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Cookbooks for Nutrition and Fitness

Eating well and eating for health are not mutually exclusive, these four books lead with good nutritional foundations and great flavor. Whether you want to feed a family well under time pressure, or focus in on what to eat for your marathon training, you'll find it here.

The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook

Nina Cherie Franklin

Embrace the joy of salad making and learn how to build balanced nutrient-dense bowls to support your lifelong wellness goals. In today’s fast-paced world, making confident, healthy food choices can be challenging. With conflicting advice and diet trends flooding the wellness industry, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook bridges the gap between short-term diets and long-term wellness, offering a sustainable path to health through the art of salad making.

Healthy in a Hurry

Karen Ansel and Charity Ferreira

Good-sense nutritional advice from registered dietician Karen Ansel and tempting recipes from cookbook author Charity Ferreira combine for a healthy-eating book that deserves its place on the bookshelf. Recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, sides and flavorsome fruit-based desserts are made with fresh, unprocessed foods and are quick to put together.

Eating Well to Win

Richard Ingraham

If you equate ‘sports performance food’ with kale smoothies, calorie-counting, and unadorned hunks of protein, this book might change your mind. Richard Ingraham’s flavor-packed recipes are attention-grabbing for what they include – lots of spices, a wide variety of vegetables, meat, and fish prepared in creative ways – than for what they leave out.

Flavcity's Five Ingredient Meals

Bobby Parrish

Quick recipes made with just five ingredients may seem like a holy grail for time-pressed cooks, but YouTuber Bobby Parrish manages to pull it off. Handily, the 55 recipes also come with nutritional information and shopping tips. Parrish's YouTube channel is hugely popular with people on low-carb and keto diets.

Power Packed Recipes

Packed with nourishing ingredients and naturally energising flavors, this collection brings together recipes designed to fuel busy days and active lifestyles. From sustaining breakfasts to satisfying plant-powered meals and wholesome snacks, each dish focuses on ingredients that deliver lasting energy as well as great taste. Whether you need a quick boost, a post-workout pick-me-up, or a wholesome meal, these power-packed recipes are designed to keep you going.

Grab ‘n’ Go Peanut Butter and Date Energy Bites

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Raw Energy

Green Power Wraps Plant-Powered Street Food

Power pancakes

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Recently added cookbooks

Eggs Benedict

"Legend has it that a guest at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York invented eggs Benedict in the hope of easing his hangover. While off-the-shelf hollandaise sauces are readily available, I encourage you to make your own. It will make all the difference." Marc Grossman

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Author spotlight

Madeeha Qureshi

Recipe developer and food consultant Madeeha Qureshi was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. She was a finalist on Masterchef 2021, and now works as a judge on international cooking competitions. She is the author of The Red Sea Cookbook, which celebrates the culture and cooking of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, with recipes fully accessible to the home cook.

Andrew Ho

Andrew Ho is the co-founder and co-owner of restaurant Curry Boys BBQ. His cooking combines Southeast Asian and Texan cuisines, and focuses on the BBQ culture within each. His book Asian Smoke is written with Curry Boys co-founders Andrew Samia and Sean Wen.

Florence Stanton

After a career in PR and marketing, Florence Stanton turned to baking during lockdown, in part to heal her own relationship with food. She celebrates good food and self love, sharing her beginner-friendly recipes through her website Tasting Thyme, and in her debut cookbook Part Time Baker.

12 Ways With Lettuce

Lettuce with Avocado Caesar Dressing

Middle Eastern Lettuce Cups

Barley & Butter Lettuce Bowl

Smoked Brisket Lettuce Wraps

Features & Stories

🥪 Supersized sandwiches, spectacular salads + Cooking with Kids: Part 3 🚌

New season, new recipes! You were looking for fresh new ideas, and we have them in triplicate with these books added to ckbk hot off the press.

Nina Cherie Franklin is a wellness expert and founder of the blog and brand ‘That Salad Lady’. In her 2025 book ‘The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook’ she shares her expertise and the recipes that she uses to make food an effective part of wellbeing.

Cooking with Kids: Part 3 – A Sauce is Worth 1000 Recipes

Our series, Cooking With Kids continues with this roundup of sauces and salsas to delight and inspire palates of all ages. Try pesto (with or without nuts), Green Goddess dip, or Nik Sharma’s onion rings served with a gently -spiced dipping sauce.

Newsletter: 🧑‍🍳 The influential chef Shaun Hill in profile + how to harness spice and smoke 🔥🌶️

“The concept is Thai curry meets Texas barbecue, but at its core, Curry Boys is the beautiful amalgamation of three individuals, our unique perspectives, and ultimately, our expression of what we enjoy smoking, cooking, and eating! And honestly, that is what we want you to take away from this book: to unapologetically be yourself when it comes to smoking and barbecuing. As long as you respect the craft and the cultures, you’re free to make the food your own.” Sean Wen, co-founder and co-owner of Curry Boys BBQ

A guide to making the most of venison

In our latest feature, Louisa Clutterbuck from wild venison supplier Lean & Wild offers an introduction to some of the best ways to make the most of this healthy, sustainable and delicious meat. ckbk users in the UK can save 15% when ordering venison from Lean & Wild.

Author Profile: Shaun Hill

There are chefs who chase fame, and there are chefs who quietly reshape how food is cooked, served and understood. Shaun Hill belongs firmly in the latter camp. Across more than half a century, he has built a reputation not through spectacle, but through clarity: of flavor, of thought, and of purpose. Ramona Andrews caught up with him to look back on a magnificent career.

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