Decrease the fat, increase the flavor, and enjoy fun, festive barbecues with this cookbook from an author who “provides food inventions galore” (Booklist). In this creative cookbook, Barbara Grunes suggests various alternatives that keep your good health in mind while making your barbecue a meal to remember. Recipes are accompanied by nutritional breakdowns and range from appetizer to dessert, vegetarian to seafood, plus wok grilling dishes and a five-course Fourth of July feast. Learn to make: Smoked Pizza Eggplant Steaks Teriyaki Salmon Steak Kabobs Smoked Chicken, and much more

The acclaimed author of Delicious Dips presents sixty guilt-free twists on classic dips and spreads—plus a variety of healthy, homemade chips! Snack lovers everywhere will be drooling over the delectable dips and scrumptious spreads in this collection of low-calorie, low-fat favorites. James Beard Award–winning cookbook author Diane Morgan has crafted sixty healthy and flavorful versions of classic, crowd-pleasing dips, spreads, tapenades, salsas, and more. These festive treats are all about healthy indulgences that are heavy on rich, robust flavors. Complete with nutrition facts for each recipe, party planning advice, and do-ahead tips that make preparation a breeze, Skinny Dips makes it a snap to dip and be fit.

Can pizza be good for you? These easy-as-pie recipes let you enjoy a slice of heaven—without sacrificing your health. With over a hundred recipes, this cookbook shows you how to enjoy a wide variety of pizzas without all the extra fat, cholesterol, and calories. Starting with simple recipes for crusts and sauces, Skinny Pizzas highlights toppings including fresh, low-fat, high-fiber vegetables, dairy products, fruits, poultry, meat, and fish. In addition, recipes are accompanied by diabetic exchanges and information on fat, cholesterol, sodium, calories, and percent of calories from fat. Learn to make: •Tomato-based pizzas: Shrimp, mushroom, chicken, spinach, peppers, artichoke, eggplant, and more •Non-tomato-based pizzas: Teriyaki, salmon, bok choy, clam, turkey, stir-fry, zucchini, and more •Pizza on the grill: Fajita, vegetarian, Thai-flavored, salsa, olive, ratatouille, mango, barbecue, and more •Specialty pizzas: Creole, Szechwan, smoked turkey, scallop, focaccia, crab cake, nacho, English muffin, and more •Dessert pizzas: Apple, cheesecake, rum-raisin, and more

"Inside these pages you'll find more than 20 fast, easy, and tasty recipes for the Le Creuset® Skinny Grill. Use this versatile and colorful stove-top grill pan to make starters, mains, sides, salads, desserts, and more. It's sure to become a new favorite took in you kitchen"--Page 4 of cover.

Geared towards parents with children between the ages of two and twelve, Fun with the Family Colorado features interesting facts and sidebars as well as practical tips about traveling with your little ones.

One potato, two potato, 100+ potato recipes that make the most of this low-fat potassium powerhouse—including one-course baked potato meals! Can the easy-to-cook, inexpensive, low-fat potato turn up with chicken and peanuts as the star of an exotic stir-fry? Can plump baked potatoes, topped with everything from shrimps and tofu to chicken and chili, win acclaim as delicious one-course meals? Yes—as these one-hundred-plus recipes prove! Barbara Grunes, nationally known for her innovative and nutritionally aware recipes, makes it easy for both novice and seasoned cooks to transform bakers, broilers, red, new, sweet, and every other kind of potato into imaginative appetizers, hearty soups, exciting stir-fries, ten different potato salads, a dozen outdoor barbecues, and delicious sides, breads—even desserts. And to “top” it off, Grunes presents no less than twenty-four luscious, low-fat toppings that recreate baked potatoes as main-course delights—Thai shrimp, eggplant Parmesan, ratatouille, Moroccan chicken, turkey chili, Cantonese stir-fry, Spanakopita, asparagus and mushrooms, tofu Veracruzana, Provencal vegetables, mushrooms and cheese, and many other ingredients. From Vichyssoise to Cuban mashed potato pudding to Bohemian dessert pancakes, this health-happy collection delivers both great taste and the incredible nutrition of the potato.

Photo Credit: Tracy Wood Tired of giving up the meals you love because you're trying to lose weight? Stop depriving yourself and start skinny-sizing! Dietician and nutritionist Molly Morgan shares 101 recipes that give your high-calorie faves—think pancakes, muffins and lasagna—a skinny makeover. The only things you'll be missing are those extra pounds. * Traditional breakfast burritos have 600 calories and 35 grams of fat. Skinny-Sized burritos have 300 calories and only 9 grams of fat! Traditional blueberry muffins have 380 calories and 19 grams of fat Skinny-Sized blueberry muffins have 130 calories and 2 grams of fat! Traditional lasagna has 870 calories and 47 grams of fat. Skinny-Sized lasagna has 260 calories and 7 grams of fat! *