Fast Food Fix: 75+ Amazing Recipe Makeovers of Your Fast Food Restaurant Favorites

by Devin Alexander

Indulge your fast food cravings without guilt—with recipes that deliver the same great taste without putting your health at risk or inches on your hips

Americans all want to "eat healthy," but when they yearn for the fast foods they love, what they want most are the fabulous flavors that have made them favorites in the first place. That's what makes this collection of recipe makeovers so exceptional. Los Angeles food writer, chef, and caterer Devin Alexander specializes in low-fat, high-flavor, scrumptious cuisine. In Fast Food Fix, she shows the reader how to transform 75 fast food favorites into healthier versions that are even more flavorful than the originals. Fast Food Fix:
• demystifies the special seasonings and secret sauces of choice fast foods—showing how to reproduce their flavors quickly and easily from common ingredients
• teaches how to lighten many dishes with new cooking techniques, such as the oven-frying method that yields incredibly crunchy popcorn chicken with 35 fewer fat grams than the original version from KFC
• reveals simplified cooking methods that save time in the kitchen, proving that "fast food" can still be fast even when prepared at home

For Americans hooked on fast food flavors, these recipe makeovers by a chef with an impressive repertoire of culinary tricks will quickly become a kitchen staple.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Reference

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2006

About the author

Devin Alexander is an American chef, author and media personality. She is the Host of Healthy Decadence on Fit TV. She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Biggest Loser and Access Hollywood.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't eat a lot of fast food, but I can see how this book would be useful to someone who does. Most of these items would be best cut out of one's diet completely for health reasons, but if someone were trying to start by making small changes and couldn't give up fast food completely, this is the perfect book!

[Marissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my most used recipe books! The ones that I regularly make taste so much like the real thing, and it's good to know they're slightly healthier, too.

[Lizzie]

Sadly, I am a fast food junkie, and I LOVE her recipes! I sat down and red the book as though it were a novel. Would totally recommend it for anyone trying to cut fast food out of their lives, or even anyone looking for new recipes to try

[Melanie is on Storygraph · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some great tips in here, and the food tastes so much like fast food, it's eerie. Love the french fry recipes especially.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Checked out from the library. I marked several recipes to try. I love how she takes a recipe, shows you the nutritional info from the original and then compares it to her recipe.

[Becca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not terribly useful for me, other than a handful of recipes, but interesting reading. I don't know why I enjoy reading cookbooks, but I do.