|
|
Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World
|
List Price: $17.95
Our Price: $12.21
Your Save: $ 5.74 ( 32% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
EAN: 9780312377427
ISBN: 0312377428
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-04-29
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
|
Do you want to eat burgers, chocolate cake, frozen margaritas, fudge, and French fries--and still fit into your pants? Is life not worth living without brownies and onion rings? Do you want a surefire way to tame your cravings? From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories. Check it out! * Eggs Bene-Chick: 183 calories
* Bring on the Breakfast Pizza: 127 calories
* Ooey Gooey Chili Cheese Nachos: 216 calories
* Big Bopper Burger Stopper: 202 calories
* Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge: 65 calories
* Lord of the Onion Rings: 153 calories
* Rockin' Tuna Melt: 212 calories
* 7-Layer Burrito Blitz: 277 calories
* I Can't Believe It's Not Sweet Potato Pie: 113 calories
* Cookie-rific Ice Cream Freeze: 160 calories
* With easy instructions, simple steps, and hilariously fun facts and figures, Hungry Girl recipes are as fun to read as they are to make! And when you're not in your kitchen, check out HG's 10 mini survival guides, plus tips 'n tricks that'll help you make smarter food choices anywhere, anytime!
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Save your $$$
Comment: Take all your regular recipes and insert fat free or sugar free where possible. ie, butters, dressings, creams. You will then have your very own HG cookbook. Save your cash for a new pair of shoes to celebrate your intelligence.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hungry Girl convert
Comment: This book has changed the way I cook. Whether I use recipes from the book or make my old favorites, this way of cooking encourages me to look for substitute ingredients that can make a big difference in the calorie content of foods. Turns out, eating healthily is a lot different than it was 10 years ago. It actually tastes great!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wow!
Comment: What a great find! I love to cook and I love to eat. No wonder I am a Weight Watcher. I saw this book and "took a chance". It is wonderful. A great weight loss tool to say the least! Imagine eating onion rings when you are on a diet! And the majority of the recipes are "doable" for a diabetic as well. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is trying to gain better health. Another good feature is that the recipes do not make a huge amount and, most of the ingredients are things you already have in your pantry. A for sure "YES"!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful recipes
Comment: I've already tried several of the recipes. I love them and my husband (who doesn't like "healthy" food) agrees.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good idea in theory... just not in real life
Comment: I was excited to get this book... excited to try the recipes... until I ate the concoctions that were created. For example, the oven-fried chicken made with Fiber One. Fiber One is a fine product, and I enjoy it very much as a cereal, but as chicken breading, not so much. My chicken did not get crispy, the breading was dusty and crumbly, and fell off the chicken easily, and well, it just didn't taste very good. But I thought that perhaps it was just one misguided recipe, so I persevered and tried another.
Big mistake. Missing pasta, I tried the Fettuccine Girlfredo. I searched high and low for those darn shirataki noodles. Not living in an urban area, I was out of luck, and had to resort to online ordering. It ended up being very expensive. Ah well, I thought, if it satisfies my desire for fettuccine without a prohibitive amount of fat and calories, it'll be worth it. So I hopefully commence.
Let me share something with you here, and I don't think it is giving away any trade secret - Laughing Cow cheese, while a fine product, is no substitute for Parmesan. How the Hungry Girl thought squishy Swiss cheese product, when melted, could possibly come close to being even a remotely acceptable substitute for real Alfredo... well, I just don't understand. But what's even worse is the substitution of the shirataki noodles for pasta.
Shirataki noodles are odd things if you have never had them before. First of all, they smell pretty bad, much like dead fish, even after thorough rinsing. And no amount of patting these things dry will encourage sauce to cling to them. But I could deal with those issues. What I couldn't deal with was the texture of the things. They have a fibrous feeling to them when you bite them, and a slippery mouth feel. I have never eaten worms in my life, but these things did indeed make me feel as if I were eating worms, possibly live ones. It was a very unpleasant experience. All in all, the dish neither tasted, smelled, nor felt anything like Fettuccine Alfredo, not in the slightest. It was a struggle not to heave while the stuff was in my mouth.
After this second experience, I am not going to attempt to try anything else. It would be one thing if the dishes were remotely like what the 'real' items they intend to replace, but they aren't anywhere in the ballpark. Or same city as the ballpark. Or state. Or... well, you get my drift.
So why did I give it 2 stars? Well, the premise was good, the book really makes things sound exciting, and the direct-comparisons showing the nutritional values of the HG versions next to the real things were a good tool. Some decent information was hidden within the pages. The book itself is mildly entertaining if you don't mind cutesy word play. It's just too bad that I thought a recipe book should be about palatable food, I guess. One thing about it - I would definitely lose weight if I attempted to eat only the foods made from these recipes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
