Recipes for Healthful Living was a cookbook published in 1958 by the Silverwood Dairies Consumer Service Division in London, Ontario. This cookbook offers various recipes ranging from main courses to desserts within its twenty-four pages. All the recipes feature a different kind of dairy product which is how the cookbook has been divided. It aims to encourage the use of dairy products in the housewife's kitchen, specifically from Silverwood Diaries who was trying to promote the products they produced by mentioning them by name. The Consumer Service Division of Silverwood Dairies states that it was meant as a free service for housewives. The fact that it targeted women is very telling of the era when it was published. In the 1950s, the nuclear family was the societal norm and the baby boom meant more attention was being paid to children's nutrition, which was overseen by mothers. This cookbook provides recipes that use dairy products in ways that might be considered unusual today, which offers some great examples of how important dairy was in Canadians' diets and how much it was considered a nutritional powerhouse.