Hungry Girl 300 Under 300: 300 Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Dishes Under 300 Calories [Paperback]

Lisa Lillien (Author)

Book Description

Release date: March 29, 2011

It’s meal-mania, HG style! This book features three hundred satisfying and delicious recipes for full-on meals. Breakfast, lunch & dinner dishes, plus snazzy starters and sides, that contain less than 300 calories each! In addition to crock-pot recipes, foil packs, and other HG favorites, this book serves up more than seventy five soon-to-be-famous HG trios: three-ingredient combos that take easy to a whole new level! Included are . . .

Bean ’n Cheesy Soft Taco in an Egg Mug

PB&J Oatmeal Heaven

Creamy Crab Cakes Benedict

Classic Cheesesteak Salad

Dreamy Butternut Chicken Foil Pack

Burger-ific Mushroom Melt

Buffalo Chicken Wing Macaroni & Cheese

BLT Pizza

Big Apple Butternut Squash Soup

Loaded Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dogs

. . . And more!

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Healthier takes on the familiar … will give time-starved cooks a litany of choices.”

—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Lisa Lillien is not a nutritionist, she’s just hungry. She’s the founder of www.hungry-girl.com, the daily email service providing approximately one million fans with guilt-free recipes, food and product reviews, dieting news, shockers and more. She also writes weekly columns for WeightWatchers.com and Yahoo!, and regularly contributes to Redbook magazine. She has appeared on TV shows like Rachael Ray and Extra, and now has her own show on the Cooking Channel. Her Hungry Girl cookbooks are New York Times bestsellers. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (March 29, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312676816
• ISBN-13: 978-0312676810
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (550 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Quick & Easy
  • #26 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Low Fat

More About the Author

She's not a nutritionist, she's just hungry! Lisa Lillien is a number-one New York Times bestselling author and the creator of the Hungry Girl brand. She is the founder of hungry-girl.com, the worldwide phenomenon daily email service that entertains and informs hungry people everywhere!

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas and foundations - tweak to your liking September 15, 2011

By Jenny W

Format:Paperback

This book is a great resource for recipe ideas that are about as low-cal as you wish to make them. I see lots of reviews angry about the over-dependence on processed foods in this book - if you have concerns about a particular ingredient, simply use the real one. The general rebuttal that I see to this is "then the calorie counts go up!" however if you utilize a calorie database (such as calorieking.com) and do your own math, you may find that the counts do not go up as much as you might expect. For example, instead of 2/3 cup egg substitute (90 calories) you can use one whole egg and two egg whites for 104 calories. Recipes that call for granulated splenda usually use it in small, sparing amounts - using real sugar instead is not going to inflate the calorie counts beyond all reason. Add these simple changes to the fact that MANY of the recipes in the book manage to be under 200 calories, let alone 300, and you'll find there is a lot of wiggle room. Also, ultimately, 300 calories is not very much for a meal. Use better ingredients and bring it in under 500 and you are still doing a fine job at a healthy meal.

My favorite thing so far in this book is the cupcake lasagnas (see the picture I added under customer photos). I use low-fat rather than fat-free ricotta, a bit less mozzarella to offset that, and one real egg instead of egg substitute. I am fairly certain that with these changes this meal has no processed ingredients, and a delicious muffin-sized lasagna comes in at only 163 calories. And that's even with the little dollop of neufchatel that I hide in the center of each lasagna! At 163 calories you can eat 3 of these with no guilt and that's a LOT of food. This is just one example of a recipe that I never would have discovered without hungry girl!

I've also made several of the egg mugs and oatmeals in this book. In my egg mugs I use a real egg and then egg whites rather than egg substitute but these wonders still usually come in under 200 calories and are so filling. I had never heard of egg mugs before the book.

The desserts are also tasty, although these are one category where you'll need to get creative if you want to avoid processed ingredients. It's a fact of life that desserts tend to be bad for you, and she does a great job lightening them up without sacrificing taste.

In conclusion - I'm VERY happy with this book. I don't follow the recipes to the letter when I want to use more natural ingredients, but that's ok. A little imagination and it is a fabulous foundation for great meals.

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Hungry Girl is Great, A Few More Healthy Choice Would be Welcome for Next Edition August 11, 2011

By Mags Olson

Format:Paperback

I love the Hungry Girl recipes. I can always count on them to be low-cal and still taste great! I have been doing these kinds of meals for several weeks now and my body is getting used to things nicely and my clothing is fitting better! I am surprised that more emphasis is not placed on low-cal HEALTHY eating but that is fine. Still, as with some other reviewers, I agree that the processed foods and artificial sweetners can lead to problems that are on par with extra weight, or even worse.

I think a combo of Hungry Girl and Naturally Skinny: 100 Organic Recipes Under 350 Calories would be a fantastic duo, so you still have the fun recipes in Hungry but you also get another assortment of fun and low-cal recipes in Naturally Skinny only those are ORGANIC and extremely healthy. Some processed foods once in a while is fine but certainly don't go low-cal AND bad foods at the same time.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING! June 20, 2011

By Kathy

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I love this book! So many amazing recipes, I make at least one everyday. I cannot live without the egg mugs, they have really saved me from boring diet breakfasts. All the recipes are fast, easy and inexpensive, and my whole family enjoys them. It's crazy what wonderful combinations they come up with. Hands down my Fav diet cookbook EVER! Easily compatible with weight watchers points systems.