Eat healthier without sacrificing taste with this collection of heart-healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and snacks.

With Quick and Easy Heart Healthy Recipes, avoid expensive and unsafe processed foods and instead prepare and enjoy dishes that will help you maintain healthy cholesterol levels and lower your risk for heart disease. In this best-of-the-best recipe collection based on Dick Logue's popular but out of print 1,001 Heart Healthy Recipes, you'll discover simple-to-follow recipes for everything from snacks and salads to hearty meat dishes, vegetarian fare, and satisfying soups and stews.

If you think eating healthy means you'll have to give up the foods you love--think again. Inside, you'll find makeovers for your favorite comfort foods, takeout meals, and desserts, making it easy to maintain your heart-healthy diet and achieve your most ambitious weight-loss and health-improvement goals:

• Hearty, whole grain pancakes, waffles, and muffins
• Veggie-packed frittatas, omelets, and quiches
• Delicious and nourishing fruit smoothies
• Healthier versions of your favorite condiments, dips, and spice mixes
• Satisfying main dishes featuring beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and fish
• Vegetarian meals and sides packed with nutrient-dense superfoods
• Internationally inspired cuisines, including Italian, Mexican, Asian, and Cajun
• Tips and instructions for baking yummy, hydrogenated oil-free breads, cakes, and cookies

Don't sacrifice taste and variety for the sake of healthy eating. Find all the heart-healthy recipes you'll ever need, and enjoy the foods and flavors you and your family love!

In these pages, you'll be treated to dishes so delightful you'd never guess they're low in salt and quick to prepare. Packed with 500 recipes to choose from, you'll find everything from beef, chicken, and vegetables dishes to international takeout-style recipes, desserts, and more. And with 15 minutes or less prep time on every recipe, staying on track is as easy as pie! You'll also find a nutritional breakdown on every recipe, making it easier than ever to track your daily sodium intake.

Just a few of the easy and delicious low-salt recipes:

• Quick Chicken a la King
• Steak Stroganoff
• Baked Tilapia Rockefeller
• Quick and Easy Gazpacho
• Cranberry Pork Roast
• Grilled Chocolate-Filled Bananas
• Nutty Apple Wedges

Medical professionals and dietitians recommend the Low-GI diet both for the prevention of heart disease and diabetes and for the safe and effective management of existing conditions. An added benefit is that it's a terrific diet for weight loss, too, in part because it is a low-carb diet. Indeed, author Dick Logue has walked this walk: Diagnosed with congestive heart failure two decades ago, he has returned to good health by following the Low-GI diet. Along the way, he has created tons of amazing recipes that have made his return to good health a delectably enjoyable journey.

Quick and Easy Low Glycemic Index Recipes offers:

• Low-GI recipes for snacks, main dishes, and even desserts
• Simple food swaps to lower the GI index of a meal or dish, such as sweet potatoes for white potatoes, using whole wheat rather than white pasta, and swapping berries in for bananas
• Low-GI versions of traditionally high-GI foods such as breads, pastas, desserts, and casseroles

A low-cholesterol cookbook that offers practically the full spectrum offlavors for the tastebuds! 500 Low-Cholesterol Recipes proves that cutting cholesterol doesn't mean cutting taste or variety--or spending hours in the kitchen on complicated recipes. Packed with everything from savory stews to sweet treats, you'll find low-cholesterol versions of all the foods you thought you had to give up, like mouthwatering burgers, fluffy omelets, and creamy desserts. You'll also find a wide array of international cuisines, from Cajun and Mexican to Italian and Asian. Make staying on the low-cholesterol course easy--and delicious!--with 500 Low-Cholesterol Recipes.

When doctors advise patients to watch their weight and lower their sodium intake, many imagine a lifetime of bland and unappetizing meals. This book will assure you otherwise! Packed with hundreds of recipes, 500 Low-Sodium Recipes beats back the boredom and allows people with high blood pressure, heart, kidney, or liver disease to maintain a diverse and exciting low-sodium diet. Recipes inside range from classic dishes to new favorites, all perfectly modified to fit your diet while still tasting great.

Recipes include nutritional breakdowns and useful tips for a low-sodium lifestyle, including what food items to avoid for their hidden sodium content, plus information about convenient and tasty low-sodium substitutes and where to find them.

Recipes include:

• Spicy Potato Skins
• Lemon Glazed Doughnuts
• Three-Bean Salad
• Stuffing
• Apple Pie
• Velvet Crumb Cake
• Barbecue Sauce

Four hundred super-simple, mega-satisfying meals that cover your every craving and desire, from wholesomely hearty breakfasts to decadent treats that won't break the (calorie) bank.

For people looking to shed pounds and live more healthfully, eating meals in the 400-calorie range is your secret weapon to weight-loss success. Not only do these meals fuel your energy, rev metabolism, and keep you feeling full longer, but they also help you stick to a daily caloric range of 1200 to 1500 total calories, which is ideal for tipping the scales in your favor. With Quick and Easy 400-Calorie Recipes, you can reap the benefits of these low-calories meals without spending hours in the kitchen.

Perfect for anyone trying to pursue weight loss while living a busy life, this book works by expertly focusing on nutrient-dense, low-calorie ingredients that you can eat in abundance-such as leafy greens, artichokes, and berries-and combining them with smaller portions of equally filling foods like whole grains, beans, eggs, and poultry.

This new version of Dick Logue's classic 500 Low-Cholesterol Recipes makes eating a heart-healthy diet easier than ever!

Perfect for busy people looking for simple recipes to support their heart health, Quick and Easy Low Cholesterol Cookbook proves that cutting cholesterol doesn't mean cutting taste or variety. Packed with everything from savory stews to sweet treats, you'll find low-cholesterol versions of all the foods you thought you had to give up, including mouthwatering burgers, fluffy omelets, and creamy desserts. You'll also find a wide array of international cuisines, from Cajun and Mexican to Italian and Asian.

There's no need to spend hours in the kitchen just because you want to take better care of your heart. Quick and Easy Low Cholesterol Cookbook makes staying on the low-cholesterol course easy-and delicious!

Adapted from 500 Low Sodium Recipes by Dick Logue, Low-Sodium Cooking Made Easy will help you make the journey into a low-salt regimen that puts flavor first. If you've recently been prescribed a low-sodium diet to improve your heart and/or kidney health, adapting to this new lifestyle doesn't have to be punishing. This cookbook offers a plethora of delicious recipes that are easy to make at home, even if you have forever been a fast-food, take-out junkie and have little to no experience with cooking for yourself. You will not only learn the basics of low-sodium cooking but you will learn to cook, shop, and enjoy your new lifestyle without sacrificing taste.

Low-Sodium Cooking Made Easy offers:

• A comprehensive introduction to a low-sodium diet--Learn how to keep track of your sodium intake, read labels, find and use low-sodium ingredients and alternatives, use spice blends and seasonings to enhance flavor, and replace common high-sodium foods and ingredients with healthier alternatives you can easily make at home.
• A diverse range of recipes for every occasion--With easy-to-make recipes for everything you love to eat, including Chicken Pot Pie, Honey-Glazed Spareribs, Cheddar Biscuits, Balsamic and Maple Salmon, Focaccia Bread, Devil's Food Cake, and more.
• Nutrition information for every recipe--Each recipe includes a nutritional analysis to make it simple for you to keep on track with your low-sodium diet.

500 Low-Glycemic-Index Recipes provides quick and easy low-GI dishes for snacks, main dishes, even desserts Readers learn how simple food swaps such as sweet potatoes for white potatoes, using whole wheat rather than white pasta and berries rather than bananas can lower the GI index of a dish or meal for healthier eating as well as weight loss. Low-GI versions of traditionally high GI foods such as breads, pastas, desserts and casseroles are included.

Forget low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie diets. This is a healthy eating plan that can be used for life to lose weight, feel energized, and be healthy.