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25 best healthy cookbooks worth buying 2023
From vegan eats to fuss-free, healthy family food
Maybe you’re looking ahead to the festive season, and wondering which are the best healthy cookbooks to buy your foodie friends, or perhaps you want to eat a more plant-based diet, but you aren’t quite sure how to prep veggies without being totally bland and flavourless. Or maybe, you already follow a vegetarian or vegan diet and you’re looking to shake up your recipe repertoire...
Whatever your reason for wanting to prepare more healthy meals, there’s a cookbook that can help (no matter your skill level in the kitchen).
And here at Women's Health, we love a good book – especially ones that contain delicious ways to help us be our healthiest selves. But when our bookshelves are, quite literally, about to topple over, and we have one too many unopened jars of tahini, nut butter, Ashwagandha and various other random ‘wellness’ ingredients in our kitchen cupboards, we have to be selective about which healthy cookbooks stay, and which new books to purchase.
To help you out, we’ve rounded up the best healthy cookbooks for 2023 – covering every dietary need.
So, whether – for you – that’s just about getting some extra vitamins in while not using every pot in your kitchen, eating plant-based or fuelling for fat loss, you’re in luck.
Bon appétit.
Best healthy cookbooks for 2023
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With nearly a decade of journalistic experience – in print, online and social – at national newspapers and lifestyle magazines, it’s fair to say Alice has tried it all when it comes to health and fitness. From packing herself off to an extreme Aveduric retreat in Sri Lanka and sweat-testing every new fitness fad to running the London Marathon and completing a 70.3 IronMan, Alice now looks after WH’s food content. With a ‘food first’ ethos, she is here to help you decipher exactly which foods will support your health, and which macro-counting, pasta-replacing, intermittent-fasting, 13-day cleanse is just, well, a scam. A keen baker and host, her favourite dessert has to be pavlova (with lots of summer berries and whipped cream, of course).
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