Eatingwell Vegetables

The reference book that combines vegetable love with authoritative knowledge; everything a cook needs to know to buy, store, cook, and enjoy vegetables at their peak EatingWell magazine is well known as a beacon of knowledge and reliability, helping people create a healthy lifestyle in and out of the kitchen—as well as making that lifestyle enjoyable and attainable. EatingWell Vegetables guides both vegetable lovers and novices through the world of produce, including must-know basics, shopping notes, growing advice, and cooking tips on 100 common and less common vegetables, from arugula to yucca. Organized alphabetically by vegetable, the book includes information on seasonality and the health benefits of each vegetable, as well as more than 250 recipes with complete nutrition analysis, all tested by the EatingWell Test Kitchen. Each chapter gives core information on preparation, such as how to roast, steam, or sauté each vegetable perfectly. With 200 beautiful color photos of just-picked vegetables, delicious finished dishes, and step-by-step techniques, the book is a guide to the beauty, versatility, and delightful variety of vegetables.

Recipient of the coveted James Beard Award for best Healthy Focus cookbook, The Simple Art of Eatingwell is perhaps the definitive guide to healthy eating. It includes the best recipes and advice from nearly 20 years of experience at EatingWell Magazine. With more than 400 recipes, half of which can be prepared in under 45 minutes, start to finish, this cookbook makes it easy for today’s busy cooks to get consistently delicious, healthy meals on the table every day of the week. Most recipes call for fewer than 10 easily available ingredients. Key techniques are illustrated with helpful step-by-step photos. And tips from the EatingWell test kitchen teach you secrets of healthier cooking. Cooks will turn to this book again and again for versions of classic dishes like chili, lasagna, fried chicken, and mac & cheese—here prepared in delicious and healthy ways. There’s more to keep the adventurous happy too—like Grilled Fish Tacos, Thai Chicken & Mango Stir Fry, and Middle Eastern Lamb Stew. Sweets include cakes, pies, puddings, ice creams, cookies, and more. Finally, all this is now packaged in an innovative flexible cover that will lay open for ease of use and yet hold together for long-term durability. No kitchen should be without it.

Satisfying to eat, loaded with healthy ingredients, and simple to make, soups are perennial favorites. EatingWell brings together 100 of its very best soups in this indispensable cookbook, illustrated with 100 color photos. The delicious recipes work for any occasion, from busy weeknights to special dinners, and the collection spans light and low-calorie to heartier—but still healthy—meal-in-a-bowl soups. A chapter on instant soups shows how to make tasty homemade “cup of noodle” jars—take them along and just add water! A resource chapter on techniques helps readers stocks their pantries, freeze soups, make stock, and more, and inspiring essays from soup makers around the country round out this enticing, healthy book.

EATING WELL WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING provides mums-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy - at home, in the office, at Christmas, in restaurants. Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight gain, food safety, the postpartum diet, and how to eat when trying to conceive again. And the book comes with 150 contemporary, tasty, and healthy recipes that feed mum and baby well, take little time to prepare, and are gentle on queasy tummies. At the heart of the book are hundreds of pressing questions every mother-to-be has: Is it true I shouldn't eat any food cooked with alcohol? Will the caffeine in coffee cross into my baby's bloodstream? I'm entering my second trimester, and I'm losing weight, not gaining - help! Is all sushi off limits? How do I get enough calcium if I'm lactose intolerant? I keep dreaming about a hot fudge sundae - can I indulge? (The answer is yes!)

If you would like to grow your own healthy vegetables but have limited space to do so, then this is the book for you! Best-Selling authors James Paris and Norman J Stone combine their knowledge ofself-sufficiency and growing organic vegetables to present this book on square foot gardening. This method of growing vegetables in small spaces, combines Raised Bed Gardening with the concept of providing a good range of organically grown vegetables within the smallest of areas. Through the combined use of the ideal growing compost for best nutrition, and Companion Planting methods for nutrition and pest/disease control; SFG is the gardening method of choice for millions of 'switched on' gardeners today. Along with Raised Bed and Container planting methods, SFG is another way that individuals can take back control of their food needs from the big corporations - and benefit from fresh organically produced vegetables - by growing their own easily and with minimum fuss! What You Will Find In This Book: 1. An introduction to SFG - What it is all about. Growing vegetables in a square foot garden is all the rage just now - but what exactly is it all about? Here you will find out about the background to SFG and why it is so effective for growing fruit and vegetables of many kinds. 2. How to construct your own Square Foot Garden Simple instructions for constructing a simple SFG frame - it does not get much easier than this! 3. How to make your own 'special mix' of compost for infilling.; The 'secret sauce' behind the success of this intensive gardening technique, lays in the growing compound. Find out how to make top-notch organic compost to improve your soil and subsequent crop-yield. 5. Guidelines for planting out your SFG. Simple and clear diagrams and pictures to get you started on your own SFG. 6. Introducing Companion Planting - Good and Bad companions for your veggies. Companion Planting plays a crucial role in the success of a square foot or raised bed garden. Some great tips here to get your vegetables growing strong and proud. 7. Beneficial herbs and Organic pest control. Herb gardening is extremely important in the control of destructive pests. Find out which herbs are more beneficial for your plants. 8. Instructions on plant support and growing methods. Some instruction on how to go about supporting your plants so that you may get the best out of them and minimalize damage due to heavy crops. 9. A list of popular vegetables and herbs to grow in your SFG, including planting, plant care and harvesting/storing your vegetables. A comprehensive list of good vegetables and herbs that will complement each other throughout the growing process, as well as how to harvest and store your crops for later use.

Eating Well When You're Expecting provides mums-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy - at home, in the office, at Christmas, in restaurants. Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight gain, food safety, the postpartum diet, and how to eat when trying to conceive again. And the book comes with 150 contemporary, tasty and healthy recipes that feed mum and baby well, take little time to prepare and are gentle on queasy tummies. At the heart of the book are hundreds of pressing questions every mother-to-be has: Is it true I shouldn't eat any food cooked with alcohol? Will the caffeine in coffee cross into my baby's bloodstream? I'm entering my second trimester, and I'm losing weight, not gaining - help! Is all sushi off limits? How do I get enough calcium if I'm lactose intolerant? I keep dreaming about a hot fudge sundae - can I indulge? (The answer is yes!)

What if one small adjustment to your workout could unlock the results you’ve been dreaming of? An easy and straightforward way to achieve healthy weight loss, this groundbreaking guide shows how just one hour of exercise a week can turn into a lifetime of wellbeing. We’re all aware of the ways today’s modern lifestyle takes a toll on our health—not enough time means fast food trumps nutritious meals and the couch wins over the treadmill. But did you know that just twenty minutes three days per week is all the time you need to burn away belly fat and get your health back on track? The trick: It has to be the right kind of exercise. Based on ten years of scientific research at the University of New South Wales, Belly Fat Breakthrough shows how, by incorporating a simple interval training routine and delicious Mediterranean eating plan, you can shed—and keep off—that stubborn excess belly fat. With simple, easy-to-follow guidelines, Dr. Stephen Boutcher explains how to apply exercise, healthy eating, and stress management in a practical, easy-to-follow program that will overhaul your bad habits. And you’ll see the difference in just six weeks. Too much belly fat increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and research has shown that most types of diet and exercise won’t help you lose it. At last there is a solution. Belly Fat Breakthrough will make you rethink your attitude to getting and staying healthy. It’s not simply a diet—it’s a total lifestyle revolution.

If you have kidney failure, you need to adapt and change what you eat. But, as this practical and exciting book shows, you don’t need to go on a crash diet, or to deny yourself the foods you love – you just need to adapt your favourite recipes with kidney-friendly foods. You can eat well, enjoy your food, and give your body the nutrition it needs. This brilliant book provides a clear guide to eating well with kidney failure, as well as a collection of more than fifty delicious recipes to show you how it all works in practice. The recipes have been analysed for their nutritional content and are coded to help you choose most appropriate dishes for your individual requirements. The authors, all dietitians specialising in kidney failure, have more than 20 years experience and are passionate about helping you to enjoy your mealtimes, giving you: - Plenty of hints and tips to help you eat in a healthy and enjoyable way. - Advice on choosing meals, showing you step-by-step what to look for in takeaways and pre-packaged foods - Over 50 delicious and attractive recipes, from quick snacks to special occasion meals - Practical advice to help you to adapt your favourite dishes in a kidney-friendly way