500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes: Comfort Food Favorites That Both Your Family and Doctor Will Love

by Dick Logue

Everyone loves the comfort-food appeal and convenience of slow cooker fare. However, traditional slow cooker recipes are high in sodium, cholesterol, and saturated fat. This book lets anyone with heart disease, hypertension, or high cholesterol enjoy flavorful, healthy versions of slow cooker favorites. 500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes is filled with quick and easy recipes for hearty stews, savory casseroles, nutritious soups, and delicious desserts. It's healthy eating that you can love and that will love your heart! Recipes -Beef Stew with Dumplings -Shrimp Creole -Thai Chicken -Chicken Cacciatore -Italian Vegetable Soup -Strawberry Bread Pudding -And many more 500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes lets you eat heart healthy with variety and ease.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Reference, Health

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Janet Barclay]

I learned about this book when I was doing an online search for heart-healthy slow cooker recipes. I borrowed it from the library to see whether it was a book I'd like to add to my own collection.

Unfortunately, I didn't have as much time to explore it as I'd have liked, but I did see a lot of recipes that sounded like they'd be enjoyable to both prepare and make.

There is an entire section of recipes that aren't actually made in the slow cooker, but that will be used in the slow cooker recipes: heart healthy substitutions for such items as barbecue sauce, cream of mushroom soup, and so on. Although that's a fantastic idea, it didn't appeal to me at the time, as we were in the midst of a heatwave.

I will definitely check this book out again as the cool weather approaches.

[Barry]

Take a selection of very ordinary slow-cooker recipes, substitute no/lo salt version of relevant things (e.g. tomato paste), add 'lean' before all meat cuts, and add implausibly rah-rah descriptions of how great it'll taste and how much your family will love this dish. Et voila, you have this book.

[Kathy Carter]

Liked this one too, so ordered a couple copies.

[Deborah]

Lots of recipes, some of which sounded really tasty, but no easy way to tell size of slow cooker needed for each.