Having a family meal at home just got easier! For a delicious dinner any night of the week, all you need is Cooking Light? Dinner's Ready! It's your foolproof go-to source for recipes that transform simple ingredients into filling, flavorful meals. Packed with 250 tasty dishes ranging from make-ahead slow-cooker favorites to quick-and-easy chicken, pasta, sides, and desserts. Dozens of ingredient and technique tips throughout to ensure superior results every time you cook. A nutritional analysis with each recipe to help you make smart, healthful choices that fit your lifestyle. A special Cooking Class section in each chapter focusing on how to make the most of specific foods-including how to shop for the best equipment, keep your foods safe, and best prep your ingredients.

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Brittany Williams lost more than 125 pounds using her Instant Pot® and making all her meals from scratch. Now she shares 125 quick, easy, and tasty whole food recipes that can help you reach your weight loss goals, too! Brittany Williams had struggled with her weight all her life. She grew up eating the standard American staples—fast, frozen, fried, and processed—and hit a peak weight of 260 pounds. When her 4-year-old daughter’s autoimmune disease was alleviated by a low-sugar, dairy-free, grain-free, whole-food-based diet, Brittany realized she owed her own body the same kind of healing. So on January 1, 2017, she vowed to make every meal for a year from scratch, aided by her Instant Pot®. She discovered that the versatility, speed, and ease of the electric pressure cooker made creating wholesome, tasty, family-satisfying meals a breeze, usually taking under thirty minutes. Not only did the family thrive over the course of the year, Brittany lost an astonishing 125 pounds, all documented on her Instant Loss blog. Illustrated with gorgeous photography, Instant Loss Cookbook shares 125 recipes and the meal plan that Brittany used for her own weight loss, 75% of which are recipes for the Instant Pot® or other multicooker. These recipes are whole food-based with a spotlight on veggies, mostly dairy and grain-free, and use ingredients that you can find at any grocery store. The clearest guide to navigating your Instant Pot® or other multicooker that you’ll find, Instant Loss Cookbook makes healthy eating convenient—and that’s the key to sustainable weight loss.

The blogger behind the Saveur award-winning blog The First Mess shares more than 125 beautifully prepared seasonal whole-food recipes. “This plant-based collection of recipes is full of color, good ideas, clever tricks you’ll want to know.”—Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone Home cooks head to The First Mess for Laura Wright’s simple-to-prepare seasonal vegan recipes but stay for her beautiful photographs and enchanting storytelling. In her debut cookbook, Wright presents a visually stunning collection of heirloom-quality recipes highlighting the beauty of the seasons. Her 125 produce-forward recipes showcase the best each season has to offer and, as a whole, demonstrate that plant-based wellness is both accessible and delicious. Wright grew up working at her family’s local food market and vegetable patch in southern Ontario, where fully stocked root cellars in the winter and armfuls of fresh produce in the spring and summer were the norm. After attending culinary school and working for one of Canada’s original local food chefs, she launched The First Mess at the urging of her friends in order to share the delicious, no-fuss, healthy, seasonal meals she grew up eating, and she quickly attracted a large, international following. The First Mess Cookbook is filled with more of the exquisitely prepared whole-food recipes and Wright’s signature transporting, magical photography. With recipes for every meal of the day, such as Fluffy Whole Grain Pancakes, Romanesco Confetti Salad with Meyer Lemon Dressing, Roasted Eggplant and Olive Bolognese, and desserts such as Earl Grey and Vanilla Bean Tiramisu, The First Mess Cookbook is a must-have for any home cook looking to prepare nourishing plant-based meals with the best the seasons have to offer.

With 59 all-new recipes, Cooking Light Soups & Stews helps you bring hearty bowls of goodness to your table. If you have special dietary needs, there are recipes for vegan soups and low-carb soups. If you need to simplify, turn to the chapter with 5-ingredient or multicooker soups. When you want to have some meals on hand, turn to Big Batch Soups. As with all Cooking Light recipes, these will have realistic portion sizes with emphasis on lean meats, poultry, seafoods, vegetables, fruits and whole grains, as well as moderate use of salt, sugar, and fats.

There's something about piping hot soup ladled into a bowl that signifies total comfort. Maybe it's the aroma of a rich stew simmering on the stovetop or the pleasure of spooning into a velvety cream soup. Because slow cookers and multicookers continue to be popular with soup lovers, over half of these recipes can be prepared in one of those convenient appliances, and those recipes are flagged throughout the book. And as always with Cooking Light, comfort doesn't mean excessive calories or fat—only simple satisfaction.