American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook, Second Edition : A Complete Guide to Reducing Sodium and Fat in Your Diet

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Summary: A must for health conscious cooks everywhere
Review: The American Heart Association's Low-Salt Cookbook: A Complete Guide To Reducing Sodium And Fat In Your Diet, 2nd Edition is a bargain collection of appealing, imaginative exciting recipes that substitute culinary genius for overseasoning with salt and-or overuse of butterfat. A team of recipe developers, editorial assistants, consultants, and of course a registered dietitian provide the multitask disciplinary approach which results in a classic gem of a cookbook. Recipe categories include appetizers, soups, salads and dressings, seafood, poultry, meats, vegetarian entrees, vegetable and side dishes, sauces and seasonings, breads, and desserts. There are additional appendices on shopping, cooking, dining out, and how to protect your heart and brain. These include a handy herb, spice and seasoning guide on page 328 that is worth copying and posting in your kitchen in a viewing place. Recipes are complete with blue boxed nutritional analyses plus blue boxed cook's tips, containing recipe modifications or variations or ways to further reduce sodium or fat content, for example. For ethnic variety, there is a wonderful recipe for Buffalo Baked in Pumpkin, made with wild rice, honey mustard, jalapeno peppers, onion, parsley, bell peppers, pumpkin seeds or pine nuts, thyme, cilantro and cayenne. What a showstopper! Other tasty tidbits include Granny Apple and Cranberry Salad, Mediterranean Couscous, Eggplant Mexicana (with chili powder, pepper, onion, garlic, and tomatoes), Black Bean Soup, Hot and Smoky Chipotle-Garlic Dip, Crustless Garden Quiche, and real live actual Cheese Blintzes. The Low-Salt Cookbook is chock full of delicious wasy to overcome health problems such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, not to mention obesity. The Low-Salt Cookbook is a must for health conscious cooks everywhere.

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Summary: great recipes - a must have for the low salt dieter
Review: This book has tons of recipes - organized under headings - which make it easy to find something to cook - when you need something new - a great tool for exploring the new world of low - salt. I have followed the recommedations in the book and I have lost 5 pounds in one month - I'm sure that I won't see them again - and I have never felt better - so full of energy!

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Summary: Not a Low-Salt Cookbook
Review: This is a low-fat cookbook with the words "low-fat" crossed out and "low-salt" written in in crayon. I need a low-sodium diet because of inner ear problems and I was very disappointed with this book. Consider, for example, these two recipes: "Chicken Enchiladas," p.112 and "Spinach Lasagna," p 142. The former has 684 mg sodium per 2-enchilada serving and the latter has 594 mg per serving. Sorry, folks, but this ain't "low-salt." The book does have many low-salt recipes, but the real focus is low-fat. The authors use considerably more space discussing low-fat issues than low-sodium issues and precious little of the latter. Since you're not going to eat enchiladas and lasagna every night (I hope not!), the average amount of sodium intake over, say, a week would be lower using these recipes. This is fine if your focus is to take good care of your heart, but if you're like me and you're sensitive to bursts of sodium into your system, this book doesn't cut it.

Rating:
Summary: Not a Low-Salt Cookbook
Review: This is a low-fat cookbook with the words "low-fat" crossed out and "low-salt" written in in crayon. I need a low-sodium diet because of inner ear problems and I was very disappointed with this book. Consider, for example, these two recipes: "Chicken Enchiladas," p.112 and "Spinach Lasagna," p 142. The former has 684 mg sodium per 2-enchilada serving and the latter has 594 mg per serving. Sorry, folks, but this ain't "low-salt." The book does have many low-salt recipes, but the real focus is low-fat. The authors use considerably more space discussing low-fat issues than low-sodium issues and precious little of the latter. Since you're not going to eat enchiladas and lasagna every night (I hope not!), the average amount of sodium intake over, say, a week would be lower using these recipes. This is fine if your focus is to take good care of your heart, but if you're like me and you're sensitive to bursts of sodium into your system, this book doesn't cut it.