Catherine Atkinson – författare

Use the recipes in this book to turbo-charge your body and mind with freshly made smoothies and blends that are bursting with health-giving vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and antioxidants. It will help you get the most out of using your power blender and enable you to incorporate healthy habits into your hectic life with ease.Each of the nearly 150 recipes includes delicious and beneficial fruit and vegetable super foods: Health Improvers: detoxers, brain boosters, antioxidants, mood lifters, and more;Weight Busters: get slim with protein packers, natural juices, dried fruits - and raw chocolate!;Exercise Enhancers: recipes to increase oxygenation, bone density, and muscle strength;Beauty Boosters: enjoy clear eyes and healthy skin, and slow the ageing process.Power Blending and Juicing provides simple, quick and easy ways to get much more than your daily requirement of healthy fruit and vegetables. Use the recipes to create goodness in a glass, with a range of blends and smoothies that are packed with nutrients - and utterly delicious.

Fermented foods - kefir, kimchi and kombucha, to name just a few - are flooding the supermarket shelves but can be costly to buy. Whether you are new to fermented foods or looking to expand your repertoire, with Fermenting Food for Healthy Eating you''ll discover the astonishing nutritional benefits of fermented foods and drinks, how easy they are to make at home and how to incorporate them into everyday eating. It includes:· A comprehensive introduction explaining how fermentation works to preserve food, make it more digestible and increase its vitamin and mineral availability.· All the basic and more advanced techniques, with step-by-step recipes, foolproof advice and handy hints.· Individual chapters on fermented vegetables such as sauerkraut and dill pickles, dairy products, including kefir, yogurt and cheeses (and many non-dairy versions), a selection of fermented drinks such as rejuvelec and kvass, plus how to make sourdough and other fermented breads.Fermenting Food for Healthy Eating is the ultimate guide to fermenting. The book contains a total of 40 recipes for making fermented foods and drinks, and over 40 more nutrient-packed recipes showing how these fermented foods and drinks can be used to create delicious and healthy meals for everyone to enjoy.

There''s nothing quite like the flavour and aroma of freshly baked bread. Your bread machine gives the pleasure of both with the least effort on your part. This book is for those who are new to bread making and those who want to expand their repertoire of recipes. It takes you through the basic techniques and provides foolproof advice on how to make the perfect loaf. From simple, straightforward loaves, which cost a fraction of the shop-bought equivalent, to more elaborately flavoured and handshaped creations, you''ll discover over a hundred delicious recipes that make the most of your bread machine''s potential.If you are concerned about what goes into the food you eat, you can now decide the ingredients of your daily bread yourself, and make bread that you will love. There are chapters on breads for those on special or restricted diets, such as gluten-free, and recipes using spelt and rye flours. All recipes are suitable for all makes of bread machine, and most recipes include ingredients for medium or large loaves or a small loaf using a compact bread machine.

Fibre plays an essential part in a healthy diet, but most people don''t get enough. Few of us know how much we should be consuming or how to increase our daily intake. This book answers these questions in detail and provides 70 delicious, fibre-rich recipes that will become favourites in your household.The Healthy Fibre-rich Cookbook covers the most recent developments and nutritional knowledge about fibre. There''s no need to buy a whole range of specialist ingredients; it''s simply about adjusting your meals and eating habits. Here you will find a wide range of up-to-date recipes to inspire you throughout the day and show how easy it is to incorporate more fibre into your diet. This will include:- Buttermilk banana pancakes- Smoked paprika babaganoush- Chicken empanadas- Roasted vegetable and butterbean crumble- Wholemeal spelt and honey biscuits With this book you will get to know your gut, increase your fibre intake and feel better.

Discover how to create your favourite cakes, biscuits, cookies, breads, scones and pastries with more than seventy deliciously vegan recipes.From classics like Lemon Drizzle Cake, Coconut Macaroons and Red Velvet Cake to Chocolate Chunk Brownies, Bermuda Banana Bread and gluten-free Blueberry Muffins, and from Almond Biscotti, Blackcurrant Cheesecake and Millionaire''s Shortbread to fruity Breakfast Bars, Vegan ''Sausage Rolls'' and Courgette Soda Bread, you will find plenty of mouthwatering bakes in this book that will delight anyone who follows a vegan diet.In Baking It Vegan, nutritionist Catherine Atkinson teaches essential vegan baking techniques with easy-to-follow instructions, and provides recommendations on substitute ingredients suitable for vegans, with great advice on using these alternative ingredients successfully. You will also find plenty of recipes with a healthy twist, such as lower fat, lower sugar, wholemeal and gluten-free bakes.With Baking It Vegan, you can recreate all your favourite bakes with no sacrifice in flavour, and discover some new crowd-pleasers along the way!