1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes: Easy, Great-Tasting Dishes for Everyone--From Appetizers and Soups to Entrees and Desserts

by Sue Spitler

Book Overview

One thousand and one recipes cater to a wide variety of palates and preferences, including vegans, lacto-vegetarians, ovo-vegetarians, and lacto-ovo-vegetarians. Nutritional information and diabetic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572840110
• ISBN13: 9781572840119
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Surrey Books
• Length: 851 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Losing Weight

My husband lost a lot of weight (I lost 13 pounds as well) and both of us kept it off by using these receipes for all dinners at home. They were tastey and reliable and featured all of his "free" foods. While receipes mostly used a lot of ingredients, they were clear and easy to follow. There were numerous main dishes and low fat versions of many ethnic dishes. A very nice feature is the analysis of each receipe in terms of the ADA's diabetic diet terms.

The Best Vegetarian Cookbook

I own about 20 vegetarian cookbooks and this is the best by far. Every recipe has tasted terrific. The instructions are clear and easy to follow and the preparation times given are accurate. All ingredients are readily found in your local supermarket or superstore. Some of the recipes we have tried are: Black Bean Soup with Sun-Dried Tomatoes & Cilantro Cream, Roasted Vegetables, Moo Shu Style, Holiday Sweet Potato Loaf with Apple Cranberry Relish, Sante Fe Beans, Grinder with New England Baked Beans & Roasted Potato Salad, Star Pasta with Carrots & Ginger Cream, Vietnamese Curried Coconut Soup, and Fresh Tomato and Basil Pizza. All have been delicious and low in fat. Also helpful is the Nutritional Information provided for each recipe as well as a marking to let you know if the dish is acceptable for lacto-ovo, vegan, lacto-, or ovo- vegetarians. This is a VERY large cookbook, but it contains enough enjoyable recipes to last a family for years.

This is the BEST vegetarian cookbook I've found.

1001 Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes is the best vegetarian cookbook we own. We have others that are good, a few that are pretty bland, a few others which require ingredients only found in Zamibia and perhaps in a few other remote locations across the globe. This book is absolutely the BEST. We've had it for only three weeks, so it didn't take long to become our favorite. Most recipes require easy to find ingredients, though that doesn't take away from the recipes' flavor or variety. If you are vegetarian, you won't regret the purchase.

tasty filling and easy

coming from being a meat eater my whole life, just thinking about going vegetarian sounded gross to me. how many ways can you cook vegtables. but after a month of it i feel better and am not bored with the food. i find that the food sticks to the ribs and is delicious. if you want to have fun get this book.

"Ambitious and prolific" Vegetarian Journal, Sept./Oct. 1997

This ambitious and prolific book does contain 1,001 recipe, and each comes complete with nutritionals and dietary exchange information. The recipes are divided into 16 different sections, from Appetizers and Snacks to Desserts. In between, you'll find some unique sections on Stews and Casseroles, Roasted and Grilled Dishes, Pizzas Calzones and Dinner Pies, and Sauces and Condiments. Each recipe is clearly marked with a symbol which denotes whether the dish is vegan, lacto-ovo vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, or ovo vegetarian. We didn't try all the 1,001 recipes, but we were pleased with the ones we did sample. Among the particularly impressive dishes were: Roasted Galic and Herb Cannellini Dip, Spiced Corn Melange, Tempeh Fajitas, Ginger-Baked Beans, Asparagus with Peanut Sauce, and Spiced Orange Compote. There are many vegan recipes (except in the dessert section, where there were only a handful), and the recipes run the gamut from simple to gourmet. --From Vegetarian Journal, September/October 1997