1000 Low Fat, Salt, Sugar & Cholesterol Recipes To Tempt Your Tastebuds [Paperback]

Parragon Publishing (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2003

Illustrated and informative

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Parragon Publishing (2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752558048
• ISBN-13: 978-0752558042
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 10 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Looks Very Good at First Glance - Impressive Size and Qty, February 19, 2005

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Amazon Addicted "Ray" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1000 Low Fat, Salt, Sugar & Cholesterol Recipes To Tempt Your Tastebuds (Paperback)

How can you argue with a cookbook containing 1000 recipes with pictures of ALL of them. At first glance you would say this is the greatest low fat, salt, sugar and cholesterol cookbook of all time. But wait, on page 566, one of many, is a recipe with 630 calories, 38 carbs, 40g of fat and 24g of Saturated Fat considered to fit this criteria. In my mind this is way too much for this type of cookbook. Where is the low salt listing for this item. And where is the low cholesterol listing. I entered the ingredients into my nutritional calculator and find that it has 128mg of Cholesterol and 660mg of sodium. Looking throughout the book salt and cholesterol is not listed on ANY recipe. How do we know what recipes fit the low salt and/or low cholesterol criteria.

It's obvious that this cookbook is not what it appears. It is a compilation of low fat AND low sugar and COULD contain low salt and low cholesterol recipes. The latter two types we really don't know.

Having stated the above, I still think this cookbook has value. Thus I gave it 3 stars. You just have to watch what you are preparing and check the nutritional information for salt and cholesterol yourself if you are trying to limit these.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be DECEIVED!!!, December 25, 2008

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catcamus - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1000 Low Fat, Salt, Sugar & Cholesterol Recipes To Tempt Your Tastebuds (Paperback)

If you want to make low fat-food, don't waste your money here. This cookbook claims in 2 inch type to have 1000 LOW FAT recipes. It does NOT. In fact, almost *NONE* of the recipes are low fat -- yes, previous reviewer, they don't taste low fat because they are, in fact, mostly HIGH FAT! These recipes call for whole milk, multiple tablespoons of butter, sour cream, and get this: "full-fat cheese." A typical recipe from this book has 20 - 30 g of fat per serving (and one even has 49g fat/ 614 calories -- that's 441 calories out of 614 from fat!). Given that the medical community recommends a max of 65g per DAY, well, eat one of these you get rice cakes for the rest of the day.

As someone who must eat low-fat for health reasons, I can't eat anything from this cookbook. Stay away from it if you care about fat content!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Forget the title, and just enjoy the book..it's a nice one to have, July 17, 2011

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GinSing (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 1000 Low Fat, Salt, Sugar & Cholesterol Recipes To Tempt Your Tastebuds (Paperback)

One of my co-workers brought this cookbook into work for all of us to browse through during slow periods and at lunch. I really enjoyed looking through it and of course looked it up on Amazon to see all the info.

I will say that I bought mine used, for about $5. The book is VERY heavy - like a physician's desk reference or something large and somewhat cumbersome. But the pictures are beautiful and each page is laid out with a gorgeous color photo of the recipe, then the full recipe, nutritional information, and step by step photo instructions, therefore each page IS a recipe card.

The recipes are different, unusual, and yet the ingredients don't seem to be bazaar or far fetched from what I have seen. And the directions look far more simple than each beautiful photo display of the finished product appears.

I don't know why it is titled as it is. So, I say 'forgettaboutit' and just enjoy the cookbook for what it IS - a beautifully laid out, interesting, different cookbook that is fun for your guests to flip through while you are entertaining them, and fun to try something different.