Skinny Pizzas: Over 100 Healthy Low-Fat Recipes for America's Favorite Fun Food (The Popular Skinny Cookbook Series) [Paperback]

Barbara Grunes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1996 | Series: The Popular Skinny Cookbook Series

These 100 recipes trim away the excess fat, cholesterol, and calories that usually come with Pizza, so that you and your family can enjoy all the great tastes without sacrificing good nutrition.

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From Library Journal

Grunes is the author of numerous popular cookbooks, including Appetizers on the Grill ( LJ 4/15/92) and the best-selling Fish on the Grill (LJ 6/15/86). Her latest title seems a natural, taking on as it does Americans' love for pizza and their current fear of fat. She presents dozens of recipes for low-fat, low-cholesterol, and low-sodium pizzas, from the familiar to the exotic. Most are both good and easy, though the dessert pizzas are generally skippable. It does seem unrealistic, to say the least, to give nutritional information based on 12 servings per 12-inch pizza. That aside, Grunes's latest is likely to be popular. Better Homes & Garden Book Club selection.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Surrey Books; 2 edition (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572840021
• ISBN-13: 978-1572840027
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,275,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Versatile and very interesting pizzas to tempt your skinny palatte, September 8, 2008

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Eric Flescher "[e-mail]" (Olathe, KS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Skinny Pizzas: Over 100 Healthy Low-Fat Recipes for America's Favorite Fun Food (The Popular Skinny Cookbook Series) (Paperback)

There are quite a few very interesting recipes for pizzas that help cut down the fat and calories. Many don't use cheese and are very tasty. There are all types using beef, chicken , veggies, garlic and more. Most have a short list of ingredients and are easy to make. The peppers, garlic, and anchovy pizza was a winner (9.5/10) and there are many more I want to try. Give a try and make a skinny pizza.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as impressive as some other pizza books I've seen. But it's alright., August 16, 2010

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Michael Gmirkin (Beaverton, Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Skinny Pizzas/over 100 Healthy Low-Fat Recipes for America's Favorite Fun Food (Paperback)

Bought this because it was cheap. Sometimes price follows quality...

Seems like this book is a bit lighter on variety than some other similar books (my current favorites being Vegetarian Pizza Cookbook and 500 Pizzas & Flatbreads). That is to say, it only offers a couple basic types of pizza crust and a couple basic pizza sauces. Then it gets into actual pizza topping recipes, which are generally decent. Though, again, seemingly not quite as varied as the aforementioned Vegetarian Pizza Cookbook or the small, dense 500 Pizzas / Flatbreads tome.

If nothing else, it's just good for a few additional recipes / variations. But, if you're looking for the end-all, be-all pizza book, I don't think this is it.

Ohh, and it also doesn't really have much by the way of photos. In that regard, the aforementioned books are also far superior, having ample full-color photos, as they should.