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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
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Pages: 416
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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:
 Why isn't Nancy Huges a Celebrity Chef? February 26, 2004
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
I do a lot of cooking and a lot of dieting. This book has been a great help in getting a health menu together with 1200 calories a day. And you feel like you ate something when you are done. Every recipe I have tried is a real winner. My husband keeps asking me why this cookbook author is not a celebrity chef -- because everything is so good and low calorie too. This is a cooks book -- if you don't want to take the time to cook each meal yourself, it may not be for you. For me, it is worth the effort if the alternative is frozen or packaged "diet food."
These recipes taste great! July 29, 2003
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
I've tried recipes from a number of low cal/low fat cookbooks and many of them are so bland and tasteless my husband has begged me to never cook them again. Everything I've tried from this book has won rave reviews (especially the cajun chicken and beef stir fry). I also found them to be easy to adjust to personal taste preferences. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to stay low cal without giving up taste.
 I'm just a beginner to this way of life July 22, 2003
I was told by my doctor that I need to restrict my diet to 1200 calories a day or else I have a high risk of adult onset diabetes (my mother is diabetic and I am overweight). I have found the cookbook to be very helpful in helping me manage my day. I scan the cookbook at the beginning of the week and decide what I will be having the rest of the week so that on no given day do I have to stare at the fridge wondering what I will make. I've found the meals to be very satisfying portion wise and quite flavorful. You won't starve by any means and some of my favorites are the simplest to make. My favorite breakfasts are the fruit and cereal and the peaches and shortcake recipe. The vanilla cream when it congeals is like vanilla pudding. The only meals I haven't been tempted to try were the dinners, none of them really struck my fancy, I rely on another low fat cookbook for that. The desserts didn't interest me much either. I tend to prefer just a small bit of chocolate or else have vanilla yogurt and fruit for dessert. I love the way the day is broken down though. When the doctor told me to cut my calories so drastically I never knew that I would be eating so much and losing weight so easily. I don't regret buying it and plan to memorize several of the favorites that I've tried so far.
Delicious, low-cal meals November 30, 2002
71 out of 73 found this review helpful
My wife and I have made about a dozen of these recipes and have never been disappointed -- they have been consistently delicious. We also use "Eating Well" magazine and a few other sources of tasty low-cal recipe, in addition to standard cookbooks.Each recipe tells you the calories (important) and grams of fat (not as important) per serving. As with any cookbook, there are always minor modifications to make to suite your taste (for example, the lemon-mustard chicken with angel hair pasta recipe doesn't create enough sauce for our taste, so we increase those ingredients). These are not "15-minute recipes," nor do they take hours. You have to want to cook; it's not uncommon for a dinner entree to have a dozen ingredients. But the rewards are worth it.
 Great tasting recipes, but July 29, 2002
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
I have tried 4 recipes from this book so far, and all have tasted wonderful! I also like the ease of the calories figured for you. However, preparation for many of these recipes is time consuming. If you are looking for really easy, quick recipes this is not the book. If you are looking for nutritious, delicious meals then I highly recommend this book.
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