As founder of the popular website OneFamilyOneMeal.com, Amanda Haas has helped thousands of parents put healthful and delicious meals on the table Now, she's teamed up with Cooking Light to create a one-of-a-kind cookbook that offers 150 delicious recipes, encouraging tips, and kid-friendly techniques for healthy meal preparation. From her Skirt Steak with Chimichurri Sauce to Pesto Pasta with Chicken and Tomatoes, Haas has included recipes that everyone in the family will eat and love! Cooking Light Real Family Food captures the spontaneity, intimacy, and fun of home cooking and inspires families to return to the kitchen table.

Dinnertime stress is over! Enjoy over 280 all-new 5-ingredient, 5-minute recipes guaranteed to come together easily from start to finish-fast. With options for 2, 4, or 6 servings, households of all sizes can share a home-cooked meal.

These Test Kitchen approved recipes are tailor-made for hectic lifestyles and health-conscious families. More than recipes, this must-have collection offers over 160 full-color photographs, detailed nutritional analyses, ways to streamline prep so dinner is ready even faster, easy make-ahead options, assorted 10-minute side dishes, and suggestions for turning leftovers into tasty lunches-to-go. Helpful shortcut kitchen techniques show you how to shave minutes off your prep time, while simple ingredient pairing tips teach you to effortlessly craft a variety of mouthwatering meals from just a few flavor-boosting items. Serving wholesome, homecooked meals on busy evenings just got easier thanks to Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast Weeknight Meals. Family meals return with these ready-in-minutes recipes for healthy, delicious, satisfying dishes.

Pasta? Pancakes? Pizza? It's time to say "hello" to forbidden foods and "see you later" to fad diets! The Food Lover's Healthy Habits Cookbook by nutrition expert Janet Helm, MS, RD and the editors at Cooking Light proves that, with the right tools, delicious and healthy can happily coexist in any lifestyle. This unique collection of more than 250 road-tested recipes, tips and solutions has done all of the thinking for you. Each section dishes up brand-new secrets to living a healthier life, straight from more than 50 nutrition and fitness experts, bloggers, chefs and Cooking Light readers.

Now anyone can live a healthy lifestyle 24/7! Making fresh, great-tasting meals in a hurry-at any time of day, any day of the week-has never been easier. Fresh Food Fast 24/7 offers recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the nibbles in between, so readers can eat healthy, delicious food 'round the clock, any day of the week-even when they're on the go. This all-new collection of more than 280 fast recipes includes weekday breakfasts and lunches created just for brown-bagging; midday snacks; fast, family friendly weekday dinners; weekend brunches, lunches, and suppers that are perfect for sharing with family and friends; desserts that satisfy any sweet tooth; and fun nibbles and drinks for cocktail hour. Just like the fi rst three books in the Fresh Food Fast series, recipes in 24/7 can be made with either 5 ingredients or in 15 minutes or less. Simple, delicious, and good-for-you food is easy to enjoy all day long. Fresh Food Fast 24/7 includes new features: The Pack It Up Gear Guide gives advice on keeping desk-side lunches fresh and tasty The Market to Meal Planners give easy-touse shopping lists for three days' worth of meals-and helps cooks make the most of fresh produce (no more wasted bagged spinach!) Our Budget-Friendly Meals icon points out affordable, delicious meals Plus, ingredient and technique tips guide cooks so they will get perfect results every time they step into the kitchen. Every recipe is test-kitchen approved and rated, and comes with nutrition information. Fresh Food Fast 24/7 makes it easy to live an active life and still eat healthfully!

**As seen on ABC's The Chew!** Cooking Light Lighten Up, America! is a celebration and discovery of regional American cooking, and the permission to eat the foods you love-it's the soul of American cooking made light. This collection of America's favorite fare offers healthy versions of classics new and old, memory-making recipes from all walks of life and regions, and returns the most beloved American dishes to the table. Lighten Up, America! follows Allison Fishman Task as she embarks on a cross-country road trip in search of the country's favorite classic dishes. Allison shows the reader how to take these regional recipes and make them lighter and healthier with a few simple substitutions and smart cooking techniques. From caramel-pecan sticky buns to reuben sandwiches to fried green tomatoes, this book teaches how to turn what might have been once-in-awhile favorites into everyday classics. Highlights Include: Classic American Dishes Made Lighter: Readers will rediscover regional American cooking and eat the food they love through more than 150 delicious recipes from coast to coast. All with complete nutrition analysis. Regional Culinary Traditions: Join Allison as she tells delightful and tantalizing stories behind some of our most beloved regional dishes. Each story gives insight into regional flavor and color while celebrating iconic fare like Memphis barbecue, New Orleans gumbo, and Iowa pork tenderloin sandwiches. Insider's View of Festivals and Food Fairs: Allison also visits food fairs and festivals, so you'll get a behind- the-scenes look at some of the more unusual foods this great country has to offer such as wild boar nachos, bear meatloaf, and dandelion soup. Food Born In America: Allison will share inspiring stories about the many American entrepreneurs and home cooks who conceived and popularized recipes and ingredients. Take the Philly cheesesteak, cobb salad, and stove top stuffing-just to name a few-all crafted through the ingenuity of American food lovers.

THIS IS A BOOK FOR ALL THE FAMILY TO USE. IT WILL ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO HAVE A GO AT COOKING WITH THEIR PARENTS. IT WILL PROVIDE TIPS AND ADVICE ON HOW BEST TOFEED YOUR CHILDREN NOW, ESPICALLY WITH THE ABUNDANCE OF READILY AVAILABLE JUNK FOOD AROUND, AND HOW TO START ENJOYING FAMILY MEAL TIMES AROUND THE DINING TABLES INSTEAD OF IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION. THE AUTHOR WILL COVER THE PROBLEMS OF THE BREAKDOWN OF THE FAMILY UNIT AT MEALTIMES, HE WILL LOOK AT SUPERMARKETS V SMALLER SPECIALIST SHOPS AND HE WILL UNDERLINE THE PLEASURES THAT CAN BE HAD FROM SITTING DOWN TO A FAMILY MEAL TOGETHER.

Following on the heels of First Foods comes Cooking Light's first cookbook that gives moms fun, great-tasting, and healthy recipes they know their kids will love. Parents want their kids to be healthy, and this book, geared toward kids ages 3-12, shows them how. Cooking Light provides the facts about kids' nutrition-what kids need and what they don't need. But it's not just about "kid" foods and "adult" foods-it is about foods suitable for the entire family. More than 100 kid-tested recipes show parents (and kids) they don't have to become short-order cooks when mealtime rolls around. In this easy-to-use, spiral-bound book, parents will learn how to get their kids involved in healthy cooking-teaching those skills that will prepare them for a lifetime of healthy habits and healthful, delicious meals. Cooking Light The Ultimate Kid-Approved Cookbook is brimming with these fun features to enhance time spent in the kitchen: "Kitchen Classroom" and "Nutrition Notes" teach moms and kids about nutrition and interesting food facts. "Meals Made Easy" provides information about easy pairing of dishes to complete a meal. "Young Chefs Can" and "Older Chefs Can" boxes with each recipe list the tasks kids of all ages can help with, allowing the entire family to be involved in getting dinner on the table. Quotes from the Kids Tasting Panel throughout the book tell why they liked a particular dish, their serving suggestions, and ideas for extras.