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How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher...

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by: Gill Holcombe

October 12, 2007
An interesting book with humour and a few helpful hints but I have been cooking for a family for 30 years - probably of more use to the younger reader with limited kitchen skills - I will give this to my daughter in the hope that I might come home to a cooked meal that doesnt cost £5 a head and leave every pan and surface in the kitchen covered in goo! I am an optimist at heart.
Disappointingly several pages fell out as I read it so make sure you have sellotape to hand.

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101 Low-fat Feasts (BBC Good Food)

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by: Good Homes Magazine

June 05, 2003
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

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Slim to Win: Diet and Cookbook

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by: Rosemary Conley

October 02, 2008
I have taken a bit of stick in the past for my reviews about Rosemary Conley products simply because I spout off about how gorgeous I think she is.Quite a few people have objected to my ravings about her and told me off for not commenting enough about her products.Well,she is still an absolute stunner,a dream of a woman but this time I will concentrate solely about this simply excellent cookbook.

This is one of her best books to date.It takes a short while to get to her recipes as Rosemary spends the first few pages talking specificly about diet.But when we do get around to the actual recipes they are absolutely mouth watering.What I particularly like about this book is that Rosemary caters for every taste bud with a section on puddings ... Read More:

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Healthy Gluten-free Eating: The Ultimate Wheat-free Recipe Book (Healthy Eating)

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by: Darina Allen, Rosemary Kearney

May 27, 2004
This is a really good cookbook for those with dietary issues. I avoid gluten and dairy, and although this book was just gluten free, it is easy to substitute soy milk or other non-dairy ingredients for the recipes in the book.

I made the Christmas cake last Christmas, and will be baking it again for this Christmas. It had a lovely baked almond 'crust' and was really moist inside. I've made quite a few of their recipes and they've all turned out really well - banana bread, yorkshire puds and the like.

The recipes are really easy to follow and well laid out. Most of the ingredients are easy to get hold of too - which is always a bonus!

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"Good Food": 101 Healthy Eats (Good Food 101)

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by: Jane Hornby

October 16, 2008
I have purchased other cookbooks form the 101 range and this one does not dissapoint. It is one of the best ones!

The recipes are not only incrediabley healthy, low in fat amd high in fibre they are actually tasty and very satisfying(properly filling and so tasty) ! I think that nearly all of the recipes contain at least one of your 5-a day fruit and vegtables some of them contain your whole 5!!! The desserts also have some PROPER but healthy deserts (not just fruit) like hot chocloate custard pots, and ginger compote cruch for example.

The sections are
Classics made healthy (really good)
Healthy mid-week meals
Feel good sides
Healthy meals without meat
Guilt free entertaining (looks like you spent ... Read More:

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Healthy Eating for Diabetes (Healthy Eating)

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by: Antony Worrall Thompson, Azmina Govindji

October 23, 2003
I've just cooked another dinner from this book and yet again it was scrumptious as well as healthy. I'd recommend this book to anyone, not just those with diabetes. Yummy!

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Skinny Bitch

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by: Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

January 04, 2007
How silly that I had to give this appalling book a star just so I could post my review! Really, Amazon, are we not allowed to give a zero rating???

Anyway, as you can see from my title, I do, indeed give this book NO STARS.

Well LANGUAGE "ladies", please! Thank goodness the authors had the idea of letting the customer see inside the book before purchasing! The finger-pointing, aggressive tone is bad enough, but the "F" word a few pages in, describing soda manufacture, is indefensible. I would not give this insulting book shelf-room. Do yourselves a favour, don't buy it!

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The Diabetes Weight Loss Diet

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by: Antony Worrall Thompson, Azmina Govindji, Jane Suthering

January 25, 2007
Some superb recipes. I love the apricot & all bran cake, very popular with my friends, but I added ginger after the first try. The nice thing is that this is an English cookery book, so we can easily get the ingredients. Thanks Antony.

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Antony Worrall Thompson's GI Diet

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by: Antony Worrall Thompson, Mabel Blades, Jane Suthering

March 24, 2005
I have recently been diagnosed with insulin resistance, and told I needed to follow a low GI diet. A recipe book created by a chef who was also diagnosed as insulin resistant seemed like an obvious choice, but I was very disappointed for several reasons.

First, most of the recipes do not seem practical for everyday living. Many of them have long cooking times and need perishable or unusual ingredients, and therefore need forward planning.

Second, I feel there is not enough information to enable the reader to make their own low GI recipes. There is GI table in the front, but over-simplified (for my tastes) into low, medium or high GI and not containing that many foods. Also, bread in particular may be low, medium or high GI depending on ... Read More:

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Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: The No-hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan That Really Works!

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by: Robert C. Atkins

January 02, 2003
First of all the diet works a treat, i was very pleased with the results and found it easy. But i'm not reviewing the diet i'm reviewing the book. The book is great if you want to know the in's and out's of the science behind the Atkins theory. I personally thought even though it made sense it dragged on. I just wanted to get to the part were i started to lose weight. Eventually i came to about three pages in the book with lists of foods that were allowed on the Atkins diet.
To be honest i could have probably googled the information and not bothered with the book but it is nice to hear it from the doctors mouth.