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Cooking Healthy with Splenda (R)

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JoAnna Lund never ceases to amaze me with her recipes, and this book is no exception! Wait until you try the plethora of yummy and low-cal recipes! The Pecan Pumpkin Crumble Pie is worth the price of the book! Don't hesitate -- buy this book!!!

My first recipe using the Lund's Splenda cookbook, Becky's Porcupine Meat Loaf, tasted like Porcupine Meatballs without all the work. Easy to fix, heathy, and a "keeper recipe". We'll be trying out other recipes and I'm sure most will be just as tasty.

This is a must-have cookbook for anyone who wants to watch their sugar intake. Your family will simply love the recipes you prepare from this cookbook - guaranteed. And, they will be all the healthier while enjoying your tasty creations.

As someone who has been involved, for over 30 years, in helping people change their eating lifestyle to health-supporting, I do not advocate the white, cane sugar that humans shovel into their bodies by the boatload. This book, although eschewing white, cane sugar, has other health damaging ingredients that it recommends, including margarine, which has been discovered to be an extremely damaging food due to its trans-fatty acids, canned biscuits that contain questionable additives plus bleached white flour, and boxed baking mixes. Plus other questionable ingredients such as mini-chocolate chips (contains sugar), white, distilled vinegar, graham crackers (additives and sugar), all purpose flour, sugar-free maple syrup (usually sweetened with aspartame, very unhealthy), and more.

I love good food and have spent years learning how to make the foods we enjoy, such as blueberry muffins, candies, breads, cookies, and such, taste as close to their "junk" relatives as possible, yet be health supporting. I am continually asked for recipes from people who don't know anything about healthy eating. So, you see that I'm not recommending that people live on only brown rice and tofu. For example, my chocolate chip (grain sweetened), coconut (unsweetened) pecan, oatmeal cookies are the best, all without bleached white flour, sugar, or margarine.

The bottom line is that the author obviously thinks healthy only means cutting down on white sugar and fat. Ms. Lund, there is a whole lot more to healthy, tasty, and delicious cooking than that. If I could return this book I would. If you are really interested in healthy eating, don't buy this book!

Great receipes, Good cookbook with alot of various selections. Great for anyone that has been recently diagnosed with diabetes and needs to start changing their eating habits and not feeling like the only have a few selections to choose from.

Very clear instructions. For the most part, ingredients one would have in one's kitchen. Especially, nice is the info at the bottom of each recipe telling calories, diabetic exchanges, even healthy exchanges for Weight Loss Choices. There is a list of favorite brands in the front. All the recipes sound good when one is reading through them, especially when one is humgry. For instance, the Apple Biscuit Breakfast Treat on page 184 sounds so good that one will not feel slighted to be on a diabetic diet when it is prepared.

Cook book looks good with interesting recipes, however I have not had it long enough to actually review it (which Amazon has asked me to do at this time).

I love any book by this author, and to be able to buy it used through Amazon is incredible! I received it quickly and it is like new, since then I have bought several books and have been very satisfied.

Worth the money. Several recipes that I want to try.
A book nice enough to leave out on the counter.