It’s January, it’s been colder than cold, and certainly warming, comfort food has been the order of the day.Except it’s that time of year when huge chunks of people are resolving to eat better. Eating better can mean a whole heap of things, and be for a whole host of reasons from general health through to weight loss.
So here’s 5 choices that are about healthy choices, without being dull, and without being all about lettuce leaves!
The Nordic Diet
1. How Not to Get Fat by Ian Marber - I’ve got a lot of time for Ian Marber, and he does talk quite a lot of sense on the food front. However, with a title like this, I can’t help but wonder if it’s a two page book, and just says eat less and do more. If it’s like his other books, then there’ll be some good recipes too.
2. The Nordic Diet by Trina Hahnemann - there seems to be general rise in interest in Scandinavian cookery, so it was inevitable it would spill over into the healthy eating sector. It has all the foodie buzzwords of locally sourced and seasonal, but also lots of variety. I would think you would find things to cook out of this regardless of whether you were looking for “healthy” food or not. I think this would bring some great new tastes to any table.
3. Anjum’s Eat Right for Your Body Type - bringing together the ancient wisdom Ayurveda with great food to deliver fabulous taste and healthy food. You can do the whole body type prescription thing, or just cook up a storm with some great recipes, combining the best of East and West.
4. The Healing Powers of Chocolate – you’ll have a few weeks to wait for this one, but show me a woman who doesn’t believe already that chocolate has healing powers! This is just the science to back up what we’ve always known. Not so big on recipes, but good to know you’ve got some justification for that next bar of Green & Blacks!
5. The Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health - I had one of the original Moosewood cookbooks from my godmother in the US years ago, and it was well thumbed during my vegetarian stage. This one has 200 new recipes, and if they are as good as I remember the old ones being, then it won’t be hard to get anyone to eat healthily. Although it probably won’t make me vegetarian again!
So if you want some healthy ideas, or just new flavours for a new year, then these may be worth a look.
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