Prevention's Healthy One-Dish Meals in Minutes: 200 No-Fuss, Low-Fat Recipes for Busy People [Hardcover]

Jean Rogers (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1996

Updated for today's nutrition-minded cook, this cookbook includes recipes for casseroles, skillet dinners, stews, hearty salads, and more. Most of the dishes can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. A special section includes 15-minute dinners. Detailed information on shopping, stocking the pantry, and outfitting the kitchen is included. 75 color photos.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Prevention's Healthy One-Dish Meals in Minutes delivers on every promise in its lengthy moniker. Hard to believe, but you still need to add a word--delicious. This book is excellent for beginning, unsure, or disorganized cooks, as well as for anyone more experienced and health-conscious. The food is interesting middle-of-the-road fare, mostly using meat, poultry, and seafood in modest 4-ounce portions, and lots of non-fat or reduced-fat products. The Express Recipes, ready in 15 minutes, are amazing. In 20 to 30 minutes, recipes for intelligently updated classics will also win smiles.

From Publishers Weekly

The subtitle says it all: "200 No-Fuss, Low-Fat Recipes for Busy People." Most of these casseroles, stir-fries, pasta dishes, skillet suppers, salads and soups can be whipped up in 45 minutes or less, say the editors, and some can be turned out in under 15 minutes. Both prep and cooking times are given for each dish, as are calories, fat content, sodium, etc. The sophisticated palate is accommodated with such spices as coriander, curry powder and fresh ginger. On the other hand, to facilitate swift passage through the kitchen, the editors make use of prepared ingredients such as instant potatoes, canned or frozen vegetables, stuffing mix, biscuit mix and ready-made pizza crust. Consequently, purists will turn noses up at some of the recipes. Other meals-including a comforting Chicken Soup with Dumplings, a robust Hunter's Pot Roast with Vegetables and an ingenious Indian Chick-Pea and Potato Dinner-should satisfy anyone's high standards. A Fish and Pasta Stew even zings with sherry, ground red pepper and lime juice. Accompanying notes tell which recipes are good for freezing leftovers or brown-bagging. Others underscore healthful virtues of natural foods.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 324 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Pr; 1ST edition (March 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875962696
• ISBN-13: 978-0875962696
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #933,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really like this one, January 23, 2001

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k adamson (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prevention's Healthy One-Dish Meals in Minutes: 200 No-Fuss, Low-Fat Recipes for Busy People (Hardcover)

This cookbook is great for those of us who are busy, but who want healthful and tasty meals. The dishes are quick and easy to prepare and use common pantry items. The nutritional content is provided for each recipe, which is great if you are watching your calorie or fat (or any other) intake. Another feature I like is a "To Your Health" box that provides interesting and pertinent nutritional information about some of the ingredients used in the recipe. I rented this from the library but plan on purchasing it--even though it is out of print now!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my most-often used cookbooks!, May 16, 2004

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joyous (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prevention's Healthy One-Dish Meals in Minutes: 200 No-Fuss, Low-Fat Recipes for Busy People (Hardcover)

My husband and I both love to cook, and we have about six dozen cookbooks representing a wide range of cuisines. Yet I keep coming back to this one cookbook again and again. I've had it for about five years, I think, and probably a month hasn't gone by that I haven't cooked at least a few recipes out of it -- which I can't say for most of our cookbooks.

The meals are generally pretty easy to prepare; very few of the recipes require any special equipment or techniques that would throw off the beginner. There's a nice variety, with at least a few real "keepers" in every category (e.g., soups, sandwiches, stir-fries, meat-and-potatoes, etc.).

I especially like the fact that they give nutritional information for each dish, although I wish they included fiber (and sorry folks, no carb counting). The dishes are lower in fat and lower in calories than usual, and yet they don't require a lot of silly, time-consuming techniques to do so.

Also, many recipes have sidebars with hints about variations on the recipe, or how to use the leftovers to make a new dish.

The one thing I find a little annoying -- or more, amusing -- is that some of the pictures do NOT look like the finished dishes. The funniest one is the recipe for microwave polenta: the picture clearly shows *grill marks* on the polenta, yet the recipe never involves an oven or broiler, much less a grill. But the important thing is that the recipes come out tasting good.

My two favorites are Moroccan Chicken and Indonesian Rice with Chicken. The only recipe that really bombed (and we've probably tried 80% of them by now) was the Javanese Tempeh Curry. But the picture looks so delicious... haha.

Buy this book while you still can; I'm planning to buy all the used copies I can find to give to all my friends and relatives.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Cook book, December 30, 2006

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Isabell Stringham "book lover" (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prevention's Healthy One-Dish Meals in Minutes: 200 No-Fuss, Low-Fat Recipes for Busy People (Hardcover)

I have had this cookbook since Prevention first published it. Although I have many cookbooks, this one is my absolute all-time favorite for quick, healthy, delicious meals. Every week, when I plan my meals, I use at least 3 out of this book. I can't say enough good about it. The food is low fat, healthful, easy and quick to prepare and doesn't require alot of exotic ingredients. In fact there is a list in the introduction of the basic foods you need to have on hand to prepare the dishes in the books. There are even suggestions on the side for the use of leftovers. Get this one! I'm getting another for my daughter.