Healthy Life Kitchen

by Marilu Henner

Book Overview

Features recipes for dishes that emphasize taste, simple preparation, and healthful ingredients. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060393645
• ISBN13: 9780060393649
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

For Those who are SERIOUS and Ready for a Healthier Life

EXCELLENT book! Several health issues of my own led me to look for SERIOUS ways to help myself feel better and rid myself of nagging health problems. After making a few basic changes on my own, one of which was cutting out coffee, I discovered Marilu's cook book. I have been so thrilled with the pages of important information in it as well as, if not more than, the recipes themselves. So many of the things she tells you will happen once you've changed this or that in your diet have really been true for me. If you eat nothing but fried chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans most of the time and are not familiar with the huge variety of other foods available to eat, then this book will be harder for you to jump into immediately. If you are SERIOUS about changing your health positively, have an open mind to try a wide variety of different foods and to quit making up excuses for living the same old way, then read both her companion book Total Health Makeover AND The Healthy Life Kitchen. They make a wonderful team for keeping you motivated, with in-depth explanations, plenty of pictures and delicious recipes. I've been giving copies of them both to my friends and family because I like them both so much. And I DO feel the difference in myself! The health issues that once plagued me are almost a thing of the past. Her books are not for those seeking quick-fix diets that don't last, but are for those seeking a truthful, life-long approach to living a healthy life.

the perfect cookbook

I'm not vergetarian, but I am dairy free. After looking for a cookbook with dairy-free recipes for quite some time with no luck, Marilu's book came at the perfect time. After reading some of the other comments, I do want to say that if you are truly ready to make the changes in your life and get rid of the sugar, dairy, caffeine, chemicals, etc., this book will help you to no end. Marilu may not be a nutritionist, and she never claims to be, by the way -- but she has lived a life of healthy food and she looks great! That's enough of a "credential" for me. Marilu speaks what she knows and her books are undeniably life-changing. However, you have to be ready to make the changes and drop any resistance. I really enjoy some of the new features in this cookbook, like the cost guide, where the meals fit in on the color rainbow, and the complexity level. Never being much of a cook before I did Total Health Makeover, Marilu's easy recipes made me feel like a gourmet chef. I knew next to nothing about health foods and, armed with Marilu, she made going grocery shopping fun. And to those who think her meals are pricy, think about eating out in restaurant...in what it costs to buy a meal for one, you can cook for your family, or have lunchtime leftovers for a few days. Trust me, the book and the program will comepletely change your life if you let it!! You'll have more consistent energy, you'll feel like a million bucks, and perhaps most importantly, you'll look better :-)

Very Well Organized

It is very easy to be intimidated by the food combining concept. However, Healthy Life Kitchen is easy to read and is well organized. Marilu walks you through a health food store and recommends certain brands (thus, less homework for us). She even created a basic shopping list. The charts of healthy substitutions and sweetener conversions are very useful. The chart on additives was a real eye opener for me. I didn't realize all the garbage I was putting into my body and my children's bodies. (I've been a bodybuilder for years and thought I knew it all!)The recipes are also wonderful. There is a number of easy to prepare and tasty meals. I'm very excited about this book!

A Kitchen Makeover!

Wow! Marilu Henner's new book Healthy Life Kitchen is fantastic! Not only will it help you organize your kitchen, but she goes through the chemicals under your sink and in your food. I especially like the explanation of food chemicals--it will shock! I ran to my fridge and checked labels after reading it. She also lists sweetners (to use in place of refined white sugar) and ways to make a traditional high-fat, unhealthy recipe with meat and dairy into a healthy one--many using soy and fresh ingredients.The recipes are great, too. I have tried several of them. The Blueberry Crunch Muffins are fabulous! You will not be disappointed with this one.

A great resouce for healthy information

What a nice surprise. I'm not a Marilu Henner fan and I've only glanced at her previous books, but this one caught my eye because of the wealth of information in it. In an easy read fashion, she covers all the basics...how to evaluate your kitchen, how to make changes, what chemicals are harmful both in food and in cleaning supplies and healthy alternatives to both. She lists name brands for healthy food alternatives which takes the trial and error out of shopping. The recipes are not that different from "normal" cooking...a couple of healthy changes and you're on your way to a delicious meal. This book is not entirely vegetarian as it contains both fish and chicken recipes. It is a great place to start in making healthy changes in your life. It's like having several resource books and a cookbook all in one.