I love a good healthy cookbook. As someone with chronic health conditions, who want to minimize their risk of heart disease this was a good cookbook to use.

As a woman of age, hmmm, I do have higher levels of cholesterol than I or my doctor would like so this cookbook looked right up my alley. I was glad I picked it up because the 200 recipes included seemed very easy to prepare and pretty darn delicious too. Many heart healthy recipes can be boring or tasteless but these were not! There were smoothies, meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, snacks, sides, desserts...so many choices. Everyone can benefit from these recipes too, not just someone needing to lower their cholesterol. I am very glad to have this in my cookbook collection so I can provide healthy, delicious meals for my family.

This was a super simple cookbook to read and the recipes were delicious. I believe this cookbook can help lower cholesterol. I enjoyed the simplicity of the recipes.

I’m sure everything in this cookbook is healthy for you, but honestly I was only interested in the smoothie section, they are yummy. The recipes for the meals, not for me. I thank Netgalley and Adams Media for the opportunity to read and review this cookbook.

Things I liked about this cookbook were that it took the time to explain being heart healthy and why it's so important. There were some good recipes for smoothies and other items. Unfortunately, in my case, most of the recipes aren't ones that I'll make very often. Many of the ingredients aren't items I keep in my pantry or fridge and few of the recipes truly appealed to me. I might consider making a variation of some of these recipes by substituting certain ingredients but I'm not sure.

This cookbook will most likely prove helpful for some and the recipes will most likely appeal to certain people as well. It just didn't work for me.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. I voluntarily chose to review it and the opinions contained within are my own.

Easy to use and easy to make healthy tasty meals that will help me learn more how to eat well while controlling my cholesterol! Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for a copy of this cookbook I will enjoy using for years to come.

This was a very well written cookbook. I found the layout to flow well and the recipes were easy to understand and follow along to. I look forward to trying some of them out for my family.

The advice in the first chapter of The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook is well explained, very helpful and concise. The recipes that follow in eleven chapters are many, and varied, but unfortunately not many come with a picture, which I always feel is a useful extra guide to both choosing and making a recipe. The 2-week eating plan is also a helpful guide for anyone aiming to target a focused low-cholesterol diet. Thank you to Net Galley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

I love the breakdown of why certain foods are included in the recipe and why they are good for someone with higher cholesterol. These recipes are easy to follow and will definitely be added to my meal plan!

The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook: 200 Heart-Healthy Recipes for Reducing Cholesterol and Losing Weight by Laura Livesey is currently scheduled for release on March 28 2023. Keep your cholesterol levels in check and reduce your risk for developing heart disease and other chronic conditions with these 200 healthy and satisfying low-cholesterol recipes. Is your health care professional concerned about your high blood cholesterol levels? Do you worry that excess weight could have a detrimental effect on your health? Or are you simply looking for a healthier lifestyle? Changing your diet can be an effective way to lose weight and reduce your cholesterol level. This cookbook is your introduction to the benefits of a heart-healthy diet. Learn about cholesterol and its role in heart disease, how lifestyle changes can reduce your risk of heart disease and other chronic conditions, and how losing excess weight can improve your health. Each recipe is low in sugar but high in flavor, so you don’t have to sacrifice delicious foods to be healthy!

The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook is exactly what the title promises. It offers readers suggestions on changing how you eat, because the order you eat the food on your plate and when you eat different food can have a big impact, as well as what to eat. The encouragement and note that being health and making this changes for yourself is a process and not a zero sum game, doing your best and taking things at a pace that fits your needs and life will make the change in habits easier to stick with. I thought the recipes were well varied and written, with a healthy something that will appeal to most everyone. Each recipe includes the nutrients per serving if the recipe is made as printed. I am big on substitutions and changing things up once I have done a recipe once or twice, so this will not hold true long for me, but it is good to have a starting point. To be honest, there are not many of these recipes that I will be adding to my repertoire. I cook for a family of four (with one picky kid eater and one picky adult eater), and while there are some I can get by with, there are not a whole lot that would be eaten. There are a couple meals I will try for the family, and a few more I might try out just for myself on the weekend. Also, there are several ingredients that are just not regularly in my house (like kelp noodles and bee pollen) but that all might be less problematic for others. I think the book is well written and provides exactly what it promises- but it is just not practical for my household.

The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook by Laura Livesey
The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook is by Laura Livesey who also blogs at theconfidencekitchen.com. While still in her thirties, Livesey, CEO of a healthcare marketing company, was diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic condition in which high cholesterol levels increase the risk of heart attacks and other heart risks at a young age. Livesey was inspired to make dietary changes and put together this cookbook of 200 recipes to share with others facing the same condition.
In making dietary changes, simple, incremental steps increase the odds of sticking with new habits. The best entry-level recipes are in the sections Quick Dinners; Small Plates, Dips, and Sides; Salads; and Sauces, Spreads, Condiments. They yield 2 to 4 servings and call for basic ingredients. There are also quite a few recipes with lengthy lists of ingredients and which yield as many as 12 servings. A significant number of these call for ingredients that could be new to readers and which might have to be ordered online if not available locally. In the margins Livesey includes information about many such ingredients and their benefits. She recommends dividing the big dishes among small containers and freezing for future meals such as lunches for work.
In the back of the book, are two helpful features--a two-week eating plan and a metric conversion chart.
While the book is educational, it left me with several questions. Several of the 12-serving recipes call for 6 to 12 free-range eggs. Will users be willing to use a dozen eggs, especially free-range ones, in one recipe? Also, will cooks be intimidated by the more complicated dishes? Several have multiple, time-consuming steps such as halving two cups of cherry tomatoes or grinding whole almonds down to a fine consistency. Where did the recipes come from--the author, are they family favorites made healthier, or elsewhere? Who tested and endorsed them? Other cookbooks that address specific medical conditions acknowledge consultants such as dietitians, recipe testers and developers, home economists, and medical doctors who specialize in the health concern being dealt with.
While Livesey recommends that readers adopt small, achievable adjustments to ensure success, this book could be daunting for the person encountering a serious health issue for the first time or who has not routinely cooked one’s own food. It seems suited to a more experienced cook, one who might be more accustomed to seeking out obscure ingredients, or who has already made adaptations to a new diet.
Here are a few words about some of the things I tried:
Easy Protein Bread calls for, among other things, whole almonds, buckwheat flour, rolled oats, and psyllium powder. Mine required more than the 1 ½ cups of water called for to make a workable dough. It’s a heavy, dense bread that Livesey pairs with a number of meals. A suggestion as to what sort of healthy spread could be used on it would be helpful.
Chocolate Peanut Protein Cookies – Some ingredients are peanut butter, chocolate chips, raw peanuts, whey powder, coconut flour. The dough required extra whey powder to make it dry enough to work with. It took some tweaking to get the consistency right. Baking time 5-6 minutes. The taste was good, but it’s easy to overbake.
Blueberry Banana Nice Cream – A quick, versatile recipe that is basically a smoothie. Calls for blueberries, ½ cup almond milk, a teaspoon of vanilla, and two bananas. Blueberries can be switched out for other fruits or flavors or left out. Mine required additional almond milk to create a good mixture. Livesey says to freeze as ice cream. As a smoothie served immediately after blending, it’s delicious, but after keeping it in the freezer even for 24 hours, the taste became less vibrant.
Roasted Orange Veggies – An easy, good-tasting recipe. One parsnip, one butternut squash, and one sweet potato are cut into one-inch chunks, coated with olive oil and basic seasonings, then baked. Livesey suggests topping with feta cheese when done. This is good with and without the cheese. Works well as a side dish or as a lunch teamed up with a salad.

I've already tried several of the recipes in this book and had great success with them. This book, which is chock full of great recipes, is also very informative and provides insight into improving and maintaining healthy cholesterol.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

There’s a 2-week eating plan idea. There are lots of recipes that I would definite try at home. Very heart healthy tips and recipes that are very easy to follow,

Another great cookbook in the “Everything” series. This one has 200 great recipes that helps reduce our risk of heart disease. It has recipes for smoothies and drinks, breakfast and brunch, snacks, lunches, dinners, weekend dishes, dips, small plates and sides, salads, soups, sweets, sauces and condiments. And at the end there’s a 2-week eating plan idea. There are lots of recipes that I would definite try at home. The recipes are easy to follow, they all have nutritional information and some tips or information about the main ingredient in the recipe. I really enjoyed this cookbook and I also enjoyed seeing the photos. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

I like this cookbook and there are quite a bit of recipes that I am definitely going to try. Even if you don't have high cholesterol, this is a great cookbook for your everyday life.

Love the forward and the layout of this book. More photos would be good, but over all beautiful presentation. Definitely some recipes I will be trying. That beet hummus is calling my name.

I appreciate the presentation of each recipe with the fun facts and the summary info.

Thank you for the opportunity to review this yummy book!

Having been tested and now have high cholesterol I found this book had the information I needed to help me on the journey to lower what is currently far to high!

It is great to have a reference that you can understand and use and this is that type of book. It provides the good and bad foods, the recipes and the ingredients to help you on the road to mending and keeping your health in check.

The meals and recipes are ones that can be used everyday and for the whole family. They are tasty, easy to follow and fun to eat and enjoy (en to cook/make also).

This book is a godsend for me and I thank NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review. I will be guided by this book for many years to come.

I found this book very informative. I don't have high cholesterol, however, I don't want to ever have that problem so for me this is a preventative cookbook. With that being said, I did learn a lot about what high cholesterol is and why it is so bad for us. I really enjoyed the recipes and they are meals that anyone will like because they look to be very flavorful without any bad stuff in the ingredient list. One of my family's goals this year is to eat healthier meals and I know that I'll be making many recipes from this book in the coming months.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a nice recipe book. It talks about what makes a heart-healthy recipe and includes a variety of recipes. The book talks about how to eat healthier and focuses on reducing sodium, lowering cholesterol, and other heart-healthy tips.

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I wanted to read this book as my cholesterol is very high. I have been prescribed statins which I don't particularly want to take. This book has offered an alternative, and I look forward to implementing the recipes and directions. Hoping it works. A recommended read.