New Dieter's Cookbook - Hardcover

Better Homes And Gardens Books

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0696207141 ISBN 13: 9780696207143

Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens, 1997

This cookbook makes eating a low-calorie diet easy and enjoyable with more than 400 delicious, every day recipes.

Full-color photographs, including one of every finished recipe.

Food exchanges (based on the American Diabetes Association's exchanges) listed with every recipe.

Introduction contains information on weight loss including ideal weight, types of ingredients to use in cooking, tips on cutting calories and fat, exer-cise recommendations, and learning to eat well and forget dieting forever.

Every recipe has been tested in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen for accuracy and taste appeal.

Menu plans for an entire week.

Tips and blurbs offer additional low-fat cooking strategies, serving suggestions, and timesaving ideas.

Nutrition Facts with every recipe.

List of simple ingredients for adding flavor without adding a lot of calories and fat.

Special chapter lists the calories of commonly eaten foods.

From Publishers Weekly:

With this compilation of many previously published, low-calorie recipes, the Better Homes and Gardens editors contribute another entry to the plain-and-straightforward, unfattening genre. While this one will no doubt appeal to the legions of dieters desperate for ideas that will work, it is not entirely practical for anyone who has a life outside the house. While the book starts with a three-day menu called "Begin-Your-Diet Menus," followed by recipes, there is no shopping list for this section, and not even a pantry section for the rest of the book to aid calorie-watchers in preparing themselves for myriad recipes, the possible advent of binging and the potential for last-minute guests. Unquestionably ingenious calorie- and fat-saving recipes can be found--among them, no- cholesterol brownie bits and taco salad using corn tortillas pressed and then baked--not fried--into a custard cup mold. However, the calorie counts, included prominently with each recipe, can be deceiving; no measurements are given for serving sizes. Moreover, there are inconsistencies. A very basic cookbook like this one demands better. Illustrations not seen by PW. Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book Club featured alternate.
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