The first half of this book has so much information that it can feel overwhelming! The recipes in the second half are set out well and easy to follow

With all the substances out there posing as food, almost everyone experiences problems in their gut. By attempting to prepare healthy meals that eliminate inflammation and other stomach problems. While there are many foods that are helpful, most of us don’t know where to start. Meals That Heal – One Pot: Promote Whole-Body Health with 100+ Anti-Inflammatory Recipes for Your Stovetop, Sheet Pan, Instant Pot, and Air Fryer by Carolyn Williams PhD RD, is an excellent cookbook filled with mouthwatering recipes that use ingredients that specifically help gut healing.

The first part of the book is focused on the scientific facts regarding this subject. The articles are well-written, easy to understand, and very apropos to the subject. After the good reading material, the remaining chapters of the book are filled with healthy, but appealing recipes that help combat stomach problems. A bonus is the fact that the recipes are all one-pot recipes that are prepared on the stovetop, on a sheet pan, or using the Instant Pot or Air Fryer. This makes it easy to prepare good foods even on a weeknight. The recipes are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients listed first, followed by step-by-step instructions that are easy-to-follow for both advanced and beginning cooks.

There is a beautiful and professional photograph of almost every recipe, insuring ease in choosing which dish to make next.

Anyone wanting to prepare meals that are not only appealing and healthy, but are composed of ingredients that heal stomach and other problems, will want to pick up this excellent cookbook.


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

I thought that this book had some pretty good recipes for someone that was trying to eat right in order to heal certain diseases. I am trying to incorporate some if the recipes into my regimen for high blood pressure.

This book is incredible and lives up to the hype!

"100+ delicious, quick, and easy anti-inflammatory recipes to make for the whole family—all ready in 30 minutes or less!" - and with some great photos!

Reading this within the NetGalley app that eventually disappears or expires is not the most ideal - especially for cookbooks that I'd love to have access to after it pubs.

I want to thank NetGalley, the author and the publisher for providing me with an eARC of this publication. In return, I have promised to provide an unbiased review. I really wish more cookbooks were formatted better and offered as a Kindle version.

The cookbook had some interesting recipes. Unfortunately most were things my picky family would never eat. I still feel it is a great resource.

This was an interesting book and helped give me more ideas for my meals throughout the week. It was easy to read and the recipes had helpful information.

One pot cookbooks fly off the shelves in my library and this one was a perfect fit. Using food for health benefits and healing in a simple cooking method was a great combo.

This is an amazing cookbook! The fact that it is written by a registered dietician makes it even better. There are so many wonderful things about this cookbook that it is difficult to summarize them in a review. One of the many awesome things is the discussion of inflammation, what causes it, and how to minimize it. There are also great suggestions regarding kitchen and pantry staples along with a meal planning section. The book also provides “one pot” recipes for the stovetop, sheet pan, instant pot and air fryer. Add this to your cookbooks. You won’t regret it. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book.

Good recipes, nothing groundbreaking but a nice collection to reference when making a menu. I enjoyed the health information included as I always enjoy reading about how food affects my body. Definitely makes you more conscious of what you are cooking and putting into your food.

Great cook book if your looking to lower inflammation in your body or even just simple and quick one pot meals. I love there there were more than just one method to cooks recipes In the whole book. Some air fryer/instapot/sheet pan. Have you a nice range of recipes. There was a nice section at the front of the cookbook that talked about inflammation and what foods are good or should be avoided to help heal your body. Can’t wait to try some of these recipes to help with my inflammation.

This seemed to be perfectly in fitting with the modern, more scientifically-minded recipe book, with of course the benefit of only using one pot to jam(balaya) everything in and be done with. The piece is produced with the reduction in inflammation in mind, so out are breads and pastas, in are most vegetables and a lot of them besides, and to be thought about are high-GI fruits. Verboten are the sausages and salamis, and the Maillard reaction is now our enemy.

It also seemed to be perfectly in fitting with the modern food science book, as opposed to recipe book, when we got health advice, planning hacks and so on and so on until we were a third of the way to the index before seeing a recipe.

And the first recipe is something to be thrown together – or it's allowed to throw the Mediterranean quinoa salad (gf, and vegan but for the feta) together and store it a few days as part of meal preps. It's presented easily as you'd expect, with absolutely every bonus flag for the dish highlighted, and any and every dietary data right down to the milligram of sodium. And the pattern is immediately formed – the accessible, scientifically-presented recipe, with a full-page and incredibly appealing photo adjacent. The blurb introducing each dish is there, but based not on the risible pedigree and derivation of each plate ("...from a one-eyed yogi I was lucky to find halfway up a mountain…") but on the nutrition.

The fact remains this is very close to the standard recipe book, with sections on salads, soups and stews, meaty mains, fish mains, veggie mains… Yet it never strays from the remit it gave itself, to lower the relevant things and up the veggies. Nowhere to be seen are the noodles, they are of course zoodles. Cauliflower rice is spreading. It also expands on the amount of one-pot ways you can cook, so when it comes to shakshuka – which by LAW every modern recipe book has to have – we get advice on making it in a pressure cooker. Gone were the days when one-pot meals meant dumping anything in one salad bowl, or chucking half a fridge-load into one casserole dish.

One weird thing is the amounts made – even with the suggestions as to what can be kept for future dates the fact some recipes give you five servings is a bit weird. The spaghetti alla vodka – yum, if potentially a waste of vodka (I haven't tried it yet) – is a recipe providing enough for seven. (And there are even cheeky drinks for those with the vodka to spare – not essential for a low-meat and low-carb cookbook, but nice all the same.)

I approved of this presentation, for the lowering of the author's ego on the page and the increase in nutrition science. Sure, I took few recipes from this, knowing the bulk would not be to my taste and/or suit my living arrangements, but people need not be on any kind of modern dietary fad to find a lot of wholesome goodness here, with – to repeat – healthy veggies to the fore. For those who have an intolerance to cookbook creators puffing themselves up, and for the nonsense-allergic, this will go down well.

As someone who struggles with inflammation due to an autoimmune disorder, I love coming across new cookbooks that am an offer me recipes that align with the way I need to eat! I appreciated how Meals That Heal - One Pot began with explaining what inflammation is and how what we eat can impact inflammation. Secondly, I greatly appreciated how easy the meals were! So many times, foods that cater to a specific “diet” based on health reasons are so complicated! Complex, multi step recipes make it hard to stay on track when you’re a busy person! Thirdly, the pictures were really well done and very appetizing! I definitely want to try a bunch of recipes from this cookbook.

Thanks to NetGalley and Workman publishing for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Meals That Heal – One Pot: Reduce Inflammation for Whole-Body Health with 100+ Recipes for Your Stovetop, Sheet Pan, Instant Pot, and Air Fryer is a great cookbook with many photographs of interesting and inviting dishes. The concept of one pot meals is appealing, especially to those with small kitchens or limited funds for fancy pans and pots.

The author takes readers on a journey about food and its healing properties. There is a lot of information about inflammation - what it is, what types, and an approach to eating healthier. The pages are colorful, but look more like a textbook or a pamphlet than a cookbook. There is a guide to no fuss, anti-inflammatory eating and planning tips for successful and satisfying meals. Particularly helpful to those new planning ahead with meals are the lists of what to keep on hand, how to organize, and how to utilize shortcuts to make meal preparation easier.

The recipes are separated into logical sections, which I have listed below with some of the standout dishes.

Toss and Go Meals: Mediterranean Quinoa Salad; Southwestern Caesar Salad; Easy Greek Frittata with Balsamic Tomatoes

Soups and Stews: Chipotle Lime Lentil Chili; Pesto Zoodle Chicken Soup; Creamy Buffalo Chicken Soup

Meat and Poultry: Pan-Fried Chicken over Lemony Greens; Lemon Garlic Chicken Thighs; Pork Piccata with Zoodles

Fish and Seafood: Seared Scallops over Summer Corn Salad; Sheetpan Jambalaya; Chili Lime Crab Cakes

Meatless Mains: Skillet Shakshuka; Greek Fried Quinoa; Tuscan White Bean Skillet

Sides and Salads: Southwestern Kale Salad; Shaved Brussels Sprouts

Snacks, Treats, and Drinks: Mango Salsa; Lemony Ginger Cookies; Lima Bean Hummus; Pomegranate-Lime Mocktail

Basically, the author goes through how to identiy inflammatory triggers, reduce stress, and eat to heal your body. Meals That Heal has good information, but the flashy pages do not feel rooted in science. There are a lot of good recipes and, for that reason, I would recommend Meals That Heal to other readers.

Disclaimer: I was given an Advanced Reader's Copy by NetGalley and the publisher. The decision to evaluate this cookbook was entirely my own.

One pot and sheet pan meals are all the rage. There is nothing better than to cook a meal and only have one pan to clean. Williams has created healthy options that are a mix of vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, low card, etc that look so appealing I cannot wait to make some. There are recipes for any meal you want to make. If you want soup or salad there are options here as well as casseroles, mains, and even smoothies. I am always looking for new ways to make my favorites and twice-baked cauliflower casserole just might be first one I try as a healthy twist on a classic.

This was definitely the most beautiful cook book that I have ever looked at. I love how the start of the book explains everything you need to know about inflammation disorders and what food are good to overcome this and those that make it worse. It was very well explained and I understood what the author was saying. It was great that everything in this book was so simple to make. It should be called meals in minutes that heal lol. This book is perfect for those in USA as brands that you are familiar with are mentioned in this book. I am from the UK and still found it extremely useful as you can just substitute some of the ingredients. Although it might not be as easy to find some of the ingredients from our branded supermarkets. 

The pictures in this book were wonderful and look so appetising. My mouth was watering just looking at them. I really can't wait to try out some of these recipes. I like how basic meal plans were included that you can easily expand from and tailor to your own tastes. I have already started knocking out some foods from my diet as advised from this book. With a slight increase in energy levels already. 

So much praise goes out to the author and publishers for bringing us this really good book that is easy to use.
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Inflammatory foods can wreak havoc on our bodies.
Unfortunately, most easy and convenient foods are laden with inflammatory ingredients.

In a rushed-cooking world, anti-inflammatory and sustaining one-pot meals are simply the way to go. And Carolyn Williams is here to break it all down (in the first three chapters) and then give us a full cookbook of delicious and nutritious one-pot meals. She boasts an impressive resume - both as a journalist writing about food and as a professor and registered dietician researching food.

The information about inflammation, foods, and overall health is solid. The book is laid out in an aesthetically pleasing way, making it an enjoyable read. The writing is easy to follow and comprehend. There are plenty of gorgeous photos of finished dishes; in fact I believe every recipe has a photo. Meals that Heal has all the pieces of a cookbook and resource to which you will come back to again and again.

My thanks to The Experiment and NetGalley for a digital ARC of Meals that Heal – One Pot in exchange for my honest review.

This is a great first book for someone who is trying to eat an anti-inflammatory diet. There is so much good information here, but it's vey accessible. I enjoyed the mediterranean quinoa salad, creamy buffalo chicken soup, the beef bulgogi skillet, and the saucy peanut-coconut chicken. I particularly liked the Snacks, treats, and drinks section. The photos are well done, the recipe introductions are good, and the recipes are easy to follow.

YESSS I am in love with this book! A huge goal of mine this year, has been eating healthier and more mindful to know what I am putting into my body! I loved the layout of this book, and the recipes that I tried were DELICIOUS!! I can't wait to try this more on a weekly basis and live with these!!

Thank you so much for an ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This is an excellent cookbook with some great alternatives for healthy meals for the whole family. It provides an excellent guide in the beginning as to meal planning along with some valuable information on the types of foods to eat to help fight inflammation. I personally made a few of the meals and they were excellent. I highly recommend this cookbook!

Thank you to The Experiment and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book.

There was a lot of information on inflammation, but it was a little too heavy on that compared to the actual recipes. I mostly follow a whole-food, plant-based diet or a Mediterranean way of eating so there were quite a few recipes in this book that I won't be making as they are not in line with either of those lifestyles.