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American Heart Association Low-Calorie Cookbook: More than 200 Delicious Recipes for Healthy Eating

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I am extremely pleased with many of the recipes in this cookbook. The cookbook is broken down into appetizers, snacks, and beverages, soups, salads, seafood, poultry, meats, vegetarian entrees, vegetables and side dishes, breads and breakfast dishes, and my favorite...desserts! Every recipe is for 4 servings, but thankfully, the book tells you what is considered 1 serving. 4 servings is FINE since most of the meals can be packaged up and eaten for lunch or dinner the next day.

I have made the beef and broccoli stir-fry, the pineapple meatballs, the shepherd's pie, the apple dumplings, the macaroni and cheese with spinach, and the gnocci with spagetti sauce. My husband and I were AMAZED with how flavorful the gnocci and the pineapple meatballs were...we absolutely loved these meals! The apple dumplings were delicious, but they were a little challenging to make...the pie filling kept eeking out the sides when I was trying to fold them into triangles like the directions said. The only one I will not make again was the macaroni and cheese with spinach. I could barely taste the low-fat cheddar cheese and I felt like I was just eating cooked noodles and spinach.

I work full time and I'm also a graduate student, so you can imagine that I don't have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen. There are recipes in this book that take maybe 15-20 minutes to prepare and cook, such as the pineapple meatballs. The gnocci, obviously, will take longer to make and I recommend that some recipes should be attempted on the weekend and made in bulk since you can devote more time to them.

Nonetheless, I am highly impressed with the recipes I have tried in this book! I have used it to keep myself on a 1200 calorie diet and after using it for just a week and a half, I've lost 5 lbs! The recipes are "normal"...no weird casseroles or anything here. And the desserts aren't just fruit like so many other cookbooks push...apple dumplings were fantastic and I'm going to make the mint chocolate cupcakes with devil's food cake shortly.

I recommend this book for anyone trying to eat healthier while still eating their favorites. This book has a recipe for everyone and the nutritional information is broken down for you per serving, so you'll have no problems tracking your caloric or fat intake. Buy it - you won't regret it!

Though this cookbook does not contain pictures, it contains a lot of great recipes that are quick, easy to follow, and healthy. They have quite a bit of flavor as well, and the portions aren't skimpy (like the weight watchers cookbooks I've found). The recipes are varied and don't call for unusual ingredients - but you'll find that this also isn't your typical American "SAD" fare skinnied down. The recipes are healthy by nature, focusing on healthy ingredients rather than diet-oriented substitutes or trendy low-carb fare.

The cookbook also contains a lot of helpful information on healthy eating and what it takes to lose and/or maintain weight from a healthful, long-term perspective. This is a great addition to my cookbook library.

Since I was starting to take my efforts to get healthy seriously, and was having success with going with a traditional low-cal diet, I wanted to find a cookbook that gave me some ideas so that I wasn't living on ricecakes and water.

Eating healthy needs to be a lifelong plan or the weight will just come right back. For it to last, it's time to break bad eating habits and find a way for food to both taste good and be good for you. This cookbook has a TON of mouth-watering recipes that are low-calorie.

They also include cooking tips, dieting tips and good advice in general. Now what am I doing here typing? I should be cooking!

This is a great book for cooking healthy. If you are looking to drop a few pounds without taking a way all the carbs that you love you have found the right book.

The recipes that I have tried have all turned out really well. I just wish there were pictures to accompany the recipes.

Great cookbook! Dieter friendly! I use this cookbook along with the biggest loser cookbook over and over for a little variety.

book seemed just a tad old in condition, but I guess it was from 2003. it was clean and everything and has good recipes, so overall I was satsified. just seemed a little yellowed with age.

Awesome recipes yet lot calorie, low salt, low fat! I've tried several and they're all delicious!

Good quality. It was an old library book and I expected worse but it was not bad at all. Solid investment, a lot of great recipes!

This is a great cookbook. Alot of great recipes in this. My husband loves it when I use this book.