As a busy mom I'm always on the lookout for ways to create food that my kids will love and I can feel good cooking for them. This book is a wonderful tool to do exactly that

Great recipes and beautiful photos that makes the dishes look good. The problem is that a lot of ingredients won't be in most household cupboards so it can become expensive to make the recipes

This cookbook contains an excellent collection of recipes that make you feel like you are "cheating" on your diet without packing on the pounds.

This book is exactly how I want to approach food for the rest of my life! Eating healthy, mindfully, and being aware of what goes into the food I eat - but also allowing for some indulgence and treats. This recipes are all very unique and artfully crafted, giving me loads of ideas from breakfast to dinner and dessert. They're vegetable centric, which suits me fine, but there are some recipes with meat and dairy. This book is my go-to when I have vegetarian or vegan friends over, despite not specifically catering for them. It's just delicious food that everyone can eat!

The recipes and ingredients aren't overly complex, meaning anyone can cook them, and there are some handy shortcuts and tips provided to help save hours slaving in the kitchen or doing tons of washing up. I love the simplicity, and the ingredients are used so effectively if you're serving these recipes for other people, they will think you worked way harder than you did!

I loved flipping through this cookbook! The recipes are fantastic - delicious, healthy, nutritious, and not overly complex. Stunning photography! A must-have for the kitchen!

I love the message of this book, and I think the author executes it really well. The recipes are very approachable and healthy, and the idea of balance really shines through. My one critique is that the smoothie recipes do not have a great nutritional profile, with little balance of healthy protein, carbs, and fat. Every other recipe, however, does seem to have a healthy balance. I made two recipes from this book that were quick and delicious, and I am going to purchase a copy for myself.

Delicious food, very healthy but without compromising the taste. I've enjoyed everything from this book so far.

Everyone, it seems, is on the “eating-healthy-bandwagon,” but with some it gets totally out of control. If you agree, Healthyish: A Cookbook with Seriously Satisfying, Truly Simple, Good-For-You (but not too Good-For-You) Recipes for Real Life is a perfect cookbook for you. Lindsay Maitland Hunt has included fairly healthy recipes, including dozens for those on special diets, that real people will actually want to eat.

In the introduction Hunt makes it clear that her recipes don’t call for bizarre or difficult-to-find ingredients, and that the recipes have been developed for real people like you and me. Her recipes are also not boring, which is a change from most of the “healthy” cookbooks on the market today. After going through this book, I bookmarked dozens of recipes I actually want to cook, and as I have started preparing the dishes, have found that not only do they turn out picture perfect, but the instructions are easy to follow and the recipes are easy enough for all cooks, whether experienced or not. Incidentally, there are excellent photographs of most of the recipes, which make it easier to decide what to make next.

For those who are health-food fanatics, there are some mouthwatering (a relative term) dishes for you, and also trendy dishes like avocado toast (Hunt adds some olive tapenade and cheddar to make it delicious) and Shortcut Shakshuka for Two. There is an entire chapter of vegetarian dishes that actually sound good. I tried recipes in the other chapters, however, (tree-hugging isn’t my forte), and found that there are enough great recipes in this book to keep me happy and cooking for months. Juicy Pork Chops with Sweet Potato, Fennel, and Apple Hash was a hit with my family, as well as the Pozole with Pinto Beans and Queso Fresco. The Skirt Steak with Corn, Potato, and Smoked Mozzarella Salad is scrumptious and easy, and I will be preparing the Bahn Mi Rice Bowls with Spicy Pork and Sriracha Mayo on a fairly regular basis to keep my family happy. Quick Rotisserie Chicken Tacos with Smashed Avocado is on my menu tonight. You just can’t go wrong with the recipes in this book.

Whether you are a health food fanatic or just enjoy preparing new and delicious meals, Healthyish: A Cookbook with Seriously Satisfying, Truly Simple, Good-For-You (but not too Good-For-You) Recipes for Real Life is an excellent cookbook to add to your collection.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

This cookbook is healthy-ish, delicious-ish, fast-ish, yummy-ish, easy-ish . . . you get the idea. Healthier than most recipes, but easier than the super-healthy-type recipes, it is a very do-able cookbook.

This cookbook is filled with colorful and easy to make recipes. For those looking to make baby-steps in how they eat, this is an ideal book for you. Learn how to be flexible in your meals without giving up on great flavors and taste.

Healthy can have flavor, texture, and mouth watering delicious wow power. Healthyish delivers a vast array of recipes and take the palate from raw delights to baked, tossed and stirred guaranteed winners. I have tested out several recipes already and know this cookbook will be a new staple.

Abrams and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Healthyish. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

Healthyish includes recipes for the busy families who are looking for meals that are tasty, nutritious, and not too time consuming. Above all, the recipes within the pages of the cookbook provide a balance of vegetables and whole grains, but with less nutritious and flavorful accents to bring excitement to the food.

The cookbook starts off with a well done introduction, with tips, hints, and general information that many readers will find helpful. My favorite recipe in the Egg section is Chorizo Breakfast Tacos (p. 33), as its crispy, flavorful chorizo and corn tortillas make it a hearty breakfast without a lot of fuss. The Toast section is a little too simplistic and really should have been condensed to a tip box. The breakfast bowl recipes assume that readers have grains already prepared, but should have included a chart with instructions at the introduction to the section instead of burying the information at the back of the book. The Snack portion of Healthyish has a variety of recipes from trail mix, to dips, to hummus, and more. All are designed to give a protein boost and are easy to prepare.

My favorite part of the cookbook are the soups, with offerings such as Sausage, Potato, White Bean, and Kale Soup (p. 100) and Loaded Baked Potato and Cauliflower Soup (p. 106). These hearty but healthy soups are great for those cold weather days. The rest of Healthyish includes sections like: Vegetarian Dinners, Chicken and Turkey, Pork and Beef, Fish and Shrimp, Treats, and Go-to Components. Although there are a few good recipes scattered throughout, the biggest problems with Healthyish are its reliance on prepared foods like rotisserie chicken and a plethora of simplistic offerings. Healthyish was a good idea for a cookbook, but it misses the mark with the quality of the recipes overall.

The full title for Healthyish is “A Cookbook with Seriously Satisfying, Truly Simple, Good-For-You (but not too Good-For-You) Recipes for Real Life”.  It’s a mouthful but it does sum up quite nicely what this recipe book is about.   It’s full of food that looks delicious, tastes delicious (from the recipes I’ve tried) and sounds delicious (from those that I haven’t).
The idea behind Healthyish is that you can eat a good, healthy, balanced diet without living on lettuce leaves and by making some simple changes.  So you swap whole grains for refined, add ingredients like olives for natural flavour, and swap processed foods for homemade alternatives (think salad dressing).
The recipes have simple steps so you aren’t chained to the oven and there is a mix of those you might want to make ahead of time and those you can whip up on the fly.  They are full of bright, colourful and good for you ingredients, many of which I hadn’t tried before (like Agave Nectar) but which will likely become kitchen staples.
Plus the ingredients are ones you can find in any grocery store so you don’t have to trail around speciality shops looking for that one thing that the recipe will fail without AND they are ingredients you will use again – so no shelves filled with one-offs that cost a fortune and end up going to waste.  This, alone, was enough to make the book a hit for me, living where I do and without a gourmet deli on every corner.
The book is broken up into breakfast, lunch, dinner, plus snacks and treats.  It is full of great photos of the food and simple, step-by-step instructions.  So far, I’ve tried two of the breakfasts, and two of the lunches.  The breakfasts were a Chocolate and Peanut Butter Smoothie and Pesto-Swirled Scrambled Eggs, the lunches were two soups – Curried Sweet Potato Soup and Loaded Baked Potato and Cauliflower soup.
I loved the smoothie, more than I thought I would, and it was so filling, I didn’t feel the need to eat again till lunch time.  The eggs, I wasn’t so keen on – the pesto was too strong for a morning for me.  However, I’ve stuck with the eggs and goats cheese (the other ingredient) and that I do like and is, again, filling me up till lunch.
The soups were delicious.  The sweet potato one especially.  It was warm and warming on what have been particular cold winter days.  It was also so bright and cheerful it made me feel good just looking at it in the bowl.  My only complaint with both soups is that it said it would serve 4 to 6 and I would say it was double that because they were so filling.  Thankfully, they seem to have frozen well so I have lunches for next week as well.
Next up, are a few of the evening meals, which include meat and veggie options.  I love the look of the Barley and Adzuki Bean Bowls (that’s two different ones) and the Modern Nicosia Salad for my one fish evening a week.  Meat wise, my husband has his eye on the Pork Tenderloin and Sausage, Potato, and Cabbage One Pot Dinner.  Whatever we choose though, I have no doubt they will be easy to make and – hopefully – as much of a success as the other choices we’ve made.
As an ebook I can’t say that this will have a permanent place on my shelf BUT it will definitely be a go to book whenever I’m doing my weekly recipe plans.

I really enjoyed this cookbook. I am probably somewhat of a cookbook junkie. In the days of Pinterest where it is so easy to have a recipe at the tips of your fingers, I still like to have a hard copy of my favorites on my shelf. This is going to be one of them. Every section and every page had clear direction. The author wasn't overly wordy, just right to the point of how my mind thinks...how can I do something quick and still have it be healthy? I felt the grace in her mantra of being "healthyish". Sometimes I want to eat bread or have a little something sweet without feeling bad! She acts as your cheerleader and guru throughout, and her recipes are very thoughtful. One of my favorite parts is the index of gluten free, dairy free, and egg free options for those who have allergies or intolerances. Our family has more than one family member who struggles with some of those types of foods, and having a handy index makes me happy and takes away the guesswork. I can't wait to enjoy this with my family. If there is a cookbook you should buy this year, make this the one!

Disclaimer: Note that I received a copy from Netgalley.com in exchange for my review.

This is a really balanced, beautifully designed book which has plenty of recipes you'd actually want to cook! 

I love the vast array of (very lovely) photos accompanying most of the recipes - it's great to have visual aids and see how something should look! - and the instructions are clear and easy to follow. I really liked that the recipes are so balanced and seem to be really healthy without being boring or plain.

The ingredients aren't ridiculous and won't cost you a fortune, like with some other books (where I have to skip most of the recipes because they include lots of hard-to-get ingredients) and they won't take forever to cook, either. There's a wide range of recipes, too, from fish and meat to vegetarian and soups. There are also some really great sweet recipes for when you fancy a little treat. Though some recipes are less appealing than others, there's bound to be something for everyone, and a lot of the recipes can be adapted to be made vegetarian without a huge amount of effort. I have tried a few of the soups and loved them - which is surprising as I never really fancy soup!

This is a great resource for anyone wanting just what the title suggests: healthyish recipes which are still really tasty!

I thought this would be my kind of cookbook, being the sort of person who isn't a health nut, but would like to eat kind of healthyish. While many of the recipes are more healthy than the sort of stuff you often find in American cookbooks dripping with entire sticks of butter, they're not all that much more healthy than my normal cooking so it isn't much use. It seems to focus more on "healthy" ingredients like agave nectar than healthy ingredients.

What this book is good for:

-Sort of maybe not too bad for you recipes that are pretty fast to make.
-Attractive pictures of the recipes.
-Basic cooking tips for those who haven't ever cooked before.
-People who like to use ingredients such as almond milk and agave nectar.

What this book is not good for:

-People who don't have access to the huge range of ingredients available in American supermarkets.
-People who hate measuring things in cups (ugh).
-Poor people (the breakfast recipes alone would use my entire daily food budget).

Healthyish was a good read. It gave me new ideas to use at home and I look forward to trying some of these recipes out.

The soup recipes look really good, as do some of the chicken salad/lunch recipes. I'm not very impressed with the rest of the recipes. There's a section on toast and some basic egg and chicken recipes, which did not look interesting. I think there are a couple of recipes worth trying out, but the rest don't appeal to me or don't come across as particularly healthy..

Note: I received a digital advance reader copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I think the cover speaks for itself. Have you seen a more beautiful cookbook cover? I knew I was in for a treat from the publisher description and cover alone, and this cookbook met those expectations. "Healthyish" is a good way to describe the way I aspire to cook, though I think I end up more on the "ish" side than the "healthy". But this cookbook came with perfect timing. People these days want to eat healthier, but also doesn't want to sacrifice flavor and flexibility. Hunt understands this, and her cookbook seems to be the answer to a friend's complaint of "I want to eat healthier, but I just don't have time".

True to her promise, this cookbook is packed with recipes and ideas that are at once simple, beautiful, healthy, and fast. She is always thinking of ways to make recipes less complicated, and it shows with how unintimidating her recipes are. I feel like I could easily give this book to a friend who barely cooks, and they would be able to easily make a week's worth of meals or more.

Her recipes are also very current with the times. The first section is just smoothies, and she has as many smoothie recipes as she has recipes for pork/beef. To her credit, all of these smoothie recipes sounded delicious and instantly got bookmarked. Her creations are colorful and evoke a lot of the new-age clean-eating ingredients that are all over Pinterest and Instagram, such as agave nectar, chia seeds, cashew butter, almond milk, and raw honey. She's also big proponent of whole-wheat pasta and whole-wheat flour, with her pasta dishes and baked goods exclusively whole-wheat.

The pitfall to making a cookbook accessible is that you may also lose the interest of more experienced cooks, who find that they have seen or made similar things and are jonesing for something more challenging. Unfortunately, I found myself falling under this category and wondering at times whether this was the right cookbook for me. I enjoyed her breakfast section, but after that, I was a bit disappointed at times with how simple the recipes were. I guess I was hoping for more out-of-the-box recipes.

The other main criticism is the lack of personality within the cookbook. It's very sparse on text, which makes it readable and lets the photos speak for themselves, but I found myself missing a lot of the personal stories you see in other cookbooks. Without them, the recipes felt less meaningful and special. I read the entire book and still didn't have much more insight into Hunt as a person, but maybe this is expecting too much out of a cookbook. They shouldn't have to feel like memoirs, but a more personal connection to how each recipe was developed might have made them feel more memorable as well.

Still, there's plenty to love about what's here, even if it's not exactly pushing the envelope. The food photography is just as wonderful as what you see on the cover, with each recipe getting a photograph to go along with it, some of them bright full-page photos. The overall design is stylish and tasteful. Layout is practical. The cookbook is a joy to read, partly because it's visual-heavy. Hunt is remarkably mindful of modern diets, with a special index that divides her recipes into categories like Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegetarian, etc. I thought this was brilliant and wish more cookbooks these days included indexes like this.

I spent a lot of time criticizing it for not being the type of cookbook I would need, but this doesn't mean it isn't an excellent cookbook. I can see this making an excellent gift for a large demographic of young adults who are just getting comfortable in the kitchen or older adults who want to modify and streamline the way they cook. This will definitely be a Christmas present next year for at least a few of my friends. Hunt has nailed a popular and booming niche in the food biz, and I think she'll have a lot of success with this book and future books to come.

Overall Rating: 4/5 stars

Sorry, I can't review this because I can't read it on the bluefire app! For some reason, all I can see is the color cover page and then a few hundred blank white pages. Sorry. I really would like to review this book for you. I would have tried downloading it to my Kindle app but that option was not available.