Cookbooks with Nutritional Information
July 16, 2022 10:37 PM   Subscribe

Please recommend your favorite cookbook that has nutritional information with each recipe (calories, sodium, carbs, fiber, etc.). Bonus points for a photo showing the results of each dish. The gold standard for me is Better Homes and Gardens New Dieters Cookbook, but I'm open to any and every style of cooking, including wackadoo fad diets.
posted by Carlo to Food & Drink (7 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
We really like this Eating Well cookbook. I believe all of their recipes in their cookbooks and magazines have full nutritional information. Also, they generally are very tasty.
posted by hydropsyche at 5:09 AM on July 17, 2022


It doesn’t have pictures for everything, but Pillsbury’s Healthy Baking has complete nutritional information. It was my go-to baking book before I went vegan, and I always thought the recipes were great. I believe it’s out of print, but it should be easy to find used.
posted by FencingGal at 5:54 AM on July 17, 2022


Did some more looking through my cookbooks. The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen has nutritional information, but not a lot of pics. I've been happy with everything I've cooked from it.

The Happy Herbivore cookbooks (I've linked to just one, but there are many) have nutritional information, but not sodium for some reason. There are pictures of pretty much everything. You can check her website to see if the nutritional information seems adequate.
posted by FencingGal at 6:19 AM on July 17, 2022


Every America’s Test Kitchen cookbook I’ve read has a matrix in the appendix with the info for all the recipes. And on top of that, they’re always excellent recipes and techniques.
posted by hwyengr at 10:17 AM on July 17, 2022


There are dieting or weight loss apps for phones which have extensive databases of food macronutrients (protein, fat, carbs, fiber, etc). You can enter the ingredients of a recipe and the app will then tell you the macronutrients of each serving. The app I use is Loseit, which is free for basic functions including what I've described.
posted by conrad53 at 11:51 AM on July 17, 2022


All the SkinnyTaste cookbooks have nutritional info. I love her recipes - they are healthy, easy to follow, not too complicated, tasty, and well-tested.
posted by radioamy at 6:08 PM on July 17, 2022


Fad diets, you say? I like this Primal Blueprint cookbook, and it has photos and nutritional info.
posted by The corpse in the library at 4:09 PM on July 18, 2022


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