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Fabulous Fat-Free Cooking

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I would recommend this book to others if you are looking for a low-fat cookbook that consists of more gourmet-type recipes instead of ordinary meals. All the recipes in this book have under 1 gram of fat per serving, but from the ones I've tried, you wouldn't know that it wasn't made the usual fat-filled way.

There are some really delicious recipes in this book--Peking Turkey & Vegetables; Sweet and Spicy Carrots; Rice and Orzo Pilaf (absolutely delicious), etc. If you are looking for a lot of meat recipes, you don't want this book. Obviously meat has fat, so there aren't a whole lot of meat recipes to choose from. I don't usually eat a whole lot of meat anyway so this was fine for me.

Another thing about this book that I find interesting is with every recipe the author includes a little food fact or lore or a kitchen tip or health tip--makes for an interesting read. One thing that I would have liked to have seen is a picture of each dish. There are color pictures of some of the dishes, but not all...

This book is well worth the money. The author speaks from experience and has an easy to understand life-style change for anyone who needs to lower their cholesterol. She has a chart that you pick out how many calories you are to consume daily and tells you exactly how many TOTAL fat grams you are allowed in a day depending on if you choose a diet of 25% fat or 10%. You don't have to do any math. All you need to do is to ask your doctor how many calories you should be consuming. She also recommends 1 hour of exercise, which is reasonable. By following this book my cholesterol went from 239 to 175!

This is my favorite cookbook to refer to for low fat recipes (and I have A LOT), they are easy and delicious with lots of variety. Not the usual tastless stuff. Only drawback is the layout is very "plain Jane" and not very many pictures, but don't let that stop you -- this is an excellent buy.