Comfort Foods Made Healthy: The Classic Makeover Cookbook

by Jessie Price, The Editors of EatingWell (Editor)

Nearly 200 easy recipes, cooking and shopping tips, and nutrition advice to make your favorite classic recipes healthier. For 18 years EatingWell Magazine has been known for taking favorite classic recipes and making them healthier by using simple steps, handy ingredients, and strict nutritional guidelines. Now the experts at EatingWell have compiled nearly 200 healthy, easy recipes, as well as cooking and shopping tips and nutrition advice, in this exciting cookbook.

Full nutritional analysis accompanies each recipe makeover, along with tips on how it was made healthier. For instance, EatingWell ’s chicken-fried steak with gravy has almost half the fat and a third of the calories of the classic version yet still tastes as rich and satisfying as the original; a few healthy modifications to pepperoni pizza will cut calories, sodium, and fat by a third or more.

EatingWell Comfort Foods Made Healthy also solves problems for real families, including a Chinese dinner a diabetic can appreciate and healthier crispy tacos for a family from Texas.    

More than just providing recipes, this book teaches you the secrets of healthy, balanced cooking, including
256 color illustrations

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Food, Health

258 pages, Paperback

First published November 3, 2008

Reviews

[Dray]

Although I like this book, it is well presented, well photographed, and widely rounded it did not dazzle. I did find recipes that were interesting and unique,

[Kate]

I thought this was a good cookbook for people who are trying to reduce the calories in some of the heavier things they eat. I found a lot of recipes I'd like to try.

[Sharon]

I have thumbed through this once (got it today!) and have added items to my grocery list for tomorrow to make some mac & cheese.
I have made a few of the recipes and they are really good. Some are quite involved but that is the difference between healthy homemade food and easy processed foods.
My favorites are mac & cheese (I prefer it without the spinach), green bean casserole (SO much better than the canned soup variety) & chicken pot pie.
By the way, you can many of the recipes on the EatingWell website.

[Gwen]

Most of the recipes are under 500 calories, and many are under 350! Some of my faves are chicken pot pie, lasagna, and cornbread stuffing. There's makeovers for traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes, too. Overall, two thumbs up!

[LemontreeLime]

I was just glancing through this one, and i found several things id like to try after all! Now to figure out how to make a gluten free bread that wont ruin their healthy version of a Monte Cristo sandwich... with grape jelly of course... now we're talkin' comfort food!

[Marcella]

Some really Good Regular Recipes

[Cheri]

I am still looking this one over, my family is very picky and it is hard to find recipes that everyone in the family would enjoy.

[Arapahoe Libraries]

How to eat comfort foods without worrying (as much) about your health.

[Stephanie]

Hopefully this will get me back on track this winter.

[Becky H.]

Lots of lovely pictures and fun recipes to try.