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Know Your Superfoods
Swanson profiles her nutritional all-stars: alliums (such as garlic), cruciferous veggies, dried beans (such as butterscotch calypso and black valentine), lentils, nuts and seeds, sea veggies, sprouts, tea, and yogurt. Recipes include Chocolate Turtle Bean Tostadas and Golden-Crusted Brussels Sprouts.

Use Natural Sweeteners
Sweeteners lend moisture and volume to baked goods, act as binding agents, and provide texture, so forgoing granulated territory requires guidance. Swanson makes experimenting delicious with recipes for White Sangria with Drunken Peaches, Thin Mint Cookies, and Coconut Panna Cotta.

Other resources to help clean up your diet:

Real Food Daily (Ten Speed, 2005) by Ann Gentry. Another Californian, Gentry reflects the fare of her restaurants in this cookbook of the same name. Recipes are more complicated but no less delicious, and vegan to boot.

The Organic Cook's Bible (Wiley, 2006) by Jeff Cox. Less of a cookbook and more of a resource, look here when you're ready to break out the big rutabagas, or when you got too impulsive at the market and now you've got to cook that thing, whatever it is.

Whole Grains: Every Day, Every Way (Clarkson Potter, 2006) by Lorna Sass. Exclusively dedicated to great grains, half of Sass's mouth-watering recipes call for some sort of meat, because whole foods aren't just the domain of vegetarians and vegans.

Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook (Vital Health, 2006) by Cybele Pascal. A place to turn for whole-food cooking for common food sensitivities: dairy, eggs, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish, and refined sugar.

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