Product Description

The Healthy Cook's Best Kitchen Companion

Eating well and losing weight have never been easier - or more delicious! This comprehensive Weight Watchers cookbook is packed with more than 500 fresh and flavorful recipes for every meal and virtually every occasion. With countless cooking tips, helpful how-to's, and sixty color photographs, Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook is the all-in-one kitchen resource you'll turn to again and again for grat iseas and inspiration.

Whether you're looking for a quick and easy weeknight dinner or something special to spice up a weekend brunch, you'll find a variety of recipes to choose from on every page. How about tasty Chicken Fajitas, smoky Roasted Broccoli with Cumin-Chipotle Butter, or rich Chocolate Fondue? With choices like these, ranging from classic comfort foods to zesty international dishes, boredom is never on the menu.

Throughout, Weight Watchers nutrition and cooking experts offer you simple, flexible ways to achieve your weight loss goals without giving up favorite foods. So get cooking today with Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook - and enjoy!

Here's what is inside:

• More than 500 healthy recipes, including Core Plan recipes and POINTS values for every recipe.
• Information on Weight Watchers popular Flex Plan
• A brand-new holiday baking chapter, with recipes from around the world
• Handy recipe icons (for Core Plan, 20 minutes or less, spicy, and 5 POINTS values or less)
• Complete nutrition information - including trans fats
• Valuable tips, how to's, substitutions, and leftover ideas
• And much more

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16446 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Ring-bound
• 464 pages

Amazon.com Review
If you're a Weight Watcher, this collection of 500 recipes in a handy loose-leaf binder could put you in the fast lane on the road to success. This cookbook is designed for Weight Watchers' 1•2•3 Success program: points are assigned to foods based on fat, fiber, and calories, and your daily point allowance is based on your current weight. So you can eat what you want, as long as you don't go over your allotted points. The better your food choices, the more you can eat before you run out of points.

Recipes are varied and cover the whole gamut: sauces; breads; soups; meat, chicken, fish, and vegetarian entrees; pasta; vegetable, grain, and potato side dishes; and, of course, desserts. The recipes are more healthful but not drastically different from foods you and your family enjoy now. Many are familiar comfort foods, such as Pizza, Oven "Fried" Chicken, Beef Stew, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Chocolate Layer Cake, and Cheesecake. Internationally inspired favorites include Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), Orange-Flavored Fajitas, Moo Shu Chicken, Tandoori Haddock, and Senegalese Peanut Soup. The nutritional breakdown for each recipe is more complete than in most cookbooks, and includes calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate, fiber, protein, calcium, and Weight Watchers' points. --Joan Price

From the Back Cover
At last! Weight loss is made easier — and delicious! — with this thorough, all-encompassing cookbook of over 500 simple, yet scrumptious, recipes for appetizers, snacks, sides, entrées and desserts. Also included in this classic collection are countless cooking tips, tons of speedy how-tos and 60 beautiful, full-color photographs.

Today, the experts at Weight Watchers know that losing weight is about balance and variety — and Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook reflects this smart trend. Whether it's a fancy dinner, a family favorite or an exotic, new entrée, Weight Watchers has whipped up a batch of tasty recipes that combine fresh, wholesome foods with low-fat cooking techniques to create a recipe collection you'll use for years to come. Some highlights include:

• More than 500 luscious recipes to satisfy your taste buds and all your cooking needs
• The lowdown on smart eating the health way
• Countless cooking tips, how-tos, substitutions and secrets on how we cut the fat, but not the great taste
• A collection of vegetarian recipes, plus a new chapter that highlights the best new American recipes
• All-time family favorites like homemade Lasagna and Chocolate Layer Cake, all made healthy
• The how-tos of Weight Watchers super-successful Winning Points Weight Loss Plan, including POINTS information
• Complete nutrition information and POINTS with every recipe
• Sixty spectacular color photographs

With all this, Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook is sure to become a kitchen companion you'll use for years to come.

About the Author
Since 1963, Weight Watchers has grown from a handful of members to millions of enrollments annually. Today, Weight Watchers is recognized as the leading name in safe and sensible weight control.Weight Watchers members are a diverse group, from youths to senior citizens, attending meetings virtually around the globe.Weight-loss and weight-management results vary by individual, but we recommend that you attend Weight Watchers meetings, follow either one of the Weight Watchers food plans, and participate in regular physical activity. For the Weight Watchers meeting nearest you, call 800-651-6000. Also, visit us at our Web site: WeightWatchers.com, or look for Weight Watchers Magazine at your newsstand or in your meeting room.

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Customer Reviews

A good cookbook for entrees
I like this cookbook and use it often, but I find that the dinners are much better than the sweets and baked goods. I've tried several of the sweet recipes and they don't work out. For instance I just made the rice pudding and I had to add much more milk to keep it from burning, had to cook it for longer than required but the rice still came out a little hard. It's a strange recipe, you cook it on the stovetop and then bake it. The entrees I've tried have all come out very good.

good, could have been great
"Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook", copywrite 1998, 2007 printing, is a good cookbook for Weight Watchers. However, it could have been great, with some more attention to detail.

I did Weight Watchers back in the early 1970s, when Weight Watchers was still a new organization. Back then, the diet was simple and strict. It was a low-fat Atkins type of diet. It was difficult to stay on the diet, as eating urges developed. Over the years, the Weight Watchers program has gotten more sophisticated and more complex. Currently, the program uses a 'points' system and has changed from a 'diet' to a way of life. Over the years I 'visited' the Weight Watchers program, again and again. The recipes have gotten better and more tasty, using herbs and spices for more flavor.

There are some problems with the cookbook. More photos and drawings of finished dishes are needed, so beginning cooks can aim for the best results. The format of the recipes causes difficulties, because it is not easy to spot the recipe 'points' or to assess serving sizes. The book does not have enough really simple recipes for beginning cooks. Perhaps it should have a beginner's section.

Quibbles aside, the dishes are good, healthful, and tasty.

Excellent
The book was just as described and was delivered on time. I would definately order from this seller again.