spreads • Soups • Salads • Side Dishes • Poultry Mains • Beef & Lamb Mains • Pork Mains • Fish & Seafood Mains • Pasta, Noodles and Dumplings • Eggs & Breakfast • Quick Breads • Yeast Breads • Sauces & Preserves • Pies & Tarts • Cakes • Desserts

The Canadian Living Test Kitchen delivers an all-new recipes to the Complete Vegetarian Cookbook. A follow-up to Canadian Living's best-selling Vegetarian Collection, which went to a second edition, Canada's most authoritative test kitchen brings 195 pages of Tested-Till-Perfect recipes. Families coast to coast come to Canadian Living for fresh ideas and reliable results, and this book offers solutions for satisfying meatless meals, irresistible sides that bring healthy eating to the table, and even showstopper desserts for special occasions.