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• Amazon Sales Rank: #75 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-29
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

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Hit the Kitchen with Hungry Girl

Just because you're watching your waistline doesn't mean you need to go hungry. Recipes from Hungry Girl--like the Fiber-Fried Chicken Strips featured below--feed your every craving without piling on the calories. What's more, Lisa Lillien's lighthearted love for food and fun shines through in every recipe, making it easy to follow her healthy example and even come up with your own simple calorie-saving shortcuts.

From Publishers Weekly
Though she freely admits she's neither a nutritionist nor a doctor, more than 400,000 subscribers rely on author Lillien's "Hungry Girl" e-newsletter for healthy eating tips. In this congenial compilation, most of which is new to the book, she gives dieters a breakfast-to-dinner approach to eating lighter with scores of easy to prepare dishes. Lillien's recipes enlist low-cal substitutes for traditional ingredients; diet lemon-lime soda and sugar-free powdered lemonade drink mix, for example, go into her Magical Low Calorie Margarita. In some cases, such as her Rockin' Restaurant Spinach Dip, Cheesy Chicken Quesadilla and Dan Good Chili, she approximates high-calorie dishes without sacrificing too much in terms of flavor or texture. Unfortunately, those are the exceptions-the Ice Creamless Banana Split and Cheery Chocolate Cheesecake Nuggets (which calls for diet hot cocoa mix, Splenda, fat free cream cheese and sugar free chocolate syrup) taste more like punishment than dessert. Salads are well represented, though few are served with any kind of dressing, and meat dishes can run sky high in sodium. Tips for smart eating at the office, holiday parties, trips and the movies are appreciated, but the book would have benefited from the input of a licensed nutritionist or dietician.
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About the Author

She's not a nutritionist, she's just hungry. LISA LILLIEN is the founder of www.hungry-girl.com. Close to half a million loyal fans receive her daily emails containing guilt-free recipes, food and product reviews, dieting news, shockers and more. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Customer Reviews

GREAT
Finally a cook book with the weight concious person in mind! The tips are excellent and the recipies are just as good

yummy and low-fat,too!!!
This book has easy to follow instructions, and lots of helpful hints for the preparation of the dishes. It was also easy to figure out the "points" of each dish, since the nutrition facts were printed out. This recipe book has a great variety of catagories and I recommend it to all, even those of you who don't really like to cook, like me!

Fun and informative!
I've been on Weight Watchers for a few months now and I find the Hungry Girl book is invaluable for finding recipes that are WW friendly. I don't have to eat like "on a diet". She has recipes for every day fun foods that are low fat, low cal - like her Chicken Tenders or Onion Rings, salads, baked goods, soups. Every recipe is so easy and yummy! This isn't gourmet eating. It's what we really eat every day. Although this isn't really a Weight Watchers book, the author is a regular contributor to their web site and the points values for all the recipes in the book can be found on the Hungry Girl web site. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is trying to cut calories and fat and I hope another book will follow soon! And don't miss all the tips for travelling by plane or car, tips for eating in restaurants, snack tips, etc. Great book!