The Best Healthy Cookbooks of 2024

If you want to start eating healthy, but you are not experienced with cooking, it can be a nightmare for you to prepare nutritious meals. But “The Easy 5-Ingredient Healthy Cookbook” by Toby Amidor is here to save the day. There are 150 simple and flavorful recipes in this book that are extremely beginner friendly. Perhaps its top selling point is that it makes use of mainly five ingredients which are mixed up for exciting recipes. With most recipes featuring a cook time of under 30 minutes, you can also add a fancy twist to your meals by simply swapping a few ingredients. This healthy cookbook is everything a beginner needs: easy-to-understand, fun, and full of healthy eating tips. It also includes dietary labels for the reader’s awareness. The delicious recipes and whole ingredients make help this cookbook earn the top spot on this list.

Want to incorporate cleaner meals into your lifestyle? Well, the first step is to level up your home-cooking skills, because the tastier your healthy meals are, the easier it is to stick to them. That’s exactly what this healthy cookbook by Isadora Baum helps you accomplish. 

It aims to help people transition from junk and fast foods to nutritious, clean, and minimally processed meals. It includes a 21-day starting plan, and 75 wholesome recipes for breakfast, snacks, desserts, and main courses. You even come across some solid diet advice in the form of everyday tips which helps you stock your pantry more effectively, and order healthier food when eating out. 

With so many miraculous benefits that Quinoa has, it’s shocking how we still don’t include it in any of our meals. That changes right away with John Chatham’s Healthy Cookbook! It’s designed to help you incorporate this superfood into all your meals, with over a hundred recipes to enable that. 

There’s also a “bonus section” with a pre-made sample menu for entertaining foods and regular everyday dining. So, feel free to pick a recipe depending on what you feel like trying out on any particular day! You get tons of variety to try out, including international quinoa-inclusive dishes all the way from Japan to Mexico. 

Meal prep is right behind working out as the most difficult part of anyone’s weight loss journey. The stress of unshed weight paired with the stress of preparing weight-loss conducive meals every day can be too much sometimes. But not anymore. Written by a registered dietician and personal trainer Kelli Shalal, the “Meal Prep for Weight Loss” healthy cookbook is the ultimate guide you need for sustainable, healthy weight loss. It guides the reader on how to prepare efficient batches of food through eight different meal prep plans. Beginner friendly, it starts off with 3-recipe plans and then eases into 6-recipe plans for greater efficiency. With 175 flavorful recipes with clear nutritional information and labels, this healthy cookbook is one of the top options for those looking to lose weight. 

Most people in their forties have had at least one scare where they felt rapid palpitation, breathlessness, or high blood pressure. Maintaining your well-being, especially your heart health, becomes extremely important as soon as you enter your forties. And “The Heart Healthy Cookbook for Two” is just where you need to start when it comes to your diet. With extensive information on how to maintain your heart health through diet and exercise, this cookbook consists of 125 delicious recipes low in both sodium and fats. A four-week meal plan helps you get started on the right foot while managing both nutrients and portions. The recipes are specifically for two portions, so you eat just the right amount. This healthy cookbook is written by nutrition expert and cardiac dietician Jennifer Koslo. 

Healthy eating is not only about weight loss. A clean, organic diet is equally important to maintain weight and fulfill your body’s requirements for healthy bones and muscle. To achieve this, you need a holistic cookbook that caters to all your health needs. Enter, “The Health Meal Prep Cookbook.” It not only offers more than 100 flavorful recipes but also two-week meal prep templates, so you can enjoy all the benefits of meal planning. With recipes reserved for clean eating, weight loss, and muscle building, this cookbook is for everyone. Food safety and storage guidelines ensure that no food goes to waste and you have something ready to be eaten within minutes. An integrated approach to recipes and health tips written by the renowned dietician and best-selling cookbook author Toby Amidor makes this healthy cookbook a must-buy.

Eating healthy food should not add the stress of meal prep to your day. The recipes should be fun, easy, and flexible, especially for beginners. “The Complete Healthy Eating Cookbook” offers you just that. Incorporation of a familiar but vast range of ingredients such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and lentils help you attain a perfect, balanced diet. Many meals can be prepared in one pot, in under 30 minutes, greatly expediting cooking time on a busy day. The best feature of these recipes is that they set realistic and practical goals for a healthy lifestyle. The author of this healthy cookbook, Lauren O’Connor, is a dietitian specializing in Acid Reflux/GERD diet therapy.