Eat Your Feelings: Recipes for Self-Loathing

by Heather Whaley

Book Overview

"A hilarious read when you're feelin' down and hungry."--Daily Candy

Life's little pitfalls can be a real drag: being dumped, fired, or left at the altar--they're all such downers. Sure, some might just grin and bear it, but why?

Hilarious author Heather Whaley advises readers to revel in their misery, offering a slew of side-splittingly skewed recipes, each perfect for a different, wretched moment, including:

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452296587
• ISBN13: 9780452296589
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Fun, Hilarious Comfort Food

This hilarious book is one of a kind, and is the perfect cookbook for people who don't cook. Yes, there are actual recipes, but they are extremely easy, and the fun here is in Whaley's hilarious reasons for needing a recipe in the first place; the table of contents should have anyone cracking up in moments. Some of my favorites include ADHD Alphabet Soup (done Mad Libs style), Your Dreams Will Never Come True Hungarian Goulash, You Farted Loudly in the Elevator Chicken in Green Curry, Accidentally Joined the PTA Perfect Potluck Baked Ziti, Cereal Snack for Aging Potheads (ingredients: Cap'n Crunch, milk, chocolate syrup) and OCDBLT. Who knew comfort food could be so funny?

worth it for the titles alone!

This is the funniest and most fun cookbook I've ever read. Not healthy by any means, but where's the fun in that? Get it and laugh your a@@ off while making it spread!!

Hilarious!

This was the funniest book I have read in a LONG time! I was reading it in bed one night, and I was laughing out loud it was so funny. My Husband turned over and started to read over my shoulder, pretty soon he was laughing out loud too. He then snatched the book right out of my hands, and started to read out loud all while laughing (I could not understand a word he was trying to say). He then stole the book from me, until he read it from cover to cover.... So I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a snarky sense of humor, just hide it from people until you are done with it, if you want to finish the book!

Hilarious!

This book has recipes although they contain some strange ingredients! Like the one called, "Who's the Daddy? Flapjacks." You get the usual ingredients for flapjacks but the author has added a DNA testing kit and 1/4 tsp saliva from each possible daddy to the recipe. She then tells the story of how you can tell who the daddy is while telling how to mix the ingredients. They are all like this. I think one even had arsenic in it (so be sure and leave that ingredient out if you use the recipe!) I think it was the one for a cheating boyfriend. The recipes are all simple ones (comfort food type recipes) but it's the way she writes the directions that are hilarious. Here is what some of the recipes are called...Best Friend is a Total Bitch Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Sky High Banana Cream Pie Because You are Dating a Married Guy, Jalapeno Poppers for When Your Only Friends are People You Met in a Chat Room, etc. So, yes you can use the recipes if you delete a few of the obvious wrong item in the recipe, but the book is more for the humor than the recipe. Be prepared to laugh til you cry!

Not Martha Stewart

And definitely not Julia Child's cookbooks or recipes. But I loved it, anyway. There are some good recipes, some great recipes, and some so-so recipes. But this book is primarily and exercise in dark humor (I know it's been said, but just in case somebody missed it.) But it's hilariously funny, especially for those bad days that everybody has occasionally. If you're looking for low calorie or nutritionally balanced, steer clear of this book. But if you're looking for some laughs along with your recipes, this is the book for you.