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Betty Crocker's Best of Healthy and Hearty Cooking: More Than 400 Recipes Your Family Will Love

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If someone told me I'd be reviewing and raving about a cookbook I would have laughed out loud. Every recipe I have prepared from this book has been a success, both from my side and my family's. (I have a fussy nine year old and a plump husband.) Except for a few recipes that have required the planning to marinate overnight, these are quick and easy, tasty and healthful without some member of the family rolling his eyes and saying, "Mom's on a health kick again!" I let everybody pick a recipe when I am planning the menus. Nobody has come back with the "I dunno, nothing sounds good," response which would have been typical before. Fun recipes. Standards.

I love this book.

We have lived off of this cookbook for almost two weeks! There are only two of us and the portions are just right to leave leftovers, or to have another couple over. I have planned entire menus for dinner parties! The food is not only lower in fat and calories but it all tastes GREAT, too! This one is a must for beginners to experts!

I love to cook. But, I was looking for a book to keep the flavor without a lot of fat, sugar, and salt. This book covers it all. You don't have to buy a lot of expensive and hard to find items and most of them, you probably already have around (honey, pepper, ketchup, mustard, etc). My favorite is the Korean Barbeque Beef. I substitute it with chicken and toss it with rice. Even my picky kids love it. This is a wonderful book to have.

This cookbook certainly does one thing well--providing over 400 recipes that are reasonably health AND tasty. Main dish recipes contain relatively few calories and have low fat levels. The type face is large and easy to read; the color photographs give a sense of what the dishes would look like.

Up front, and in keeping with the cookbook's theme, is a nice essay "All About Healthy Eating." One positive feature (on page 27) is a table of suggested healthy weights for adults.

Some of the recipes that I have tried that taste good: Chicken `n Pepper Stir-Fry, Baked Lemon Chicken, Chicken Breasts with Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce, and Chicken with Orange Glaze. There are also some neat grilling recipes, such as Honey Mustard Pork Chops. One of the nice features in the grilling section is (on pages 270-271) relevant statistics regarding fat, calories, and sodium content of various condiments (such as barbeque sauce, mayo, salsa, Thai peanut sauce, etc.).

One issue that occurs to me: It is nice that the type face is large and that there are so many photos. But the consequence, to me, is not positive. This reduces the number of recipes that can be included in the volume. I'd much rather have more recipes and fewer photos and smaller print.

All in all, a good cookbook. But it would have been nice to sacrifice some glitz and give us even more recipes. . . .

This is the second healthy cookbook that I've purchased and this one is far better than the first. It has a lot of really good recipes. Most all are for 4 servings and easily cut in half for two. I highly recommend this book.

As a health conscious person, always interested in calorie count, etc, this book has all the information you need for each receipe. A lot of other cookbooks don't have that.

The used book came exactly as the seller advertised. In my opinion, the condition of the used book was more satisfactory than expected. I was very pleased with my purchase from this specific seller. Again, I receive complete satisfaction from my purchases through Amazon.

Betty Crocker has not failed my family yet. I purchased this book after receiving Betty Crockers Wedding Addition Cookbook as a wedding gift and was very pleased. Cooking instructions are easy to understand and definately increase your knowledge and understanding of how to prepare dishes. If you looking for better Caloric Management and don't want to substitute flavor I would recommend this title.

THE BOOK CAME FAST AND IN PERFECT CONDITION TOTALLY RECOMMEND THE SENDER. THANKS