Clean & Delicious by Dani Spies
Dani Spies is a food blogger, holistic weight loss coach, and a Holistic Health Counselor. Honestly when I first saw all that I thought this book would be full of fads and fake meat, but it's not. It really focuses on eating real food and stocking your pantry with good quality staples so that you're not tempted to eat fast food or other not-so-great options. The recipes are organized by type/meal - like breakfast, snacks, salads, sides, etc. There were several recipes I'd like to try and I liked that all the recipes include a "level up" note about how you could change up that recipe in other ways. Overall, I was very impressed with this cookbook.
Southern Lights: easier, lighter, and better-for-you recipes from the South by Lauren McDuffie
I love Southern food and while I don't think Southern has to equal fried/bad/etc. it can often have that connotation. This cookbook purports to take Southern food and make it lighter and healthier. But, I was VERY disappointed. There were no recipes I wanted to try and some of it didn't seem healthy at all. The very first recipe in the breakfast chapter is for vanilla cream stuffed baked beignets - normally beignets are fried so baking is healthier, but beignets for breakfast is far from healthy. There were also some very odd recipes like red velvet pecans - basically baked pecans with sugar and seasoning, but adding an entire bottle (!!) of red food coloring. What is the point of that?! I would not recommend this one at all.
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