Cook Book: Healthy Liver, Happy Heart by Annie Douglass Lima

Struggling to protect your heart health or reverse fatty liver disease—but not sure what to cook?

Enjoy delicious, wholesome meals that truly support your heart, liver, and overall wellness. This cookbook is filled with low-fat, low-sodium, anti-inflammatory recipes made from simple, real-food ingredients—each one designed to help you lower cholesterol, reduce inflammation, balance your metabolism, and manage fatty liver disease naturally.

You’ll find everything from satisfying main dishes and vibrant salads to creamy dressings, aromatic sauces, and comforting soups—all bursting with flavor, not with sugar, salt, or fat. Each recipe includes complete nutrition facts, clear step-by-step directions, and realistic prep times to fit your lifestyle.

Whether you’re healing from heart disease, working to improve liver function, striving for weight loss, or simply choosing a cleaner diet, Healthy Liver, Happy Heart makes it easy to cook with confidence and enjoy food that’s both healthy and delicious.

Perfect for beginners and seasoned home cooks alike, these recipes help you eat well, feel great, and care for your body, one nourishing bite at a time. Start your journey toward better heart and liver health today—grab your copy now and discover how delicious healing can be!

 

About the Author/Creator

Annie Douglass Lima is the author of two cookbooks, Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal and Healthy Liver, Happy Heart. Though best known for her fantasy novels, she also enjoys creating practical, flavorful recipes that make healthy eating both doable and delicious. Having lived in four countries and visited more than twenty, she brings a global perspective to her cooking as well as her writing. When she isn’t experimenting in the kitchen, Annie works as a teacher and continues to spin action-packed tales of speculative worlds.

For updates on her writing and life overseas, and to receive a free fantasy ebook, subscribe to her newsletter at books.anniedouglasslima.com/LimaNews.

 

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Email: AnnieDouglassLima(at)gmail(dot)com 

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 Sample Recipe

 

Review:

This cookbook is well thought out and organized, with notes included with healthy tidbits about the various ingredients used in the recipes, as well as some variations that can be used to tailor them to your individual needs. The images also give a tasty idea of what to expect.

 

The way it is organized makes it fairly easy to find what you're looking for. And I definitely appreciated that there were recipes for items that can be used solo, or as ingredients in other recipes, such as yogurt, various sauces and seasonings, as well as basic staples such as chicken stock. 

 

I tried a few recipes that are more suited to my family. We particularly enjoyed the Black Bean Soup. It was simple and easy to make, with ingredients everyone is sure to recognize. And the taste was pretty darn amazing. We'll definitely be making it again, though we'll likely add a pinch or two of salt ;)

  

 We also tried the Chicken Chow Mein, which was both tasty and pleasing to the palette. There are quite a few other recipes I wanted to try before posting this, but there are too many good ones, and I appreciate the various spice mix recipes included. I've been looking for some good, low to no sodium spice mixes and know these will serve my family well.

 

Where to buy 

Available formats: color hardcover, color paperback, black-and-white paperback, color eBook

Universal link to the book on Amazon and in multiple other stores: books.anniedouglasslima.com/liverheart

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New Release: Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal by Annie Douglass Lima

Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal (paperback cover)

My latest writing project is very different from anything else I've written. It's a cookbook! But those who know how much I love fantasy might not be surprised that this cookbook ended up with a fantasy theme. Many of the recipes have names inspired by fairy tales or fantasy stories, and I love the hints of fantasy in the two covers designed by the awesome Savannah Jezowski. 

Why two different covers? The paperback version of the cookbook is an unusual shape, due to the unusual recipe format (more information about that below), so it couldn't share a cover with the ebook.

Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal (ebook cover)

Some people might be surprised, though, that the whole book is focused on oatmeal. After all, isn't oatmeal that boring goop that nobody really eats if there's anything else available? 

NOT ANYMORE! In this book, you'll find recipes for delectable dishes like creamy mango coconut spice oatmeal, cinnamon almond oatmeal, blueberry cream cheese oatmeal, and (my personal favorite:) caramel banana oatmeal with peanut butter. (Okay, so that one is a little closer to the dessert end of the spectrum than the porridge end!) 

Take a look at the book blurb below for more details:

Are you tired of high-sugar, low-health-value instant oatmeals in tiny serving packets full of artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives? Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal contains 70 hearty recipes packed with natural ingredients and brimful of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. All are gluten free, assuming you use gluten-free oats, and vegan (or they come with a vegan option). Most require no salt so are perfect for a low sodium diet. Almost all of these recipes can be prepared in ten minutes or less, saving you time in your busy morning.

Oh … and no more math! Whether you’re cooking just for yourself, for a family of six, or any number in between, every recipe comes in the form of a handy table that shows exactly how much of each ingredient you’ll need for however many servings you want.

Tasty enough for kids to crave, but wholesome enough to appeal to health-conscious parents, these mouth-watering recipes will give you plenty of energy for your day while pleasing your taste buds too. Download Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal now and say goodbye to artificial breakfasts that don’t fully satisfy.

Take a peek at a few of the fun recipe titles (with pictures courtesy of photographer Denise Johnson). Then scroll down for a free recipe!

And now for a free oatmeal recipe in the unique format I use in Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal:

Ready to grab your copy? Click here to download the ebook for your Kindle or to order the paperback cookbook. And if you enjoy the recipes, please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Goodreads, and/or Bookbub!


About the Author:

Annie Douglass Lima considers herself fortunate to have traveled in twenty different countries and lived in four of them. A fifth-grade teacher in her “other” life, she loves reading to her students and sparking their imaginations. Her books include science fiction, fantasy, YA action and adventure novels, a puppet script, anthologies of her students’ poetry, Bible verse coloring and activity books, and now a cookbook. When she isn’t teaching, writing, or experimenting with new flavors of oatmeal, Annie can often be found sipping spiced chai or pomegranate green tea in exotic locations, some of which exist in this world.

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