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Our pick of the best healthy cookbooks

by Jessica Lockyer-Palmer

published on 1 January 2025, last updated on 8 January 2025

From nutritionist-led meal plans to batch cooking tips, plant-based bowls to lighter twists on your comfort food favourites, these cookbooks are brimming with recipes, advice and guidance for lighter eating.

Bored of Lunch Healthy Slow Cooker: Even Easier

In Nathan Anthony’s second slow cooker book, you’ll find 80 simple recipes complete with a handy calorie count on each dish and a focus on lighter versions of your favourite recipe – making it the perfect fuss-free healthy cookbook, especially in the colder months.

Real Healthy

From easy make-ahead breakfasts and working lunches to nourishing dinners and tempting baked treats, this cookbook by Melissa Hemsley is all about celebrating whole foods and making healthy eating accessible and enjoyable for all.

Tim Spector and the team at ZOE share over 100 delicious, plant-forward recipes

Improve your gut health and pack your plate with plants

With plant counts and fibre quantities listed on every recipe, this is the ultimate cookbook to help you improve your nutrition

The Food for Life Cookbook

Find new, delicious ways to cut own on ultra-processed foods and nurture your gut health with this collection of over 100 recipes developed by Food for Life author Tim Spector and the team behind nutrition company ZOE.

Low-Cal Kitchen Bangers

From Banging Breakfasts to Weeknight ‘Ready Meals’ to Cheeky Fakeaways, online recipe creator Alex Scott has devised a brilliant range of recipes that taste great, are easy to cook, and contain all the information you need about macronutrients and calories so you can stay on top of your personal goals while enjoying dishes such as Crispy Bang Bang Salmon Bites, Million-Dollar Mac and Cheese, and Chocolate French Toast Stack.

Flavourful, enticing recipes from a WeightWatchers Ambassador and Gold Member

All of your favourite foods adapted for WeightWatchers or a low-calorie diet

With chapters covering everything from bakes to breakfasts, fakeaways to family classics

Slimming Kitchen Secrets

With her debut cookbook, award-winning food blogger and WeightWatchers ambassador and gold member Laura Meyer is here to prove that you can stay on-track with your health goals and enjoy delicious, filling, and satisfying meals. Expect mouthwatering recipes such as Cinnamon French Toast, Crispy Chilli Beef, Salmon Teriyaki Stir-Fry, and Biscoff and Banana Pancakes.

Tasty High Protein

We all know that protein is a key part of any healthy diet, but science tells us that following a high-protein diet has plenty of additional benefits, from reducing appetite and improving sleep, to helping to burn calories and increase muscle mass. With this in mind, Fraser Reynolds has come up with 100 fuss-free, high-protein recipes, all under 600 calories per portion. As well as calorie counts, the recipes include nutritional information and barcodes so you can scan your meals straight into your food tracking app.

High Protein Meal Prep Manual

With his debut cookbook, Niall Kirkland, known to his huge online following as The Good Bite, has come up with 80 recipes that are easy to prep, simple to cook, and delicious to eat – so you too can harness the power of protein. With recipes covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks, as well as full nutritional breakdowns and barcodes that will feed into your food-tracking app, this is the ultimate guide to staying healthy, strong and nourished.

Over 100 easy and accessible flavour packed recipes

From healthy weekday dinners to nutritious one-pot dishes

Developed for maximum health benefit, accessibility and taste

Dr Rupy Cooks: Healthy. Easy. Flavour

In Dr Rupy Cooks , you’ll find over 100 easy and accessible recipes that are as flavourful as they are nutritious. There are weekday dinners, one-pot dishes, quick lunches and plenty of vegetarian, vegan, nut-free and gluten-free options. Every dish is meticulously researched and developed for maximum health benefit, accessibility and, of course, taste.

80 quick and healthy air fryer recipes.

Fan favourites and brand new recipes.

From speedy lunches and midweek dinners, to fakeaways and desserts.

Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Book

Nathan Anthony, aka Bored of Lunch, shares 80 brand-new recipes to help you eat well and save money with your air fryer. With the popularity of air fryers growing every year, you might be wondering how much use you can get out of them. Designed for busy individuals and families alike, The Healthy Air Fryer Book is packed with recipes that are quick and easy to put together without compromising on taste. Discover a wide selection of interesting ways to get the most out of this nifty kitchen appliance, from starters and snacks to quick lunches, midweek dinners, fakeaways for the weekend and even some sweet treats. You will also find a helpful oven-to-air fryer conversion chart, plenty of fan-favourites and calorie counts on every recipe.

Delicious and unashamedly straightforward dishes for everyday life.

Full of simple, fresh, and uplifting recipes to suit every dietary need.

From healthy breakfasts to weeknight dinners.

Simply Good For You

In Simply Good For You , nutritionist Amelia Freer showcases simple, fresh and uplifting food. In place of complicated dietary advice and restrictive plans you’ll find nutrition packed but laid-back recipes. Dishes include comforting slow-cooker meals and one-pan ideas, game-changing seasonal roasted salads, speedy and filling breakfasts, and packed-lunches to look forward to. There are also plenty of ways to use leftovers, ingenious ‘instant’ soups, as well as tempting sweet things (hello gooey courgette chocolate brownies) and weekend and special occasion dishes.

The Fitness Chef uses nutritional science to bust dieting myths

Empowering readers to eat the foods they love and lose weight

Packed with over 100 recipes for lighter versions of popular dishes

The Fitness Chef: Still Tasty

Graeme Tomlinson is the nutrition coach behind the popular Instagram account, The Fitness Chef, where he dishes out easy-to-digest nutrition facts and busts diet culture myths. His cookbook, Still Tasty , is founded on the simple belief that you don’t need to make extreme changes to your diet to lose weight and can enjoy lighter versions of your favourite foods with a few simple tweaks. With pasta and pizza, toasties and subs, curries and kebabs and a whole chapter dedicated to desserts, Still Tasty is not about shaming food groups and guilt-tripping you for wanting a sticky toffee pudding.

Easy midweek meals

Vegetarian mains

Feelgood desserts

Eat Happy

Eat Happy is Melissa Hemsley’s first solo cookbook. With a focus on 30-minute recipes that make you feel as good as they taste, it’s also full of handy tips and tricks for using up leftovers.

Make delicious and nourishing Buddha Bowls at home

Creative recipes for every meal of the day

A simple formula of grain + green + protein

Buddha Bowls

If you are behind on the trend for colourful plant-based bowls brimming with vegetables and meat-free protein, Buddha Bowls will bring you up to speed in no time. Each recipe is packed with produce to help you eat more fruit and veg and there are ideas for every meal of the day, including enticing breakfast bowls. Plus, with a dedicated section on substitutions for vegans, it’s also suitable for anyone following an animal product-free diet.

Rainbow Bowls

For more inspiring bowl-based ideas, try Rainbow Bowls a collection of vibrant, nutrition-packed recipes for every meal of the day. Designed to help you eat the rainbow, each recipe is packed with different fruit and vegetables and just happens to be vegan too.

Inspiring recipes to nourish the body and mind

30-minute meals for busy weeknights

Stress-reducing and energy-boosting tips

Mindful Chef

Myles Hopper and Giles Humphries are the talented team behind Mindful Chef, the UK’s most popular healthy recipe box service. This, their first cookbook, is packed with recipes that take under 30 minutes and use less than 10 ingredients. It’s all about fresh, healthy recipes that don’t demand hours in the kitchen.

A nourishing guide to a longer, healthier life

Easy, delicious recipes with helpful nutritional advice

Classic dishes with a health-conscious twist

Eat Better Live Longer

Nourishing and flavourful recipes to make you feel good

Fast and simple ideas for every occasion

From midweek meals to celebrations, breakfasts to desserts

Feel Good

Feel Good is speedy, accessible and flexible cooking at its finest. You’ll find vibrant, flavoursome recipes designed with both mental and physical health at the forefront with favourites including Spring Veg Broth with Miso-Ginger Drizzle and One-Tray Chicken with Ginger and Spring Onion Salsa.

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