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Now Eat This!: 150 Of America's Favorite Comfort Foods, All Under 350 Calories (2010)

by Rocco DiSpirito(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0345520904 (ISBN13: 9780345520906)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: In a nutshell: Rocco DiSpirito encourages readers to make beneficial lifestyle changes, including better eating habits and exercise in his Now Eat This! Diet. Positives: His advice is practical and avoids the "Stop Eating, Start Running" approach to dieting that usually doesn't really work or last. Negatives: I was reading this book for the recipes and was rather disappointed. DiSpirito recommends lots of Brand Name items (which can be annoying if you're trying to cook with what you have) and lists "store-bought marinara sauce" as an ingredient, which in my opinion (as an overly proud Italian) is a cookbook no-no. Additionally, DiSpirito's low calorie recipes are mostly achieved by substituting anything he can for a "reduced" or "whole wheat" version. While this may be ... morea good strategy for the solo dieter, my family would never allow me to make such a complete "non-fat" or "whole wheat" switch, thus ruining the "low calorie" concept of most of the recipes. As a diet book, take a look. As a cookbook, I cannot recommend it for the average for-family-at-home cook.
review 2: Rocco DiSpirito's cookbook, Now Eat This!: 150 of America's Favorite Comfort Foods, All Under 350 Calories, is a great idea!! The author became interested in his own healthy diet along with weight loss and exercise because of chronic back problems. He was also a chef for the television show "The Biggest Loser" so he created these recipes with a purpose. The list of substitutions in the introduction of the book are especially helpful and include suggestions such as cauliflower for white potatoes, egg whites for whole eggs, greek yogurt for butter, and many others. The recipes are not too long or complicated, and each recipe lists the amount of fat, calories, protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol, fiber, and sodium. The author's goal was to create foods rich in taste, but lower in fat and calories; he accomplishes this by making minor alterations like using whole-wheat pasta and reduced fat cheeses along with other changes. He includes some brand name ingredients along with his own flavor agents in his list of "Rocco's Can't Live Without Ingredients" and then describes "flavor-saving-fat-free-cooking techniques". So many new recipes to try that are really good for your health. Enjoy! less

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