I`m 25 years old and a full time student. For one of my new year's resolutions I quit eating out all the time, quit eating fast food all together, and started cooking healthy food at home. Here is my problem, there is just to much information and so little time, and I`m having trouble sifting though all the recipes to come up with a good meal plan. I need a healthy cookbook that has calories per serving, and that would be good for planing my meals for one or two weeks with. I have look for cookbooks but none have a good way to cont calories, and most all of them say "NO MORE CALORIE COUNTING!" or something like that.

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks. Kenneth

Hi Kenneth, I'm just bumping this because I REALLY want someone to answer. I want one of those books, too.

Not really a cookbook but this website http://www.supercook.com/ allows you 2 enter ingredients u hav and see what comes up. I just choose a healthy main ingredient and see what comes up (and choose the healthiest option).

I'm really digging The Healthy College Cookbook. It's a bunch of recipes submitted by college students, and the criteria are: quick, healthy and cheap. The recipes list calories per serving, which is awesome. I also like that while it's healthy cooking, it's not completely focused on nonfat stuff - you can use butter, or olive oil, or cooking spray, as the spirit moves you.

I made a couple of the recipes on a weekend, and then ate them for dinners for the rest of the week - chicken with artichokes over pasta, meatloaf, variations on baked potatoes, etc.

I'm pretty new to cooking, and it's not the most adventurous choice, but it's good healthy food, I can handle the cooking, and so far I've been happy with every recipe I've tried.

I like the allrecipes.com site. Stopped buying cookbooks once I found it. The best part is not only do you get the recipe but many people rate it and comment about how they tweaked it. You can bookmark favorites.

I use allrecipes and if you're really looking for a cookbook, any of the Cooking Light Annual Recipes would be good. They have full nutritional info for every recipe.

I highly suggest checking out the Eating for LIFE cookbook. The recipes are simple and taste great. The pictures are really good and most of the recipes also have pictures of the ingredients which takes some of the uncertainty out of your shopping.

The other one I like a lot is the Biggest Loser Family Cookbook. I know it's gimmicky because it's Biggest Loser but there are actually some good recipes in it.

Check em out ... let me know what you think. If you get the EFL one check out the Taco Pasta Salad recipe, we eat it all the time and love it.

Sean
LearnFitness.com

Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite is an amazing book. Some GREAT meals - some fancy, some easy but all delicious and healthy.

The recipes taste great (especially the bbq section) while focusing on healthy methods of cooking.

I use Eating Well cookbooks that were published about 10+ years ago. Also, they started publishing Eating Well magazine again about a year ago. A couple of the Eating Well cookbooks will provide you with recipes for a meal plan instead of you trying to pick out what veggie goes with which entre. I think my favorite food EVER is roasted butternut squash tacos with salsa verde from one of their recent magazines. I probably should let Russ know since he loves Mexican food!

The Betty Crocker 300 Calorie Cookbook might serve your purpose. I have a relative who swears by it and if I didn't have so many cookbooks atm, I would buy it.