BEST BOOK OUT ON THE SUBJECT | The Best Light Recipe

A True Kitchen Essential for Low Fat Cooking | The Best Light Recipe

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	• The Best Light Recipe America's Test Kitchen, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wonderful book for healthy foodies!

This "light" recipe collection is such a joy to try out. So far, I have tried making the chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies, cheesecake and pasta dishes (as you can see, my priorities are set the dessert way). They have all turned out delicious despite the recipe's call for substitutions with lower fat/calorie ingredients. This is very important to me as a food enthusiast and health maven. Although I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle, I love food! This food allows me to enjoy many kinds of fares (such as fried chicken, mac'n'cheese, chicken parmesan and spaghetti with meatballs) with less guilt. The recipes in this book may skimp on fat and calories but they are chock full of flavor!

However, it must be duly noted that this is not a book for dieters though it might be helpful. All in all, I really enjoyed the recipes I've tried so far and I can't wait to try more!

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BEST BOOK OUT ON THE SUBJECT

I love to cook and have researched the subject of healthy eating
extensively. I knew I would not be able to change my eating habits unless I could find a way to make the food taste wonderful. Most of the recipes are better than the more fattening standard recipes.
I have read many many books and light cookbooks on the subject.
This is far and away the best of the bunch....chock full of wonderful tips and recipes. It is definitely up to "Cook's Illustrated" high standards.
What a fabulous book......for people looking for healthier food and for anyone who loves to cook.

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A True Kitchen Essential for Low Fat Cooking

Christopher Kimball and the chefs of America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated (ATK/CI) have long been noted for their tireless devotion to perfecting "everyday" foods. In our kitchen, their Family Cookbook has been the go-to guide for anything that I was making for the first time. However, low-fat and low-calorie it was not, and my fiance and I had decided to drop the extra pounds that we had gained over the years...

Enter the Best Light Recipe cookbook from ATK. We have been counting calories and eating "smart" for the past 3 months, and use recipes from this book at least 4 times a week. We have tried every main course recipe and many of the appetizers, soups and salads, and have thoroughly enjoyed 98% of them. (I would consider this phenomenal for any cookbook, even the others published by the editors of CI!)

Each recipe has detailed calorie, fat and nutritional information for each serving. And speaking of servings, this cookbook does not use the same trick as other light cookbooks and magazines (i.e. Cooking Light) in that it's serving sizes are very generous and filling. Also, there is a narrative for each recipe describing how they cut out calories and/or fat without significantly affecting taste. Variations of many recipes are given, which helps avoid "recipe fatigue."

I can't imagine a better cookbook for calorie counting or a low fat lifestyle. Previous reviewers have complained about the lack of low carb recipes. These reviewers are correct: the recipes are not low carb and do not claim to be. The recipes are, however, delicious and lower in calories than anything comparable in taste.

Take it from us, low calorie diets work. We're at 63lbs lost and counting!

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so far so good!

I have liked every recipe so far. I have a few other cook books from CI and I love all of them. I do agree it's not a total diet cookbook, but it is nice to see CI low fat. I would suggest it to anyone!

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