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The Recipe for Life: Healthy eating for real people [Hardcover]

Sally Bee
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Book Description

6 Jan 2011

Bestselling author and home cook Sally Bee is back with a collection of deliciously simple recipes that show how easy it is to follow a healthy diet for life.

Many of us know the principles of healthy eating but actually incorporating them into daily life is much harder. Whether it's eating more fruit and vegetables, reducing fat without losing flavour or feeding a family after work without the aid of a take-away menu, Sally Bee explains how to make good food second nature.

Sally isn't a dietician, but a busy mum who knows how tough it can be to change eating habits. Her down-to-earth advice and realistic approach is borne from her own experience of life-threatening heart disease, from which she recovered thanks to her own delicious and easy-to-follow eating plan. Sally understands how real people eat and how recipes must be quick and made with affordable, readily available food. Her plan won't leave you feeling deprived or hungry, but allows you to enjoy many of your favourite foods in a balanced way.

Recipes for Life offers refreshingly simple advice and tasty dishes that will change your eating habits and help you enjoy a healthy mind and body - not just for a few weeks, but for life.

Recipes include:

Chicken Korma
Healthy Chinese Chicken Wraps
Smoked haddock and leek pie
Healthy Fish Chips and Mushy Peas
Roast Monkfish with Olives and Capers
All-in-one Lentil and Sausage Casserole
Spanish Pork and Bean Stew
Caramelised Veggies with Sausages and Baked Sweet Potato
Winter Salad
Asparagus and Artichoke Salad with Wild Rice and Basil Dressing
Pumpkin and mushroom lasagne
Broccoli and Leek Bake
Apricot and Pistachio Tart



Product details

  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Collins (6 Jan 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007344074
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007344079
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 24.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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• BBC Good Food magazine featured The Recipe For Life as the lead review in their February issue, writing: “Her recipes are very family-friendly, simple and quick to make from inexpensive, readily available ingredients…whether you’re looking to improve your diet for health or vanity reasons, these dishes will fit the bill.”

• Good Housekeeping wrote that The Recipe for Life is “another bestseller in the making.”

• February issue of Top Sante magazine: “Sally Bee’s delicious yet simple recipes are packed full of fresh, nutritious ingredients as well as flavour.”

• The Recipe for Life “is a selection of deliciously simple recipes that can change your eating habits and help you enjoy a healthy mind and body for life.” – February issue of North Living

“In her down-to-earth book, Bee shares her quick, simple recipes for vitality, providing an excellent prescription for keeping you healthy in the long term, without having to stick to the bland foods so often associated with sensible eating – she even has a recipe for healthy fish, chips and mushy peas!” – Health & Fitness Magazine

About the Author

At the age of 36, Sally was in the prime of her life successfully juggling being a writer, TV presenter, wife and mum of three. Then, in 2004, she suffered three major heart attacks in the space of only one week. Sally defied all the odds and, 5 years on, is glowing with health.

Sally is a spokeswoman for the British Heart Foundation, is a trained therapist giving regular talks to heart rehabilitation groups, and an NHS 'Expert Patient'. This is Sally’s second healthy living cookbook.



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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars easy healthy cooking 25 Jan 2011
By Paolo Sammut VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)
On reading this book I quickly found myself enticed by the simplicity of this cookbook and the wholesome healthy practices it advocates.

Sally's book starts with an introduction, introducing herself and some of the health issues she has fought in the past. From here she goes on to describe her healthy living policy and how she believes that her diet (and lifestyle) changes have contributed to her better health. Here we can also read a number of philosophical points which underlies her ideas, basically she believes that eating good food is the best thing we can do for our health; she then goes on to note that we should listen to or bodies after we have eaten asking ourselves questions such as do we sleep better after certain foods, how well do we move etc. Finally Sally notes that we all eat too much (think about all those supersize potions flling our society) and also comments that good exercise is a part of the puzzle. This is all common sense (so rare in our society) but presented in a clear readable and above all useful format.

The rest of the book is then broken into the following chapters: Soups, salads, sides and starters, chicken and turkey, fish, red meat, vegetarian, desserts and finally drinks. Each section then contains an interesting range of dishes which are often imaginative, all quite quick and simple to prepare and all healthy. Each recipe is marked as to whether it could be treated as an everyday dish or if it is a bit more luxurious kept as a treat.

I really like this book. Its message is that we can (and should) all eat more healthy but not as absolute freaks who focus so much on perfect health that we all cut out every pleasure from our diet. Rather that we should all eat better and still enjoy the nice things in moderation and as part of a balanced and above all fun diet.

Very highly recommended
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Good, healthy food 21 July 2011
By Basement Cat VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)
One thing I always notice about Sally Bee is that she always looks so healthy, which is a wonderful advertisement for her books. However, if you read the introduction to this book, you will see that she has recovered from a very serious heart problem, and is lucky to be alive. As a result of this, she is a strong advocate of healthy eating, especially for simple recipes which are easy to make, and can be used for everyday meals. I am trying to use less processed food in my family's diet, and I have found this book to be very helpful, as it's often very tempting to get a take away after a long day at work. I like the friendly style that Sally uses throughout the book, and her tips and serving suggestions are useful too. Not the most attractive cookery book I own, but probably one of the best.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Recipes from 1980s women's weeklies 22 Jan 2011
By Rosey Lea TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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I was lured into this book by the happy summer colours and feel-good vibe, but on reading it thoroughly I've been very disappointed, and slightly annoyed.

The recipes are extremely basic and uninspiring - they're the sort of thing you find in the 80p women's weeklies. It's the same old sausage casserole, cod with pesto, fish pie, over and over. Bee's 'twist' is the old 1980's very low fat, very high carb (carbs being sugar anyway, so don't expect any weight loss for using fat-reduced but sugar enhanced 'low fat' mozzerella). There's nothing new here, except maybe Bee's need to use organic nuts, balanced against her quiet endorsement of factory farmed meat and battery eggs.

For easy, innovative, recipes, embracing the modern understanding of healthy and ethical, spend your money on Bill's Basics instead.

(Amazon Vine reviews of less than 5 stars are generally repeatedly voted as 'unhelpful', often by the PR companies promoting the book. This is my honest review and I really don't care about vote rankings.)
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Woman, amazing book
Never heard of this lady until I was home sick, watching day time tv. Her story is awe-inspiring and so motivating. Read more
Published 17 days ago by PJ van Zetten
3.0 out of 5 stars Uninspiring collection
The general cookbook that purports to presnt a collection of general-purpose recipes rather than specialising in one type of cuisine or dish really has to be something special to... Read more
Published 29 days ago by Ray Blake
5.0 out of 5 stars The recipe of life: Healthy eating for real people
I recieved this recipe book and i was really pleased with my purchase and was really inspired by sally bees story, it really opened my eyes to what types of food we should be... Read more
Published 2 months ago by michelle
5.0 out of 5 stars Brill book!
Would deff recommend this book food in it very practical for everyday and enjoy eating it because you know it's good for you nice read too I would also recommend Sally bee 1st book... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jayne
5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious
I'm not one for writing reviews. But I got this book from the Library, and have just come to Amazon to purchase it. Read more
Published 7 months ago by L Norton
4.0 out of 5 stars Mouth watering recipes
The recipes in this book just sound delicious! Yet to try them on my fussy kids (sausage and mash every night please mum!) but I do think there'll be some winners in here! Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. Jervis
2.0 out of 5 stars Please don't bother if you're on Kindle for Ipad.
The layout of this book is done by a fool. I'm quite sure Sally had nothing to do with this! It's extremely annoying, lacking in content & pics too. Read more
Published 13 months ago by TheGadge
4.0 out of 5 stars Some real family favourites
I wish I didn't have to watch my weight, but I do. This recipe book provides a range of tasty dishes that are billed as 'healthy'. Read more
Published 15 months ago by i wrote this
5.0 out of 5 stars Good healthy food!
I bought this as I was after some good wholesome food that's healthy - and this ticks all the right boxes! Read more
Published 16 months ago by Rachael
5.0 out of 5 stars Tasty and easy
The recipes we have tried are delicious and easy to prepare. There are some classics like spag bol and curry and then there are some interesting combinations that I wouldn't have... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Betty LaRouge
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