Books about good cooking with canned food, health and nutrition, and great meals you can dish up in a hurry.

Half Scratch Magic
Learn strategies for transforming convenience foods into culinary triumphs
By Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd

Chinese Tomato Shrimp Soup. Enchiladas Vera Cruz. Spicy Gingered Asian Slaw with Salmon. No one needs to know these dishes began with a can of soup, a store-bought roast chicken and deli cole slaw. With this book, cooks can discover the quick trick of pairing freshly prepared purchased items and pantry staples to produce such specialties. It is chock-full of more than 200 great spur-of-the-moment recipes for hors d'oeuvres, entrees, biscuits and breads, and desserts fashioned from ready-made, boxed or frozen ingredients. Packed with smart shortcuts for busy cooks, this practical, inspiring book brilliantly redefines home cooking.

The Can Opener Gourmet
More Than 200 Quick + Delicious Recipes Using Ingredients from Your Pantry
By Laura Karr

Publisher: How many times have we thought to ourselves, "I'd love to cook a great meal, but who has the time?" Laura Karr understands this universal dilemma and has discovered a great way to cook up our favorite dishes in half the time, and often for half the price, using the convenience of foods from cans and jars.

Reminding us that canned food is nutritious, preservative-free and available year round, Karr shares many of her coveted family recipes, including Curried Chicken and Artichoke Salad, Fettuccine with Pumpkin Cream Sauce, and Turkey Tetrazzini - all delicious and all prepared quickly, with the flip of a lid!

A Man, A Can, A Plan
50 Great Guy Meals Even You Can Make
by David Joachim

Publisher: A Man, A Can, A Plan, inspired by an article in the most popular men's magazine, Men's Health, is a cookbook that presents simple, inexpensive recipes featuring ingredients guys have right in their cupboards, canned food. Great and healthy food can be had for a low price and minimum effort, and A Man, A Can, A Plan lays it all out, in pictorial, easy-to-follow steps, for the culinary-challenged. Because the sections (each is devoted to a specific primary ingredient such as ham, chicken, fish, beans, veggies, fruit, Spaghetti-Os, or beer) are color-coordinated, your favorites will be easy to find. Award-winning author David Joachim definitely knows his stuff, and he makes it accessible to beginners and experienced guys as well. Get your can openers ready to rumble!

American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide (2nd Edition)
The latest information on food and nutrition from leading professionals.
by Roberta Larson Duyff

Publisher: Based on the new United States Department of Agriculture Dietary Guidelines, this easy-to-use guide clarifies complex issues with real solutions to today's eating dilemmas. It clearly shows how healthy eating can be good tasting, convenient and easy with a myriad of real-life examples for every age and stage of life.