America's Test Kitchen's cookbooks and its Cooks Illustrated magazine and website are my primary go-to locations for recipes. While some of their recipes are more time consuming to make, with heavier prep, they are reliable and tasty. They also take care in their light and healthy recipes to not rely heavily on "diet" foods like fat free cheese (gag) and fake sugars, etc. Here are my favorites:
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- America's Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook (has everything from breakfast to desserts, with all nutritional content)
- America's Test Kitchen Light & Healthy series (annual from 2010-2012)
- Cooks Illustrated (magazine and website, both available at a subscription, not limited to just healthy recipes, but uses primarily whole foods and doesn't rely on processed ingredients)
- Slow Cooker Revolution (some recipes take a lot of prep, but others are marked 'easy prep' - a great way to get a gourmet, real food meal out of a crockpot)
The following are some other blogs that I watch for new recipes. I will also note that not every single recipe on these sites would fall under my own guidelines for what I would eat, but generally they are a good guide. (I try to stay away from food blogs where the author is regularly paid or perked by food companies to shill their product and make a recipe around it.)
- Aggie's Kitchen
- Annie's Eats
- Food for My Family
- Green Kitchen Stories
- Healthy Green Kitchen
- Naturally Ella
- Whole Foods Market Recipes
- Cookie + Kate
- Honest Fare
- My New Roots
- Simply Recipes
- Sprouted Kitchen
- The First Mess
I also use other tools like Fooducate, which has a blog and an app. Using the app, you can scan products in the store to see their nutritional content and ingredient list demystified - a great way to see past the health claims on the box.
Finally, I am a great lover of print publications, so I also enjoy these magazines (and their online sites). You can buy these at the check-out at some grocery stores and also at Barnes & Noble, etc. or get a subscription online, which is much cheaper!
Finally, I am a great lover of print publications, so I also enjoy these magazines (and their online sites). You can buy these at the check-out at some grocery stores and also at Barnes & Noble, etc. or get a subscription online, which is much cheaper!
Also consider following a lot of these blogs or websites on Twitter - you can get links to new posts as well as links to other sites. It's a great way to keep the new ideas flowing so you don't get bored.
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