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| Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Lillien
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  258 reviews
Sales Rank: 189
Media: Paperback
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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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| Customer Reviews:
 B+ for taste and A+ for low cal/low fat May 21, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
These recipes are absolutely amazing for what you are eating. You see "fat free" this and "lite" this in all the ingredients but when combined the taste is so amazing you honestly do not realize what you are eating is healthier than the alternatives.
I just made the "Dream Puffs" tonight and I was floored - so freaking good. Sweet, puffy donut-like pastry with cold creamy filling for only 45 calories and 1.5 grams of fat? Ridiculous! (As long as you don't eat the whole tray, lol)
I also tried the imitation recipe of the Taco Bell crunch wrap supreme and was equally impressed. You get a pretty big portion of (delicious) food that filled me up and was only 220 calories and 4.5 grams of fat.
One thing I noticed is that there are a LOT of common ingredients amongst the different recipes, so you won't find yourself buying a whole huge thing of vanilla soy milk and going what on earth am I going to do with the rest of this?
Finally.... I'd recommended this to the single or the couple. I live by myself and half the time I don't feel like cooking because 1. most recipes just make too much and 2. I'm too lazy. A lot of these are written for one or two servings so that is very convenient for me and almost all of them are really simple.
Great for singles who are watching their weight May 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a college student and I recently started weight watchers. I bought this book on a whim last week and I love it. I have already tried lots of the recipes and look forward to trying more. My favorite recipe so far is the spicy crispy chicken, which was delicious, and I have enjoyed everything that I have made. I even served the egg rolls to some of my friends who aren't dieting and they seemed to like them. The book is great for singles because it has lots of recipes that make 1-2 servings and the ingredient lists are pretty simple so you shouldn't have to go out and buy lots of random stuff. Also if you are on weight watchers, the points for all the recipes are on the hungry girl website as well as pictures. All in all, I would recommend this book and if you already have it, I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am.
 Wonderful recipes May 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great cookbook. I just wished that the pictures of the recipes were closer to the actual recipe instead of being in the back of the book.
perfect recipe book for me May 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I HATE to cook. I love this book because most of the recipes are simple. They don't take a lot of preperation or cooking time. I am a very picky eater and I have loved almost every recipe that I've tried so far. Loved the fiber chicken strips. Loved the southwest surprise soup. Loved the pot pie. It's the best! I also loved the onion soup. I did not like the fudge. It just wasn't sweet or "chocolaty" enough. I don't expect to like every recipe though. I recommend this book to people who don't like to cook, are watching their calories and want new recipe ideas or makeovers for their fast food/high calorie favorites.
Not bad... May 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this cookbook about 2 weeks ago, though I do not frequent the Hungry Girl site. It's a great "junk food" recipe book for people who have to watch fat and calories.
I know HG takes a lot of heat for using processed food products in her recipes, and though this book does include some recipes requiring pre-packaged foods there is a surprising amount of them that don't (see the salad chapter). Some of the recipes are, in fact, surprisingly healthy. Squash fries and Sheperd's Pie being two of them.
I admit that I do do a lot of substituting though. I favor real milk over soy, low fat cheese over fat free, and I left the chili out of the nacho recipe because it sounded odd (I will replace with pinto beans the next time I make them). I will never use the shirataki noodles, I prefer the real thing as I am not a big carb counter.
I like the fact that there are a lot of single serving recipes, because frankly my man hates diet food and I can't feed this stuff to my 1-year-old daughter who doesn't need a reduced-fat diet.
The recipes are simple, and for the most part, delicious.
So far I've tried:
Onion rings (an acceptable substitute)
Buffalo chicken salad (my favorite so far)
Death by chocolate cupcakes (very rich)
The nachos (good, though the cheese sauce was a strange consistancy)
and the PB Fudge (the only one I would not make again--it was awful)
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