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The 1200-Calorie-a-Day Menu Cookbook : Quick and Easy Recipes for Delicious Low-fat Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, and Desserts
 
 
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The 1200-Calorie-a-Day Menu Cookbook : Quick and Easy Recipes for Delicious Low-fat Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, and Desserts [Paperback]

Nancy Hughes (Author)
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Book Description

September 1, 1994

Imagine savoring three delicious, satisfying meals every day without worrying about counting calories or calculating fat grams. Now you can enjoy hundreds of combinations of tempting, flavorful breakfasts, lunches, dinners--even desserts--all for only 1200 calories a day.

Every dinner contains no more than 400 calories per serving. Each breakfast and lunch contains only 350 calories per serving, and every delicious dessert contains just 100 calories per serving. All you have to do is select the meals you want to combine for any particular day.

Choose from such low-calorie offerings as:

  • Buttermilk pancakes with blueberry sauce, canadian bacon, and sliced oranges
  • Roast beef salad with blue cheese in pitas and fresh apple slices
  • Sliced turkey with mushroom gravy, whipped potatoes, peppered peas, and apricot halves
  • Raspberry-kissed pears in phyllo nests

Each low-calorie, low-fat recipe includes easy-tofollow instruction and fat grams per serving. Many recipes can be prepared in 15 minutes or less.


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Hughes breaks the 1,200 calories a day into breakfast and lunch recipes that contain no more than 350 calories each, dinner recipes that contain no more than 400 calories, and dessert recipes that contain only 100 calories. The majority of the meals contain 20 percent or less of their total calorie content from fat; all contain less than 30 percent. The totals are listed with each recipe. Hughes, author of three other cookbooks, insists this is not a diet plan but rather a comprehensive collection of recipes that can be used to limit calorie and fat intake. Many of the recipes can be prepared in 15 minutes or less. George Cohen

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 1, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0809236338
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809236336
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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130 of 132 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am home all day and have lots and lots of experience in cooking all kinds of foods ranging from easy to very difficult. While the recipes in this are not super difficult, this is not a cookbook for most of us.

Personally, I got this book to make dieting EASIER. I wanted a list of things I can throw together for 3 meals a day, and end up with about 1200 calories no matter which I picked from each meal choice. This book, doesn't do that.

For example, for breakfasts: individual fruit platters with hot popovers (huh?) or Fresh Banana-Oat Bread and vanilla yogurt with sliced fresh peaches. Geez! That is a lot of work for BREAKFAST!

Lunches: Curried Tuna and Pecans in Pita Halves with Ambrosia Fruits. Sure Or Wild Rice-Sausage Chowder with fresh tomato

I mean, I have all day, and I'm not making this for lunch. Dinner, maybe.

Dinner: Snapper on a bed of spinach-cheese sauce, basil baked tomatoes and gingered rice. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

If you want NEW and FRESH recipe ideas, this really is a great book, so I gave it three stars. But for most regular joes, this is not a great book,recipes are too complicated and if it's too much effort to just eat every day, folks will drop their diet and eat pasta and chips instead.
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75 of 77 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This book is perfect for me. I want to eat a 1200 calorie a day menu. But I was spending so much time compiling recipes from the various books that I have that I gave up. This book allows you to choose a breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. No strict regimen. No matter which meals you choose, you don't exceed 1200 calories. It's perfect. The recipes are more "gourmet" which is what I like to prepare. All the recipes are based on 4 people but its not that difficult to scale down to one or two, it just takes a smidgen of effort. Best recipe book I have found to date.
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89 of 94 people found the following review helpful
Delicious, low-cal meals November 30, 2002
Format:Paperback
My wife and I have made about a dozen of these recipes and have never been disappointed -- they have been consistently delicious. We also use "Eating Well" magazine and a few other sources of tasty low-cal recipe, in addition to standard cookbooks.

Each recipe tells you the calories (important) and grams of fat (not as important) per serving. As with any cookbook, there are always minor modifications to make to suite your taste (for example, the lemon-mustard chicken with angel hair pasta recipe doesn't create enough sauce for our taste, so we increase those ingredients).

These are not "15-minute recipes," nor do they take hours. You have to want to cook; it's not uncommon for a dinner entree to have a dozen ingredients. But the rewards are worth it.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Good book.. like the receipes in there .. it would be better if it had pictures.. im a picture person

good product over all
Published 3 months ago by Jenny
AWESOME
I love, love, love this book! Most of the recipes are REALLY good, especially the breakfast ones. My husband is a picky eater and he enjoyed almost all of the recipes I made from... Read more
Published 7 months ago by KKJones
Interesting Book
I got this book to help my Husband and I drop a few pounds. It has a lot of recipes that sounded very interesting. But every one of the recipes is for 4 servings. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Angelface
Excellent Weight Loss Tool
These recipes are delicious and make losing weight easy. Serving sizes are for four so they are ideal for a family but I cook them and eat them all week.
Published 12 months ago by JackieUnderwood
1200 cal a day cookbook
I am using this along with the 1500 cal a day cookbook for variety for my husband & I to lose weight and eat healthier. The recipes are great tasting and easy to follow.
Published 14 months ago by unicornmedic
Love this book
I bought this book so that my husband and I could lose weight and still eat really food. So far we love the receipes, and the ones we are not thrilled with we have managed to tweek... Read more
Published 20 months ago by paige
Too detailed for everyday cooking.
I work from home and though I have the free time for preparing meals I have to say I couldn't see myself making even half of these recipes on a daily basis. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Registered_User
Excellent Gift
Bought this item for my daughter in law who loved my copy of the book. So happy she loves it and is having fun with the different ideas for dinner - she's lost 20 lbs!
Published 23 months ago by J. Delgado
A great book
I used these recipes a couple years ago and easily dropped 20 pounds, almost without trying. I selected favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes and rotated them over the... Read more
Published on May 5, 2010 by D. Locke
I have had this book for 2 months have not made one recipe.
The recipes require a lot of ingredients. They are very involved and look as though they take a while to prepare. As I stated earlier I have not made one recipe from this book. Read more
Published on April 27, 2010 by Robyn Walters
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