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Cook This, Not That! Easy & Awesome 350-Calorie Meals [Paperback]

David Zinczenko , Matt Goulding
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Book Description

October 12, 2010

Tired of always being too hungry (and tired!) to make smart food choices? Ever wonder why the less food you try to eat, the more fat you seem to gain? Ready to start enjoying all your favorite foods and never see an ounce of weight gain? Cook This, Not That! Easy & Awesome 350-Calorie Meals is the ultimate cookbook for people who love to eat—even if they don’t love to cook. The authors of the best-selling diet and weight loss series Eat This, Not That! teach you how easy it is to turn the expensive and unhealthy foods in America’s restaurants into fat-blasting superfoods that cost just pennies—and take just minutes to make!

Can you believe…

* At Olive Garden, an order of Chicken Parmigiana will cost you half a day’s calories—and a day and a half’s worth of sodium! Cook our Chicken Parm recipe at home and save 730 calories and $9.94!

* At T.G.I.Friday’s, a Santa Fe Chopped Salad carries a whopping 1,800 calories—the equivalent of three Pepperoni Personal Pan Pizzas from Pizza Hut! (You call that a salad???) Try the Cook This, Not That! home version and save 1,460 calories!

* Hungry for a panini? At Panera Bread, the Italian Combo on Ciabatta comes loaded with more than 1,000 calories and a side of 45 grams of fat! (In less time than it takes to order their version, you can whip up ours and save 690 calories)

With this illustrated guide to hundreds of delicious, simple, lightning-quick recipes—along with the nutrition secrets that lead to fast and permanent weight loss—you’ll make the smartest choices for you and your family every time.

Additional features in Cook This, Not That: Easy & Awesome 350 –Calorie Meals include:

  • A step-by-step illustrated guide to every cooking technique you’ll ever need to know

  • The 50 Best Foods in the Supermarket

  • The Milk Shake Matrix

  • The Rules of the Grill

  • 12 Ways to Better a Burger

  • The World’s Best Condiments

  • And more!


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Editorial Reviews

About the Author

David Zincz enko is editor-in-chief of Men’s Health and editorial director of Women’s Health.
Matt Goulding is a chef, James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and contributing editor to Men’s Health.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books; Original edition (October 12, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1605291471
  • ISBN-13: 978-1605291475
  • Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 6.5 x 6.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (167 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

DAVID ZINCZENKO, SVP/Editor-in-Chief of Men's Health magazine and Editorial Director of Women's Health magazine, is the author of New York Times bestsellers The Abs Diet and The Abs Diet for Women. Once an overweight child, Zinczenko has become one of the nation's leading experts on health and fitness. He is a regular contributor to the Today show and has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, Primetime Live, 20/20, The Rachael Ray Show, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Customer Reviews

The recipes are delicious and very easy to make. Christina Witt  |  69 reviewers made a similar statement
My husband is the cook in our family but he loves this book. Traci A. Ocana  |  35 reviewers made a similar statement
Also helpful in this book is new cooking tips and techniques. Josh  |  22 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
92 of 93 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome utility! December 2, 2010
By Josh
Format:Paperback
I bought this book at Walmart (paid a lot more for it there) and it was completely worth it. So far, I have tried a half dozen of the recipes, and ALL of them have been a huge success. One reviewer rights about how it is only restraunt selections..... false. At the bottom of each ORIGINAL recipe in here, they show what a restaurant alternative is, and how much money and calories you save by cooking at home. Also helpful in this book is new cooking tips and techniques. For example, as a southerner - I love fried foods. This book showed me how to "oven fry" foods to have that familiar taste and crispy outside without all the extra calories from submerging foods in hot grease. Other techniques in this book that have been helpful are how to braise meats and use the natural drippings to make your own sauces while cooking, increasing the natural flavor of dishes.

2 weeks in, 11 pounds down

5 Stars in my book!
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105 of 112 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars TOTAL KNOCKOUT! October 12, 2010
Format:Paperback
I am shocked at how engrossed I am with this book. I want to cook every single recipe! The biggest surprise--aside from learning how many calories I could save by cooking for myself--was how motivating the recipes are. Beautiful pictures and simplified cooking tips turn complex dishes into super-easy recipes. Many of the recipes even come with variations in case you can't find a certain ingredient or just want more variety. Here are my four favorites so far:

*Red Pepper Alfredo - AMAZING dish, and I saved 830 calories and $10 over the same meal at Olive Garden.

*Loaded Calzone - Far easier than I ever imagined, and I saved 1,025 (!) calories and $4.50 over Pizza Hut's Meaty P'Zone Pizza

*French Toast Stuffed with Strawberries -Whole-wheat toast stuffed with ricotta cheese, strawberries, honey, and almonds. Yum. I will definitely be making this again! And I saved 810 calories and $11.40 over IHOP's version.

*Curry with Cauliflower & Butternut Squash - I had no idea I was capable of making curry. Or that I could save 717 calories and $8.50 in the process.

My kitchen skills are improving, I'm motivated to cook, and I already feel healthier. And if I don't feel like cooking one night, I'll just dive into the chapter dedicated to 10-minute meals. That should be easy enough. Though, to be honest, nothing I've cooked so far has taken me much more than 20.
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74 of 78 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Wishful math January 23, 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
With the calorie counts calculated from reliable sources, that lovely, fluffy, "340 calorie" burger on the front cover has 504 calories, and I suspect the rest of the math in this book is just as hopeful. (Come on, you knew that food looked too good to be *that* low-calorie.)

I used the USDA database (very reliable) for fresh meat/produce and the sides of packages for the prepackaged stuff. I tried to use the lowest calorie available options.

175 calories: Ground sirloin, 90%/10%, 1/4 lb raw weight pan-broiled (i.e., with the fat cooked out), USDA database
190 calories: Orowheat Country Potato buns (the lowest-calorie "potato bun" at my local Safeway), 1 bun, calories from package (keep in mind that just two small slices of white wonderbread would have 120 calories.)
60 calories: Sargento® Deli Style Sliced Reduced Fat Swiss Cheese, 1 slice, calories from package
33 calories: mushrooms, 1/2 cup (raw volume), USDA database
15 calories: A1 steak sauce, 1 tablespoon, calories from pacage
11 calories: onion, medium-size, 1/4 onion, USDA database
20 calories: oil, canola, 1/2 teaspoon (estimated), USDA database

The goofy calorie counts in this book are shame, because (for example) 504 calories isn't bad for a burger at all. But it's almost *50% more* than the calorie count they gave in the book. The massive difference in the *actual* vs the *listed* calories could seriously throw off a carefully calculated diet. Caveat Emptor.
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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Delicious Recipes, But Watch The Math January 30, 2011
Format:Paperback
I've owned this book for about a eight weeks now and have cooked at least a half dozen of the recipes. All turned out very good. I'm an experienced cook and don't need a lot of direction to know how to follow a recipe, and I'm not sure if that affected the outcome. Regardless, the recipes are nicely thought out, and presented in a way that gets them on the table fairly quickly.

Despite liking the book, I do have a couple of concerns. I don't want to repeat what other reviewers have said, so please read those reviews if this strikes a chord with you: The calorie counts and comparisons with restaurant meals are not accurate comparisons. The book generally compares one serving from the book's recipes, which are usually four servings, with the entire restaurant entree, which is often as large as the book's entire recipe, and certainly more than the single serving size the book recommends. I get it---the authors want us to watch not only what we eat, but how much we eat. Good advice, but they shouldn't rig the comparisons in such a disingenuous way. Still though, the recipes are good, and I believe that people need to take personal responsibility for portion control. If some fuzzy math in the book causes people to make better decisions and feel good about it, I can live with that.

Even though this book looks slick, it feels like a self-published book in serious need of a good editor. Now that I've cooked recipes, AND LIKE THEM, I can't find a darn thing in the index. For example, there are two salmon recipes that I like. Is salmon a category in the index? Not a chance. Okay, let's go to fish, which does exist, but there's no sub-section for salmon.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas
It's so easy to follow these recipes. One of the easiest ways to cut back I've tried Pleased and surprised.
Published 10 days ago by Deborah
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for healthy eating
We've been using this book for great alternatives. The recipes are for many restaurant dishes but with a healthy twist. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Susan Eng
5.0 out of 5 stars Cook This Not That
Good product in great condition almost brand new
Meals were easy to prepare and to follow
overall it was a great product
Published 18 days ago by Pablo Nava
5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas!
I've just used a couple of recipes and it's helped me un-blah my meals and keep them within my calorie limits. Read more
Published 23 days ago by King L. Wilder
5.0 out of 5 stars very useful
Hardly recommend this book series, specially if you like to live with a healthy diet. Easy to prepare foods and snacks.
Published 1 month ago by David T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
One word: Yummm

These dishes are so good and so easy to make. I have only made a few but they are all amazing so far. I highly recommend this book.
Published 2 months ago by Armand
5.0 out of 5 stars easy to make
I love this cook book! It is a really great tool for low calorie foods. I plan to buy more like this
Published 2 months ago by thrifty mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book!!!
This book has a lot of great information and recipes. I checked it out from the library and didn't want to give it back.
Published 2 months ago by N. Cutler
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm ready now
I bought this book after my son cooked me a meal from it. I was complaining about weight gain and saying to him that his cooking is why I can't loose weight. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Shannon Cooper
4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful
This is a helpful book. If you are on an extreme fat loss program, this book helps you to select the correct foods to ensure that you come in to the right amount of required... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Shameal Ali
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