Hungry Girl Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt Free Eating in the Real World
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.
1 Star Kindle Edition Two Thumbs DOWN
I purchased the Kindle edition of this book for the portability. I thought it would be great to be able to decide on a recipe and access the ingredient list on my iPhone while shopping.
As it turns out, the formatting of this book in the Kindle format leaves much to be desired, and makes it quite unusable either as a reference in the store or a cookbook in the kitchen.
At its best, viewed on the iPad, the content has enough space to display a reasonable facsimile of the printed page. On either the Kindle or Kindle DX, and certainly on the iPhone, the formatting makes the content pretty useless.
My BIGEST GRIPE, however, is that the table of contents at the front of the book is linked only to the first page of each chapter; each chapter has a “cutesy” name that doesn’t convey its contents. And the book index, at the back of the book, contains NO LINKS whatsoever. So even when you locate a recipe in the index, there is no way to jump to it.
On the Kindle and Kindle DX, the book can be searched for a recipe by title; but there is no search on Kindle for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch or Windows or Macintosh.
My advice: purchase this book in the printed format.
2 Stars Tons of Processed, Imitation Foods
I was so excited to get this book as new member of Weight Watchers. I subscribe to the Hungry Girl e-mails and I wanted recipes that could help to familiarize me with the plan. After looking through this book several times, I have decided to return it to Amazon. The author uses Fiber One in EVERYTHING. There are many “fake” foods used too, like egg substitute and lots of sugar free and fat free products. That is not the way that I want to eat. I will agree that she has some great looking dessert and junk food ideas for those times when we are in a pinch or have a major craving for something, but I would almost rather eat the real thing than some of the recipes in this book because of all of the processed food they contain. I think I’m going to buy Ellie Krieger’s books when my money is refunded. If you don’t mind artificial sweeteners and other imitation foods, then you will probably enjoy this book. If not, then do not buy this book!
3 Stars Check this book out at the library first.
I checked this book out at my local library last year, when I was trying to overhaul my eating habits, along with some other cookbooks.
Most of the recipes are supposed to be low calorie versions of junk food, the kind of things you would find on a TGI Fridays or Applebees menu. The recipes use a lot of processed food. These foods may be low in fat, but high in salt and other things that aren’t very good for you.
It’s not really a cookbook as much as a “substitute this for this” type of book. Some people may need a guide to doing this, but I wasn’t that person. The burger recipe comes to mind. Who needs directions on how to put a veggie burger together with low fat bread and cheese? I don’t mind cooking from scratch, so I knew this book probably wasn’t going to be for me after flipping through it…
…With one exception. I actually enjoyed was the pumpkin fudge, minus the peanut butter. I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it, but I ended up liking it quite a bit. It’s not the solid chocolate heaven that is my mom’s homemade chocolate fudge, but it does take the edge off until the holidays roll around again.
That being said,one recipe wasn’t reason enough for me to buy this book. It might be good for people that are looking for substitutes to cut calories, and/or don’t have the time or inclination to cook a regular meal.
5 Stars Great cookbook
Great cookbook, here I am 30 yrs old and just starting to actually cook. This book has quick easy recipes, and the food taste great. Highly recommend.
1 Star I Have this but will never use it……….common sense diet!
My GOSH come on people! This books is just based on the basics. You can’t make a meal from this book! I really hate to be mean because Lisa the author is so adorable BUT GOSH! They tell you how to make a hot dog….but healthy hot dogs and low fat chili or whatever it was… Who doesn’t know how to modify a chili dog? And the burger OH WOW now way! Its so easy I didn’t need this book for that! I spent good money on this book lol I bought it when it first came out and I would’ve spent that one Devin Alexanders books. I’m so upset with this book it makes no sense I just don’t see how it can get 5 stars really. These reviews should be for Devin =( she actually makes her things from scratch with REAL products not all that soy milk and boca burgers. I’m not saying that’s bad but that stuff is just too put together its practically common sense… you know you can make a burger from a turkey patty and use low fat mayo instead of regular mayo right? *huff* so disappointed.
Hungry Girl Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt Free Eating in the Real World
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.
1 Star Kindle Edition Two Thumbs DOWN
I purchased the Kindle edition of this book for the portability. I thought it would be great to be able to decide on a recipe and access the ingredient list on my iPhone while shopping.
As it turns out, the formatting of this book in the Kindle format leaves much to be desired, and makes it quite unusable either as a reference in the store or a cookbook in the kitchen.
At its best, viewed on the iPad, the content has enough space to display a reasonable facsimile of the printed page. On either the Kindle or Kindle DX, and certainly on the iPhone, the formatting makes the content pretty useless.
My BIGEST GRIPE, however, is that the table of contents at the front of the book is linked only to the first page of each chapter; each chapter has a “cutesy” name that doesn’t convey its contents. And the book index, at the back of the book, contains NO LINKS whatsoever. So even when you locate a recipe in the index, there is no way to jump to it.
On the Kindle and Kindle DX, the book can be searched for a recipe by title; but there is no search on Kindle for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch or Windows or Macintosh.
My advice: purchase this book in the printed format.
2 Stars Tons of Processed, Imitation Foods
I was so excited to get this book as new member of Weight Watchers. I subscribe to the Hungry Girl e-mails and I wanted recipes that could help to familiarize me with the plan. After looking through this book several times, I have decided to return it to Amazon. The author uses Fiber One in EVERYTHING. There are many “fake” foods used too, like egg substitute and lots of sugar free and fat free products. That is not the way that I want to eat. I will agree that she has some great looking dessert and junk food ideas for those times when we are in a pinch or have a major craving for something, but I would almost rather eat the real thing than some of the recipes in this book because of all of the processed food they contain. I think I’m going to buy Ellie Krieger’s books when my money is refunded. If you don’t mind artificial sweeteners and other imitation foods, then you will probably enjoy this book. If not, then do not buy this book!
3 Stars Check this book out at the library first.
I checked this book out at my local library last year, when I was trying to overhaul my eating habits, along with some other cookbooks.
Most of the recipes are supposed to be low calorie versions of junk food, the kind of things you would find on a TGI Fridays or Applebees menu. The recipes use a lot of processed food. These foods may be low in fat, but high in salt and other things that aren’t very good for you.
It’s not really a cookbook as much as a “substitute this for this” type of book. Some people may need a guide to doing this, but I wasn’t that person. The burger recipe comes to mind. Who needs directions on how to put a veggie burger together with low fat bread and cheese? I don’t mind cooking from scratch, so I knew this book probably wasn’t going to be for me after flipping through it…
…With one exception. I actually enjoyed was the pumpkin fudge, minus the peanut butter. I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it, but I ended up liking it quite a bit. It’s not the solid chocolate heaven that is my mom’s homemade chocolate fudge, but it does take the edge off until the holidays roll around again.
That being said,one recipe wasn’t reason enough for me to buy this book. It might be good for people that are looking for substitutes to cut calories, and/or don’t have the time or inclination to cook a regular meal.
5 Stars Great cookbook
Great cookbook, here I am 30 yrs old and just starting to actually cook. This book has quick easy recipes, and the food taste great. Highly recommend.
1 Star I Have this but will never use it……….common sense diet!
My GOSH come on people! This books is just based on the basics. You can’t make a meal from this book! I really hate to be mean because Lisa the author is so adorable BUT GOSH! They tell you how to make a hot dog….but healthy hot dogs and low fat chili or whatever it was… Who doesn’t know how to modify a chili dog? And the burger OH WOW now way! Its so easy I didn’t need this book for that! I spent good money on this book lol I bought it when it first came out and I would’ve spent that one Devin Alexanders books. I’m so upset with this book it makes no sense I just don’t see how it can get 5 stars really. These reviews should be for Devin =( she actually makes her things from scratch with REAL products not all that soy milk and boca burgers. I’m not saying that’s bad but that stuff is just too put together its practically common sense… you know you can make a burger from a turkey patty and use low fat mayo instead of regular mayo right? *huff* so disappointed.