Books read Mar 1

30 Day Whole Food Slow Cooker Cookbook 2019: Top 110+ Simple Tasty Slow Cooker Recipes for Your Crock-Pot Cooking at Any Occasion by Andy Wilder
Starts with TOC where chapters are broken up into food categories with a lot of informational items about what whole30 means and how to accomplish it. Also sections on slow cooker itself.
Small photos showing different  appliances are shown during the slow cooker chapter.
Each recipe starts with a title, prep, cook time and servings.
List of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar content and fresh vs canned items.
Directons on how to make it are listed next.
Some nutritional information per serving: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs and protein. There are NO pictures fro recipes.
Love that they have condiment listings for whole30 items that you can make.
Salsa recipe looks awesome, can't wait to try this one.
Chapter 13 is the best: little extra recipes, so many new things to try at home.
KEEPER because of extra recipes for everyday cooking.

Dash Diet Slow Cooker Cookbook: Simple No-Fuss Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes Made By Your Crock-Pot To Rapid Weight Loss and Upgrade Your Lifestyle  by Peter Moore
Book starts out with TOC where the recipes are broken up by meals.
Intro talks about what DASH diet is and how to achieve it and benefits of it.
Basics of the diet are discussed. Chart showing what food categorizes you should be eating and how many per day along with what's included in the category.
Q and A is also listed.
Slow cooker has its own section also where it talks about how to select a good one and how to take care of it.
Each recipe starts with a title, cooking time and servings.
Nutritional information per servings includes calories, total fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbs, dietary fiber and protein.
List of ingredients is included and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar content and fresh vs. canned items.
Directions are given and there are NO pictures.
Hate spelling errors, not sure what's up with the word 'of' but it's misspelled by omitting the o or the f.

35 Chicken Pasta Recipes by Jean Pardue
Book starts with TOC where dishes are not in any specific order.
Dedication where other links are clickable, other works by the author.
Intro about this book. Each recipe starts with a title, list of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar, low fat products and fresh vs. canned.
Directions are given. There is NO nutritional information.
Some recipes have a color photo, not all.
Author's other books are highlighted at the end.

Pasta Cookbook: Family-Friendly Everyday Pasta Recipes Inspired by The Mediterranean Diet: Dump Dinners and One-Pot Meals (Quick and Easy Pasta Cookbooks Book 1) by Alissa Noel Grey
Book starts out with TOC where dishes are not in any specific order.
Short intro about using pasta with the Mediterranean Diet.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings, prep time and list of ingredients, which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar content.
Directions are given and there is NO nutritional information. There are NO pics.
Tuna pasta salad sounds very appetizing to me, can't wait to try it.
Bonus recipes are included at the end: smoothies. Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.
About the author is included also.

Mediterranean Cookbook for Healthy Lifestyle: 70 Easy Recipes for Eating and Feeling Well Every Day, 7-Day Meal Plan (Tasty and Healthy 2) by Jennifer Tate
Free ebook gift is listed at the start of this book.
Has a TOC where dishes are broken up into meal categories.
Color photos are shown throughout the book. Intro talks about the Mediterranean counteis and how different they are with the food that comes from them.
Basic guidelines are discussed.
So much more is discussed about teh diet itself and the components that make it up.
Each category starts with a color photo and a few paragraphs about the dishes.
Each recipe starts with a title, prep and cooking time and servings.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar products along with fresh vs. canned items.
Directions are given and some nutritional information: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs and protein.
Not every recipe starts at the top of a new page.
Not all recipes show the same nutritional information. Some actually have calories, total fat, sat. fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbs, dietary fiber, total sugars, protein, vit D, calcium, Iron, potassium  and some also include tips about making the dish easier to make.
Has seven days of meal planning with links to recipes.
Cooking measurment conversion chart, liquid volume. Like the section on kitchen tools, so informative.
Grocery shopping list is also included by food cateogies, about the author and other works are also listed at the end.
Recipe index is included at the end.

Anti-Inflammatory Diet Cookbook: 500 Easy, Delicious and Simple Recipes (1) by Brian Taw 
Table of contents where recipes are not in any specific order. Intro talks about how to fight against inflammatory disease by the food you intake.
Each recipe starts with a title and list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar content, fresh vs. canned items.
Diretions are given. There is no nutritonal information.
There are NO pictures.
Don't understand why recipes are not broken up into meals or food categories-difficult to find what you are looking for.
Lot of inconsistencies with the recipes: sometimes the word tablespoon is spelled out, other recipes it's abbreviated.