Our Top 6 Healthy & Family-Friendly Cookbooks

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At Thryve, we believe in living a balanced and well-rounded, healthy lifestyle the best we can. These days, where we are inundated with so many options on what the best diets should be, how to have a 'clean' eating diet and toxic-free home, it can be hard to narrow down your choices on what works best with your own family's needs and lifestyle. With busy schedules, different food preferences, and needing to get dinner on the table within 30 minutes, we've picked some of our favourite cookbooks & recipe apps to try out for your next family dinners. 

Let us know in the comments if you want to see us make some of our favourite recipes!

- Thryve Team

Oh She Glows Everyday (+ Oh She Glows App) 

By Angela Liddon

This plant-based/vegan cookbook is one one of the best well-rounded and well liked (even for non-vegans) cookbooks out there. Offering a variety of healthy and delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, Angela.... makes it simple, easy and fun to cook plant-based meals.

Some of our go to recipes are the

  • Apple Pie Oatmeal

  • 15 minute Creamy Avocado Pasta

  • Magical "Ice Cream" Smoothie Bowl 

Pro-Tip: The app is really useful, they update it with new & seasonal recipes!  

It’s All Good + It’s All Easy

both by Gwyneth Paltrow

Okay, technically two cook books but they compliment each other really well! It’s All Easy, features many unique, healthy and easy recipes for both everyday and also impressively easy group meals if you need to whip something up for unexpected guests.

The second cookbook from Gwyneth Paltrow, highlights a lifestyle of healthy but tasty eating with elements of Asian, Mexican, Indian and French throughout.

Kid and adult friendly, some of our favourite recipes include

  • Chicken Enchiladas

  • Ginger Chia Pudding

  • Nicoise Petrale Sole (fish in parchment)

It All Begins With Food

by Leah Garrad-Cole

This cookbook is an amazing kid-friendly and family cookbook with wholesome and healthy recipes everyone loves! Begin to use this cookbook once babies start their first foods through to school years and beyond. This cookbook offers easy and simple baby-friendly purees with healthy combinations, delicious finger foods, to family dinner recipes, school lunch ideas and yummy desserts and treats. No one will notice the 'hidden' ingridients in some of the recipes which add a nutritious boost to tasty meals and desserts both parents and kids will be satisfied with. One of our all time favourites!

A few of our favourites recipes include: 

  • Spelt Pancakes with Cheese and Broccoli (Finger Foods)

  • Go Coconuts for Chia and Almond Chicken Strips

  • Miso Soba Noodle Bowl

 

Super Food Family Classics

By Jamie Oliver

 The newest collections to Jamie Oliver's cookbook series, Jamie Oliver makes delicious, healthy comfort food for the whole family with a twist on English country yet modern. Offering healthy options and easy recipes, this cookbook has something for everyone to enjoy!

A few of our favourites include: 

  • The Jumbo Fish Fingers 

  • The Smoky Veggie Chilli 

  • The Chocolate Porridge 

 

The Plant Paradox 

By Steven R Gundry, MD

A cookbook that will change the way you view your daily eating habits. Written by the renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Steve Gundry, The Plant Paradox offers easy and simple recipes for smoothies, breakfasts, dinners and dessert. Learning about how lectins are found in many of the conventional foods or are hidden in foods we eat every day, this cookbook offers step by step ways to eat lectin-free and to make delicious, simple, seasonal meals as well as great hacks on how to make high-lectin foods safe to eat including methods like pressure cooking grains and peeling and deseeding tomatoes. 

A few of our favourites include: 

  • Brazilian Cheesy Bread 

  • Sweet Potato Spaghetti and Meatballs 

  • Coconut Olive Oil Ice Cream

 

Deliciously Ella

By Ella Mills Woodward

A plant-based cookbook offering over 100 vegan recipes from colourful salads to delicious plant-based burgers, one-pot curries to muffins, desserts and more! These recipes are simple to make for week night meals or can be put together for hosting dinner parties over the weekend!

These recipes are kid-friendly and offers healthy yet delicious options everyone will enjoy. 

  • Classic Hummus

  • Cacao and Almond Energy Balls

  • Sweet Potato, Lemon Grass and Coconut Curry

 
Food + Drink, LivingCasey James