Getting Started -- Gathering Resources

What we're using thus far, that I will be posting recipes from, are the following cookbooks purchased at Barnes & Noble.  These list fats, calories, carbs, dietary fiber ... if you need to limit your sodium, they list that, too.  I trust these books implicitly.  They have great variety, impart a lot of information, definitely worth it to purchase them.

Because we've been at this a while, I have other cookbooks I use, but here are the first five, my go-to's:

American Heart Association -- Healthy Fats, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook
American Heart Association - The New American Heart Association Cookbook 8th ed.
Spitler &Yoakam - 1,001 Best Low-Carb Recipes
Food Network Magazine - The Best and Lightest
Rappaport & Horton - The Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook

Now, he and I are not into seafood.  We've tried cooking tilapia ... meh.  We're chicken, pork, beef folk.  Thus, if you are a seafood enthusiast, this is going to be one of the limitations of this blog.  I don't post what I don't cook.

Other resources we have, that we use, are a NuWave air cooker and a food dehydrator for homemade snacks, as well as two crock pots.  Those are godsends when you're busy folk. We started this journey, he works 50hr weeks, and I was in the midst of a part time job, a graduate assistantship, and grad school working on my second MA.  Gawd.