A healthy lifestyle often times boils down to making the right choices when it comes to what you eat. The Eat This, Not That! series by Rodale aims to help consumers make those choices. Cook This, Not That! by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding shows us how cooking at home is so much better than eating out. It takes not-so-healthy entrées from restaurants and provide a much more healthy alternative you can make at the comfort of your home that will save you both money and inches around your waist (yes, I know you have to clean up at home…not my favorite part either, but still).

Cook This, Not That! also compares popular brands of certain grocery items and makes recommendations on those items based on nutritional value. The only issue we have with this and all the other books in this series is that we live in the middle of nowhere (aka Illinois, not Chicago, the other part) and some of these restaurants and grocery items just aren’t available in our area. Other than that, which is not the author’s or publisher’s fault, I think these books are really helpful when it comes to helping the consumer make better food choices.

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