60 Days of Low Fat Low Cost Meals in Minutes: Over 150 Delicious, Healthy Recipes & Menus That Fit Your Budget
by M. J. Smith
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Don’t waste your money (2007-02-18)
If you’re looking for low-cost, you can start by not buying this book. It’s possibly the worst cookbook I’ve ever looked at.
The recipes are filled with errors. The nutrition information with each recipe is wildly inaccurate. Here’s an example: The Stromboli recipe (p. 238). It says it makes 4 3-ounce servings. It starts with a “1-lb. loaf of French bread.” Those of us who possess rudimentary math skills can see that that’s 4 ounces of bread per 3-ounce serving. And that’s before you add the ground beef, cheese and other ingredients. Furthermore, it claims each of the four servings will have 332 calories. I calculated it out and it’s going to be over 500 (more like 600) calories per serving.
This is typical of the recipes in this book. Another example: Beefy Mushroom and Barley Soup (p. 167). If you made this by the directions in the book, it would be inedible. It has “lean stew beef” as one of the ingredients. The total cooking time is 30 minutes. I hope you’re ready to chew for a LONG time.
Save your money and your time. Don’t buy this book.Disappointing (2007-02-12)
I found the structure of the book annoying - you constantly had to flip around to get menues and recipies and grocery lists, etc. Also, while the book description says it gives calorie amounts, it doesn’t break down where the calories come from, so if you want to make substitutions or swap meals from one day to another, you don’t know how that changes the calories.old standby (2007-02-07)
I am online searching for a replacement book, because mine is so dog-eared. I’ve had this book for years, and I always go back to it. A lot of these recipes are definitely old standbys for my family. There is some prep time involved with chopping onions, peppers, etc. Veggies are cheap and healthy; therefore, they’re in a lot of these recipes. Chop up a bunch at once and keep them in Baggies, ready for the next time.Not That Good (2007-01-12)
I had high hopes for this book and was sadly mistaken, the food is mediocre at best, the portions are very small, i would recommend purchasing “The 1200-calorie-A-Day Menu Coobook” by Nancy Hughes if you really want good food with good portions!! i have also checked out other books by Ms. Smith and I was equally disappointed. I hope you have better luck than me.Good book (2006-02-28)
Really good book. Good recipes. Needs a little color or pictures.
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