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• Over 150 Flavorful Eat-right Recipes to Lose Weight and Live Longer
• Start now to change your eating habits without giving up the tastes you've come to love.
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| Editors of Reader's Digest | | Hardcover:
| 352 pages | | Publisher:
| Readers Digest | | Publication Date:
| February 21, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0762106158 | | Package Length:
| 11.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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 you should have this cookbook in your collectionJan 21, 2010
My parents have a copy of this book and I just had to buy one for myself. It is one of the best cookbooks I own and I recommend it highly to anyone who likes to cook healthy. It has color photos throughout plus I really like how they put the calorie information on the side and there are hints and sometimes history info. It's really interesting just to sit down with the book and read through it. I have made a good handful of recipes and all of them have turned out very tasty. Someone else mentioned the Lemon Chicken Orzo recipe and I have to agree, it's one of my favorites too. Some recipes do have some hard to find ingredients like for the fancier dishes but overall, you should be able to find everything in your local grocery store.
 Be sure you have access to 'out of the norm' grocery items.Oct 04, 2009
There are only a few recipes that I would be able to make because we live in rural Pennsylvania and many of the ingredients just are not available in our grocery stores. If I had looked through this book first at a local bookstore, I would not have purchased it. If, however, you have access to a wider variety of grocery items, you would probably do well with these recipes. Many that sound great.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Tasty, Healthy, EasyFeb 16, 2008
My wife and I picked this up about a year ago. Since then, we have made about a dozen meals from this book, most of them multiple times (like the lemon chicken with orzo, a personal favorite.) We also purchased a second copy after our dog tore up the first because we liked it so much.
We like this book for several reasons, and the three primary ones are stated in the title of my review: the recipies are tasty, healthy, and easy to prepare. The book provides the calories, fat grams, protein, etc., so you know what you are taking in. There are no tricks concerning portion size; most recipes are for two servings, and each serving is well within reason (250 - 450 calories, low fat).
When you open the book at random, you will find a large color photograph of the prepared meal on the left hand page, and the recipe, along with some smaller photos of intermediate steps, neat and colorful boxes for nutritional info & ingredients, time to prep/cook, and easy directions on the right.
For those of you just deciding to start cooking for yourself so that you can actually control what you are taking in (for weight loss and health), this book is for you.
Also, for those of you who want to adopt healthy cooking & eating practices but are organizationally inclined, a tip: once every two weeks, sit down with this book (and any other healthy recipe books you may have) and plan out what meals you would like to cook on which nights. Copy down all the ingredients, including the amounts necessary. When you have the completed list, go through your fridge/pantry/spice wrack and determine if you have any of the ingredients. Make a secondary list of what you don't have and need to buy, including amounts. Add this list to your general grocery list before you go shopping. This way, after you go shopping you know that you will have everything you need for the next two weeks of cooking. I have found that before we adopted this practice, it was much too easy to rationalize NOT cooking, since we were always vaguely unsure about whether or not we had what we needed to cook. Not only are we healthier now, but as an added bonus we get to try new dishes all the time. I pity the people still stuck in microwave-meals/fast-food limbo!
Buy the book--you won't regret it!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Mouth watering!Jun 02, 2007
This book is awesome! Very few ingredients are needed and ALL of them you can find at a grocery store. Mouth watering pictures show you what it is suppose to look like. Has many breakfast and appetizer recipes along with many other dinner and desser recipes. Has nutritional values for each recipe, tells pre times, cook times, and how many it serves. Plus, I like how each recipe has a 'Health Hint' and a little history about the recipe...'Way Back When' and also 'Secret to Success'. I highly recommend this recipe book and I use it constantly! Buy it, you won't be disappointed.
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