The last couple of years, I have been thinking more and more about making my own cookbook. This is not necessarily because I am the best cook in the world. Nor is it because I have studied food and cooking at some awesome school. It is simply because almost every recipe I use from someone else, I end up modifying to make it healthier for my family and I. After years of doing this, I am getting sick of it. That is where my idea for my own cookbook started up....
I am telling you this for 2 reasons:
1. I have a new favorite cookbook, Give Them Something Better, in which I have not had to substitute or cut down on anything yet!
2. If I do make my own cookbook, I want to model it after this one, because it is SO WELL DONE!
Give Them Something Better by Sarah Frain and Stephanie Howard is a plant-based cookbook full of over 100 recipes and beautiful pictures to go along with each recipe. Besides that, the authors have included helpful tips to create the meals faster or easier. You will also find great secrets to live a longer and more healthful life.
I love everything about this book. When I first looked through it, I was very skeptical and only wanted to try the safe recipes, like the fabulous Fudgy No Bake Cookies pictured below.
After tasting how good these were and seeing how easy they were to make, I ventured further into trying new things. My biggest surprise yet was how delicious the Alfredo sauce was, even though it is completely vegan. No dairy, which means no cheese or rich fatty cream, but it was delicious! In fact, my whole family loved it, and my husband said he never would have known it was vegan if I wouldn't have told him.
My fav, fav, favorite is the vegan lasagna, which is to die for!!! So yummy and good for you!!
Every recipe I have tried in this cookbook has been easy, delicious beyond my expectations and very healthy! I highly recommend Give Them Something Better. You can buy it on Amazon for $24.50.
For (1) lucky winner, you are going to win your own copy of Give Them Something Better. You will love it!!!
Here's how to enter this giveaway:
**Subscribe to Your World: Healthy and Natural by email on my top right sidebar or your choice of subscription and tell me you did so in a comment.For more entries:
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The deadline for this giveaway is February 6th at 11:59 pm EST, at which time a winner will be randomely chosen. Make sure that you include your email in your comments because if I can't get a hold of you, you can't win.
* Cara was provided product to review, and Cara was under no obligation to write this post. Nor was she under any obligation to sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.*
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