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Issue date:
November 7-9, 1997
Best bets for hunting healthful recipes
The Web is one of the best places for a harried cook to find healthy recipes. Instead of flipping through an enormous stack of cookbooks for a recipe that uses whatever you might have on hand (or whatever you might be craving), you can just type in your ingredients and in seconds you'll have a number of delicious recipes to choose from. Even better: most sites will differentiate between courses as well, which is a great help for those who need to throw together a last minute appetizer to take to a party or a dessert to bring in to the office. So take an inventory of your fridge and get started. ...
Your first stop should be "Cooking Light." The Web site from the
magazine of the same name is filled with easy tips for healthy cooking
and contains an searchable archive of recipes. Among regular features
is a recipe makeover column -- where nutritionists take favorite high-fat
recipes and recreate them in lower-fat incarnations -- and "well-body
almanac" which presents ideas for keeping your body and mind in top shape.
Cooking Light online
Cooking Light's recipe search
The premier cooking Web site is definitely Epicurious, the online
home of "Bon Appetit" and "Gourmet" magazines. With an archive so extensive
that it sometimes will pull recipes from the 1950s, this site caters
to those who love to create exquisite meals. But "exquisite" can often
be synonymous with "high in fat." Luckily, the site's search engine
is very detailed. Leave the query line blank, click the ""low fat""
button under the preparation preferences, and 52 utterly healthful,
perfectly gourmet recipes will pop up on your screen. Bon appetit!
Epicurious (home to Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines)
Epicurious recipe search
One of the best sources to find strictly healthy recipes is "Prevention"
magazine's site. Its cooking page offers tons of healthy ideas, including
a "meal makeover" feature which regularly re-creates old favorites to
match with today's healthful standards. And its recipe archive offers
more than 200 low-fat ideas. This site also hosts great information
about getting into better physical condition.
Prevention's cooking site
Prevention's recipes
Most vegetarians are pros at creating low fat, nutritious meals. Veggies
Unite! is a Web site dedicated to getting great recipes and nutrition
information to vegetarians. The site offers support, news and donation-based
membership that gives you access to tools, such as Grocery List Planner
and Weekly Meal Planner. But whether you are a vegetarian or not, it
would be to your benefit to check out some of the recipes they have
to offer.
Veggies Unite!
Recipe files
The familiar green that adorns the labels of Healthy Choice products
also shows up at the Healthy Choice Web site. But along with plugs for
their low-fat products, the company's site also offers surfers health
and fitness tips, the latest health news, cooking tips and most importantly,
a great recipe index.
Healthy Choice's home page
Healthy Choice's recipe box
If you are interested in maintaining a balanced diet, here's the site
for you: CyberDiet. This site offers a wealth of information
about how much you should weigh based on your body type, it has a tool
to help you determine what your calorie intake ought to be, and an interactive
daily food planner to put all of this new information to work for you.
Plus, if offers great healthful recipes to help put a weight-loss plan
into action.
CyberDiet -- a fun site that contains loads of nutrition and health info:
CyberDiet's recipes
Phys.com is a new site from the publishers of a bunch of women's
mags ( "Mademoiselle," "Self," "Vogue," and "Glamour"). While the site
doesn't have recipes, it does have a lot of good nutrition information:
Phys.com
"Nutrition Solutions" page for information about the benefits afforded by different foods
The TV Food Network complements its television programming with
a Web site overflowing with great recipes and cooking tips from each
of its shows. One show in particular will be of interest to healthful
recipe hunters: Recipe for Health. The archive for this show is rich
with possibilities for the health-conscious cook.
The TV Food Network
Recipe for Health archive
With a solid grey background and no graphics to spice it up, Fatfree:
The Low Fat Vegetarian Archives definitely isn't pretty. But it is chock
full of great stuff -- over 2,000 recipes on hand!
Fatfree: The Low Fat Vegetarian Archives
Fatfree searchable recipes index
Another entry in the corporate pool of cooking Web sites belongs to
Ragu, the pasta and sauce maker. Mama's Cookbook, a fun, kitschy
site, proves that it is possible to create light Italian dishes that
are heavy on taste and comfort. (Nutritional information is included
at the end of each recipe.)
Mama's Cookbook
The "how do I keep my girlish figure?" recipes index
Researched and compiled by Michele Hatty, 1997
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