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Summary: All the Foods You Love Modified to Low-Taste
Review: After reading glowing reviews about this cookbook, I feel compelled to uncover the truth. This cookbook is average, at best! There are MANY other low-fat cookbooks on the market that far outshine Butter Busters. The texture and flavor of many of these recipes rarely even resemble the "real thing." Breads and cakes are often spongy and some recipes are over-spiced (as if the cook is trying to hide something). The whole concept of using Butter Buds in place of ALL fats just ruins the taste and flavor of many recipes. If this is your first low-fat cookbook, don't throw in the towel just yet! This is a bad first impression! Low-fat cooking CAN be delicious...Butter Busters is not.
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Summary: My readers inspire me! Thanks for YOUR support!!
Review: At the tender age of 40, my cholesterol was found to be 242. After cutting the fat in my diet for six months, I was able to lower my cholesterol to 146. That was back in 1990, and when I first began writing Butter Busters The Cookbook. I self-published the book in March 1992. It was one of the first low-fat cookbooks on the market. By the Grace of God, it sold like low-fat... Hot Cakes! In less than 1 1/2 years, I somehow managed to sell 400,000 copies out of my mini-warehouse in Arlington, Texas. Warner Books found me in Texas (in the number #1 Best Seller spot) in April 1993 and wanted to purchase publishing rights. Butter Busters Publishing, Inc. had become a Mycoskie Family Venture and I really wasn't interested...or so I thought! However, after the Warner Books folks came to Texas to meet me and then invited me to visit them in New York, I changed my mind. They asked me what I wanted to accomplish with my cookbook. It didn't take me long to answer...honestly! I told them that I wanted to help as many people as possible change their life for the better. I wanted to share what had literally saved my heart...a low-fat lifestyle! The people at Warner Books were able to convince me that I'd be able to reach a MUCH larger audience (thus help a lot MORE people) if I went with a major publishing house. I agreed and signed a contract with Warner Books in May 1993. Warner Books published my new and updated edition of Butter Busters in January 1994. It became the 2nd best selling cookbook in 1995, behind In The Kitchen With Rosie. It became and still is the 3rd. best selling cookbook of the '90's.(Again, by the Grace of God!) Warner Books published my second cookbook, I'm Listening! The Butter Busters Cookbook Companion, in September 1995. I truly enjoyed writing that cookbook, because it gave me an opportunity to interact with my readers on a personal level. I'm Listening! has over 100 GREAT low-fat recipes (some of my favorites) as well as loads of valuable information. The book is huge...564 pages! I call it The Low-Fat Cookbook With ALL The Answers. I've answered reader's questions in the cookbook and included a ton of helpful tips and tricks for cooking low-fat. There's also a complete restaurant guide, name brand shopping guide, cholesterol and other health information, a section regarding kids (and their eating habits), extensive exercise and fitness information, plus a whole lot more! Many of my readers have written me asking for MORE cookbooks. Well, the time is... here! I've been working VERY hard over the past three years and I've finally finished, not one, but FOUR NEW low-fat cookbooks. The first of the series to be published will be: Butter Busters! Meals In... Minutes! I have three other cookbook manuscripts completed. They are: Butter Busters! Let's Party!, Butter Busters! Just The Two Of Us, and Butter Busters! All Your Kid's Favorites! I've also compiled: YOUR Butter Busters Name Brand Shopping Guide! Look for Butter Busters! Meals In...Minutes! to be published in the near future. I would like to take this opportunity to thank every person who has bought either one (or both) of my cookbooks. I truly feel this is what God planned for my life. It has been a real Blessing to have touched the lives of so many people over the years. Thanks for all your sweet letters and kind words. My readers truly are my inspiration! Happy Healthy Cooking! Pam Mycoskie
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Summary: Check out the Butter Busters website, too!
Review: Aunt Pam and I have been working together to create a website for Butter Busters. Its online now at butterbusters.com! Be sure to check it out and come back often for new additions. We're just getting started!
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Summary: A book that must make Julia Child weep¿
Review: How can you not eat anything with butter in it, on it or ...ok, it is difficult
to believe you could live a life without any butter. Looking through this cookbook, you might think you just stepped into a foreign country. In order to cook from this cookbook, you will have to buy Butter Buds, Fat-Free Margarine, Sweet 'N Low Brown Sugar, Liquid Butter Buds, Fat Free Miracle Whip. No, I haven't made anything from this book. I'm terrified. If you are into the whole "I can live without butter" scene, you might enjoy: Strawberry Dream Cake
Macaroni and Cheese made with non-fat cheese
Chicken and Potato Casserole
Shrimp Scampi
Barbecued Flank Steak - now that looks pretty good and it doesn't contain
anything artificial.
Italian Minestrone Soup - you could use olive oil instead of butter buds
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake This does have a special binding that allows the book to lie flat. Pretty neat. If you love Egg Beaters, there are some breakfast recipes
you will enjoy.
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Summary: Paige's review
Review: I know the lady who wrote this cookbook and she is truly amazing, not only has she written two best-sellers, but she is the best MOM in the world. I love you mom. Love Paige
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Summary: The best low-fat cookbook I've read
Review: I lost 100 pounds over nine months through daily exercise, eating healthy, balanced meals and using this cookbook. The recipies are easy to make and tasty for those who like low-fat and even those who don't (and believe me, they won't know the difference nine times out of 10). If you're looking for a low-fat cookbook, this is the best there is.
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Summary: This was my lowfat cooking Bible
Review: I purchased this book in 1994 when I was approximately 50 pounds overweight. I was just learning about lowfat eating and did not know how to prepare foods for myself and my family that we all would like. I did not want to prepare separate "diet food" for me and regular food for my son. However, with this book, I learned how to convert all the foods I craved, namely sweets and breads, to lowfat. My son especially loved the tortilla soup recipe, and he ate everthing I made from this book without asking "is this diet food?" Using the principles in this book, I lost the 50 pounds and have kept them off for the past 5 years. I recommend this book for anyone who is beginning a lowfat eating regimen and needs guidance on how to start. I have bought other lowfat diet books since 1994 which are good, but this is still my favorite.
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Summary: A book that must make Julia Child weep¿
Review: Looking through this cookbook, you might think you just stepped into a foreign country. In order to cook from this cookbook, you will have to buy Butter Buds, Fat-Free Margarine, Sweet 'N Low Brown Sugar, Liquid Butter Buds, Fat Free Miracle Whip. No, I haven't made anything from this book. I'm terrified. If you are into the whole "I can live without butter" scene, you might enjoy: Strawberry Dream Cake
Macaroni and Cheese made with non-fat cheese
Chicken and Potato Casserole
Shrimp Scampi
Barbecued Flank Steak - now that looks pretty good and it doesn't contain
anything artificial.
Italian Minestrone Soup - you could use olive oil instead of butter buds
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake This does have a special binding that allows the book to lie flat. Pretty neat. If you love Egg Beaters, there are some breakfast recipes
you will enjoy.
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Summary: Learn to live low-fat with food you will actually LOVE!!
Review: This book is an excellant learning tool for those trying to switch to a low fat way of eating. If your motivation is to
lose weight or simply to improve your health, this is the
cookbook for you.
I bought this book to lose weight. P. Mycoskie helped me
learn how to make a transition to low fat eating by teaching
me how to read labels, choose ingredients and modify my cooking style. In the process of learning all this I have
lost 100 pounds and feel great. No this is not a diet book; this book teaches you how to make a lifestyle change that you control and can live with.
The food is actually good; not at all diet food. Your kids
and husband will even eat it - mine LOVE IT!!
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Summary: This is the best diet cookbook I've ever seen!
Review: This book is great at teaching you how to eat
healthy, and the best benefit has been the weight
I've lost so far!
I have lost 6 dress sizes in 5 months by eating
the food in this book, and have never felt hungry
a day yet!! There are great entrees but best of
all great low-fat desserts. My personal favorite
is the Hot Fudge Cake!! It's delicious and simple.
In fact, I am purchasing this book for the second
time due to the fact that we lost everything in
the flooding, but one of our most missed possessions was this cookbook! If you want to lose weight, or just learn to eat healthier and
feel better, you have to try this book!
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