The 14 Best Healthy Cookbooks, According to Dietitians

We love going into the kitchens, looking in the fridge and pantry, and figuring out what’s for dinner. Or lunch. Or breakfast. Or breakfast for lunch.

Cooking is one of the few skills that leads to near-instant gratification. The only problem is that sometimes there's too much inspiration and instead of actually making dinner we're reading about making dinner and reading does not a hungry belly feed.

These days, there are too many cookbooks, too many recipes, and too many decisions to make. It's the paralysis of choice, applied to mealtime. It's enough to make you want to throw in the kitchen towel.

So we turned to some of our best friends in the nutrition business to give us their recommendations for the healthy cookbooks they turn to most often when they need a meal. The picks that they delivered—along with a few of our tried-and-true tomes—all absolute go-tos for meals that are not only nutritious, but also delicious. (With cookbooks, you often only get one or the other.)

There's another benefit to the healthy cookbooks that follow too: the recipes inside them are simple. Too many fussy, chef-upped cookbooks only promise healthy recipes—and then you find out through convoluted procedures and esoteric ingredients that there's a catch: They're good healthy recipes if you have time to cook all day.

Add these books to your collection. Streamline your approach. Feed yourself good food faster.