New Complete Cookbook
4th Edition: Over 500 Delicious Recipes for the Healthy Cook’s Kitchen
Rating: 5 out of 5 carrot sticks
I have never been on Weight Watchers. However, I have a great amount of respect for their approach toward weight loss. Weight Watchers always encourages being healthy and provides an easy way for busy people to keep track of portions and calories counts through the Point Plus system. Their logical and realistic approach have helped many become success stories.
My mother has done Weight Watchers successfully. A friend of mine who tried many different approaches stated Weight Watchers was the only diet plan that had a lasting impact and taught a lifestyle. From these endorsements alone, I have given joining Weight Watchers serious thought. My only reason for not joining sooner were that I did not need it until the birth of my last child. Due to my interest in joining Weight Watchers I jumped at the chance to review their new cookbook.
If you have no plans on joining Weight Watchers, the cookbook will still prove valuable. The recipes are are great for anyone who wants good food which is healthy with low fat and calories. Besides, any diet cookbook with a pasta dish on the cover gets my vote. That image alone made me sift through all the pages to find the pasta section. I have always said that I would gladly keep and extra 5 pounds on in tribute to my love for pasta. Now, I don’t have to! I can gloat that I can have my pasta and eat it too.
In addition to pasta the cookbook contains recipes from breakfast to soups to hearty dinners to slow cooker meals to desserts. It’s all in there! Weight Watchers is known best for allowing you to eat anything with respect to proper portions. The cookbook reflects that philosophy. This should not be considered a diet cookbook as much as a cookbook which promotes good health. “Diet” sounds so bland and compromising and that are not qualities of the meals represented in this book.
To further promote a healthful lifestyle the book contains tips, nutritional information along with Point Plus information, how-to’s and skill level assessment for each recipe.
I am excited to make dinner again and happy to feel less guilty about consuming pasta and other favorites. This cookbook is a resource for those interested in living a healthier lifestyle.