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From the bestselling authors of Our Best Bites and Savoring the Seasons with Our Best Bites comes a unique cookbook for healthy eating. Inspired by the authors' personal weight loss journeys, these healthy recipes, all under 400 calories, provide a wealth of ingredient option substitutions for comfort food main dishes, flavorful side dishes and yummy desserts.' Each recipe includes mouthwatering photography, easy-to-follow instructions for swapping out healthy, low-calorie ingredient substitutions, and complete nutritional information including fat content, carbs and sugar and salt intake. Features vegetarian and gluten-free choices and tips for stocking a healthy pantry from ordinary grocery store options plus advice for making the best choices at the salad bar.
About the Author
We're just two girls who love to cook! We're also both wives and mothers balancing home management, part-time work, church and community involvement, and a myriad of other things. So we're probably just like you! We want to show you that cooking at home can be a delicious, fun, and easy way to express yourself and to care for your families and friends.
We started our blog in March of 2008 and thanks to our loyal and wonderful readers, it has morphed into something bigger than we ever anticipated. And we love it. We are authors of the cook book "Best Bites: Mormon Moms in the Kitchen."
About Sara: I was born and raised in the Seattle area, and moved to Boise after marrying an Idaho boy. I attended Brigham Young University and earned a degree in Horticulture with an emphasis in Landscape Design. I love the outdoors and still squeeze in a little design when I have the time. I also love digital scrapbooking, photography, and reality TV (so sue me) .
Food and cooking have always been the at the center of my family. I grew up following my Mom around in the kitchen, and now I have 3 of my own little helpers: Tyler, Owen, and Jack. I love cooking and baking and have a serious addiction to carbohydrates. My sweetie Eric is my best taste-tester and we love cooking and entertaining together. Well I love entertaining and he loves eating the food and he happily agrees to do the dishes as well. It works. He's also the official medical director of our kitchen (when he's off-duty providing the same service for the locals) , which is a good thing, because as a certified klutz I have on more than one occasion needed serious medical care in the middle of my cooking adventures! We also both speak Portuguese and have lived in Brazil and that has definitely influenced my cooking style. (Just take a look at how much lime juice I use!)
About Kate: I was raised in Logan, Utah and, much to the disappointment of my father who is a Ute and an Aggie, I attended Brigham Young University where I majored in English. Which I have always said basically qualifies me to make sandwiches. I'm a mom to two kids, a six-year-old son named Clark and a 3-year-old daughter named Meredith. My husband is an engineer, so there are many "discussions" about how keys belong in one and only place and whether or not a construction level is necessary in the hanging of pictures.
We moved to Louisiana 3 years ago for my husband's job and have learned a lot about Southern food and hospitality as well as insects and humidity. I love food-cooking, eating, looking at it. I'll try anything once, but I hate eggs and okra.
Our Story:
One of the most common questions people ask us is "How do you know each other? " Especially considering that we live on opposite ends of the country. It's an interesting story and goes to show how sometimes the universe just pu
