Rating: Summary: Great for Vegetarians! Review: This book is great for true vegetarians! You so rarely find great health-conscious vegetarian cookbooks... I use it all the time!
Rating: Summary: For everyone, not just vegetarians Review: This cook-book offers vegan and vegetarian low-fat, low-calories recipes for those on the weight watchers program or for anyone else. The book contains 150 recipes and each has suggestions for variations so you can probably cook several hundred different varieties. Each recipe is clearly marked so that you can see if it should be prepared ahead or if it is fast and easy to make and so on.
The best things about this book:
+ Good value for my money
+ Each recipe has WW points and a full nutritional analysis per serving
+ Lots of tips for varieties of the dishes, other ingredients to try etc
+ Conversion table to metric units
The worst things about this book:
- Poor paper quality. Cookbooks really should have glossy paper so that you can wipe them easily.
- Some recipes are not very filling
A tip:
Many of the dishes can be prepared either partially or fully in advance. That's good if you need to: a) bring your own lunch to dinner, b) want the flavours to develop more fully, or c) if you want to avoid cooking when hungry.
You should buy this book if:
* You are a vegan or vegetarian on the WW program
* You want to eat healthy and wholesome food
* You are not a vegetarian but want to experiment with non-meat cooking
Rating: Summary: Weight Watchers Versatile Vegetarian Review: This is the first Weight Watchers cookbook that has really disappointed me. I am not a vegetarian, but I do cook meatless meals on a regular basis. I have found much more appealing meatless recipes in other Weight Watchers cookbooks. Real vegetarians may find this book more useful than I did. The best thing about this book is that is does contain point values for all recipes under the new "Winning Points" program.
Rating: Summary: An excellent manual on exquisite "no-compromise" veg cuisine Review: We've prepared numerous recipes from this book, and each continues to astonish and delight. Although the collection dabbles in diverse ethnic cuisine, almost all recipes use readily available ingredients. Having been a life-time vegetarian (and my girlrfiend a budding one), we're always wary of bland, lifeless, health-conscious bird-food...but these recipes demostrate that taste and variety in cuisine aren't just for carnivores. Our favorites are the Spanish Tortilla, Pear-Walnut Salad and the Polenta Stuffed Peppers.Photographs are not provided for all recipes, but that's a minor gripe in what's generally an excellent book !
Rating: Summary: Veggie Lovers Unite! Review: What's great about this book is that it is full of recipes for the one thing weight watcher participants can eat - veggies. I recommend the Chunky Guacomole (1 point per serving) and the Roasted Red Pepper Hummus (2 points). Everything I have tried is just great. My husband loves the Cauliflower with Black Bean Sauce. This is a must have whether you are watching your weight or not.
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