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100+ delicious, quick, and easy anti-inflammatory recipes with just one pot or pan and only 15 minutes of prep!
Delicious food can help you make diet changes before you have a chronic condition! From James Beard Award winner and culinary nutrition expert Carolyn Williams, Meals That Heal – One Pot presents over 100 quick-fix recipes for your stovetop, sheet pan, Instant Pot, and air fryer—packed with anti-inflammatory foods that will help you cool inflammation, balance gut health, and detox your body. Plus, vegetarian, low-carb, gluten-free, and dairy-free options are perfect for everyone looking to manage a condition or prevent future disease.
These no-fuss, healthy, restorative recipes can help you prevent or manage type 2 diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune conditions. Plus they naturally promote heart health, brain health, joint health, and pain relief.
- A 4-step eating approach: #1 Increase anti-inflammatory foods, #2 Decrease dietary inflamers, #3 Nourish your gut, #4 Reduce stressors and lifestyle irritants
- 100+ meals you can prep in 15 minutes or less that won’t break your budget or leave your kitchen a mess
- Tips for eating better every day including how to minimize processed meats and foods, make recipes more family-friendly, identify healthier shortcut foods, meal prep in advance, reduce toxins and chemicals in food, and embrace easy anti-inflammatory carb swaps
- An anti-inflammatory blueprint for overall health and wellness—plus menu plans and daily and weekly eating goals!
Reducing chronic inflammation improves and maintains physical and mental health, decreases susceptibility to everyday illnesses like colds and infections, slows the aging process and the progression of many chronic diseases, eases symptoms and flare-ups in the management of autoimmune conditions, promotes hormonal balance, and more.
Don’t brush off warning signs of inflammation (such as tiredness, frequent colds, or acid reflux). With Meals That Heal – One Pot, you’ll reduce not only these nuisance symptoms but also inflammation’s long-term risks: immune dysfunction, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and more. Carolyn’s four-step approach, stress-busting tips, genius meal-prep hacks, and weekly menus make it easy to change your diet and heal inflammation with food?instantly.
172 color photographs and illustrations alongside nutritional information for each recipe in the book
“It’s one thing to understand chronic inflammation and how your eating habits can prevent, reduce, or eliminate it, but putting that knowledge into action in the kitchen is another. Thankfully, with Meals That Heal—One Pot, Carolyn has you covered. In clear, easy-to-understand language, she breaks down the topic of inflammation to help you discover your best path forward. And, perhaps most importantly, she eliminates the stumbling block of how to make healthy eating actually happen in your kitchen—with your busy schedule. As a busy mom herself, Carolyn has made sure to fill this book with recipes that your whole family will love and that you’ll be proud to serve.”—Ann Taylor Pittman, James Beard Award–winning food writer, former executive editor at Cooking Light, and author of The New Way to Cook Light and Ev
“Meals That Heal—One Pot is an excellent guide to understanding the whats, whys, and hows of chronic inflammation, but it doesn’t stop there. Importantly, it also gives you the tools to help you keep inflammation in check and prevent disease by eating better, with lots of quick, tasty, and customizable recipes. I highly recommend this excellent book.”—Ellie Krieger, RDN, Food Network and PBS cooking show host and best-selling cookbook author
“Carolyn’s recipes and expertise, as illustrated throughout this book, demonstrate perfectly how food should not only taste great, but should also make you feel just as great inside.”—Nicole McLaughlin, chef, culinary video producer, and host of Allrecipes’s You Can Cook That
“Preparing meals at home is one of the most reliable ways to benefit from food as medicine, but the inconvenience of cooking, and cleaning up after, gets in the way. In this terrific book, Carolyn Williams empowers us all with a bounty of convenient, no-muss, no-fuss options for great food and great nutrition.”—Dr. David L. Katz, founder and CEO of DietID, Inc., and the True Health Initiative, former president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and coauthor of What to Eat with
“Any cookbook that includes vibrant, appealing recipes that are also healthy and made in one pot is like a unicorn: exceedingly rare and worth celebrating! I’m already inspired by Carolyn’s actionable suggestions on how to jump start healthier eating, and my meal plan for the week has practically made itself thanks to recipes like the Southwestern Caesar Salad, Beef Bulgogi Skillet, and Sheet Pan Jambalaya. Yum!”—Jenna Helwig, food director at Real Simple and author of Bare Minimum Dinners
“It’s not every day that the food you eat can help you be healthier with each bite — but that’s exactly what the meals in Meals That Heal—One Pot do. Carolyn turns science and research into delicious meals that you want to eat again and again. She also breaks down the daunting task of understanding why inflammation happens and what you can do to stop it. That’s a win-win!”—Kimberly Holland, senior digital food editor at Southern Living and author of Collagen Handbook
