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Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes (Voice) |  | Author: Lifetime Television
Publisher: Voice
Category: Book
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Rating:  178 reviews
Sales Rank: 93763
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
ASIN: B002UXRZTY
Publication Date: April 28, 2009
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Product Description
Lose weight without losing your mind!
Cook Yourself Thin is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that teaches readers how to cut calories without compromising taste. For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge: figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won't leave you hungry, bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! Cook Yourself Thin shows how to cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods we love. Cook Yourself Thin is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your cravings. You can't live without your chocolate cake or mac 'n' cheese? You don't have to! (See Deep Dark Chocolate Cake, page 197.) There's never enough time to cook? Cook Yourself Thin keeps it simple─with easy instructions and fun recipes you'll want to make again and again. What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!
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 Cook yourself thin July 31, 2010
Ronald M. Johnston
We Love this show and book, we bought ourselves the book and liked it so much we bought everyone in the family one also. The recipes are delicious and fun to make.
 Don't waste your money July 2, 2010
Sarah Maines
I bought this book after falling in love with the show and was horribly disappointed. The recipes taste awful, but maybe that's my fault for cooking them wrong. Or maybe it's the authors' fault for having incomplete recipes! For example, the ingredients list for stuffed shells called for more cheese than the recipe steps ever told you to use. The healthy potato skins were more twice baked potatoes and they were gross. Again maybe I made some wrong guesses since they never told me when to actually add the spinach mixture. All in all, I would say don't waste your money on this book. Buy one that has at least been proofread.
 evidence of not a lot of recipe-testing June 29, 2010
Harlan (Seattle, WA)
We made one and only one recipe from the book, when it became all too clear that the recipes hadn't been tested, quantities in a recipe were badly messed-up.
LOVE IT! June 7, 2010
jo (Bay Area, CA)
all the recipes so far are delicious and fairly easy to make. Some of the ingredients you have to go and search for, but definitely worth it!
Cook Yourself Thin - deliciously! June 7, 2010
A. Duda
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a fan of the Lifetime Series but a skeptical dieter, I wasn't sure whether the happy results on the show would be my own. Also, the economy sent me packing back to my parents' home for the year, and they are traditional, meat-and-potatoes and BUTTER eaters. My mother and I now take turns cooking, and also sometimes cook together. Would these recipes go over well in this household??
YES!!!
In fact, when my brother came home for a visit, I took my first crack at a recipe from the book: vegetable lasagna. I also made a "traditional" version, just in case. (My brother, in particular, can be a bit fussy.) To my enormous surprise, we all preferred the Cook Yourself Thin version!
I've now tried perhaps 6 or 8 recipes from this book (and also about as many from "Cook Yourself Thin Faster). I often like to prepare things that produce leftovers, like the lasagna, chicken pot pie (also spectacular), onion soup (I made a double recipe & then added the bread & cheese when reheating individual portions). For Mother's Day, I made the stuffed French Toast Sundaes, which went over as a "fancy delicacy" (I didn't mention that they were "healthy.")
I understand some of the other comments that maybe these aren't the "lowest calorie" recipes out there, but I tried lots of those (Weight Watchers, Hungry Girl, etc.). For me, some just weren't as tasty as I'd like, or maybe the selections just weren't to my taste. Worse, I couldn't get into some of the recommended substitutes at Hungry Girl, or at some other sites. Some rely heavily on weird chemical food substitutes or fat-free dressings, etc. (Have you ever read the back of those packages? Processed corn this and chemical that! Yuck!)
What I really love about Cook Yourself Thin recipes is that they include a modest amount of luxurious, high-fat ingredients and then lots of vegetables, etc. to cut down on calories. I want to be healthy and satisfied as well as thin! Also, it's very easy to adapt these dishes. For instance, I made the sauce for the Fettuccini con Funghi - from the 2nd book - to make a lighter alternative to the family's traditional, cream-based mushroom sauce for one of those meat and potatoes dinners. Also, I substituted beef stock for chicken stock for the onion soup, because, well, that's just the way I like it.
I'm obviously not following the book(s) every day, but each week, I prepare at least 2-3 recipes (and so eat 5-6 meals) because of these books. This is my first successful experience with cook books designed to help lose/maintain weight. For me, It's because these dishes are truly delicious and have inspired me to find ways to translate ideas into the rest of my cooking.
And best of all? Yup! I'm finally losing weight! YAY!!
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