My friend, neighbor and former fitness trainer just wrote a book, and I’m thinking you might really like it. Well, if healthy foods and flat abs (and happy kids who gobble up what you serve them) are up your alley, then you’ll like it. And since we all know how hard it is to fit in fitness and how not fun it can be to cook up a nutritious masterpiece after a long, hard day, this cookbook really is kind of like a necessity.

The Everything Flat Belly Cookbook features 300 quick and easy (I like quick and easy!) recipes to help you drop the belly fat and tone your abs. This is not a cookbook that will send you running to the store for dozens of ingredients, and it is not a cookbook filled with hard-to-pronounce dishes. I’m talking toasted cheese and turkey sandwiches, fit PB&Js, simple guacamole, dark chocolate pretzel rods and more. And not only will you get scrumptious meals and snacks from this book, you’ll also get tips for dodging diet bullets (dumping dressing on your salads is a no-no) as well as the scoop on what you’re putting in that body of yours. Low-fat cheese fries? Not as back as the Outback’s version: 176 calories and 4 grams of fat. Yum.

Taco salad, here I come. Page 85 for those who want to join me.