Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry: Obsessed!

by Lisa Lillien

Lisa Lillien has sold millions of books by serving up clever and deliciously easy recipes with low calorie counts, huge portions, and easy-to-find ingredients that are good for you. With eleven New York Times bestsellers under her belt, Lisa is taking things to the next level with Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry OBSESSED! Keeping in line with the current clean-eating food trend (and as a follow-up to her to last smash-hit book, Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry), she's taking on the beloved foods that Americans are OBSESSED with—comfort foods, junk foods, international favorites, desserts, and more! Donuts, lasagna, fried chicken, quesadillas, fudge... No food is off-limits, and all of them have been completely re-created, re-vamped, and CLEANED UP!
With the unique and healthy recipes in this cookbook, you can finally enjoy ALL the foods you crave while eating clean and staying lean!

You’ll find . . .
Spaghetti Squash Your Hunger B-fast Bowl (271 calories)
Caramelized Onion Cauli-Crust Pizza (316 calories)
Peanut Butter Cup French Toast (344 calories)
Love Me Tender Pot Roast (272 calories)
Philly You Up Cheesesteak Meatloaf (198 calories)
Oh, Wow! Chicken & Waffles (353 calories)
Mad About Eggplant Manicotti (264 calories)
Garlic & Onion Butternut Turnip Fries (196 calories)
Grab a Fork Pork Fried Rice (197 calories)
Reconstructed Nachos (245 calories)
Three Cheers for Cheesecake Brownies (126 calories)
. . . and so much more!

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction, Cooking, Reference

671 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 5, 2017

About the author

The creator of HungryGirl.com shares her best tips, recipes, and advice to live a healthy and full life!"

Lisa Lillien is not a nutritionist, she's just hungry. She's the founder of Hungry Girl, the website and daily email service providing approximately one million fans with guilt-free recipes, food and product reviews, dieting news, shockers and more. She also writes weekly columns for WeightWatchers.com and Yahoo!, and regularly contributes to Redbook magazine. She has appeared on TV shows like Rachel Ray and Extra, and now has her own show on the Cooking Channel. Her Hungry Girl cookbooks are New York Times bestsellers. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/lisali...

Reviews

[Autumn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yummy and perfection as always!

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good recipes but lots of repetition. Example: one breading recipe revisited on different items creates different recipes. Some of the recipes just don’t taste so great either but it’s diet food so I can forgive that a little.

I personally wish she would drop the inane “chew on this” comments. Some of them are clearly forced, and it’s probably hard to come up with perky silliness about every recipe so I wonder why she tries. I get the sense that she’s trying to kick out pages.

And I am sooooo tired of the word “obsessed”. It means an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind, but it’s tossed around as a synonym for the words like or love these days. It’s so overused.

While I’m being really cranky, let’s also review the concept of “clean” eating. How can processed vanilla almond milk, one of her fave ingredients, be “clean”? Since when is arrowroot flour a “whole food”?

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cookbook came into my life at the right time! I have her other Clean & Hungry book, but I saw this one on sale ($5 at Barnes & Nobel!) and decided to pick it up too. I'm LOVING it! Such a great purchase.

I've been working my way through the new SkinnyTaste cookbook, which is really good food but takes a minimum of an hour to prepare - and some recipes take a lot longer than an hour! I've gotten stung a couple times when I started to make a recipe only to discover that the meat needs to marinade for HOURS or the prep time is otherwise ridiculous (over an hour). On those days, this Hungry Girl cookbook saved me. The recipes are a bit stripped down and simplified (especially compared to SkinnyTaste), but sometimes you don't have the mind bandwidth to spend 90 minutes handcrafting a gourmet meal.

This book has gorgeous color photos of every recipe and they look delicious. I want to make almost all of them! This book is great for lunches or casual dinners. I'm excited to cook my way through it!

[Jodi Geever · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars.

I enjoyed this book and I am already familiar with the principles of clean eating. (Quick and Dirty version of Clean Eating: Minimally processed, no white sugar, no fillers or additives, whole foods wherever possible.) Okay. Now, I have done clean eating lifestyle in the past but I don't currently practice. That said, this book is pretty good. I liked the easy go to charts for 5 ingredients or less, ready in 15 minutes, ready in thirty, I'm obsessed with (ingredient X).

However, this book is way too reliant on alternative sugars (Stevia and the like) and of those I am not a fan, so I had to calculate how much sugar to use when Stevia was called for and that was a pain.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lillien is like a good, food obsessed friend. Her tone is so warm and familiar, you’d totally want to have coffee or lunch with her. The focus here is comfort food, and the breakfasts alone (chocolate glazed chocolate donuts) are worth checking out.

She says this is clean and healthy, but uses a lot of Truvia. Also, she calls for a lot of reduced fat dairy products. There are natural versions of those, but they can be hard to find. There is still a lot a heavily processed food here.

This is a great book if you’re on a diet. It’s got full nutritional info, and is weight watchers compatible.

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a first Hungry Girl cookbook for me and I ended up purchasing it after reviewing it at the library. The foods in this book were comfort foods. I have had a number of these cookbooks that I like, but take home to my husband only to have him turn his nose up at the recipes. That was not the case at all with this book. In fact, my husband selected a number of recipes out of it to try. Now, once I do, my rating may change, but my first impression was that this will be a cookbook used frequently in my home.

[Christine Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this cookbook was pretty good. The pictures were fantastic, and a lot of the recipes seemed pretty doable if your culinary skills aren't exactly the greatest. The healthy swaps and ideas were great, just for some of the recipes I don't see the point (in a way) in trying if I have to buy a special ingredient and not end up liking it. That being said I might go ahead and get this book down the road to have a "healthier" cookbook on hand.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the Hungry Girl books and this newest one is a great addition to the series!

There's a little something here for everyone and all recipes are under 375 calories / serving. Each recipe is accompanied by a photo, a list of ingredients, easy-to-follow instructions, and nutritional information.

Fabulous!

[Megan Anderson · Rating 1 out of 5]

This isn’t innovative, it’s just sad. Completely demonizes carbs. All of these recipes are incredibly basic just use your own recipes with these swaps: cauliflower for potatoes, cream sauce and rice; wheat flour for all purpose flour; and squash ribbons for pasta…done. Now you don’t have to waste your precious time to read it.

[Lyne · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is definitely not a clean eating cookbook - a sugar substitute produced by a soda company is in every sweet recipes and others called for sweetened dried cranberries. The recipes are also not innovative - the book basically takes everyday recipes and swaps white bread for wheat and zucchini for pasta

[TISHA · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love diner, bar or all of the guilty pleasure foods then this book is for you but minus all of the guilt. The pictures are absolutely mouthwatering and this is a book that if you are a true foodie, you must add to you collection.

[Erin Squires · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lisa Lillien never disappoints. The recipes are easy to follow and they are yummy. If you love to eat but need to avoid the calories this is the cookbook for you. I am a Weight Watchers for life and this book has helped a lot during my journey.

[Kris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Obsessed!

Lisa Lillien does it again! Her book brings delicious recipes that are easy to prepare with ingredients that are easy to find. Definitely a cookbook to have on hand when you're looking for something quick and tasty.

[SKP · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really love this cookbook! I borrowed it from the library, but now I plan to purchase it on Kindle. There are lots of recipes I want to try in it. It is well-organized and the recipes truly do look fast and easy to make.

[Carrie Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book! It gives great alternatives to your favorite recipes. Just one more tool to help us make smarter food choices.

[K. Bright · Rating 1 out of 5]

Kindle edition doesn't work

This edition wont completely download, hasn't for MONTHS, and no one is doing anything to fix it. You get partial pages and "download failed."

[Beka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not (in my opinion) quite as good as the first clean & hungry book, but still a good source of low calorie recipes that don't use a ton of processed foods.

[Stacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of great recipes, enjoyed this book

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

a bit too trendy for these old folks

[Elie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't realize this was a diet book.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great-looking recipes but I can tell I won’t bother with a handful (like making your own tortillas). But excited to try many!

[Diane Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice addition to the Hungry Girl line of cookbooks. There are some great, practical ideas for clean eating, including sauces. Not a huge amount of entrees, but many food options.

[becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much better than her previous books full of processed foods

[Breanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved it

[Dray · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book but pretty basic. I liked the organization, detailing recipes by time, ingredients, allergies etc.

[Karla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not my favorite of hers but it's still decent. The salads and breakfasts are the best of the lot.

[Jeanette Durkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

More Than 5 stars! Lots of great recipes! I'll definitely be trying some of these!

[Lisa]

I would eat about 98% of what is in this book. It starts off with an index for each section and also a guide for time wise and gluten free. This is a full color book with pictures with every recipe. Some recipes have minimal ingredients with a small amount of steps to make it. While others seemed to have an over abundance of ingredients and seem very involved to make it happen. Over all I think that I would buy this. The only thing that I was not impressed with was the dessert section. The back of the book has several guides to help out with using the book.

[Lauri Carr]

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