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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:  220 reviews
Sales Rank: 120
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Love the book! August 24, 2008
This is a very informative book that give you info on what is healthy and what is not. I will enjoy it for years to come.
 Hungry Girl: How to Cook with Non-Dairy Creamer August 23, 2008
I browsed through the pink-tinged pages looking at the recipes, fighting my way through the over-enthusiastic use of exclamation marks and cute-and-confusing titles like "pizzalicious chop chop" (page 44) and "amazing ate-layer dip" (page 158). Intending to be "sassy" and "fun", the writing comes across as though it were the product of a calorie-obsessed teen-aged girl rather than an adult woman...
The author, Lisa Lillien, is "a self-appointed `foodoligist' (sic)" and founder of the website HungryGirl.com- a popular website with more than 100,000 subscribers. According to her website, she rightly states that she is neither a dietitian nor a food professional, but "an average female, struggling with the same food issues most females struggle with every day." Losing and gaining the same 10-15 pounds several times over, and trying "every diet under the sun," she has a self-admitted food obsession- counting calories and finding low-fat, low-carbohydrate substitutes for a wide variety of foods.
The book, which is a natural extension of her popular website, is sadly rife with rather unnatural foods. For example, her "2-good twice-baked potato" (page 124, from"Manly Meals" Chapter 6) calls for fat-free American cheese and fat-free liquid non-dairy creamer. Is substituting the fats found in natural dairy products with things like corn syrup solids and Polysorbate 60 (both found in non-dairy creamer) such an excellent idea, however many calories might be saved? Polysorbate 60, as I have learned from a rather amusing article posted at Wired magazine, is:
...made by polymerizing ethylene oxide (a precursor to antifreeze) with a sugar alcohol derivative. The result can be a detergent, an emulsifier, or, in the case of polysorbate 60, a major ingredient in some sexual lubricants.
Perhaps the dish should be re-christened "2-good twice-lubed potato." (And hint to the recipe testers- you might want to sprinkle the potato with paprika and parsley after removing it from the oven...)
To read the full review, visit michaelprocopio.wordpress.com
not impressed so far August 20, 2008
I've only made 2 recipies from this book so far but they were both inedible. The faux fried chicken and the onion rings were really disgusting. Apparently Fiber One should only be eaten for breakfast,(and I'm not sure I can do this anymore after those onion rings!) I will try more of the recipies and write another review afterwards.
easy cookin August 18, 2008
This book is awesome especially if you are a Hungry Girl website visitor. She has compiled all of her online recipes which are guilt free versions of everyday favorites: coffee drinks, brownies, nachos.. etc. Easy to read and easy to follow recipes.
Dieter's Dreambook August 17, 2008
I love this book. It's so easy to follow & there are the WW points= which is a blessing.
I can't wait for her to come out with another one-SOON!!!
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