Customer Reviews

The Healthy Slow Cooker: More than 100 Dishes for Health and Wellness

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This book was given to me as a gift. The recipes are great. They require some prep time but they give you the option of preparing the food up to two days early and then placing on the slow cooker. I normally can do most of my prep on the weekend. Some receipt can be done in the morning, if you choose not to do the pre-cooking and just put the food in raw, it taste just as good. I work long hours, so does my husband and we have an 18 month old baby. This book has been a life saver for having healthy cooked meals, during the week, at a decent hour. I also invested in a slow cooker with a timer and we now have health meals as soon as we walk in the door.

The Healthy Slow Cooker contains over 100 healthy recipes that can be made using a crock pot. These recipes include main meal dishes for every meal as well as deserts. Each recipe is complete with full instructions, tips, make ahead ideas, and nutritional information. There is even a chart at the back of the book detailing the American and Canadian Diabetes Association Values of each dish.

Like many people, there are days when I just can't face making a meal after a long hard day. At that point, nutrition pretty much goes out the window and fast food becomes an option. I like the slow cook alternative, particular those delicious, quick to prepare recipes that I can throw in the cooker at the start of the day and have ready for supper. That these meals are actually nutritious is an added bonus. Any recipe that actually reduces chaos and that my family actually likes to eat gets high marks from me.

amazing ideas! Tried a couple of recipes already and they were all really nice! The book is well done, full of tips, nutritional info, interesting facts, etc. I LOVE it!

I bought this book when we bought a new slow cooker. I liked the sound of a lot of the recipes. When it came to actually cooking them there was a lot of work involved before using the crock pot. I like crock pot recipes to be simple and straight forward, for example throw these things in and cook. This is more aimed at the gourmet crock potter.