My Top 3 Favorite Websites for Healthy Recipes

I learned to cook early in life, using inexpensive fresh foods. My family couldn't afford trendy take-out or drive-thru meals, and my mom did not like to cook, so I learned from my grandmothers the art of cooking nutritious meals.

We could cook and make anything taste good, according to my grandmothers' "depression-era" survival standards, on just pennies-per-serving. Through this highly nutritious, albeit frugal method of cooking I found it was possible to make anything taste great using the right amount of fresh-from-the-garden fruits, herbs, and vegetables, along with whole grains, olive oil, nuts, seeds and a dash of sea salt!

I share many of my favorite recipes with you in the books, the "ABC's of Nutritious Cooking & Living a Healthier Lifestyle: A Back-to-Basics Survival Guide for Your Family" and "How to Grow an EMERGENCY Garden", co-authored with fellow-writer, Yahoo contributor, and gardening expert Becca Badgett. With enough cooking experience you too will be able to look over any recipe, to verify fresh and healthy ingredients, while quickly determining how it will taste, and here are some great places to start.

MyRecipes.com

MyRecipes.com offers all the best (and healthiest) recipes from "Cooking Light", "Southern Living", "Sunset", "Real Simple", and "Health" magazines, with a "Healthy Diet" tab, and features an entire section devoted to nutrient-rich "Superfoods". Click on your family's favorite superfood to find highlighted nutritional information, with a slide-show beneath, offering delicious recipes, and appetizing serving suggestions for your family, as shown under "Quinoa" (high-protein, gluten-free whole grain, similar to rice) or "Blueberries", along with their resource "Guide to Superfoods".

FitnessMagazine.com

FitnessMagazine.com for "mind, body, and spirit" provides dieters and exercise enthusiasts a "Healthy Recipes" section with everything from "Easy Healthy Pasta Recipes", to "Eat Healthy for Less: A Week's Worth of Dinner Recipes for $100". For your family's dieters there are sections on "Fat-Fighting Meals: 7 Flat-Belly Dinner Recipes", and "Pantry Raid: 11 Healthy Food Swaps".

BetterRecipes.com

Better Homes & Gardens test kitchens presents BetterRecipes.com with Kristina Vanni, and has great video cooking tips, running continuously throughout the site, while you find your favorite food recipes. The "Healthy Recipes" section covers "Healthy Bread Recipes", with a new area for "Favorite Healthy Recipes".

Main-dish meal recipes included are, "Healthy Meat Recipes" , "Healthy Fish Recipes", as well as "Healthy Poultry Recipes". Or if you prefer meatless dishes, there is a vegetarian section, plus "Healthy Side Dishes", as well as kid-friendly "Healthy Snack Recipes", and "Healthy Dessert Recipes".

Be bold and try the recipes which include your family's favorite foods in the ingredients list, and remember to cook for your family's health, to protect those you love. Visit my Yahoo contributor's news page online for other healthful cooking, parenting, and educational tips!