Pillsbury: Fast and Healthy Cookbook: 350 Easy Recipes for Every Day

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I bought this book when I got married in an effort to help my husband and I support a more healthy lifestyle (ok, we wanted to lose some weight!). This book has by far exceeded my expectations--i use it at least three to four times a week! the highlights: -meals that truly can be prepared quickly -"normal" ingredients that I can find at a regular grocery store and won't sit in my fridge for months after using them once -truly tasty recipes that rarely taste "lowfat" -a wide variety of recipes with a multitude of flavors and tastes that suit both the adventureous eater or a more conservative palate. -directions that are easy to follow with helpful information sidebars. Even you 'non-cooks' out there can use this book! -It lists nutrition info with each recipe, so you know exactly how many calories and how much fat you're taking in with each dish. The book is divided into sections for each type of food (ie chicken, fish, breads, etc), and it has a pretty good index in the back so it is easy to find things. The only thing I would do different is that the entrees don't list suggestions for sides, which would be helpful for those of us who don't have an intuition for that sort of thing. A book that does do this is "Make it in Minutes", a book by weight watchers that is my second favorite cookbook. Ignore the WW thing, and pick this book up too. It has some great recipes as well!

This cookbook has it all! Normal recipes, easy to follow large print, beautiful glossy pictures and pages, and nutrional information. It tells you to use yogurts etc instead of sour cream and healthier versions of cooking. It has general calorie information for foods, and general cooking tips and suggestions for things you can throw into the recipe if you have leftovers. Something I have never seen before. It has tips on how to spot good produce and the right cuts of meats. I can never seem to find recipes in other books I have bought that I would actually use, but I have used this book several times. I have made the meatloaf several times, and everytime my family loves it. I like it because it tells you that you can use breadcrumbs or smashed crackers as I stated above, it gives options in the recipe, with tips above the recipe. Most cookbooks don't do that. I would reccommend this to a beginner or a parent that doesn't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen after a long day at work, like me.

I have only had this cookbook for a week but I have used it every night for dinner. The recipes are delicious and so easy to make. I have been searching for a low fat, fast, and easy cookbook that included nutritional information for a long time! I love that it tells you ALL the nutritional info, not just calories. The pictures seem to be a true representation of what you end up cooking. My husband and my 3 year old have been very pleased with the past several dinners. I'm happy because most of the recipes take less than 30 minutes to prepare. I know I will enjoy this cookbook for a very long time. It is a must have!!!

When I first bought this book I didn't utilize it as much as I should have. Now that I have become more driven to eat healthier but don't want to spend much time in the kitchen I find this book to be extremely useful. It's full of big full color pages of the finished product, easy recipe instructions, and even comes with a section in the beginning explaining the food pyramid and portion sizes. I thought with the name "Pillsbury" it would call for some of it's own products like those "grands" rolls and other fattening products they sell but I haven't seen that anywhere in the cookbook. Just healthy foods that you probably have onhand or at least should already have in your fridge and pantry. All in all I'm finding it to be a wonderful resource in the kitchen. My husband even recently looked through it and thought he ought to be able to cook up some things from this book since they looked simple enough.