Just by looking at me you can tell I love to eat. Not only that, I love to cook.
I have no intention of sitting around and eating celery and water until they throw dirt in my face, but I do have two grandchildren that I want to see graduate from college someday. So, Carol and I have been trying to eat a little healthier and still enjoy our meals. Something that’s not particularly easy. At least for me. Carol is much, much better about it.
We found several books that are quite helpful in reducing all of the bad stuff in our food. Let’s face it, nothing is going to make healthy food taste like good old fried salt!
Our most recent acquisition is a book by Marlene Cook called Eat What You Love: More Than 300 Incredible Recipes Low In Sugar, Fat, and Calories. This weekend we tried the meatball recipe, as well as the cream cheese icing recipe which we used on the carrot cake from another of our favorite books. Both were excellent. Actually, the cream cheese icing recipe was as good as most full sugar and fat versions.
The book is available on Amazon for about 20 bucks and, if you look around, you’ll probably find a used copy for about half that amount. It’s money well spent.
