The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook by Tosca Reno (Robert Kennedy Publishing, $19.95)
Tosca Reno has become the guru of health and fitness as it applies to diet. After publication of her recent bestseller, The Eat-Clean Diet, she was bombarded with requests for additional recipes. In both this book and her previous one, recipes were selected that incorporated the key principles of consuming delicious, nutrient-rich “clean” foods at regular intervals throughout the day to promote and maintain healthy, steady weight-loss. In addition to 150 great-tasting recipes, there are dozens of helpful cooking tips, dinners featuring a variety of meats, gluten-free meals, information on sweeteners and diet foods, and even foods to grab when on the go.
The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook will help readers learn to taste food as they shift into eating properly again. Loaded with new flavors and unexpected combinations, this collection provides recipes for low-fat beef, pork, chicken, and fish dinners, in addition to an array of meals that supply essential vitamins and minerals, fiver, and protein.
Once an overweight mother of three, Reno understands the difficulty of maintaining a proper diet and her method makes it both easy and innovative. Complete nutritional information accompanies every recipe along with mouth-watering full-color illustrations.
Two recipes were tested from this collection. I love soup and I love beef so the Country Style Beef Soup was a logical choice. It was hearty and was less than 150 calories per serving. The No-Cool Best-Ever Applesauce looked intriguing and it was as easy as it was delicious. Best of all, it was made without sugar of any kind, took about 20 minutes of actual hands-on prep time, and was just over 50 calories per serving.
No-Cook Best-Ever Applesauce
8 servings
4-6 medium apples, unpeeled, cored and quartered
1 tsp ground cinnamon
One fourth tsp ground nutmeg
2 Tbs fresh lemon juice
Place all ingredients in a large Ziploc bag. Toss well to distribute evenly. Place in freezer for at least four hours. Remove from freezer and allow to thaw for an hour or more. Gently rub skin from frozen apples and place apple pulp into a glass serving bowl. Mash with a fork or potato masher. Serve cold.
Nutritional Value Per Serving:

Calories: 54
Calories from fat: 1
Protein: 0.25g
Carbs: 14g
Dietary Fiber: 2.5g
Sugars: 10g
Fat: 0.14g
Sodium: 1mg

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