Low-Fat Vegetarian Cookbook: Recipes for Healthy Eating [Paperback]

Sunset Books (Author)

Book Description

Series: Low Fat | Publication Date: September 1995

Over 100 recipes allow cooks--whether they prefer eating no meat or just greater amounts of vegetables, legumes, and grains--to take advantage of fresh ingredients with a high contrast of flavors, colors, and textures. With this book, cooks can avoid confusion about healthful eating and false perceptions regarding the taste and convenience of wholesome foods.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sunset Publishing Corporation; 1st edition (September 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0376024844
• ISBN-13: 978-0376024848
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,244,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Vegetarian Newbies, November 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Low-Fat Vegetarian Cookbook: Recipes for Healthy Eating (Paperback)

This book is a great book for those who are trying vegetarian recipes for the first time. The recipes are easy to follow and all of the ingredients are available at your local grocery store. I serve my family about 2 vegetarian meals a week, and everyone loves the recipes. Also, I have sent one to a friend who was forced to change his diet for health reasons. Going from Snickers to kombu is too big a step for a newbie.

Hard core vegetarians would have a problem with this book because there are a few non vegetarian recipes. But this book is not for hard core vegetarians.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars vegetarian should mean vegetarian, August 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Low-Fat Vegetarian Cookbook: Recipes for Healthy Eating (Paperback)

every ten pages is a 2-page spread called "almost vegetarian" that proves the organizers of this book to be uneducated in the field of advertising and catering to vegetarians.
a vegetarian book should not have dishes with pork,beef,chicken, and on and on...this is not a vegetarian book and should have a disclaimer stating that it is a book for health-conscious individuals looking for a majority of vegetarian options, but this book is catering to carnivores that want to feel healthy, aka a title that does not lie and claim to be a vegetarian cookbook is needed.
heck, i know some people that would not keep this book around because it has meat dishes in it.
and on top of that, of course, is a whole section to eggs and cheese...now, im not vegan, and do eat cheese and pastry that was made with a small amount of eggs,but dont put recipes for cooking undeveloped fetus in a book and still try to call it vegetarian. don't get me wrong, i'm not kidding myself...if i'm eating something with cheese or egg in it,i'm just not gonna pretend i'm not eating animal products.

in short, this publisher is doing false advertising...if you're vegetarian or looking to be vegetarian,there are some decent dishes in here, but these and more are covered in other, better books that don't lie about their content in the title.