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 enlarge | Author: Lisa Lillien
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
Buy New: $9.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  243 reviews
Sales Rank: 64
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0312377428
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
EAN: 9780312377427
ASIN: 0312377428
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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 Yumm! May 10, 2008
I just tried the chocolate cup cakes (death by chocolate cupcakes) and they were so good!!! They were so moist and pretty easy to make. The cup cake illuminated my craving immediately ! I have also tried the fiber one breaded onion rings which i was not too crazy about, but I found that I really like fiber one cereal though! This book is great and is a must try for any dieter or simply someone who wants to watch what they eat! Happy munching!
 Cute but not that satisfying May 9, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
I am trying to lose a few pounds and came across this book recently. As far as cookbooks go, it is pretty lame. It relies on Splenda, fat free dairy products and fat free creamers. Whether these products are really healthy is open to debate. I cannot see myself making any of these faux convenience food items at all. pizza with an oatmeal and fiber cereal crust just sounds disgusting. I recommend the Weight Watchers and Zone cookbooks for something a little more tasty.
Am Weight Watchers Leader and love this book!!!! May 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for people looking to lose or maintain their weight and still be able to eat some of the foods we crave! I have tried several of them, my whole family loved them!!!
Of course, as with any lower fat/lower cal healthier cookbook/recipe---even some WW ones, Light & Tasty and Cooking Light, not all receipes are going to taste like full fat version we used to eat!!! These are great substitutions than can be very helpful to a lot of people looking to have help crossing over to the healthier-lighter side of life. Another nice feature is the smaller serving sizes that can also easily be double/tripled or more. Personally, I find it easier to figure out how to increase a recipe than decrease one. Thanks HG for making a book about all the things we, (in the world of Wt loss) think about eating, but are not sure how to pull together. Great investment!!!!! Love you HG!!!!!!
Predictable and Processed May 7, 2008
45 out of 52 found this review helpful
I have mixed thoughts about the Hungry Girl Book. If you like her web site, you will like the book.
The benefit of the book is that it provides one with suggestions for swapping high calorie, high fat ingredients with lower calorie, lower or fat-free ingredients. The recipes are also very quick and easy.
The problems with the book are; 1) It relies on A LOT of processed ingredients with nutritionally empty, artificial ingredients - e.g. it is okay and healthy to eat low-fat natural cheese and a whole grain hamburger bun instead of plastic pieces of Fat free American cheese with an overprocessed, white flour, tasteless low calorie hamburger bun 2) There is an overemphasis on getting the calories down as far as possible - interesting, catchy approach to draw people to the book, but IT IS AT THE EXPENSE OF TASTE AND NUTRITION 3) Some of the recipes are not "recipes" - I do not need to be told to use low calorie bread, fat-fat cheese, and lean meat to create a sandwich 4) The descriptions are overly enthusiastic - they will not taste that good. It eventually makes you less willing to believe what she is selling after a while. 5) Hungry Girl has financial tie-ins with certain food products (I don't know if I am allowed to name them by brand), like those shirataki noodles (her picture is on them) and muffins (she has her own flavors). This biases her suggestions and swaps - there are better options available. 6) Most of the swaps that she suggests and similar recipes are available already on her web site. If you want to modify one of your favorites, you can find all sorts of swaps on her site or around the internet.
 My new favorite cookbook! May 6, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been a Hungry Girl fan for a couple of years now. Yay, a cookbook with fabulous HG recipes, all in one place so I don't have to go searching for them on my computer! Everything is so tasty and delicious. Thanks HG! My only complaint is that the recipes have more meat than HG usually features in her recipes online. As a vegetarian, I know that I can substitute faux meat in most of the recipes, but I was disappointed that that option wasn't listed in the book much (at least, not that I saw!)
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