Nicola Graimes

We ve cut carbs from our diets, but are we any healthier? Recent research suggests not! Findings show that a diet featuring a moderate amount of carbs (around 50 55% of calories), rather than extremely low (below 40%) or high (over 60%) is the best for our long-term health and wellbeing, with either extreme said to negatively affect life expectancy. The Right Carb is a timely guide with an informative look at the importance of eating good carbs. With practical advice and tips, the book explains how eating the right carbs are vital: providing energy, improving the health of the gut, digestion and mood as well as aiding sleep. It shows how to choose the right carbs as well as the best ways to prepare and cook them for maximum nutrition and minimum nutrient-loss. The book highlights that balance is key, with other food groups, such as good-quality plant proteins and the right fats, being equally important. Nicola Graimes celebrates the right carbs, not only highlighting their numerous health attributes, but also their diversity and the enjoyment they give to our cooking and eating. Her book dispels many of the myths surrounding carbs, including which carbs are healthy and the ones to avoid. It also showcases the best ways to prepare and cook carbs for maximum nutrition and flavour.

How to enjoy carbs with over 50 simple, nutritious recipes for good health

The Right Carb

A collection of over 100 powerhouse recipes for fresh juices and smoothies, blended from fruit and vegetables and packed with added super-nutrients. A collection of over 100 powerhouse recipes for fresh juices and smoothies, blended from fruit and vegetables and packed with added super-nutrients. Whether you’re looking for a punchy pick-me-up, an effective detoxifier, or an anti-aging rejuvenator, Superfood Juices & Smoothies shows how to make flavor-packed drinks with unbeatable therapeutic properties. Along with the nutrients gleaned from "superfood" fresh fruit and vegetables, these great-tasting glassfuls contain the added benefit of active super-nutrients such as spirulina, wheatgrass, maca, baobab, açaí berries, chia seeds, and raw cacao among others. The first chapter, Detoxifiers, includes delicious recipes such as the Minty Fresh, designed to flush out the digestive system and encourage the elimination of toxins, and the Clear Mind packed with blueberries to boost concentration and memory. Energy-Enhancers features uplifting drinks such as the Super Boost, Rocket Fuel, and Raspberry and Goji Restorer. If you’re feeling under the weather, try a warm, spicy and restorative Cold Comfort from the collection of Pick-me-ups. Alongside over 100 recipes there are also tips for getting the most from your fresh produce. For those who want to start from scratch, there are also recipes for making your own yogurt and dairy-free nut milks, as well as sprouting seeds and beans at home so you can be confident that your drink is 100% home-produced as well as tasting delicious!

Over 100 recipes for all-natural fruit and vegetable drinks with added super-nutrients

Superfood Juices and Smoothies

The wok is a tremendous tool in the kitchen, but all too often it is under-used and unappreciated. With I Love My Wok, rediscover how you can use just one pan to make mouthwatering, fresh and healthy dishes. Featuring over 100 inspiring recipes for snacks, lunches and dinners, all of which are easy to follow and simple to make, you’ll learn how to make the most of your wok. Learn all the techniques you need – be it steaming, stir-frying, deep-frying, braising, or even smoking – to recreate exciting dishes from all over the world. Spicy curries, speedy stir-fries, healthy steamed vegetable and fish dishes, delicious dim sum, and amazing Asian soups and broth can all be on the table in no time at all. This is wok cooking at its best, and this wonderful selection of delicious and nutritious meals is the perfect addition to the kitchen bookshelf.

More Than 100 Fresh, Fast and Healthy Recipes

I Love My Wok

To be a healthy vegetarian, it's not enough to just give up meat. Vegetarian children have different dietary requirements to vegetarian adults, so particular attention is needed to ensure they get sufficient amounts of the right nutrients. Unlike other similar titles on the market, Vegetarian Food for Healthy Kids concentrates on these nutritional demands to see what it takes to raise healthy, well-nourished vegetarian children. What's more, the book tackles the universal challenge of getting children - vegetarian or not - to enjoy and eat up their veg. Packed with simple, fresh recipes that are nutritious and use vegetables in interesting and inspiring ways, the book is set to lure even the most reticent of eaters. There are ideas for every type of meal including energy-boosting breakfasts; easy snacks; inspiring vegetable side dishes; and the bane of many parents' lives, packed lunches. Each recipe highlights a super-healthy 'Hero Food', giving information on its health benefits, and also included are step-by-step 'Kids Cook' features, with ideas for delicious dishes children can cook themselves, with just a little help from a parent.

Quick and Easy Nutrient-Packed Recipes

Vegetarian Food for Healthy Kids

Easy-to-follow recipes for breakfasts, snacks, side dishes and salads, soups, fish, poultry and game, meat and vegetarian meals, as well as tempting cakes, breads and desserts.

150 Wholesome Recipes:All You Need to Know about Beans, Grains, Pulses and Legumes Including Rice, Chickpeas, Couscous, Bulgur Wheat, Lentils and Quinoa

Beans, Grains and Pulses - 150 Wholesome Recipes

The common link between vegetarians and part-time vegetarians (flexitarians) is that they like to base their meals on vegetables. Whether this is for health, economic or moral reasons (or a combination of all three), the fact is a flexitarian diet – one that is largely vegetarian but occasionally includes poultry, meat and seafood – is growing in popularity and is a long-term trend that cannot go ignored. Let’s face it the flexitarian or semi-vegetarian diet is the way to go: meat and fish are becoming prohibitively expensive; our current consumption cannot be sustained in years to come; and the health benefits of a vegetarian diet are well documented. But while the number of vegetarians is significant, a study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that nearly two out of three vegetarians occasionally like to meat, chicken or fish. The Part-Time Vegetarian Cookbook shows just how delicious, adaptable and varied this way of eating can be. Rather than taking centre stage, meat or fish are not the main focus of the recipes, which value the often under-used and under-valued vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, eggs and dairy foods. The recipes are not about taking something away, however, but adding a new dimension and consequently widening and extending the homecook’s repertoire of dishes. Organised by meal type, The Part-Time Vegetarian Cookbook features chapters on Breakfasts & Brunches, Small Bites (snacks, lunches and light meals), Weekday Suppers, Weekend Cooking, Food for Sharing (entertaining, special occasion, celebrations and al fresco) and Something Sweet. The recipes are all vegetarian, but can easily be adjusted to suit non-vegetarians.

Flexible Recipes to Go (Nearly) Meat-Free

The Part-Time Vegetarian

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500 delicious, easy-to-follow recipes suitable for the whole family. Each one is simple and quick to prepare and contain honest, uncomplicated ingredients that are certain to please. The Big Book of Quick, Easy Family Recipes is packed with easy, delicious meals that kids love to eat, and parents feel great about serving. Each recipe is either quick to prepare, or allows you to pop it in the oven and get on with something else, so stressful meal prep is a thing the past. With over 500 recipes, you can find brilliant options for every meal of the day. It is broken down into easy-to-use chapters: • Breakfasts • Soups and Salads • Lunches • Dinners • Desserts • Snacks • Drinks With dedicated storage instructions (so you can make the most of your leftovers), batch cooking suggestions and detailed preparation and cooking times, it has never been easier to cook healthy for the whole family.

500 simple, healthy ideas you and your kids can enjoy

The Big Book of Quick, Easy Family Recipes

A fully illustrated guide to the essential ingredients for good health, with facts about the powers of health-giving foods and their healing uses, as well as 100 appetizing vegetarian recipes.

With Recipes for Health and Healing

Wholefoods

This essential guide to a healthier way of eating makes following the nutritious, health-giving vegetarian whole foods diet simple and delicious. It includes both a reference section to powerful health-giving foods and over 100 palate-pleasing recipes.

The Practical Encyclopedia of Whole Foods

Easy-to-make, nutrient-rich and wholesome, this book is packed with 65 recipes for energy balls, bars, and bites. The hottest snack of the moment, these convenient, portable, creations have been devised to provide a boost of energy at much-needed times of the day and to suit different dietary requirements. There are recipes suited to pre- and post-workouts, ideas for morning re-fuelling snacks and lunchboxes, plus creations to lift flagging energy levels during an afternoon lull and after school—there are even after-dinner treats. The book includes recipes to repair tired muscles after a bout of exercise with protein-rich balls or there are bites based on slow-release, unrefined carbs that will provide long-term energy. Opening with information on Energy Boosters nutritional health writer Nicola Graimes focuses on key, energy-supporting ingredients, including nuts, seeds, protein and superfood powders, unrefined slow-release carbs, fruits and vegetables. Alongside a brief explanation of each ingredient, there are details on key nutrients. The book is divided into the following chapters: Raw Energy Balls and Bars, Cooked Energy Balls and Bars, Savory Energy Balls and Bars, Superfood Bites and, finally, Superfood Treats. All the recipes are dairy- and gluten-free and vegetarian, and many are vegan. Each recipe is easy-to-make, nutrient-rich, and prepared with wholesome ingredients.

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