Low Calorie Recipes

Savvy cooks are already setting a place at their tables for the 11th edition of an always popular collection. These handy compendium's gather more than 1,000 recipes from a years worth of Cooking Light, the worlds most widely read food magazine.

Tips, techniques, planning, preparation, presentation they're all there, not to mention updated and innovative dishes in the lighter, guilt-free versions we love.

Cooking Light is the world's largest food and healthy lifestyle magazine with 11 million readers monthly (1.7 million circulation)

1001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes features easy-to-prepare, great-tasting, healthy, appealing dishes for everyone, from appetizers and soups to entrees and desserts. Committed vegetarians will appreciate the way each recipe carries a symbol indicating its status as vegan, lacto-ovo vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, or ovo-vegetarian. To make healthy eating even easier, nutritional information and diabetic exchanges are included with each recipe. From Indian Lentil Soup, Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sandwiches, and Easy Herb Lovosh to Quinoa with Roasted Eggplant and Squash, Freezer Coleslaw, and Chocolate-Cherry Pudding Cake, the diversity of delicious, palate pleasing vegetarian cuisine is as impressive as it is delicious!

Imagine savoring three delicious, satisfying meals every day without worrying about counting calories or calculating fat grams. Now you can enjoy hundreds of combinations of tempting, flavorful breakfasts, lunches, dinners - even desserts - all for only 1200 calories a day.

Hughes breaks the 1,200 calories a day into breakfast and lunch recipes that contain no more than 350 calories each, dinner recipes that contain no more than 400 calories, and dessert recipes that contain only 100 calories. The majority of the meals contain 20 percent or less of their total calorie content from fat; all contain less than 30 percent. The totals are listed with each recipe. Hughes, author of three other cookbooks, insists this is not a diet plan but rather a comprehensive collection of recipes that can be used to limit calorie and fat intake. Many of the recipes can be prepared in 15 minutes or less. George Cohen

These quick, low-fat vegetarian meals are perfect for those who don't have time to cook dinner but would like to enjoy tempting and nutritious dishes.

There is a whole chapter in the book on tips for the "time-challenged" cook, covering shoppping, kitchen efficiency, and equipment, in which the author urges cooks to make menus ahead of time and keep a running shopping list so they don't run out of things.

More than 200 creative, low-fat recipes for today's smaller households

Unique two-column recipe format for hassle-free preparation
Tips on shopping for one or two, and streamlining your kitchen
Full nutrient analysis with every recipe
Special chapter of delicious, no-fuss menus
Plenty of 30-minute recipes

plus meatless meals, divine desserts, tip-packed boxes and more!

Low-fat or low-carb? A New York Times Magazine (July 7, 2002) cover story answered this question and said that Dr. Atkins was right all along, "its not fat that makes us fat but carbohydrates."

Though the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in research trying to prove that fat is the cause of obesity, there has been a subtle shift in the scientific consensus over the past five years supporting what the low-carb diet doctors have been saying all along: if we eat less carbohydrates, we will lose weight and live longer.

One of the toughest challenges of any diet is having enough variety and choices to keep the dieter from losing interest. The most common reason that people abandon their diet is boredom but 500 LOW CARB RECIPES: 500 Recipes, From Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love by Dana Carpender has more than enough recipes to keep even the most finicky dieter on track.

With recipes for everything including hors d'oeuvres, snacks, breads, muffins, side dishes, entrees, cookies, cakes and much more, this is an endless supply for creating meals for the whole family night after night. Whether everyone in the family is on a diet or not, these recipes are proven winners with adults and kids alike.

Also included:

* Many one-dish meals for single people--main dish salads, skillet suppers that include meat and vegetables, and hearty soups that are a full meal in a bowl.
* Ideas for breaking out of old ways of looking at food with suggestions that save time and money and change what is considered a normal meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
* Information about where to find low-carbohydrate specialty products and descriptions of low-carb specialty foods found in grocery stores everywhere.
* An entire chapter that lists and describes low-carb substitute ingredients such as fats and oils, flour substitutes, liquids, seasonings and sweeteners.

Dieters will be pleased to know that they can eat foods like guacamole, omelets, pizza, steak, ham and dessert without giving up great taste and still lose weight. There are enough recipes to create the perfect menu for any holiday of the year--including Thanksgiving. Each of the 500 recipes includes a carbohydrate count to help calculate the total carb intake of each menu.

There are more recipes for main dishes and side dishes than most low-carb dieters will ever be able to eat--everything from down-home cooking to ethnic fare; from quick-and-easy weeknight meals to knock-their-socks off party food. 500 LOW CARB RECIPES is the last cookbook any dieter will ever need to buy and certain to be used until the binding is worn out!