Recipes for health

Press, 7 October 1987, Page 25

Recipes for health

“Fine Food For The Heart,” the National Heart Foundation’s latest recipe book, is a beginners’ guide to a healthy diet The book presents over 100 recipes based on the Foundation’s nutritional guidelines — varied, low in fat sugar and salt, high in fibre and designed to keep your weight down. It sounds enough to break any Kiwi gourmet’s heart, but in fact, “Fine Food” contains just that

It’s a trendy, up-mar-ket presentation featuring fresh New Zealand ingredients and photography guaranteed to have the most hardened of mouths (or arteries), watering. The uninitiated may be surprised at some of the “healthy” foods the book promotes. Cereals and grains are nothing new, but now pasta seems to be high in the popularity stakes too — and the humble potato is making a comeback! “Fine Food For The Heart” deals with healthy food rather than “health food” in the popular sense. It offers alternatives, both in the preparation of well-known dishes and in the creation of new ones, which improve your health without demanding too many sacrifices from your stomach. The recipes come complete with microwave instructions and nutritional advice and they may Just win you a few hearts at your next dinner party.