Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods: A Cookbook - Softcover

Wilbur, Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452281490 ISBN 13: 9780452281493

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! 

Todd Wilbur, the irrepressible restaurant recipe knockoff artist, is back. Thanks to Wilbur's latest Top Secret mission—to re-create some of America's most popular food products without the fat—readers can now feast guilt-free on their favorite snacks. The easy-to-follow recipes, along with Wilbur's patented blueprint illustrations, are guaranteed to produce healthier homemade treats that taste identical to the real thing—like Nabisco Reduced-Fat Oreo Cookies or Entenmann's Light Low-Fat Cinnamon Rolls. Wilbur also tackles some familiar restaurant delights, including Bennigan's Buffalo Chicken Sandwich, McDonald's Arch Deluxe and Egg McMuffin, and Wendy's Chicken Caesar Fresh Stuffed Pita—concocting them all at a fraction of the calories and at a fraction of the cost. Once again, the intrepid Todd Wilbur goes where no food writer has gone before—and proves that when it comes to providing recipes for food that diners really want to eat, he is the peoples' choice.

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Review

Is there an audience for Todd Wilbur's Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes, a collection of fat-reduced and make-it-yourself formulas for the likes of Screaming Yellow Zonkers? Judging from the success of Wilbur's previous cookbooks, which also provide favorite food-product recipes, the answer is you bet. This book is for those times when a chocolatey Oreo or gooey Entenmann's cinnamon roll--made at home--is just what the doctor ordered. The 75 or so recipes are divided into two sections: Low-Fat Top Secret Recipe Clones, which provides formulas for duplicating already low-fat foods such as Nabisco Honey Maid Grahams and Gardenburgers, and Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes Conversions, recipes for reduced-fat renderings of normally fatty foods like Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich and McDonald's Egg McMuffin. These recipes reduce fat calories by half or more. The formulas produce food that is at least as credible as its ancestors and sometimes better. Readers should know, however, that many of the recipes require low-fat or ersatz food items, such as egg substitute, and that food coloring is sometimes called for. (Those Oreos require brown paste coloring to achieve their familiar hue.) Wilbur is fascinated by the ups and downs of the companies whose products he gives recipes for, and many of their head notes yield information such as, "In 1996, Nabisco built up its growing line of Snackwell's... with the introduction of low-fat snack bars...." This back-story is actually more interesting than not. With droll blueprint-style drawings of the foods, nutrition facts for each recipe, and various preparation tips, the book brings readers interested in reproducing their favorite store-bought foods very close to the "real thing." --Arthur Boehm

From the Back Cover

In this follow-up to Top Secret Recipes Lite! bestselling author Todd Wilbur shows you how to re-create your favorite brand-name foods and restaurant recipes at a fraction of the calories, and how to create popular low-fat dishes and treats -- in the privacy of your very own kitchen.

Discover the secrets behind Todd Wilbur's delicious lower-fat versions of:
-- McDonald's "RM" Egg McMuffin "RM"
-- Olive Garden "RM" Chicken Parmigiana Sandwich
-- TGI Friday's "RM" Potato Skins
-- Wendy's "RM" Classic Greek Fresh Stuffed Pita "RM"
-- Carl's Jr. "RM" Bacon Swiss Crispy Chicken Sandwich
-- Taco Bell "RM" Beef Burrito Supreme "RM"

Plus these delectable desserts and snack-time favorites:
-- Nabisco "RM" Reduced-Fat Oreo "RM" Cookies
-- Entenmann's Light "RM" Low-Fat Gourmet Cinnamon Rolls
-- Little Debbie "RM" Oatmeal Lights "RM"
-- Reduced-Fat Otis Spunkmeyer "RM" Chocolate Chip Muffins
-- Keebler "RM" Reduced-Fat Pecan Sandies "RM"
-- Planter's "RM" Fat-Free Fiddle Faddle "RM"

You'll also learn how to make Seven Seas "RM" Free "RM" Viva "RM" Italian Fat-Free Dressing, Fat-Free KFC "RM" Potato Salad, Reduced-Fat KFC "RM" Macaroni & Cheese, Low-Fat Screaming Yellow Zonkers "RM", and much more -- with no dyes, fillers, or preservatives, fewer calories, drastically reduced fat, and the same sinful taste. And you can customize all these scrumptious new recipes to suit your individual nutritional needs and dietary preferences -- without sacrificing the terrific flavor. With Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes, you'll never have to deny yourself any of your best-loved brand-name foods again!

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0452281490
• ISBN 13: 9780452281493
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256