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Summary: Leading Help with Trimming Down without Flavordown
Review: Kathleen has paid the price, spending evident time researching what she offers as help in slimming down with sacrificing flavor and fun.I'm totally impressed with your ideas which are three: eat right, exercise, and make up your mind to do it. She provides inspiration and motivation to do each. This lady lost 80-lbs, and she has over 4,000 cookbooks. She has much to offer us on the subject of cooking thin to win.
And I thought I had a few cookbooks! Watching her on Foodtv, she is passionate and compassionate to help us get into healthier lifestyle, so this is a total outlook offering. I'm touched that she has all of us think about such as kitchen space allocation, shopping, etc. Helpful is the real life cases she relates which provide much application bridges. The Food? 416 pages of good recipes, each blessed with clear data, and shortcuts, and "cook once, eat twice" advice. How about such creative stuff as: Sweet Potato Bread with cranberries, Currants and Pecans.Lemon Poached Cod, Grainy Mustard Smashed Potatoes. Lentil Lemon Soup.Date Bar Cookies, Dark Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake. Besides quick, good tasting food, this resource provides total needs for those desiring to eat well, keep at eat over time, and don't spend all day shopping,prepping and preparing food.
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Summary: No Nutritional Information in this book
Review: How can you write a cookbook with light/diet recipes and not include Nutritional Information, such as fat grams/calories/fiber/carbs. etc.? The recipes look good, but I don't have time to figure out the calories etc. I am on Weight Watchers and it is impossible to figure out the points value of these recipes. I am very disappointed, I never would have purchased the book if I knew this info was not included. I wish one of the reviews I had read stated this info was missing. I hope this review helps anyone else that uses nutrional information to plan their diet.
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Summary: very disappointed
Review: I couldn't wait to purchase this cookbook, but was thoroughly disappointed to find out that no nutritional values were given. How can that be? I have never seen a weight-loss book without one, until now! I need to know this info if I choose to put together an entire menu from this book, I wouldn't want to exceed my alloted calorie/fat intake for the day.
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Summary: Cooking Thin?
Review: I'm not really sure how this book would help you to cook thin, although I do like a lot of the recipes. The problem for me was that none of the recipes had fat or calorie content and that is a must if I want to keep myself from eating the whole thing! I suppose that if you have self-control, this book will work for you. Chef Kathleen seems to have a great sense of humor which shows through in the book, but having been overweight herself at one time, I would have thought she would know how important keeping track of portion sizes, calories and fat is. Having said all that, if you are looking for a good cookbook with healthy and interesting recipes, this could be it!
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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: Cooking Thin with Chef Kathleen is a wonderful book! It eloquently presents many of the important ideas from the Cooking Thin television program on the cable Food Network, plus more. The recipes are excellent, and Kathleen is humorous, compassionate, honest, and real. Since I discovered the Cooking Thin television program and book, I have lost 50 lbs. in three months and I am approaching my ideal goal weight. More importantly, I have made significant maintainable lifestyle changes involving healthy, delicious foods and exercise. Kathleen Daelemans is truly an inspiration!
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Summary: Perplexed
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this cookbook by the author who has a show on the Food Network. I also want to state that I was terribly
DISAPPOINTED that she did not include any nutrition information with her recipes. When I cook a recipe I need to know the calorie count and the fat content in it. All the recipes in this book do not contain this info. My daughter gave this book to me for Mother's Day, and included a notation on the inside cover, so I can't return it. If she hadn't written in it, I would definitely return it because of the lack of nutritional information.
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Summary: Sensible weight loss
Review: I used to joke that I was going to sell my secret for weight loss and make millions. My book was titled: "How to Lose Weight By Eating Less and Excercising More." Kathleen, it would seem, has beaten me to it. Her book, and TV show, is filled with the most realistic and down-to-Earth advice I have seen. One big fear for me was that the book was simply her show on paper. There is a small overlap but not enough to feel like I paid for something I just saw on TV. The recipies use reasonable ingredients for home cooks and easy enough techniques so those of us who did NOT graduate from culinary school can keep up. The book is definitely a winner. While the book may be a winner, it is not perfect (hence 4 stars). It doesn't have pictures. I'm a fan of pictures; they inspire me to make something even though I know my version won't look like the picture. Kathleen also seems mother-obsessed. Mom's comments weren't bothersome at first but by "Breakfast" each one hit you over the head harder and harder. It's true there isn't any nutrition information, but that didn't bother me; serving sizes ARE given. If you make a cake that serves 12, common sense should tell you how much to eat at one time. It's this fact, in the end, which speaks directly to the book's message. If you are sitting down to a meal, eat correct portion sizes (eat less); then STOP sitting when you are done (excersize more).
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Summary: Chef kathleen is a doll
Review: I loved this book! Chef Kathleen really has an enthusiasm that is contagious. Her writing style is just as funny... its easy to get motivated with her and you do *Feel* with her when you are reading the book. The first 80 or so pages are the story of how she got to where she is...and than how to go about changing your diet... some people might just wnat to get tt the recipes but i really like *chatty* cookbooks...i enjoy her writing style.. her sense of humor and its easier to follow her diet theory knowing how she got there. I agree that nutritional info is missing BUT...her way of eating isnt really based on calories or fat grams...etc. it is about making *smart* choices in general... not about specific grams which really makes sense over a life time of eating, if you think about it. you could certainly find the calories or grams of a certain recipe if you needed to tho..by calculating it. her recipes are really delicious...high in flavor...easy low in fat... and it was a fun diet book to get thru. i cant say that often
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Summary: Wonderful book that is changing me
Review: This is the first cookbook that I plan to make a lot of food out of. Very practical--especially the tips and short cuts. Now dinner doesn't seem that overwhelming AND... I could eat healthy too without all that silly fuss. I did calculate points for some of the recipes I plan to make. The calculations may be flawed, but I wanted people to see what a great and healthy book it is even if it doesn't have the calories or fiber listed! easy pizza dough
servings | 2
POINTS per serving | 16 microwave tomato sauce
servings | 8
POINTS per serving | 0
jack's bbq sauce
servings | 2
POINTS per serving | 4 pizza with tomato sauce, basil, and cheese
servings | 4
POINTS per serving | 6 italian sausage pizza
servings | 4
POINTS per serving | 11 bbq chicken pizza
servings | 4
POINTS per serving | 9 baby back ribs
servings | 4
POINTS per serving | 9 super pot roast
servings | 8
POINTS per serving | 8 meat loaf
servings | 8
POINTS per serving | 6 buttery mashed potatoes
servings | 6
POINTS per serving | 3 lazy man's lasagne
servings | 12
POINTS per serving | 4
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Summary: Refreshing Weight Loss Book
Review: This is an excellent book. It not only has excellent recipes (I've already made and enjoyed the carrot slaw, granola and tuna pasta salad) but it was also very enjoyable to read the book introduction and commentary on each recipe (a rare find with cook books!). I also enjoyed the Shortcut Chef tips and From Mom's Lips to Your Ears.
This book leaves you with an encouraged feeling that it is ok to splurge every once in a while and still stay on track with your diet. It is refreshing that the aspect of an overall plan for healthy eating and fitness is stressed as a plan for life (not the traditional nutritional information - calorie /fat counting that most books rely on).
I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for some great healthy recipes and also some enjoyable reading.
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