Treat Yourself Healthy

Book excerpt: In this cookbook, you can have your cake and eat it, too! Bridget Foliaki-Davis' sixth cookbook 'Treat Yourself Healthy' is filled with recipes on how to enjoy optimum health, and still enjoy your food and treats while doing so. You don't have to suffer your way through cardboard-tasting gluten-free breads, tasteless sugar-free biscuits or miss out on the food that you love - foods we remember from our childhood, which make us feel good, such as pavlova, sticky puddings, chocolate chip cookies, apple pie and custard. Bridget shows how we don't have to give up anything to get healthy but can relearn how to cook, so we can still enjoy these foods using ingredients that support and nurture our bodies. Bridget Foliaki-Davis is an accredited nutritionist and award-winning chef and author and 'Treat Yourself Healthy' is a cookbook with a powerful proposition from an author who not only knows what you should be eating, but knows how to make it taste amazing. This beautifully illustrated cookbook shows that the worst thing you can do is to deny yourself something you want. It only makes that thing more desirable. So this is not a cookbook about willpower, because willpower isn't always enough to help you lose weight, to get healthy and to stay healthy. It is about relearning how to cook. Learning what foods support your health and weight goals, then creating dishes using those foods, which taste really good.'Treat Yourself Healthy' demonstrates how simply-made, great-tasting breads, cakes, desserts, cookies, muffins, pies and pizzas can be part of your healthy lifestyle.