Running out of ideas as to what healthy meals you can try cooking next while on quarantine? Tired of eating oft-unhealthy takeouts as your daily meals? Want something quicker and healthier to make as an alternative to the usual stuff? Whatever cooking and meal-planning challenges you are facing right now, do know that you may need a cookbook that features recipes that not only are delicious, but can also boost your health so as to keep yourself ready for whatever the COVID-19 coronavirus throws at you.

Without further ado, here are 8 of the best healthy cookbooks that will keep you COVID-19-ready:

1. Healthy Family Cookbook
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The "Healthy Family Cookbook" helps you spend less time in the kitchen and more enjoying your family through minimal steps and ingredients, smarter prep and less clean-up. The cookbook features 100 family-friendly recipes that are organized into themes such as "15-minute," "One-Pot" and "5-ingredient," making weeknight meals easy as 1-2-3.

2. The Complete Clean Eating Cookbook
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"The Complete Clean Eating Cookbook" is just what you need if you want to make meals using more real, unprocessed food. Featuring three easy 2-week meal plans, this 200-recipe cookbook helps you master 5 core clean eating principles: choosing whole foods, limiting sugar intake, portioning, drinking lots of water and body movement.

3. Eat Happy: Gluten Free, Grain Free, Low Carb Recipes For A Joyful Life
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"Eat Happy: Gluten Free, Grain Free, Low Carb Recipes For A Joyful Life" by Anna Vocino features over 150 grain-free and gluten-free meals that are free of any processed sugars. Available in Kindle and hardcover formats, it is your ideal choice if you are either following low-carb or paleo diets or simply aiming to lose weight.

4. Once Upon A Chef: The Cookbook
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"Once Upon A Chef: The Cookbook" by Jennifer Segal helps you become "the favorite family chef" through 100 "tested, perfected and family-approved" recipes. Bearing the name of the author's popular cooking blog, this cookbook features helpful tips on topics such as proper seasoning using salt, balancing flavors and utilizing leftovers.

5. The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook
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With more than 500 fresh recipes, "The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook" by America's Test Kitchen lets you bring the Mediterranean into your kitchen. Available in Kindle and paperback formats, it follows the guidelines of the Mediterranean diet pyramid and has chapters each devoted to beans, vegetables, seafood, meat and poultry and fruit and sweets.

6. The Blue Zones Kitchen
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"The Blue Zones Kitchen" by longevity expert Dan Buettner is your ideal choice if you want to be healthy enough to live up to 100. Available in Kindle and in paperback formats, it features 100 recipes inspired by those found in the "Blue Zones," where people live up to 100 years old and beyond.

7. The 30-Minute Heart Healthy Cookbook
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"The 30-Minute Heart-Healthy Cookbook" helps you create "fast, flavorful recipes for a strong, healthy heart." The cookbook features 30-minute recipes for every diet, including vegan, vegetarian, DASH and Mediterranean diets, each listing key nutrients like sodium and fat, along with the amount of vitamin K and potassium per serving.

8. Instant Loss Cookbook
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The "Instant Loss Cookbook" by Brittany Williams helps you cook meals that aid in your weight loss goals. Illustrated with gorgeous photography, the cookbook features over 125 meals together with the meal plan that the author used for her own weight loss goals, 75 percent of which are for your instant pot or any multicooker.