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Learn to COOK - The Healthy Slow Cooker

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Manufacturer: Robert Rose

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5884
EAN: 9780778801337
ISBN: 0778801330
Label: Robert Rose
Manufacturer: Robert Rose
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2005-12
Publisher: Robert Rose
Studio: Robert Rose

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Editorial Reviews:

A winning combination of healthy eating and convenience.

Here's an ideal combination: a tasty meal, nutrition for good health, and the convenience of a slow cooker. The Healthy Slow Cooker offers more than 100 delicious, nourishing recipes that are healthy and contain key nutritional, health and wellness information. Along with a complete nutrient analysis, each recipe will feature: - An icon denotes vegan friendly recipes - "Mindful morsels" that highlight particular nutritional elements - "Natural Wonders" that provide an a overview of a dish's healthful benefits

For example, Indian-Style Chicken with Puréed Spinach provides 400% of the daily requirement of Vitamin K, and cumin in the recipe improves digestion. Here's a small sampling of the tantalizing array of recipes: - Creamy Polenta with Corn and Chilies - Moroccan-Style Lamb with Apricots and Raisins - Ribs 'n' Greens with Wheatberries - Winter Vegetable Casserole - Cranberry Pear Brown Betty - Indian Banana Pudding

For diabetics, the book features a separate section of useful advice and nutrition guidelines.

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Customer Rating:

Summary: Good original recipes
Comment: Great cookbook with lots of original recipes. I also love that she includes all the nutrition facts on each page. The only drawback is not enough illustrations. So far, the recipes have been delicious but do require a bit of prep work. Overall a great cookbook to add to any crock pot collection!

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Summary: I like this book alot
Comment: I hate to cook, and I love this book. I get home at 8 or 9 PM on some nights. So this is great for those nights that my husband gets home first. If I don't use this, we end up with pizza or Chinese food or starving. So it's a better option than those. It's not as much prep as people complain about. I figure, it's 30-minute meals, but you do the work up front. And it's ready when you come home. How much do you LOVE that?! I've been able to substitute for things that seem difficult to do, and things come out well. I'd say it's a good investment.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: I normally cook and cook a lot every single day!
This slow cooker is my first one.
On the contrary of what the recipes advise, I throw everything in the pot and forget it. Nothing prepared ahead as suggested or whatever.
The result? Delicious.
Take my word, don't bother, make your life easy. Collect everything you have and that's it. If the peppers are missing, too bad if they are not essential of course. You do not have fennel but have fennel seeds, that will be it.
It is creative, simple and easy if you want it to be that way :)
And a tip, you've put too much water? Simple: take the cover off...
Enjoy,
Claude

Customer Rating:

Summary: OK, but too much work
Comment: The recipes aren't bad, especially health wise, but there's a LOT of prep...including sauteeing food before putting it in the crock pot. A good buy if you have time, but if you're looking for something that you expect from a crockpot (throw it all in and leave!), this one may not be right for you.

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Summary: Healthy and Delicious!
Comment: If you read some of the reviews on this site you'd think that the author has you going to exotic and bizarre grocery stores and spending hours preparing these dishes. Its simply untrue. If you're looking for a cookbook that has you open 5 different cans of salty foods and throw em all together for some mushy and unrecognizable (yet fast!) food product then don't buy this one. This one outlines how you can create wonderful, filling, nutritious meals for your whole family. Yep, you are required to chop up fresh fruits and veggies and add in whole grains and beans but isn't this what we should be adding to our meals anyway? I've tried probably half of the recipes in this cookbook and I have enjoyed them all. They freeze wonderfully so you can place them in individual portion sized containers to bring for lunch. This is nutritious and thrifty. She uses almost no processed foods in her recipes (except broths but you can make those yourself) which I appreciate as we try to avoid those foods. I highly recommend this cookbook as her approach to "healthy" food is moderate and logical. BTW, I live in a fairly small area and have been able to find all ingredients needed at my local generic grocery store.

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