Cooking Light Lose Weight Cookbook

By Cooking Light

* Seven-day menu plan * Quick reference Calorie/Nutrient Chart * Over 155 recipes * Techniques for low-fat preparation and cooking * Step-by-step how-to photographs * Cross-referenced index This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0848727436
• ISBN13: 9780848727437
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Oxmoor House
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Good healthy recipes, but not a diet book per se

"Cooking Light" is one of my favorite food magazines - always packed full of terrific, healthy recipes. I also have several of their cookbooks, including "Cooking Light: Lose Weight Cookbook." All in all, this cookbook is pretty good, although a bit disappointing compared to other Cooking Light cookbooks I own. Recipes are organized by complete meals - breakfast/brunch, lunches/luncheons, casual suppers, and company dinners. For example, the "Sunset Supper" consists of a meat dish (Turkey Jalapeno), a starch (Seasoned Vermicelli and Rice), and a veggie side-dish (Snow Pea Stir-Fry). Many meals also include a dessert and salad. In addition, a final section has a number of snacks and desserts not paired with a full meal. Users could therefore use this cookbook to plan complete meals. The calorie count is enumerated for the entire meal, and full nutritional information is provided for each dish. The recipes run the gamut from simple sandwiches to more upscale faire that could be served at dinner parties. I've made a number of these dishes, and each recipe has been easy to follow and ended up very tasty. Recipes from Cooking Light are generally triple-tested, so they usually result in good food. The "Basil Scalloped Potatoes" were excellent - one of the best potato dishes I've ever had. Although the cookbook is solid, as are the recipes, a few problems exist. First, the dishes are light and low-fat, but the full meals are perhaps too high calorie for the average dieter. The suppers, for example, average around 550 calories. I have preferred to mix and match recipes from different meal plans, rather than sticking to their delineations. Second, based on the "Lose Weight" part of the title, I definitely expected a full diet plan to be included here. Instead, the standard plan (about 10 pages) that is outlined in most Cooking Light cookbooks is re-hashed here. The information is good, but I was expecting more detail. Users hoping to get enough information from this book to start a diet may be disappointed. Overall, this cookbook is somewhat brief and the title is perhaps a bit misleading, but it contains some excellent light recipes. Recommended with reservations.