Six Feel-Good Cookbooks to Nourish Your Mind and Body
Whether you’re navigating a stressful season like a breakup or job uncertainty, or simply feeling the everyday pressures that quietly build up over time, looking after yourself doesn’t have to mean grand gestures. Sometimes, self-care starts in the kitchen.
We’ve selected six feel-good cookbooks designed to nourish more than just your appetite. From quick, energising recipes to comforting family favourites and wholesome plant-based dishes, these books encourage you to slow down, create something with your hands, and take small but meaningful steps towards feeling better.
Cooking can be grounding, creative and deeply comforting. These recipe books offer practical ways to support your wellbeing through food, helping you build healthier habits, boost your mood and bring moments of calm and connection into your daily routine. Because caring for your mental health isn’t just about what you think - it’s also about how you fuel and nurture yourself.
Little Things
When you’re having a bad day and life is stressing you out, it can be hard to remember the little pleasures that can make all the difference to your mental health. Here, Fearne Cotton shares tips, tricks, simple exercises and practical tools to help you practise self-awareness, find balance in the modern, hectic world, and stop feeling so alone in your struggles to find happiness.
Feel Good In Fifteen
The Body Coach reveals ways to feel good in his latest book, which looks at ways in which you can nourish mind, body and soul. With simple and nutritious recipes to cover everything from breakfast to lunch, dinner and snacks, workout routines to energise and boost your mood, and guided journal prompts to help you find the joy in everyday life, each can be completed in achievable 15 minute sessions and will help you feel your best everyday.
Pinch Of Nom: Express
Over one hundred slimming-friendly recipes that are full on flavour and low on tedious prep work. Designed to fit into a busy lifestyle where eating tasty, nutritious meals is still a top priority, these recipes for everything from breakfasts, roasts, puddings and takeaways can be quickly prepared in twenty minutes, and even contain ideas for air fryers and slow cookers. Whether you want a quick family-friendly meal or a more indulgent dinner-party dish, there’s something here for every occasion.
The Ramadan Family Cookbook
With over 80 delicious recipes to choose from, Muslim food blogger Anisa Karolia has you covered for Ramadan. Whether you want to batch cook in advance or prefer whipping up something quick, tasty and delicious when the sun goes down, there’s something to inspire everyone. With recipes such as Masala Prawns, Grilled Chipotle Chicken Skewers, Lamb Samosas and Mango Lassi, each beautifully photographed and with ideas for making the dishes more healthy.
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Official Veganuary Cookbook
Whether you’re a vegan, flexi or simply curious about plant-based cooking, this official Veganuary cookbook is for you. Featuring over 100 delicious and nutritious meal ideas, including burgers, pies, traybakes and desserts, as well as a handy list of store cupboard essentials and tips and advice for making your mealtimes as economical and eco-friendly as possible, this is the perfect recipe book for anyone wanting to eat a little more healthily in 2024.
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