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| The 1200-Calorie-a-Day Menu Cookbook : Quick and Easy Recipes for Delicious Low-fat Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, and Desserts | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy S. Hughes
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 5598
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0809236338
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
EAN: 9780809236336
ASIN: 0809236338
Publication Date: September 1, 1994
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| Customer Reviews:
 Most useful cookbook I own February 22, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This cookbook is SUCH a good idea! The fact that it has so many menus that total under 1200 calories is so helpful when eating "less" can be so boring. And, that it has breakfast as well as lunch & dinner is unusual for a "diet" cookbook, too.
 Quick & Easy??? January 25, 2006
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
Very disappointed!! I am a very busy mom who tries very hard to cook healthy & low cal for the whole family. When I buy a cookbook that claims it's quick & easy, I do not expect the recipes to have an average of 15 to 20 ingredients in them. I don't know what this author considers quick, but I sure don't think there is anything quick about these recipes! No pictures either!
If you Like... January 25, 2006
63 out of 66 found this review helpful
If you only like eggs, bacon and ham for breakfast then these recipes are for you. While noting calories and fat Hughes leaves out sodium, cholesterol, protein, and all other nutritional information. If I wanted to raise my cholesterol and sodium intake then I'd eat eggs and ham every day for breakfast. In addition, she adds some variation of fruit to each breakfast. I could of thought of that on my own. I admit that I did not buy this cookbook for the lunch recipes, so my input in that section of the book may not be relevant. However, if I had purchased it for the lunch recipes I would have been very disappointed; no one has time to make these lunches on a daily basis unless they are at home all day and have nothing to do. I hardly have time to make breakfast and dinner! There were only a handful of dinner recipes that even seemed appealing to me and were good...however, would I have purchased this book knowing there would only be a handful of recipes I'd use? No. The desserts aren't worth bothering with unless you want to spend time preparing a variety of fruit and spice combinations. Not very exciting. Fortunately I only paid $8 or else I'd be a lot more unhappy. Also, there are no pictures and that makes it difficult to get excited about as well. If you're looking for a diet book look somewhere else. If you're looking for low calorie recipe ideas, look somewhere else. There is nothing special or exciting about these recipes.
 Nice, Ideas September 10, 2005
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Very good ideas for breakfast, but the other recipes take a lot of time and effort most people do not have. I did pick a few of the breakfasts out and tried them on my family, they loved them.
Good intentions gone wrong August 3, 2005
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
I ordered this cookbook because of its title. What I found was that it was a little deceiving. Having purchased other cookbooks with similar claims I figuered this one wouldn't be that different, just more recipes. Yes, some of the recipes were good, but they are not as quick and easy as I had hoped they would be. Maybe my definition of what quick and easy are is different than the authors. I didn't expect breakfast to be as involved as it was, especially when I have to make my lunch at the same time. It should have also mentioned that you would need to go grocery shopping on pretty much a daily basis. On the whole, it was a good idea, but I have better cookbooks that cost a lot less and are better suited for my time constraints.
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