I wanted to use the slow cooker to create warm and savory meals all year round, but found many cookbooks contained the more traditional cream-of-something soup and canned beans as their reac -for ingredients. With these recipes, the emphasis is on reduced fat (as in using broth vs soup), low salt, and watching which "carbs" you choose in your meals, and plenty of fresh ingredients, herbs and spices. There are nutritional breakdowns, per serving, with each recipe, as well as the diabetic exchanges.As with other Slow Cooker cookbooks, it does take some practice to figure out whether you can use the recipe as it is, or have to modify it to fit the capacity of your particular cooker. I have a 3 Quart cooker, and was able to reduce many of the 5-6 quart recipes by half with perfect results.I wish that these writers would adapt a uniform format however, giving us Cooking Times, Cooker Size and amount of Servings at the top of each recipe, to make the process of choosing, more efficient.I was pleased to find a like new copy from one of the used books vendors, as I had already renewed my library copy twice.