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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
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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
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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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
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
56 of 61 people found the following review helpful
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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.)
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.)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review
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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.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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 1 day ago by J. Jervis
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 1 month ago by TheGadge
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 3 months ago by i wrote this
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 4 months ago by Rachael
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 6 months ago by Ms. B. Redfern
Disappointing
The biggest disadvantage of this book is that not all recipes have a corresponding picture. Very often the picture will encourage you to read the recipe because it looks... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jonesie
sally bee : recipes for life
great book for anybody wanting to look after themselfs,no diets just simple recipes to help with a healthy life style
Published 8 months ago by kitty
Pretty decent health food
Its a decent basic book. The recipes have been done before, but if its something simple you want to cook then this would be a good starter book. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Scully Bloke
Very Pleased
Sally's story is a great read and after having similar health issues was aware that healthy eating would be a bonus. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Sharon
simple, healthy food
This is not the best cookery book I own but it is probably the best one I have which focuses on healthy eating. The recipes are simple but very tasty. Read more
Published 13 months ago by love reading
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