Review: A tremendous life-saver
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2013
Perhaps I speak not only for myself when I say we live in a time when healthy cooking is perceived as an expensive, time-consuming luxury--often, it is simply near impossible to make the effort of ensuring you and your kids get all the daily recommended amounts of dietary nutrients, not to mention tasty food that children will want to eat. When you're pressed for time, you just toss a TV dinner in the microwave or fry some strip of bacon or eggs. Worse, you can order pizza or from some fastfood--repeat this everyday and no wonder we're all becoming less and less healthy and fatter and fatter every year.That's why I consider Alexandra Beck's `Healthy Cooking Made Easy' a powerful secret weapon against the onslaught of unhealthy eating habits. At the very least, it opens our eyes to the many healthful possibilities with modern food--it shows us, through actionable instructions that are a breeze to follow, that cooking healthy food can indeed be easy to do. Yes, these are 72 tips and tricks for healthy eating--from smart shopping strategies, to knowing how to prep up more efficiently, to the correct way of cleaning certain produce, to the actual "cooking made easy." The book also contains interesting, if not unsettling trivia (our furniture polish has more real lemons than our modern lemonade).What's more, Beck also adds a dash of humor in her writing--the occasional puns and jokes make the book not only meticulously instructional, but also a joy to read as well.`Healthy Cooking Made Easy' is one of those books that you must get if you care about you and your family's long-term well-being. If, like me, you're one of those folks who thought "healthy cooking" and "easy" could not exist in the same sentence, then all the more you need this book. I highly recommend!