Customer Reviews

Eat Well, Lose Weight (Better Homes & Gardens Cooking)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a WONDERFUL cookbook. It is loaded with healthy recipes that really taste good. Each page is beautifully illustrated with a color photograph of the dish being featured. My husband and I both love fish and I was very pleased to learn how many fish and seafood dishes are contained in this book. In fact, when I prepare fish (at least once or twice a week) it is THIS cookbook to which I first turn. Try the SEARED TILAPIA WITH LEMON-TARRAGON SAUCE or the BROILED HALIBUT WITH BALSAMIC GLAZE. Then for shellfish try the SHRIMP AND PEANUT STIR FRY or the SHRIMP PAELLA. Mmmm good! There are some lovely chicken recipes I have yet to try but their descriptions really sound interesting. There are also delectable recipes for veal, flank steak, pepper steak and pork tenderloin as well as some exotic soups and mouth watering salads and even desserts. I could go on and on but what I recommend is to try it for yourself. You will treasure for years to come! Especially IF YOU LIKE TO COOK! (and cook healthy of course...)

I have many "diet" cookbooks. This is one I will use alot. It has directions that are easy to follow...ingredients that most people have in their pantries...and recipes that your family will eat

There are certain things I like in a cookbook, and this cookbook has them. First of all, the foods are normal, and easy to make. There are pictures to see what the finished dish looks like. Lots of recipes to appeal to everyone in the whole family, and nobody is going to feel like they are eating diet food. There is a panel with each recipe with the caloric count and all the other necessary numbers. I really recommend this book.

The recipes in this book are the best I've had, outrageous. I don't like to cook (to put it lightly#, but the meals come out so tasty and healthy, that I find myself planning my menu for the week and actually following it. The only reason I give this book a four is that the pages sometimes stick together and seem a bit fragile. One drop of water on the page #and it does happen in a kitchen) and the page is warped in seconds. The paper stock is unforgiving. I'd buy this book with better quality paper in a minute. Until then... I love this book and will figure something out to preserve it.

I have always like Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks and they came through again in this one. The nutritional information at the beginning is helpful, esp. to beginning dieters, and the recipes use ordinary ingredients I can find at my grocery store, and do not require special skills in preparation. One of the best features is that there is a photo of every dish.

My only complaint is Amazon packaging. This is the 2nd book I've received that is beat up. They do not give me a place to tell them about it so I will mention it here. The box was way too big for the item - which would have been fine if there had been sufficient wrapping around the cookbook. There was a little bit of wrapping in the box, it had been loosely wrapped around the book but had come off in transit and did nothing to cushion anything. The book rattled around in the box. The box itself had dents and gashes, and my book has a dent in the binding. Like I mentioned, this is the second time this has happened.