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: #6021 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Ring-bound
• 464 pages

Amazon.com
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 case study in diet cookbook pitfalls
In The Best Light Recipe from Cooks Illustrated magazine, the editors of CI confronted one of the sketchier issues of writing books about low-fat cuisine -- the ugly fact that not every recipe can translate into lower-fat forms. They therefore abandoned a lot of their less practical plans -- there seemed to be no way to make a decent low fat pie crust, for example, so they gave up on it.

Well, Weight Watchers didn't. For the most part this worked out great for them -- there are a great many recipes in here that are perfectly acceptable conversions, and quite a few they simply did straight out and simply offered sufficent amounts of nutritional information that allowed decent portion control. A lot of recipes show less conversion and more smart recipe selection -- in other words, they went out of their way to find dishes that were inherently low fat to begin with, side-stepping a lot of difficult matters of trying to shoehorn something normally swamped in butter or olive oil into a low-fat cookbook. (I'm quite partial to their molasses rye bread recipe, by the way; it's a good quick rye bread that goes together easily in a bread machine.) But there's a few obvious clunkers that seem like they should have been left out. Their shrimp scampi recipe is my example for the purposes of the review -- rather than simply curb their use of olive oil, they made a sauce with chicken broth. In a seafood dish. The book isn't loaded to the gills with clunkers like this, but it's got a few things that really need to be watched for.

That said, this book is otherwise a remarkably good reminder that just because one might need to cut back on fat and carbs, one does not need to sacrifice tasty, well-rounded menus for birdseed or artery-clogging doses of meat that would make a Brazilian go veg. The dish selection is very wide-ranging and pretty hip, and if you bear in mind the above caveats it's actually pretty good as just a basic cookbook, if a little light compared with heavyweights like Joy of Cooking or The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. Each recipe includes nutritional information and WW Points values, and with multiple editions now available you can choose between the flat-lay binder and a more shelf-friendly compact format. Obviously Weight Watchers would prefer that you use it in conjunction with their program, but it's still a very good book to keep around for any situation where you need to keep a close eye on your nutritional matters, whether it involves WW or not.

Excellent for Foodies
I am addicted to the kitchen, I love to eat and I love to cook. This book is challenging enough for me to be fulfilled on both those levels. For instance... The Tandoori Marinade recipe might be a bust for some people who don't keep cardamom, turmeric, or garam masala on hand. But for a foodie who maintains an herb garden and has personal contacts to the Spice Islands for free spices, this is a no brainer winner recipe.

Don't get me wrong, there are some great easy "standards" in this book. Biscuits, Chocolate cake and vinaigrette (my 15 year old made the Raita recipe for gosh sakes). We pigged out on an Indian food meal complete with Naan, for only 11 points. I appreciated that! And so did my husband.

Do you need some skills to own this book? My answer: probably. Do you need to plan ahead to make these recipes? My answer is YES!

WW New Complete Cookbook
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