Introduction to Heart Healthy Cookbooks for Seniors

Eating habits can change as we grow older. Due to this phenomenon, I thought it helpful to provide this concise summary of “Heart Healthy Cookbooks for Seniors”, with expert sources to support healthy eating habits. The USDA has developed Food Patterns to help people understand different ways they can eat healthy. The food patterns include:

• Healthy US Style Eating Pattern
• Healthy Mediterranean Style Eating Pattern
• Healthy Vegetarian Eating Pattern

I have categorized the cookbooks below based upon these eating patterns. If you would like to learn more about Heart Healthy Diets, see my post Heart Healthy Diets for Seniors.

General Heart Healthy Diet Cookbooks

In general, a heart healthy diet is one that makes vegetables, fruits, and whole grains the focus of your diet. The diet includes fish, legumes (beans), and nuts in your diet and use nontropical vegetable oils (such as olive or canola oil). It also limits intake of sweets, sugar-sweetened beverages, and red or processed meats.

• Best Heart Healthy Cookbooks (you choose your favorite)
• My Favorite: The New American Heart Association Cookbook
  • Great recipes with all the pertinent information you will need about calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium carbohydrates and protein.
  • I like that it comes in a spiral bound version.
• American Heart Association Meals in Minutes Cookbook
• The Complete Heart Healthy Cookbook for Beginners
• The Ultimate Instapot Cookbook, spiral bound
• The Well Plated Cookbook
• American Heart Association Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook
• 500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes: Comfort Food Favorites That You, Family and Doctor Will Love

Mediterranean Diet Cookbooks

The Mediterranean diet is a primarily plant-based eating plan that includes daily intake of whole grains, olive oil, fruits, vegetables, beans and other legumes, nuts, herbs, and spices. Other foods like animal proteins are eaten in smaller quantities, with the preferred animal protein being fish and seafood.

• Best Mediterranean Cookbooks
• The Mediterranean Dish Cookbook (comes in spiral bound, but not paperback)
• The Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners: 2000 Days…  (affordable…less than $10)
• Mediterranean Diet Slow Cooker Cookbook
  • Great Recipes and reviews
  • I like that it comes in an optional spiral bound version.

Vegetarian Diet Cookbooks

• The Best Vegetarian Heart Healthy Cookbooks (you choose your favorite)
• The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook: A Fresh Guide to Eating Well
  • Lots of great recipes…may be too big for some.
  • I highly recommend the spiral bound as this is 450 pages and a paperback binding will break over time.
• The Ultimate Plant-Based Cookbook for Beginners
• The Instapot Miracle Vegetarian Cookbook (comes in spiral bound)

Healthy US Style Traditional Diet Cookbooks

• The Best Selling Cookbooks Of All Time
• Healthy Traditional Ethnic Cookbooks
• How to Grill Everything
• Best Pellet Grill Cookbooks
• The Homemade Pizza Cookbook Bible
• The Easy 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Cookbook
  • Great reviews; only downside is pictures are only at the beginning of the chapter.
  • Very inexpensive spiral bound version for only $19.99.

Cookbook Stands

• General
• Acrylic (my favorite as it protects the cookbook from splashes)

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