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500 Fat-Free Recipes: A Complete Guide to Reducing the Fat in Your Diet
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Villard (1994-05-24)
ISBN: 0679415890
EAN: 9780679415893
Dewy Decimal #: 641.5638
Hardcover: 442 pages
Edition: 1
Release Date: 1994-05-24
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
As cardiac patients, dieters, and just about anyone interested in maintaining good health can tell you, "fat free" too often means "flavor free." With The Garden Variety Cookbook and The Low-Cholesterol Olive oil cookbook, Sarah Schlesinger proved there's no reason why good food and good diet can't go hand in hand, and in her latest recipe collection she does so again, with distinction.
500 Fat-Free Recipes is the only cookbook to offer convenient, delicious, nonfat recipes each with one gram of fat or less-as well as a complete guide to reducing the fat in your diet. Finally, here's a one-stop resource for healthy eating.
Schlesinger began a dramatic reduction of her family's fat and cholesterol intake ten years ago as part of a program to reverse her husband's chronic heart disease. Finding hundreds of lowfat recipes-but very few nonfat recipes-she began her own culinary experiments. The result is a remarkable collection of dishes utilizing the freshest produce, zesty seasonings, and unusual combinations instead of added fat and fat-laden ingredients. Here is a plethora of prize edibles for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack time. You'll find Pear-Cinnamon Muffins, Baked French Toast, Spinach Fettucini with ShiitakeTomato Sauce, Red Pepper Mini-Pizzas, Black Bean Lasagna, Cocoa Cake-all with one gram of fat or less. There's even a special section on dressings, sauces, and relishes.
Schlesinger also offers the tools you need to manage daily fat consumption. She explains the role of fat as necessary nutrient and potential health hazard, shows how to estimate how much fat you truly need, and includes tips on how to eat out on a low-fat diet, make the most of frozen meals, season dishes without fat, and shop for nonfat products. A nutritional-content analysis follows each recipe. With Schlesinger's help, you can control the fat in your diet (and still occasionally indulge in the higher-fat foods you crave)
Here are five hundred delectable reasons to get with the program and start to safeguard your family's well-being today. The recipes in 500 Fat-Free Recipes are so good, people won't even suspect they're healthy!
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Customer Reviews
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Review of cookbook: 500 Fat-Free Recipies
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-09-01
The second edition which follows this one is MUCH better. I bought them in reverse order and loved the 500 More Fat-Free Recipies. This one is just getting up the momentum. However, both are good books to have on the shelf for no fat cooking ideas.
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Simple, tasty, Fat Free cooking for humans
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-10-07
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I ran into this title at the local library hunting ways to modify a diet for me to gain muscle and for my husband to protect his heart bypass which lasted 15 years and is now getting a worried eye from the Doc. Dragged in unwilling but knowing he has no other choice he's hard to please esp when his idea of a snack is 8 or 9 Mounds Snack Bites [not exactly low in fat] He doesn't miss it a bit. He also doesn't have to give up his beloved Chocolate with recipes like her Coca Cake with .9 [not 9 grams but point 9 grams] of fat or chocolate pudding ringing in with .6 grams fat and both with low cholesterol [0 cake and 2 pudding.]
She breaks down clearly at the end of each recipe calories per serving, fat, cholesterol [hanging it at 0 a LOT of the time], protein, carbs, Dietary fiber and sodium. Nice very nice but the recipes are varied, interesting and flavorful. I can make many of them without a special trip to the store on the spur of the moment.
Fruit without that ton of sugar added some recipes want to add but still sweet and flavorful. Excellent source for those meatless meals also or just plain great for adding to your favorite meat based meal. Easy to follow recipes esp for those who want to cut and not spend the entire day figuring out how to cut the fat. And the best part? You might not know you are [unlike the low sugar, low carb, low fat candy bar he just purchased "So they flavor plastic now?" ---The cake won hands down]
A must for any cooks library and a Golden book for anyone who wants simple recipes.
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Painless and meatless
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-09-01
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Schlesinger begins with a thorough guide to shopping, cooking and seasoning techniques. Organized by course, the book includes a chapter on breakfasts, lunches and snacks and another devoted to sauces, dressings and relishes.
Breakfast might include pear-cinammon muffins or frozen fruit pops made with yogurt and banana and for lunch there's vegetable tortilla wraps with nonfat cottage and cream cheese or baked potato pancakes.
No meat is included (except defatted chicken broth) but there's plenty of variety and creativity including marinated vegetable kebabs, vermicelli with roasted red peppers and lots of bean dishes, all well-seasoned. There's even dessert - apricot upside-down cake, pumpkin pie made with evaporated skim milk and egg whites, and numerous fruit creations.
Schlesinger sticks with naturally lowfat ingredients as much as possible and offers dietary information with every recipe.
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Good for Ornish followers or lacto-ovo vegetarians.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-08-25
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
In small leters in the introduction, the author explains this collection was developed for her husband who suffered from heart disease. They follow the Ornish program for heart reversal, which is basically low-fat, lacto-ovarian fare. The heart disease people, vegetarians, or those after better health/weight loss in general will appreciate this effort but those who do not know what "Ornish" means or those who skip the preface will be surprised that it's vegetarian and "no meat." Those wishing "meat-y" yet low-fat might be better off with one of Sue Spitler or Sandra Woodruff's books.There is no space/some small space in the margins for notes although there is nutritional info. There are some vegan or vegan-friendly variations, but you have to hunt and pick. It's easier to adapt to L/O than vegan -- it's usually right there in the variation (ex: "use chicken broth or vegetable broth"). There weren't any overly exotic ingredients to me but the introduction does go over the ingredients used and explains what they are. That would be useful for cooking novices. Some of the combinations are a little odd. Sometimes this works great and it's refreshing, other times it leaves me short of expectations. There is however, a consistancy of style across the recipes, and it's not bad if you want to be adventurous. I'd consider this more a "supplemental" cookbook rather than a "hardcore mainstay" one in my cookbook collection. Overall, it's a nice collection, but not necessarily my favorite one when I was l/o and now that I am vegan I rarely use it. I didn't think it was so great that I wanted the other cookbooks she wrote later but who knows? Maybe those improved.
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Excellent Book
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-01-03
8 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Great tasting and easy to prepare. Alot of very creative recipes. Looking forward to making most of them. Since they are Fat Free the recipes do not include meat, fish or poultry but otherwise very exciting.
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