Recipes for Cooking Light: Comfort Foods and Dieting Cookbook

By Coretta Schubert

Recipes for Cooking Light: Comfort Foods and Dieting Cookbook The Recipes for Cooking Light book is about two cookbooks, the Dieting Cookbook and the Comfort Food Diet. Don't let the term "comfort food" fool you though. Each one of these is a cooking light recipe meaning you will find great light recipe ideas within this book, healthy meal ideas, and even weight loss recipes. Each of these cooking light quick recipes will help you to cook and serve healthy meals that taste great. It is hard to beat a quick easy dinner that is made from the best healthy recipes. Everyone will love these quick dinner ideas (and more) from these quick healthy recipes. The first section of the Recipes for Cooking Light book contains these chapters: Low Fat Recipes: The Basic Weight Loss Recipes, Low Carbohydrate Recipes: somewhat Misunderstood but Very Helpful for Weight Loss, Muscle Building Recipes to Boost the Metabolism, Fish Recipes to Lose Weight, Raw Food Diet Recipes for the Daring, Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes for Weight Loss, Paleolithic Diet Recipes: Turning Back the Clock A Lot, Breakfast Recipes for Weight Loss, and Desserts for the Diet Conscious. The second section of the Recipes for Cooking Light book contain these chapters: Comfort Food - What Is It, Comfort Food Breakfast Recipes, Comfort Food Lunches, Comfort Food Dinners, Comfort Food Desserts, Your Comfort Food Meal Plan, Eating with Comfort in Mind, Comfort Food - A summary, A five Day Sample meal Plan, and Final Words that are Not So Final. There are many recipes within this book, enough to plan the menu for a couple of weeks without repeating a recipe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781630228231

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Recipes for Cooking Light

Comfort Foods and Dieting Cookbook

Coretta Schubert and Lorriane Latimer

Copyright © 2013 Coretta Schubert and Lorriane Latimer

All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Dieting Cookbook

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Section 2: Comfort Food Diet

Chapter 1: Comfort Food – What Is It?

Comfort Food Breakfasts

Comfort Food Dinners

Comfort Food Desserts

Bringing People Together

Chapter 2: Comfort Food Breakfast Recipes

Quick and Easy Sour Pancakes

Apple Bread Pudding

Texas-Style French Toast

Home-style Egg Casserole

Great Start Peach Oatmeal

Southwest Breakfast Burrito

Chapter 3: Comfort Food Lunches

Beef Barley Soup

French Onion Soup

Reuben Sandwich with Turkey

Tuna and White Bean Salad

Spicy Chili

Original Sloppy Joes

Classic Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Chicken Salad Sandwiches

All American Macaroni and Cheese

Chicken Noodle Soup for a Cold Day

Chapter 4: Comfort Food Dinners

Classic Roasted Turkey

Chicken Pot Pie

Scalloped Potatoes

Potato Salad

Easy Pork (or lamb) Chops

Southern-Style Pulled Pork

Slow Cooker Ribs

All-American Diner Cheeseburger

Grandma’s Beef Stew

Meat Loaf

Down South Beef Brisket

Old Fashioned Ham Steak

Honey Baked Ham

Spaghetti and Meatballs

Sunday Pot Roast

Stick to Your Ribs Shepherd's Pie

Simple Ham and Chicken Casserole

Fried Whole Chicken

Easy Cabbage Rolls

Chicken and Dumplings

Chapter 5: Comfort Food Desserts

Classic American Banana Split

Simple Angel Food Cake

Harvest Apple Pie

Cheesecake Pie

Cherry Crisp

Chapter 6: Your Comfort Food Meal Plan

Day Two:

Day Three:

Day Four:

Day Five:

Chapter 7: Eating with Comfort in Mind

Eating for Health and Pleasure

Getting the Most for Your Money

Comfort Food - a Summary

Appendix I:

Conclusion

Introduction

Who says eating a healthy diet has to taste bad and not be enjoyed?  Just because you need to eat healthier does not mean you have to sacrifice taste.  The recipes within this book are delicious, easy to fix, and are healthy and light.  There are many reasons people need to diet, but the number one reason should be to be healthier.  Whether you are dieting to be healthier, to lose weight, to manage blood sugar issues, or just because you will find delicious light recipes within this book, enough in fact to help you plan a menu for a couple of weeks without ever repeating a meal.  Why eat light recipes?

Eat Light Recipes for Better Health

Eating healthy light foods helps to make the body healthier.  The ingredients in these recipes are all healthy and nutritious choices.  Good wholesome food gives the body plenty of nutrients.  These nutrients work to strengthen the immune system.  If the immune system is good and strong it is able to fight off most illnesses and germs, or it can fight it off better.  Free radicals attack the immune system and can cause things like heart disease and cancers.  The antioxidants in food help to fight these free radicals. 

Eating Light Recipes Help to Fight Heart Disease

Heart disease is a big killer and often it can be prevented or at the very least treated through dieting alone.  The recipes within this book contain healthy nutrients that help the body to fight heart disease naturally.  If you already have heart disease, it will help to treat it and if you do not have it, it may help to prevent it.

Help to Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure through Diet

In some cases, dieting alone can help bring high blood pressure levels to normal.   High blood pressure stems from several different reasons, a few of which dieting can help to prevent and treat.  High blood pressure can be a result of a high salt diet.  In this case, the recipes in this book have minimal amounts of salt and in any case, you can manually control the amount of salt you add to your light recipes.  High blood pressure can be the result of excessive body fat.  There again, this is an easy solution, simply lose the weight.  High blood pressure may be a genetic thing, and in this case, diet may aid in the control of it.

Lose Weight and Maintain Weight Loss Through Eating Light Recipes

Being overweight causes a host of problems with the health if the weight is not controlled.  By losing excessive body fat and weight, you can help to treat and prevent many different health conditions.  Weight loss happens through a diet change and eating good food that is whole fruits and vegetables and lean proteins with whole grains.  The best way to make the diet work for weight loss and weight maintenance is to make it a permanent lifestyle change.

If you have too much weight and body fat then you can lose it by dieting.  But if you had a habit of eating foods high in unhealthy carbs, sugars, refined flours, and saturated fats, then chances are you are addicted to the very foods that have caused your weight issues.  You must completely stop consuming these foods and replacing them with the healthier foods found in the light recipes in this book.  Going cold turkey with this is not wise because if you just suddenly stop eating these foods your body will rebel.  The cravings will be wild and you will feel the side effects of weaning from junk food too fast.   You must take this part slow and allow your body time to stop a bad habit and develop a good habit.  

Here is how:

Keep a food journal for a couple of weeks prior to starting this diet plan.  You can recall from memory if you wish to hurry the process a bit.  But try to remember every meal and every single snack you ate.  This way you will have a good picture of the junk foods in which you are most addicted.  By determining the amount of junk food you eat a day you can then determine the plan to wean from the junk food to make this light recipes diet a better success.  However many times a day you eat unhealthy foods will determine the amount of time you need to take to wean.

For example, you need to wean from one instance of eating junk food at a time to make it a successful breaking of the bad habit.  Do this for three to five days.  You can determine if you need more or less days to overcome the food addiction.  If you tend to have an addictive personality then you may want to give yourself five days, but if you are well disciplined you can probably do okay with three days.  Every three to five days replace another junk food instance with a healthy food (such as one of the recipes within this book).  By within three to four weeks you should be almost completely weaned from the junk food.  If you do this first, this change of dieting lifestyle will be easier to do all the time.  If you do not do this, you will be tempted to stop the diet and go back to eating the wrong foods again.  This is why so many diets fail, because people do not take the time to break their bad junk food habits first.

Enjoy Dieting with Light Recipes

The recipes within this book are all made with wholesome ingredients of the healthiest foods like fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meats,