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(More customer reviews)calloped potatoes, clam chowder, fudge brownies; these are probably all foods that you like but would not eat on a daily basis. What about Molten Chocolate Cake and a Bloomin Onion? Chef Susan Irby has 175 super slimming recipes in her latest cookbook, Substitute Yourself Skinny to help you enjoy the food want with just a little less calories. Her approach to cooking makes sense to me.
Realistically there is only one way to lose weight, healthy eating and exercise. There are probably very few people who enjoy eating carrots and spinach day in and day out. While I have never had to consider a diet program where you are purchasing a certain companies food, I do not believe in their programs. This approach may be good for a couple of months but when it is all said and done what happens next.
Chef Irby demonstrates to readers that by changing a few ingredients in a recipe you can reduce calories and turn it into a healthier meal. In the mood for saucy spaghetti with sausage, just throw in low fat turkey sausage and whole wheat pasta, lobster bisque, leave out the heavy cream and use low fat sour creme instead. How about a deep fried onion, do not deep fry it-that is obvious-she has you baking it in the oven. What about Sunday brunch with some French toast-instead of using milk and eggs-try egg whites and low-fat yogurt. -whole wheat bread also helps. Almost every recipe can have the calories cut so you are enjoying foods that you find appetizing and not overloading your body with unhealthy and useless calories.
The book is divided into jump start breakfasts, energizing lunches, thinner dinners, slimming sides, snacks and appetizers and skinny desserts. Will I cook out of this book? Without a doubt. Each recipe gives you the calories, servings and nutritional breakdown. In addition to this it lets you know how many calories you are saving.
The one part of the book I do not agree with is the dessert section. Irby makes most of the desserts with artificial sweeteners. For me I consider this to be substituting one evil for another. Some of her healthier suggestions are using apple sauce or adding more fruit to naturally sweeten the dessert.
Overall I think this is a great cookbook with plenty of recipes that will appeal to everyone. I do not view this book as a diet book at all, as much as it is a healthy lifestyle book for food you eat everyday.
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Diet cookbooks should be about dropping weight, not depriving yourself. By swapping this for that, you can turn your favorite foods into low-calorie creations--proving once and for all that you can have your chocolate molten cake, and eat it too! In this calorie-slashing collection, Bikini Chef-to-the-stars Susan Irby offers 175 inventive recipes for switching up ingredients that keep calories to a minimum. Here, you'll get expertly crafted recipes that include offerings for every meal of the day, such as:
Flat-Belly Eggs Benedict (with turkey bacon or lean prosciutto instead of bacon or ham)--save 465 calories!
Smoked Gouda Burger (with turkey bacon and a whole-wheat bun)--save 716 calories!
Monterey Chicken Pasta (with sugar-free BBQ sauce and reduced fat cheese)--save 345 calories!
Molten Chocolate Cake (with less cream and more strawberries)--save 262 calories!
Complete with "Thin Tip" shortcuts to trim calories in little ways throughout the day and serving size suggestions, you get all the flavor--minus the muffin top!
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