Rating:  Summary: Not just for "dieters"! Review: This is just about my ideal cookbook format! The recipes are clear and have full nutritional info which means that whether you're on Weight Watchers, Atkins, or just watching calories, you can find what you need to know. Best of all--a big, beautiful color photograph accompanies each and every recipe. I like the way the chapters are set up (the main dish salads chapter is one I'm really using this summer!) and FINALLY, ("diet") cookbook authors who can think outside the beans-and-rice and pasta-with-tomato-sauce cliche for meatless meals. Every single recipe I've tried so far is delicious. I use this because I *am* on a diet, but the name should more accurately be "Recipes for a Healthy Life" or some such thing. Even if you're NOT on a diet, you'll enjoy the tasty offerings of this book.Too many diet cookbooks have recipes that "TASTE" like diet food--rather tasteless, fairly unimaginative (or OVERLY imaginative), and repetitious variations on the same theme (yeah, alright, we KNOW how to put sauce on noodles already). The New Dieter's Cookbook gets it right: fresh, tasty, food in generous portions using mostly familiar ingredients resulting in delicious meals that also happen to be healthy!
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