Weight Watchers Make It in Minutes: Easy Recipes in 15, 20, and 30 Minutes [Paperback]

Weight Watchers (Author)

Book Description

Series: Weight Watchers | Publication Date: August 29, 2001

The most trusted name in weight loss makes healthy eating fast and delicious. Perfect for everyone who thought they were too busy" to cook healthy food, these meals are ready in 15, 20, or 30 minutes -- just pick the time frame that fits your schedule. The wide range of recipes will please everyone, from fussy kids to gourmets. Sample Pierogies with Creamy Mushroom and Sherry Sauce, Berries and Cream Blintzes, Pepper-Crusted Flank Steak with Cucumber Relish, Cuban Sandwiches, Easy Paella, Tuna Panzanella and Wild Mushroom Risotto."

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

What's faster than takeout, more delectable than frozen, and deliciously healthy? The yummy recipes in Weight Watchers Make It in Minutes! The cookbook for every busy person who wants to cook great-tasting food that's good for you, too. Weight Watchers Make It in Minutes includes more than 200 delicious meals that you can whip up in almost no time at all. Make breakfast, lunch, and dinner in either 15, 20, or 30 minutes. Looking for ideas to round out the meal? Then check out the great serving suggestions included with each recipe. Plus, hints throughout make cooking even easier, and color photos showcase the fantastic food. Best of all, every recipe has Weight Watchers Winning Points^?, as well as complete nutrition information. So say "good-bye" to makeshift meals, and "hello" to speedy and healthy fare that everyone will love. 15 Minute Recipes

• Orange-Scented French Toast with Fresh Strawberries
• Chicken with Tomatoes and Mozzarella
• Pierogies with Creamy Mushroom and Sherry Sauce

20 Minute Recipes

• Blueberry-Lemon Cornmeal Pancakes
• Oriental Pepper Steak
• Tortellini with Prosciutto and Peas in a Creamy Sauce

30 Minute Recipes

• Crab Cakes with Cilantro-Corn Relish
• Bourbon Barbecued Shrimp with Pecan
• Rice Osso Buco-Style Chicken

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764565176
• ISBN-13: 978-0764565175
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (99 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Weight Watchers International, Inc. is the world's leading provider of weight management services, operating globally through a network of Company-owned and franchise operations. Weight Watchers holds almost 50,000 meetings each week where members receive group support and learn about healthy eating patterns, behavior modification and physical activity. WeightWatchers.com provides innovative, subscription weight management products over the Internet and is the leading Internet-based weight management provider in the world. In addition, Weight Watchers offers a wide range of products, publications and programs for those interested in weight loss and weight control.

Customer Reviews

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237 of 240 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent cookbook, but deceptively titled, February 19, 2002

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Leta Rogers (Pleasanton, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weight Watchers Make It in Minutes: Easy Recipes in 15, 20, and 30 Minutes (Paperback)

First, I do enjoy this cookbook. Everything I have made from it has been wonderful, and if you like the recipes in "Simply the Best: 250 Prizewinning Family Recipes" then I think you will like the recipes in this book. They are slightly more gourmet and less homey than the recipes in "Simply the Best," so if "Simply the Best" was pushing the edge of the exotic envelope for you, then you might prefer a different WW cookbook than this one for your next purchase.

The book is organized into three color-coded sections (15 minute, 20 minute, and 30 minutes) and each section is organized into breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes. Many of the lunch recipes would also work well for dinner or as part of dinner. This is the sort of cookbook that you will enjoy sitting down with and sticking post-it notes to promising recipes.

However, I give this book 4 stars instead of 5 because the preparation times for the recipes are frequently deceptive. They are not the times for fixing these recipes from start to finish, they assume that you have already performed your preps. So, a 30 minute recipe might not include the time for pulling all of the ingredients out of the pantry and refrigerator, and tasks such as slicing raw chicken breasts or steak into strips, chopping onions, mincing garlic, chopping parsley, or peeling, deseeding, and slicing cucumbers. The cookbook "Desperation Dinners" by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross (not a lowfat cookbook), for example, is truly a 20 minute start-to-finish recipe cookbook; this one is not, although in most cases the actual time will not be too much more than the stated time. One exception is the Apricot Glazed Pork Skewers with Mango Quinoa, which is supposed to be ready in 30 minutes. Even if your preps are all ready ahead of time I think you'd be hard-pressed to prepare this dish in under 45 minutes. The 30 minutes includes thinly slicing 1-1/2 pounds of pork tenderloin and threading it onto 12 skewers, which alone took me a good 15 minutes.

One thing I like about this cookbook is that it finally got me to try cooking with Fat-Free Half-and-Half, and I have been very pleased with the recipes that use this, such as a Creamy Cauliflower Soup (saute leeks in a little olive oil, add frozen cauliflower and canned chicken broth, simmer, puree, then finish with FF Half-and-Half, nutmeg, and S&P). My favorites recipes in this book, so far, are the Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes, Greek Chicken Pasta Toss, Chicken with Spicy Marmalade Glaze, Chicken Tacos with Salsa Verde Cream, and Sesame Glazed Shrimp with Snow Peas and Baby Corn.

160 of 164 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real World Cooking!, January 2, 2002

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Robin Currier - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weight Watchers Make It in Minutes: Easy Recipes in 15, 20, and 30 Minutes (Paperback)

I love cookbooks, and read them like novels. (After all, if you're always dieting, curling up with good cookbook gives some of the pleasure of eating a good meal, but with no calories!)

I have several hundred cookbooks, but how many do I really use when I cook? Well, this one, definitely. If you are looking for simple, quick, low fat recipes, I can't recommend this book too highly. When I'm stuck for a quick dinner, this cookbook is where I look first. The recipes are very quick and they mostly use common ingredients you can quickly pick up at the grocery store or might have on your pantry shelves already.

By the way, in addition to listing nutrtional info for each recipe, each recipe also gives Weight Watchers points (if you are a Weight Watcher, you know what I mean), and diabetic exchanges. So, I think this would also be a great cookbook for diabetics as well as those of us who are trying to lose weight.

67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, Convenient, & Elegant, August 29, 2001

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K. Collins (Newtown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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As a recent member of weight watchers, and a long-time cooking fanatic, I find that this book satisfies not only both sides [the healthy and the adventurous] but also saves time. The book's design is all about speed and convenience. the recipes are easy to read and follow, and each section is neatly organized to help you find the recipe you want quickly. Although each recipe does not have its own photo, there are many, many sumptuous photos throughout the book that represent the global culture [from Mexico to Italy to Thailand]. Other nice features include the points and nutritional breakdown on the bottom of every page, serving suggestions, and plenty of white space on every page so you can add your own notes or personal flair. It is definitely the type of book that will easily become a cooking reference for anyone who wants to eat healthy with precious time to spend.