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Low-Fat Vegetarian Cookbook: Recipes for Healthy Eating

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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.

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.