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Imagine savoring three delicious, satisfying meals each day without worrying in regards to counting calories or calculating fat grams. Now you may take pleasure in hundreds of compoundings of tempting, flavorful breakfasts, lunches, dinners--even desserts--all for only 1200 calories a day.

Every dinner holds no more than 400 calories per serving. Each breakfast and lunch holds only 350 calories per serving, and each delicious dessert holds just 100 calories per serving. All you have to do is select the meals you want to combine for any queer day.

Choose from such low-calorie offerings as:

• Buttermilk pancakes with blueberry sauce, canadian bacon, and sliced oranges
• Roast beef salad with blue cheese in pitas and fresh apple slices
• Sliced turkey with mushroom gravy, whipped potatoes, peppered peas, and apricot halves
• Raspberry-kissed pears in phyllo nests

Each low-calorie, low-fat recipe includes easy-tofollow instruction and fat grams per serving. Many recipes may be prepared in 15 minutes or less.

From BooklistHughes breaks the 1,200 calories a day into breakfast and lunch recipes that integrate no more than 350 calories each, dinner recipes that incorporate no more than 400 calories, and dessert recipes that integrate only 100 calories. The majority of the meals incorporate 20 percent or less of their total calorie content from fat; all integrate less than 30 percent. The totals are listed with each recipe. Hughes, author of three other cookbooks, insists this is not a diet plan but rather a comprehensive collection of recipes that may be employed to limit calorie and fat intake. Many of the recipes may be prepared in 15 minutes or less. George Cohen

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130 of 132 persons found the following review helpful.
If you have tons of time, cash , effort OR are looking for fresh ideas, this is okay
By Sheri Gill AUTHOR
I am home all day and have lots and lots of experience in cooking all kinds of foods ranging from easy to very difficult. While the recipes in this are not super difficult, this is not a cookbook for most of us.

Personally, I got this book to make dieting EASIER. I wanted a list of things I may throw together for 3 meals a day, and end up with in regards to 1200 calories no matter which I picked from each meal choice. This book, doesn't do that.

For example, for breakfasts: person fruit platters with hot popovers (huh?) or Fresh Banana-Oat Bread and vanilla yogurt with sliced fresh peaches. Geez! That is a lot of work for BREAKFAST!

Lunches: Curried Tuna and Pecans in Pita Halves with Ambrosia Fruits. Sure Or Wild Rice-Sausage Chowder with fresh tomato

I mean, I have all day, and I'm not making this for lunch. Dinner, maybe.

Dinner: Snapper on a bed of spinach-cheese sauce, basil baked tomatoes and gingered rice. I'm exhausted just thinking regarding it.

If you want NEW and FRESH recipe ideas, this actually is a great book, so I gave it three stars. But for most regular joes, this is not a great book,recipes are too elaborated and if it's too much venture to just eat each day, folks will drop their diet and eat pasta and chips instead.

75 of 77 persons found the following review helpful.
The 1200-Calorie-A-Day Menu Cookbook : Quick and Easy Recipe
By A
This book is perfective for me. I want to eat a 1200 calorie a day menu. But I was spending so much time compiling recipes from the respective books that I have that I gave up. This book allows you to choose a breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. No rigorous regimen. No matter which meals you choose, you don't exceed 1200 calories. It's perfect. The recipes are more "gourmet" which is what I like to prepare. All the recipes are based on 4 persons but it is not that difficult to scale down to one or two, it just takes a smidgen of effort. Best recipe book I have found to date.

89 of 94 persons found the following review helpful.
Delicious, low-cal meals
By Louis Gudema
My wife and I have made with regards to a dozen of these recipes and have never been disappointed -- they have been systematically delicious. We also use "Eating Well" magazine and a few other origins of tasty low-cal recipe, in addition to ordinary cookbooks.

Each recipe tells you the calories (important) and grams of fat (not as important) per serving. As with any cookbook, there are always minor modifications to make to suite your taste (for example, the lemon-mustard chicken with angel hair pasta recipe doesn't fabricate sufficient sauce for our taste, so we increase those ingredients).

These are not "15-minute recipes," nor do they take hours. You have to want to cook; it's not not common for a dinner entree to have a dozen ingredients. But the rewards are worth it.

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