500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes: Comfort Food Favorites That Both Your Family and Your Doctor Will Love

Dick Logue

dic 2010 · Quarto Publishing Group USA

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Discover five hundred quick-and-easy, savory, delicious slow cooker recipes to keep your family satisfied and eating healthier than ever.

500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes makes it easier than ever for you to eat well and improve your heart health. Packed with hundreds of easy-to-follow recipes that take advantage of the fix-it-and-forget-it convenience of your slow-cooker, you’ll discover heart-friendly versions of classic recipes you thought you had to give up and all new eats that will surely become your next favorites.

Packed with low-fat, low-sodium, low-cholesterol ingredients that don’t skimp on flavor or variety, each recipe also includes a nutritional breakdown, making it easy to track your healthy eating at every meal. And you won’t waste time in the kitchen making complicated recipes or searching the grocery store for hard-to-find, expensive ingredients.

From appetizers to main dishes, sides, and desserts, you’ll find recipes that will make it simple for you to stay on your heart-healthy diet and keep your family satisfied and eating healthier than ever. Enjoy Sweet and Sour Hot Dog Bites, Fondue, Broccoli Egg Casserole, Cannelloni, Shrimp Creole, Southern Stuffed Pork Chops, and much more.

You’ll also find chapters featuring nontraditional, but no less delicious, slow cooker recipes for heart-healthy vegetables, grains, and legumes, including Bean Soup with Cornmeal Dumplings, Barley and Mushroom Soup, Italian Zucchini, and Honey and Cinnamon Yams.

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Dick Logue is the author of several diet-friendly cookbooks and has been following a heart-healthy lifestyle for decades now. After being diagnosed with congestive heart failure more than 20 years ago, Dick threw himself into the process of creating healthy versions of his favorite recipes and writing about it on his website. A cook since the age of 12, he grows his own vegetables, bakes his own bread, and cans a variety of foods. He is the author of 500 Low Sodium Recipes, 500 Low-Cholesterol Recipes, 500 High Fiber Recipes, 500 Low Glycemic Index Recipes, 500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes, 500 400-Calorie Recipes, and 500 15-Minute Low Sodium Recipes, among others. He lives in La Plata, Maryland.