Holly Clegg's Trim & Terrific Freezer Friendly Meals [Spiral-bound]

HOLLY CLEGG (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 28, 2006 | Series: Trim & Terrific

Planning delicious, healthy meals for every day of the week can be time-consuming and frustrating. But with Holly Clegg’s Trim & Terrific Freezer Friendly Meals, the next installment in the tremendously successful Trim & Terrific series, busy cooks can tackle weekly menus in a day or two, and spend the rest of the week enjoying the tasty rewards of their labor! In this handy cookbook, home chefs will find more than 200 of Holly’s favorite freezable recipes, all of which are designed for real-life cooks who want to prepare healthy and appetizing meals in advance without spending hours in the kitchen. This great resource includes menus for the week and special occasions, pantry stocking tips, advice on cooking light, suggestions for substitutions, and useful kitchen shortcuts. With Holly Clegg’s Trim & Terrific Freezer Friendly Meals, busy home chefs have a valuable tool to help them cut out time spent in the kitchen-make-ahead meals!

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About the Author

Holly Clegg is the author of the best-selling Trim & Terrific cookbook series, which has sold more than 500,000 copies. She has made her fast, flavorful, and healthy meals on the Today Show, Fox & Friends, and major local networks nationwide. Holly’s recipes have also been featured in such magazines as Cooking Light, Southern Living, People, USA Today, and Healthy Cooking. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her husband and children.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 304 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (November 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762425970
• ISBN-13: 978-0762425976
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #568,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Holly Clegg, author of the best selling trim&TERRIFIC® cookbook series including trim&TERRIFIC® Diabetic Cooking with the ADA and Eating Well Through Cancer, has sold 1 million copies. Holly has promoted her healthy lifestyle recipes on national shows including Fox & Friends, NBC Weekend Today, and The 700 Club. Recently, she has partnered with Walmart to help them develop healthful and affordable meal solutions with cooking videos using their Great Value brand. She understands the demands of the busy person and with her user friendly, pantry friendly, and time friendly cookbooks, she has garnered a national reputation as the healthy "Queen of Quick!" For more information, visit www.hollyclegg.com or http://thehealthycookingblog.com Look for her new woman's lifestyle cookbook, Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secret To Sizzle at Any Age coming out soon.

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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner from Holly Clegg!, January 9, 2007

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S. Vansyckel (ME, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holly Clegg's Trim & Terrific Freezer Friendly Meals (Spiral-bound)

I recently purchased Holly Clegg's New Trim and Terrific Cookbook. After trying a few of the recipes my husband told me I could throw all my other cookbooks away! So, I purchased her new Freezer Friendly Meals! Oh my goodness! The recipes are good tasting, easy to prepare, use everyday ingredients and are economical! I made the Chicken Lentil Chili the other night, and it was killer good! Don't hesitate to try this book. You won't be disappointed!

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best 'Freezer' Cookbook, March 22, 2008

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Joshua Fookes (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holly Clegg's Trim & Terrific Freezer Friendly Meals (Spiral-bound)

This cookbook has lots of nice recipes and I like that it has the nutritional information. But I was looking for a freeze ahead cookbook and this book is disappointing in that regard. As far as I can tell all the recipes are precooked and then "cool to room temperature" and freeze. A few say don't precook but all the ingredients are precooked before the final assembly and cooking. This does not result in a very fresh tasting dish when reheated and in some cases was quite disastrous. I tried freezing one of the soups with pasta and the pasta when defrosted made the soup that was previously delicious quite unpleasant and in my opinion inedible. This cookbook has lots of nice recipes that try to cut back on fat by using reduced fat cheeses or cream cheeses but if you are looking for a 'freezer' cookbook I would recommend the 'Don't Panic Dinner's in the Freezer' or the 'Dream Dinners' cookbooks. Those books are also better for bulk cooking. For instance you make a triple batch of your dish and eat one for dinner and freeze two. Or cooking with friends you can make 9 of a dish and you all take some home for dinner and the freezer. This book only give the proportions for a single serving. Of course it is not that hard to multiply by three and just make more but if you are planing a lot of bulk cooking it saves a lot of time to have someone do all those calculations for you (also cuts down on possible mistakes). Furthermore, in some cases certain ingredients (acids) should not be increased at the same rate as other ingredients. The other cookbooks compensate for those adjustments.

To summarize, nice recipes but disappointing as far as freezer cooking. The best freezing recipes are the ones that freeze fresh and raw foods and then cook once (when you are ready to eat it); that is NOT this cookbook.

51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cooking up a storm, April 25, 2007

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This review is from: Holly Clegg's Trim & Terrific Freezer Friendly Meals (Spiral-bound)

After purchasing this book I marked several recipes that I wanted to try immedialty. (20 in all) Needless to say I a have been cooking up a storm. I keep calling my neighbor for tips on OAMC and I already know some different things to do next time for organization. I have been sampling what I have made before freezing and so far everything has been great!! My daughter really likes the Empanadas(we are going to make some carmel apple ones like Taco Bell) and for someone who doesn't like eggs she likes the mini muffing rancheros (I made hers w/o salsa) I was making the mixture for the italian pizza rolls and my son says "wow that really looks good) Some of the recipes I have divided into two meals. The soups I have divided into one large bag for a meal for four and then broke the rest down for lunch size portions. I was able to get two pizzas out of the bbq chicken pizza. I like this book so much I purchase two more to give to my two neighbors who already do OAMC. We have been talking about each of us making 5-6 meals each X 3 and swapping meals. If you are doing weight watchers this is a great book I got my points calculator out and started writing the points on the recipes, these meals are low in points!!