American Heart Association Low-Calorie Cookbook: More Than 200 Delicious Recipes for Healthy Eating

by American Heart Association

Book Overview

Losing excess weight is one of the best ways to reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and a number of other health problems. And while fad diets may come in and go out of fashion, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812928547
• ISBN13: 9780812928549
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 1.0" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Awesome Condition

Good quality. It was an old library book and I expected worse but it was not bad at all. Solid investment, a lot of great recipes!

Great book for healthy eating

This is a great book for cooking healthy. If you are looking to drop a few pounds without taking a way all the carbs that you love you have found the right book.

Truly Excellent Cookbook!

I am extremely pleased with many of the recipes in this cookbook. The cookbook is broken down into appetizers, snacks, and beverages, soups, salads, seafood, poultry, meats, vegetarian entrees, vegetables and side dishes, breads and breakfast dishes, and my favorite...desserts! Every recipe is for 4 servings, but thankfully, the book tells you what is considered 1 serving. 4 servings is FINE since most of the meals can be packaged up and eaten for lunch or dinner the next day. I have made the beef and broccoli stir-fry, the pineapple meatballs, the shepherd's pie, the apple dumplings, the macaroni and cheese with spinach, and the gnocci with spagetti sauce. My husband and I were AMAZED with how flavorful the gnocci and the pineapple meatballs were...we absolutely loved these meals! The apple dumplings were delicious, but they were a little challenging to make...the pie filling kept eeking out the sides when I was trying to fold them into triangles like the directions said. The only one I will not make again was the macaroni and cheese with spinach. I could barely taste the low-fat cheddar cheese and I felt like I was just eating cooked noodles and spinach. I work full time and I'm also a graduate student, so you can imagine that I don't have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen. There are recipes in this book that take maybe 15-20 minutes to prepare and cook, such as the pineapple meatballs. The gnocci, obviously, will take longer to make and I recommend that some recipes should be attempted on the weekend and made in bulk since you can devote more time to them. Nonetheless, I am highly impressed with the recipes I have tried in this book! I have used it to keep myself on a 1200 calorie diet and after using it for just a week and a half, I've lost 5 lbs! The recipes are "normal"...no weird casseroles or anything here. And the desserts aren't just fruit like so many other cookbooks push...apple dumplings were fantastic and I'm going to make the mint chocolate cupcakes with devil's food cake shortly. I recommend this book for anyone trying to eat healthier while still eating their favorites. This book has a recipe for everyone and the nutritional information is broken down for you per serving, so you'll have no problems tracking your caloric or fat intake. Buy it - you won't regret it!

GREAT

This is a great cookbook. Alot of great recipes in this. My husband loves it when I use this book.

I can't WAIT to make these dishes

Since I was starting to take my efforts to get healthy seriously, and was having success with going with a traditional low-cal diet, I wanted to find a cookbook that gave me some ideas so that I wasn't living on ricecakes and water. Eating healthy needs to be a lifelong plan or the weight will just come right back. For it to last, it's time to break bad eating habits and find a way for food to both taste good and be good for you. This cookbook has a TON of mouth-watering recipes that are low-calorie. They also include cooking tips, dieting tips and good advice in general. Now what am I doing here typing? I should be cooking!