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Summary: Enhanced with easy to follow low-fat menus
Review: A superbly organized and presented introduction to low-fat, carb conscious dining, Quick & Healthy Low-fat, Carb Conscious Cooking showcases more than two hundred new and/or updated, delicious, nutritious, "heart healthy", diabetes appropriate, weight control friendly recipes. Quick & Healthy Low-fat, Carb Conscious Cooking is enhanced with easy to follow low-fat menus, detailed nutritional analysis for each recipes, tips for trimming fat and sodium from a diet, a listing of foods and their fiber content, conventional and microwave directions, time saving ideas, weight loss and exercise tips, and "Products Worth Trying". From Hot Artichoke and Spinach Dip; Three Bean Soup; and Pear Salad with Raspberry Dressing"; to Low-Fat French Fries; Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Casserole; and White Chocolate Mousse with Berries, this completely revised and updated second edition of Quick & Healthy Recipes and Ideas offers a highly recommended compendium of palate pleasing, appetitive satisfying, kitchen cook friendly recipes.
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Summary: Anyone can cook well and healthily with this book...
Review: Brenda J. Ponichtera is not only a registered dietitian, she knows how to cook in a way that's both flavorful and healthy. Taking the knowledge from her days as a dietitian, she has designed and tested 190 recipes for each volume of this book (Quick and Healthy Recipes and Ideas AND Quick and Healthy Volume II) which will taste great and keep the pounds off. Not only helpful for dieters, this book contains necessary nutrient exchanges and helpful information for diabetics.These down-to-kitchen books can help anyone learn to cook in a healthy way. Sample dinners are included in both books and the second edition contains sample menus as well as pre-made grocery lists. Although page numbers are hard to find from the sample menus, a helpful index solves the confusion and lists recipes by principle ingredient. Each recipe includes a description and ingredient list and preparation time can estimated by scanning the instructions, but the stand out here is a table at the bottom which contains number of servings, calories, fat, and exchanges - a sure to help any dieter. Trying a sample menu leads to easy shopping (just put the list into an online grocery store, although check quantities before ordering), fairly quick preparation times, a limited number of ingredients, and tasty results (the Creamy Seafood Fetticini even won over my seafood reluctant friend). The sections on determining your ideal weight and calorie intake, as well as the nutrient analysis tables in the back are indispensable. With a minimum of creativity and time, anyone can cook well and healthily with this book, making sure it will have a place on my counter for years to come.
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Summary: Publishers Marketing Assocation 1997 Book of the Year
Review: Companion to best-seller Quick & Healthy Recipes and Ideas. More quick recipes that your family will enjoy. All recipes are low in fat and delicious. Special section focuses on fat. Worksheets are included for people to determine the amount of fat that is okay for them to eat. Also a list of common foods with their fat content. All recipes have nutrient information such as grams of fat, carbohydrate and diabetes exchanges. Highly recommended by physicians and dietitians.
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Summary: Its okay
Review: I adore this book and the first one as well. Meals are quick and I usually have enough ingredients on hand to make SOMETHING in the book. Meals are good, basic weekday meals that my husband (butter-cheese man) finds palatable.
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Summary: Love this book
Review: I adore this book and the first one as well. Meals are quick and I usually have enough ingredients on hand to make SOMETHING in the book. Meals are good, basic weekday meals that my husband (butter-cheese man) finds palatable.
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Summary: One of the best I've bought.
Review: I buy many cookbooks. This one I bought by just browsing. I've used it many times in the last few weeks and haven't cooked anything my family hasn't liked.
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Summary: Excellent Healthy Cookbook
Review: I have about 12 lowfat cookbooks in my collection. This cookbook and volume 1 in the series are my favorites because the recipies taste great and they are very easy to make. You will love this cookbook!
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Summary: Simple and Tasty
Review: I have an autographed copy of this cookbook, compliments of my mother a registered dietician. I think she bought one for everyone she knows. As a busy mother of a two year old and a three month old, I use this cookbook four or five times a week. I make many of the Quick and Healthy Breads into Quick and Healthy mini muffins for a healthy snack for my 2yr. old and he loves them. These recipes are simple and tasty, but there have been some which I have modified, because they were too bland - the unstuffed cabbage rolls for example. Overall, this is a great tool to have in the kitchen.
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Summary: My favorite cookbook
Review: I have both this book and the first one. I found them browsing in a book store, paid full cover price, and I'm not sorry. They are excellent!!! If you are on a low salt diet, you can use most of these recipes without modification. If not, you can simply salt or spice to taste if you desire more robust flavor (but I've only found this necessary once or twice). Two improvements I would recommend - the weekly menus should have page #s for recipes from the book, and the menu plans should take into account the food that you are already buying for the week. For example, I've had to buy some things that only come in 16oz packages for just one recipe that only required 1oz! So, the weekly menu plans should try to reuse similar ingredients, as much as possible while still providing variety. But, both of these issues can be worked around with just some simple pre-planning before you go shopping. My husband hasn't even noticed he's eating healthier - and this is someone who always picks the worst kinds of food to eat. My Dr. recommended I lose some weight. After buying these books, I brought them in and asked her opinion of them. She liked them so much, she made photocopies of the covers so she could recommend them to her other patients! Hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
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Summary: Lives up to the title!
Review: I have both this book and the first one. I found them browsing in a book store, paid full cover price, and I'm not sorry. They are excellent!!! If you are on a low salt diet, you can use most of these recipes without modification. If not, you can simply salt or spice to taste if you desire more robust flavor (but I've only found this necessary once or twice). Two improvements I would recommend - the weekly menus should have page #s for recipes from the book, and the menu plans should take into account the food that you are already buying for the week. For example, I've had to buy some things that only come in 16oz packages for just one recipe that only required 1oz! So, the weekly menu plans should try to reuse similar ingredients, as much as possible while still providing variety. But, both of these issues can be worked around with just some simple pre-planning before you go shopping. My husband hasn't even noticed he's eating healthier - and this is someone who always picks the worst kinds of food to eat. My Dr. recommended I lose some weight. After buying these books, I brought them in and asked her opinion of them. She liked them so much, she made photocopies of the covers so she could recommend them to her other patients! Hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
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