Eat Well Lose Weight (comb): 500+ Great-Tasting and Healthful Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen) [Plastic Comb]

Better Homes & Gardens (Author)

Book Description

Series: Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen | Publication Date: December 30, 2009

An affordable new comb-bound edition of the go-to guide to healthy and delicious eating for dieters

Dieting doesn't have to involve boring meals that taste like cardboard. Though eating healthy takes effort, it won't be nearly as difficult with Eat Well, Lose Weight from Better Homes & Gardens. With more than 500 recipes for low-calorie, healthy variations of classic foods like burgers, pastas, pizza, and cookies, this massive cookbook will help keep dieting effective and delicious.

Plus, Eat Well, Lose Weight contains the latest nutritional information, including diabetic exchanges, and low-calorie holiday recipes to keep your diet on track year-round.

• Includes more than 500 recipes with a full-color photo of each one
• Helps dieters manage portion control, select healthier fats, and find new ways to incorporate healthy whole grains into their meals
• Offers healthy shortcut meals for staying on track when there's no time to prepare a more complex meal

Staying fit and trim is never easy, but with Eat Well, Lose Weight, dieters will have a powerful resource for eating healthy without sacrificing favorite flavors or foods.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Better Homes and Gardens

Eat Well, Lose Weight

500+ Great-Tasting & Healthful Recipes

Delicious Food for Weight Loss

If you think diet food is all rice cakes and protein powder, you're in for a surprise! Eat Well, Lose Weight includes more than 500 recipes for low-calorie versions of your favorite foods, such as burgers, lasagna, pizza, and cookies. Developed by registered dietitians, these recipes are packed with good-for-you ingredients, including whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.

All of the recipes were tested in the Better Homes and Gardens® Test Kitchen, so you can feel confident that they work well and taste great.

Inside Eat Well, Lose Weight you'll find:

The latest nutrition guidelines to help you plan your diet

More than 200 tips for successful cooking and healthful eating

Nutrition information with every recipe, including diabetic exchanges

Low-calorie holiday recipes for year-round celebrations

Restaurant-style meals full of flavor, not fat

Shortcut meals for busy weeknights

Tempting favorites the entire family will love!

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 548 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470540311
• ISBN-13: 978-0470540312
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Stupid Recipes, November 7, 2010

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Ashley Bryant (Mesa, AZ) - See all my reviews
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I like healthy cooking, so I thought this cookbook would be for me. I usually don't purchase cookbooks online, and this experience has re-affirmed that. There is probably only 3-4 recipes out of the 500 that I actually like. I've tried well over 75 recipes in the couple months that I've had it and they are not only time consuming, but they just don't taste very good. I wasn't very impressed and from now on I'm going to stick to finding my recipes online, for free.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, September 16, 2010

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Sisa "sisa" (USA) - See all my reviews

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I like some of the recipes on this book but some are just odd in terms of the ingredients used and too many slow cooker recipes in it for me. I just rather cook things in one or two hours and not have something cooking forever. Some pressure cooker recipes would have been better for me

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely healthy meals!, August 10, 2010

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Professor C. (Owego, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat Well Lose Weight (comb): 500+ Great-Tasting and Healthful Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen) (Plastic Comb)

This is not some fad-diet cookbook. This is what healthy eating should be. Instead of telling you to avoid eating certain kinds of foods, this book celebrates food. Probably the book's most attractive feature is its sheer number of recipes. I've found that the recipes tend to rely on herbs, seasoning, or an occasional exotic ingredient to give an otherwise plain meal a real kick. Most of the recipes are easy to prepare (although they often require time), and the ingredient lists are short. This cookbook would be great for anybody who wants to eat well, but especially for someone who's new to cooking healthfully because the recipes are fairly simple, and the variety means that there's something for everyone. On a technical note, I love that there are color photos of each recipe, and the book is spiral-bound so it lies flat on the counter.