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Summary: No Salt - Just Flavor!!!
Review: A great cookbook for anyone!!! Yes, I have high blood pressure & have been diagnosed as 'salt sensitive,' and my husband has had open heart surgery, so we have to be careful, but I have lost 50 pounds without giving up pizza, sticky buns, and chocolate brownies!!! This cookbook enabled me to change my lifestyle without having to redesign my cooking. The recipes in here are easy to make, taste great, and keep you in the mainstream of the food chain even though you are dealing with serious health issues. Don recommends buying a bread machine - who knew store- bought bread had so much sodium!! Anyway, I bought a bread machine , and recipes for the pitas, the breads, the pizza dough - all superb! So many of the heart healthy books do not understand that is not just the fat...many of us have to watch the salt as well. This cookbook guarantees that we do not have to give up the flavor and the fun of food.
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Summary: No salt but no taste either.
Review: After my recent heart attack, I've been trying to make changes in my diet, so I purchased this one. Eek. Recipe after recipe fell flat on its face-- near inedible stuff. Try the series of cookbooks from the American Heart Association instead.
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Summary: A valuable resource
Review: After reading many references and cookbooks on low sodium, this book has become one of my primary references. The informaiton provided covers some areas not addressed in other references and the recipes are both practical and do-able. The results of using most of the recipes have been very satisfactory in both flavor and appeal.
I highly recommend the dill pickling recipe for dill pickles and pickling vegetables.
As a long time breadmachine baker I found confirmation of my approach to making no-salt-added bread and some useful aditional ideas.
Anyone having to learn how to live with and enjoy a low sodium lifestyle will find this book a very useful resource.
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Summary: To Right a Wrong Book Rate
Review: Back in April or May I sent in a rate of 1 because I didn't receive the used book I ordered. It was missed placed in the mail. When I contacted Mr. Don Gazzanga he went above and beyond to find me another book to replace the one I ordered. The recipes, No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook are excellent! Mr. Gazzanga is a man of his word and I recommend his book highly!!Thank you Mr. Gazzanga for your wonderful book!!
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Summary: Forbidden Foods Can Be Yours
Review: Being on a low salt diet often means denying yourself spicy foods. This cookbook lets you have chili, soups, side dishes such as hummus or spanish rice and many other foods that you may have missed. It also has great receipes for entertaining such as Beef Wellington and Hot Barbecued Country Pork Ribs. Now your guests can enjoy a good meal and you won't feel guilty about cheating on your diet. It's easy to read & would be perfect if it included pictures.
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Summary: Life Saver
Review: Best ever. I've bought them all. This is the one. The one that saved my life. Great plan in book and I stuck to it. Doctor can't believe, wife can't believe it, I can't believe. This is the only book in the no salt world that truly seems designed to help. More than a cookbook, it's my lifesaver. And the author has a great website where he actually responds to questions. Thank you for this book.
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Summary: Also good for us...
Review: CHF patients are not the only ones who will benefit from "The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook." I was diagnosed with Meniere's Diease in January 2002 and told I had to follow a low-salt/sodium diet. After trying, unsuccessfully, on my own, I quickly discovered that just not salting food doesn't work. I ... discovered Mr. Gazzaniga's cookbook. It has been wonderful! I use it like a textbook. I make notes in the borders, put sticky-notes on the "good" pages and even rate each item I try on a 0-5 scale. I've even started branching out on my own and experiementing with different ingredients for Mr. Gazzaniga's recipes. Not only has following a low salt/sodium diet helped greatly with my Meniere's...I also lost 18 pounds in 4 weeks - without giving up sweets and flavorful food!
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Summary: WHO NEEDS PICTURES? GREAT RECIPIES!
Review: Don's book, The No-Salt, Lowest Sodium Cookbook, provides the best choice for anyone needing to lower their sodium intake and he does it with the most delicous recipies. Without pictures, too. Who needs them anyway? If Don had included pictures he would have had to trade-off, removing recipies and other features. Bottom-line, this is the best book of it's kind. You won't find a better one anywhere.
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Summary: Too many errors
Review: First of all, 3 + 2 = 5; put it another way, 5 - 3 = 2. The author's low-salt hand-baked (as opposed to machine-baked) bread calls for beginning the recipe with 3 cups of flour. Then you add the rest of the flour; I make that 2 cups. Then, and here's where I get into trouble, you add the rest of the flour again! Exactly how much flour is that? Oh, and you may finally want to add another 1/2 cup of flour--but no more, he says. My question is. . . . Also, he recommends a bread machine that I can't find--on Amazon at least--and the bread machines by the same maker are not well-reviewed by about half the customers. Finally, he refers you to other recipes in the book that are not there. I guess if you really can cook--e.g., know whether pots should be covered or uncovered, know whether to slice the mushrooms or leave them whole--and have access to a mainstream cookbook against which to check his measurements and ingredients, you'll probably do okay.
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Summary: Melinda
Review: I bought this book after reading several reviews which made it sound great. However when I got it home and started trying the recipes I found them difficult to follow, some with missing steps, and they all had so many ingredients they were just plain difficult to make. The end results so far have been tasty, just time consuming to prepare. I also bought 'The No-Salt Cookbook: Reduce or Eliminate Salt Without Sacrificing Flavor' by David C. Anderson, Thomas D. Anderson which has been an easier cookbook to use and has a better layout for the recipes.
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