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Slim & Scrumptious: More Than 75 Delicious, Healthy Meals Your Family Will Love
Healthy eating has never been more popular. Between Michelle Obama’s support for healthy, unprocessed food for families, to the national fight to educate America and combat obesity problem, everyone is talking about good food and good eating for every member of the family. Joy Bauer, licensed nutritionist, nutrition expert on The Today Show, and author of several bestselling books on healthy eating, including JOY’S LIFE DIET, gives readers all the secrets of her kitchen. With meals that will provide all the satisfaction of eating rich and delicious food with fractions of the fat and calories. With the added benefit of sidebars, comments, and notes on how to manage your cooking and food dollars to get maximum impact for minimum investment, Joy’s book will address the two main issues on the minds of so many people today--convenient, healthy eating for a cost-conscious family. ***JOY’S LIFE DIET is retitled for paperback pub to YOUR INNER SKINNY.
259 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 6, 2010
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July 28, 2010
At first glance, I thought "blah, another low fat cookbook with bland recipes." Then I decided to sign it out anyway, just to see. Then I found the buffalo-style chicken chili...and was roped in.
Great layout, great pictures, a variety of recipes.
Tried:
Lowfat Cheesecake Fruit Dip - wonderful. I want to try this with cardamom instead of cinnamon.
Buffalo Chili - GREAT...so good...
Hummus - not so hot. I prefer the olive oil taste over the sour cream tang of greek yogurt.
Cocoa Almonds - my god, they taste like nutty crunchy brownie niblets... For "good for you" food, they're a little TOO good. I keep snagging a few every time I walk through the kitchen.
Brown sugar/cinnamon almonds - also delicious.
To try:
Broccoli Soup
Sesame Chicken Strips
Some of the dips
Recipes are simple, easy, and are turning out to be quite good. I'm wanting to buy this, now...especially as it's available on kindle!
Great layout, great pictures, a variety of recipes.
Tried:
Lowfat Cheesecake Fruit Dip - wonderful. I want to try this with cardamom instead of cinnamon.
Buffalo Chili - GREAT...so good...
Hummus - not so hot. I prefer the olive oil taste over the sour cream tang of greek yogurt.
Cocoa Almonds - my god, they taste like nutty crunchy brownie niblets... For "good for you" food, they're a little TOO good. I keep snagging a few every time I walk through the kitchen.
Brown sugar/cinnamon almonds - also delicious.
To try:
Broccoli Soup
Sesame Chicken Strips
Some of the dips
Recipes are simple, easy, and are turning out to be quite good. I'm wanting to buy this, now...especially as it's available on kindle!
March 20, 2012
One of my favorite low calorie cook books!! Every recipe is absolutely delicious, no seriously culinary experience required.
January 9, 2015
I love this cookbook. I've got it currently checked out from the library and have made 10 of the recipes. I plan on making every one.
June 14, 2021
This book seemed a little dated; also, for me it had a lot of steps and wasn't as quick-cook as I usually like. I also don't understand the whole eggs benedict recipe - my guests definitely would not like that substitution.
Her chicken and meat dishes were strong; this book does include complete nutritional info. I would have liked more pictures, and while it gave me some good ideas, I don't like it enough to work it into rotation.
Her chicken and meat dishes were strong; this book does include complete nutritional info. I would have liked more pictures, and while it gave me some good ideas, I don't like it enough to work it into rotation.
October 14, 2012
Not bad. At least 6 recipes I can't wait to try.
I'm skeptical and worried that she's a nutritionist who is advocating margarine (real butter can never be as bad as that scary stuff) but other than that the advice seems fairly sound. She "sneaks" lots of veggies into not-usually-healthy dishes and cuts the fat and calories.
(I'm not sure why she's SO OBSESSED with animal protein, though; there are maybe 3 or 4 vegetarian recipes out of like 70...)
I appreciate how she structured the serving sizes to be LARGE (2 cups, for example) so people are satisfied with one. So the calorie counts may look a tiny bit high occasionally but hopefully you won't be needing to go back for seconds.
I wished there were more pictures, especially of finished dishes rather than fancily-styled piles of ingredients. ("No, no, MORE grains of rice on the can of tomato. A few more. OK, PERFECT! Shoot!"). A few of the full-meal pictures there were were preposterous. I know just for the sake of styling, but a side of veggies is not THREE snow peas, sheesh.
I'm skeptical and worried that she's a nutritionist who is advocating margarine (real butter can never be as bad as that scary stuff) but other than that the advice seems fairly sound. She "sneaks" lots of veggies into not-usually-healthy dishes and cuts the fat and calories.
(I'm not sure why she's SO OBSESSED with animal protein, though; there are maybe 3 or 4 vegetarian recipes out of like 70...)
I appreciate how she structured the serving sizes to be LARGE (2 cups, for example) so people are satisfied with one. So the calorie counts may look a tiny bit high occasionally but hopefully you won't be needing to go back for seconds.
I wished there were more pictures, especially of finished dishes rather than fancily-styled piles of ingredients. ("No, no, MORE grains of rice on the can of tomato. A few more. OK, PERFECT! Shoot!"). A few of the full-meal pictures there were were preposterous. I know just for the sake of styling, but a side of veggies is not THREE snow peas, sheesh.
November 3, 2014
More pictures Please!!!
I know most authors do not want to take up page space with pictures, but this book includes pictures of ingredients, but not the finished food product. Help me out here people!
I found two recipes in this book to try and one has already been a huge hit. The recipes I chose also happen to have pictures...hmmmm, go figure
I know most authors do not want to take up page space with pictures, but this book includes pictures of ingredients, but not the finished food product. Help me out here people!
I found two recipes in this book to try and one has already been a huge hit. The recipes I chose also happen to have pictures...hmmmm, go figure
February 22, 2012
Great recipes full of flavor and light on calories! We will be adding a lot of these dishes to our list of faves and go-to dishes. She does a nice job of covering a variety of types of meals- breakfast, lunch, soups, dinner and snacks.
June 27, 2012
Would not recommend this book to vegetarians.I might make 2 recipes out of the whole book... I love Joy Bauer , her other books are so much better.
February 21, 2016
Not as exciting as I expected but some interesting lo-cal remakes.
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