COOKBOOKS--adult

***specifically food-combining***

Proper Food Combining Cookbook--Dubelle

***specifically grains***

Amazing Grains: Creating Vegetarian Main Dishes With Whole Grains--Saltzman
Synopsis: Cooking instructor and culinary consultant Joanne Saltzman shows how a vegetarian diet concentrating on whole grains can be creative, delicious, and nutritious. The author explores the culinary and nutritional delights in rice, buckwheat, millet, oats, quinoa, teff, and other hearty grains and offers 100 whole-grain main courses and recipes.

The Classic Wheat for Man Cookbook : More Than 300 Delicious and Healthful Ways to Use Stoneground Whole Wheat Flour--Rosenvall, et al
From the Publisher: Nearly 300 ways of using the vital fiber and abundant nutrients of whole wheat in appealing dishes and menus. Nutritional information, recipes for whole wheat cereals, breads and rolls, cookies, cakes, desserts; whole wheat to improve flavor and nutrition in meat dishes, casseroles, vegetables, soups.

Flour Power: The Complete Guide to 3-Minute Home Flour Milling (paperback)--Basey
Synopsis: Flour Power explains how a home flour mill can significantly boost whole-grain intake with just a few minutes of kitchen time: about three minutes for milling and a few minutes more to dump ingredients in a bread machine. Flour Power also explains how the right wheat can make American-style "light" breads (similar to white bread but with infinitely more flavor and nutrition) using 100 percent whole wheat flour.

Gourmet Grains : Maindishes Made of Nature--Cole
Midwest Book Review: Gourmet Grains: Main Dishes Made Of Nature invites nature-loving tastebuds to a sumptuous buffet of vegetarian dining! Gourmet Grains is for the whole-foods cook that enjoys making new culinary discoveries with this compendium of grains: millet, guinoa, spelt, basmati rice, and more! Gourmet Grains offers such striking recipes as Mexican Garden Fiesta Millet with Salsa and Chips; Vegetarian Pizza Rice with Saucy Tempeh; Indian Basmati Rice with Spicy Seitan, and more! Gourmet Grains is a "must" for the vegetarian cookbook shelf.

Kamut : An Ancient Food for a Healthy Future--Kamen

The New Book of Whole Grains: More Than 200 Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Including Amaranth, Quinoa, Wheat, Spelt, Oats, Rye, Barley and Millet--Bumgarner

Quinoa the Supergrain: Ancient Food for Today--Wood

The Spelt Cookbook: Cooking With Nature's Grain for Life--Hughes

***specifically low-carbohydrate***

Dr. Atkins' Quick and Easy New Diet Cookbook--Atkins

Zone Perfect Meals in Minutes: 150 Fast and Simple Healthy Recipes from the Bestselling Author of the Zone and Mastering the Zone --Sears

***specifically low fat***

500 (Practically) Fat-Free Pasta Recipes --Schlesinger
Synopsis: Sarah Schlesinger exploits with taste and invention the flavors of world cuisines and the variety of nonfat foods and fresh herbs, vegetables, and fish now available.

500 (Practically) Fat-Free One-Pot Recipes--Schlesinger
Synopsis: A taste-tempting assortment of easy-to-prepare pasta dishes for any occasion features five hundred healthful, low-fat recipes for main and side dishes that combine pasta, rice, and grains with vegetables, meat, fish, and fruit.

The Almost No-Fat Cookbook: Everyday Vegetarian Recipes--Grogan
Customer Review (rating=*****): "This book provides a wide array of completely vegan sauces, sides, entrees, and desserts that are all extremely low in fat and all very easy and quick to prepare. Almost every one of the recipes that I've tried were excellent(and I've made almost all of them. Of special note are the baked goods and desserts that are vegan and fat-free (or very low fat) yet resemble their dairy and egg laden counterparts. Favorites include eggless French Toast, Non dairy sour cream, tofu loaf (different from any 'meatloaf' tofu recipe you've tried), Drop biscuits, vanilla cake/muffins, and cheezecake."

The Almost No-Fat Holiday Cookbook: Festive Vegetarian Recipes (paperback)--Grogan
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Unlike many veggie cookbooks, this one does not assume that just because you're not eating meat that it's fine to go ahead and load up on nuts, cheese and other high fat ingredients. As a matter of fact, the recipes are vegan, so there is no cheese or milk at all (or honey, I don't think...). The recipes are easy to make and very healthful and DELICIOUS."

The Chinese Way: Healthy Low-Fat Cooking from China's Regions--Lo
Customer Comment (rating=*****): One would never guess that the recipes (complete with nutritional information) are "healthy"....The recipes!! This Chef can cook! I have yet to find a recipe that I was not completely pleased with. I feel the personal touch she gives to each dish adds greatly to the over all appeal.

C'Mon America, Let's Eat!: Susan's Favorite Low-Fat Recipes to Fit Your Lifestyle--Powter
Synopsis: America's foremost motivational speaker for women--host of the nationally syndicated Susan Powter Show--cooks up another winner with 150 recipes for all-American favorites--accompanied by invaluable nutrition tips served up in the inimitable Powter-style.

Cooking for Good Health: Creative Recipes Without Added Fat, Sugar, or Salt--Rose
Synopsis: Cooking for someone with diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, hypertension, or heart disease or looking for a healthy change of pace in what you and your family eat? Gloria Rose, director of the Gourmet Long Life Cooking Schools, has reworked traditional family favorites for maximum taste and nutrition. This cookbook offers over 220 wonderful kitchen-tested recipes. Also included are brand names of recommended products, reference charts, seven days of menus, and maintenance programs for those with weight problems.

Cooking Healthy With a Man in Mind--Lund, Alpert
Customer Comment (rating=*****): My Man Loves The Food Cooked From This Book. My Husband is a meat and potatoe man. He needed to lose a few pounds. This book is great! The food taste great, it is quick and easy to fix. I have over 200 cookbooks, but this is the one I use 80% of the time. I highly recommend this to any wife for her loving man.

George Foreman's Knock-Out-The-Fat Barbecue and Grilling Cookbook--Foreman, Calbom

Gloria's Gourmet Low-Fat Muffins--Rose

Healthy Indian Cooking--Husain

Synopsis: Indian cooking has always been naturally healthy and low in fat, using spices and herbs rather than fats as the principal flavor enhancers. This book makes the vegetable- and grain-centered dishes even healthier by replacing "ghee", the traditional Indian clarified butter, with vegetable oil. 100+ recipes. 80+ color photos .

Hey, Mom! I'm Hungry!: Great Tasting, Low-Fat, Easy Recipes to Feed Your Family--Powter
Synopsis: From the mega-bestselling author of Stop the Insanity!, The Pocket Powter, Food, and C'mon America, Let's Eat! comes a guide for moms and kids to healthy eating. Here are 100 of the tastiest, most nutritious recipes from Susan's own kitchen and from moms across America, all of which have been "kid-tested" and "kid-approved" by schools and children's groups.

Indian Light Cooking: Delicious and Healthy Food from One of the World's Great Cuisines--Law
Customer Comment (rating= *****): Ruth Law's "Indian Light Cooking" is my favorite cookbook. Ease of preparation, healthy recipe design, and a sincere respect for the cuisine are combined to produce a remarkable (and usable) resource. Highly recommended.

In the Kitchen With Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes--Daley
Synopsis: From Oprah Winfrey's personal cook, here are 50 light, low-fat recipes, now in a large print edition, that helped Oprah lose weight and feel great. The original hardcover edition has sold more than 4,700,000 copies to date.

Kosher Light: Your Traditional Jewish Favorites Cooked Healthy--Bahar
Synopsis: Kosher cooking is on the rise, as more and more people are attracted to this time-honored tradition and its promise of purity and quality. Yet the well-loved richness of many kosher favorites competes against current nutritional needs. The solution lies in this collection of more than thirty of the best traditional Jewish recipes--authentically kosher and amazingly light.

Light Basics Cookbook: The Only Cookbook You'll Ever Need If You Want to Cook Healthy--Shulman
Customer Comment (rating=****): Delicious, simple recipes. I have owned this book for just under ten days, and I just completed my fifth dinner from its pages. Not one has been less than excellent, and all have been amazingly easy to prepare. I have a shelf full of cookbooks, but for everyday dinners, this is one I'll turn to most.

Low-Fat Cooking for Good Health--Rose

Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals--Moosewood Collective

The New McDougall Cookbook --McDougall

Secrets of Fat-Free Chinese Cooking: Over 120 Low-Fat and Fat-Free, Traditional Chinese Recipes - From Egg Rolls to Almond Cookies --Compestine

Secrets of Fat-Free Greek Cooking--Gavalas

Secrets of Fat-Free Indian Cooking: Over 150 Low-Fat and Fat-Free Traditional Recipes--Kulkarni, Ranade
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Fun to use, great to eat! I hate to cook, but I love Indian food & I love this book... the recipes are short, easy to read, & easy to understand. I like the "Suggested Accompaniments" that come with each recipe, & the dishes really do taste good. The missing fat was not replaced with a lot of sugar ... another plus!

Secrets of Fat-Free Italian Cooking: Over 200 Low-Fat and Fat-Free, Traditional & Contemporary Recipes-From Antipasto to Ziti --Woodruff
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Best Italian cookbook for cutting out fat, not flavor! This is the best Italian cookbook I have ever come across.

Secrets of Fat-Free Kosher Cooking: Over 150 Low-Fat and Fat-Free Traditional and Contemporary Recipes--From Matzoh Balls to Kugel--Bernstein
Customer Comment (rating=*****): The book is full of traditional recipes...chicken soup, matzoh balls, guiltfree hamentaschen, latkes, kugels, cholent...and much more. On the comtemporary side I found, tex mex cholent, buffalo wings, chili, burritos, chocolate chip cookies....there is something for everyone in this book.

Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast: 150 Easy Meatless Recipes--Vegetarian Times

Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast Asian: 150 Easy Meatless Recipes--Vegetarian Times Editors
Synopsis: Asian cuisine is more popular than ever with stir-fries, noodle shops, Thai food, and sushi bars. But as several studies have shown, Chinese food is high in fat. With Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast Asian, Asian food lovers can have their favorite dishes without the fat.

Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast Mexican--Vegetarian Times Editors
Synopsis: "Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast Mexican" allows lovers of Mexican cuisine to have their favorite dishes--without the fat and in 30 minutes or less!

Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast Pasta: 175 Easy Meatless Recipes--Solomon, Levin
Customer Comment (rating=*****): SOOOO good! Wow! I LOVE this cookbook! You know how it is when you come in from work and you're dead tired and ravenous and you just don't have the energy to cook anything? Well, if you can face boiling water, you can make almost any of these dishes in the time it takes the pasta to cook. Everything is super easy, fast, and delicious, and good for you to boot.