The Arthritis Healthy Exchanges Cookbook: More Than 170 Easy and Delicious Recipes Created to Help You Feel Your Best, Maintain Your Health and Build

This is an excellent healthy cookbook, especially for arthritis and diabetic people. I have also heard this lady speak, and she is a dynamic motivator.

Arthritis affects millions of people every day, in the form of gout, osteoarthritis, and the most common form known as rheumatoid arthritis. JoAnna M. Lund has written a series of "Healthy Exchanges" of which one is The Arthritis healthy Exchange Cookbook published Perigee Book a division of Berkley Publishing Group. The book is not fancy in any way, it is printed on plain paper with a compact typestyle. This book is designed for people with arthritis after all, not vision problems. Though some recipes go onto two pages, not of them requirre the cook to turn the page to finish the recipe. Each recipe not only offers the nutritional information, but also the healthy exchange of the food groups. There are several tips, suggestions and ideas on many of the recipes, and the ingredients are pretty readily availble in most regular grocery stores. Recipes include: Creamy Vegetable Chowder; Skillet Green Beans; BBQ Corn & Tomato Saute; Smorgasbord Pea Salad; Seashell Tuna Salad; Honey Mustard Chicken Pasta Salad; Deliteful Mandarin Orange Salad; Three Cheese Strata; Tuscan White Bean Pizza; Cinque Terre Shrimp Pasta; Chicken & Dumplings; Mexican Chicken Scallop; Fancy Fiesta Skillet; Meat Squares with Creamed Potato Topping; Florentine Meatloaf; Lemon Mousse; Mocha Crunch Pudding; New Orleans Bread Pudding; Rhubarb-Banana Cream Pie;Tomato Carrot Muffins and Spiced Mocha Mix.Overall rating: 3.5 pots of out 5.