The Truly Healthy Vegan Cookbook by Dianne Wenz

The Truly Healthy Vegan Cookbook by Dianne Wenz ISBN-13: 9781646112272 Paperback: 184 pages Publisher: Rockridge Press Released: December 31st 2019

Source: review copy from the publisher.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
There are vegan cookbooks and then there’s truly healthy vegan cookbooks. The problem is, there are so many vegan foods that are loaded with processed sugars, white flour, and unhealthy fats and not many vegan cookbooks that address it. The Truly Healthy Vegan Cookbook is for anyone looking to remove these additional, unnatural contents, and enhance their, already noble, animal-friendly, dietary lifestyle.

Beginning with the top 10 most common vegan diet mistakes, The Truly Healthy Vegan Cookbook delivers recipes, like Piña Colada Green Smoothies or Crispy Artichoke Tacos, filled with diverse flavor, all within a narrow ingredient checklist. And don’t worry—unlike other vegan cookbooks, an occasional comfort-food cheat is human and encouraged. The goal is to get away from using them as a regular part of your daily menu.


My Review:
The Truly Healthy Vegan Cookbook is a whole-food, vegan cookbook. She explained how a vegan diet can still be unhealthy and how to make it healthy. Most of these recipes were made with ingredients that should be easy to find. The meal recipes usually served 4 to 6 people. Some recipes took 20 minutes while others took over an hour. I've made a few of the recipes and have enjoyed them (like the Chickpea Cacciatore, which was was a family favorite). They weren't very complex to make. I expect we'll be using this cookbook a lot. I'd recommend it to those wanting to eat healthy meals more often.

She had 10 basic recipes (sauces, dressings, etc.), 10 recipes for breakfast, 11 recipes for salads, 10 recipes for soups and stews, 10 recipes for sandwichs, wraps, and burgers, 8 recipes for sides, 10 recipes for dinner main meals, 11 recipes for pasta and rice, and 10 recipes for desserts. Each recipe included preparation and cooking time and contained the nutritional information of calories, total fat, total carbs, fiber, sugar, protein, and sodium. She also indicated if a recipe was gluten-, soy-, nut-, or oil-free. There was a picture of one recipe in each section.


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