Cookbook Recommendations

“I cannot stress a greater importance than to teach the young generation about the risks of unhealthy eating. A great way to pique their interest in nutrition is to involve them more in the cooking process. They not only will learn to cook for themselves, but also develop a lifetime of healthy habits.” – Marcus Samuelsson

I have found that the best way for me to take control of my health has been to cook my own meals. I know it sounds like a huge undertaking, but it is so worth the investment of your time. How better to control what we are putting into our bodies, than to be the person selecting the ingredients used?

There are many ways to make cooking work with our busy schedules and I too have struggled with that. The easiest way to make things work, is to keep things simple. You do not have to spend hours in the kitchen. If you are not sure where to start, I will share some of the cookbooks I use on a daily basis. They are my go to for easy meals, with minimum ingredients and time needed. These recipes are simple, yet delicious. Sometimes, less is more.

Cookbook Recommendations

PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking – The newest cookbook from highly popular author Carleigh Bodrug is packed with over 150+ whole-food, plant-based recipes that show the reader how to make the most of the food they have in their fridge and pantry with easy and approachable vegan recipes anyone can make. It is my newest addition and I am loving her fresh ideas and that it helps me avoid wasting food. Truly worth exploring, especially if you are new to plant based cooking.

Plant You – Also, by Carleigh Bodrug, this book is a ridiculously easy plant-based, oil-free cookbook with over 140+ healthy vegan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, cheese sauces, salad dressings, dessert and more! It’s actually so good, I accidentally bought it twice! Very accessible to use and recipes are simple, yet delicious!

Joyfull – This newly released cookbook by Radhi Delvukia-Shetty, soared to the top of the NY Times booklist in it’s first weeks. The book includes, more than 125 plant-based recipes and a practical approach to making deeply flavorful food for feeling your best. I absolutely love this book. The recipes have a few more steps thank the Plant You series, but they are worth the time. Perhaps use this for weekend meals, or nights where you have a bit more time.

Big Vegan Flavor – This book, by Nisha Vora, will be released on September 3, but I have already preordered it. I love ever recipe Nisha shares and am anxiously awaiting this book. The benefit of preorder is that I am guaranteed a copy on the first release. Trust me this will sell out as Nisha is wildly popular on social media, under the name Rainbow Plant Life. These recipes provide us with restaurant quality meals that I use often. Highly recommend, especially if you love to cook like I do.

Those are the books I use daily and recommend you have in your collection. I am aware you can get many recipes online, but as a home cook, I have grown tired of the computer constantly going to sleep in the middle of preparation. I find it so much easier to have my cookbook out and open. If you’d like a cookbook stand on the counter that can hold your book, or ipad, this is a nice option.

I hope you get excited about cooking through these books. Please let me know if you try one. Even if you are not vegan, adding in plant based meals to your weekly rotation can help improve your health. Many of you actually do Meatless Mondays, so these books can give you some new ideas. Please share photos of anything you cook on Instagram and tag me @ReclaimingHealthBlog.

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