| Best bets for hunting recipes
The Web is one of the best places for a harried cook to find 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. ...
Webtender, an online bartender, offering hundreds of drink recipes, bartending etiquette, a drinks database and more!
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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 that 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
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
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 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
With a solid gray 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 -- more than 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 you think I keep my girlish figure?" recipes index
Researched and compiled by Michele Hatty, 1997. Updated 1999.
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