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| The Most Decadent Diet Ever!: The cookbook that reveals the secrets to cooking your favorites in a healthier way | 
 enlarge | Author: Devin Alexander
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 5906
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0767928814
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
EAN: 9780767928816
ASIN: 0767928814
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Most Decadent Diet Ever November 25, 2008
This book is wonderful for those of us who need to follow a low fat, low calorie diet. The recipes are very tasty. Healthy eating can be fun.
Great Everyday Food Made Light and Easy November 18, 2008
I am a habitual purchaser of cooking magazines and cook books. Typically I'll try a few recipes from each and toss the issue/book aside for the next one. Not this one!
I received the book Friday and have made three recipes so far (breakfast sausage links, pumpkin pie bars, and herbed crab salad). Each one has been easy to make, uses ingredients that you may already have on hand, and the results have tasted wonderful!
I used turkey instead of pork in the sausage and it was pretty good, but I suspect pork would have been much better. Next time I might try grinding my own lean pork (grocery stores only carry ground pork that's really high in fat here).
As for the pumpkin pie bars, my husband who hates all things 'diet', loves them.
The crab salad is great on it's own and makes yummy sandwiches (top with lowfat swiss, green peppers, and a little more mayo).
I plan to make more recipes--this seems like the book I've been looking for. Common, everyday food that uses easy to find, cheap ingredients, with results well worth eating.
Best cookbook ever! November 17, 2008
I had to chuckle over some reviews upset that it's a cookbook, not a diet book, and other reviews that claimed it's a diet book, not a cookbook! LOL!
It's both or either, depending on what you are looking for. A diet to follow if you want one, or just great tasting recipes that are healthy if that is all your are looking for. If you missed that, well...go back and take another look. It is a CINCH though to use in tandem with Weight Watchers as the recipes tend to be 100,200,300, etc calories and nutritional information is included for easy figuring of point values.
Some recipes use sugar substitute, and she explains that the client the recipe was created for ASKED for that. MOST recipes use the real thing so do be aware if you are diabetic that the recipes are not sugar free. However, any cookbook that can create a chocolate cake with TONS of chocolate icing at only 250 calories for a HUGE piece of cake(and Not ONE speck of sugar substitute was used!) and satisfy this chocoholic's craving is a winner in my book!
My hubby is a Texan who thinks every meal needs to have real meat in it, preferably BEEF. But he also really needed to lose some weight. I have made most of the recipes in the book and so far, he has been happy with everything I'm made and even requests some recipes over and over. He's lost 40 pounds in 4 months and has meat every meal. Granted most are made with chicken, but beef is included 2-3 times a week so he can live with that. :) We recently went out to eat breakfast and I had to chuckle that my "I love deep fat fried food, the greasier the better" hubby commented that the eggs were greasy! It was the bacon I noticed, but we both had to laugh at how quickly we had learned to appreciate great food without all the grease! That makes me happy because I know now that this is not a "fad" we are going through, but a life long way to cook that will keep us healthy and trim. I'm learning how to adapt my old recipes to Devin's way as well. These are recipes that we are willing to eat the rest of our lives, that don't make us MISS my old way of cooking and that is the key to a life change. You have to know you can live with it forever if you are going to do it forever and Devin has shown me that is doable.
Because of Devin, I've gone looking for other cookbooks that work for us. Many cut fat and calories by removing all the goodies or reducing them to barely tastable in a recipe and don't replace them with anything that makes up for it. Not acceptable to us. They still have to taste good and satisfy or we can't stick to the plan and start cheating. Devin's recipes do just that.
Evelyn Triboles books are also excellant if you love Devin's books. Evelyn's Healthy Homestyle Deserts is tooooo yummy! GIve it a try if you can find it!
 Great cook book November 12, 2008
Fantastic cookbook, great ideas for dishes that had a lot of calories. Devin Alexander does a great job making the dishes taste great and less filling,hmmm, sounds like a beer commercial...Get this book. Look for her other cookbook about fast food dishes that she does the same thing for.
 Don't need a diet book! November 3, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a book for someone looking to follow a diet plan. Not for me. Also, she uses sugar substitutes, which I don't like and don't agree with me physically. So, I returned the book. I'm sure this book is great for someone trying to find a good diet with great recipes. It just wasn't for me.
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