The 1200 Calorie a Day Menu Cookbook Quick and Easy Recipes for Delicious Low fat Breakfasts Lunches Dinners and Desserts
Imagine savoring three delicious, satisfying meals every day without worrying about counting calories or calculating fat grams. Now you can enjoy hundreds of combinations of tempting, flavorful breakfasts, lunches, dinners–even desserts–all for only 1200 calories a day.
5 Stars A great book
I used these recipes a couple years ago and easily dropped 20 pounds, almost without trying. I selected favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes and rotated them over the course of a few months. If you have time for the more complex recipes, then choose them. If you’re short on time, select the easier meals like milk and fruit on breakfast cereal or a sandwich and fruit for lunch. I liked the tostada recipe a lot, and have made many variations of the egg/sausage breakfast bake, adding mushrooms sauted in non-stick spray, chopped/seeded tomato, and chives. (I suspect the author would have no objection to the addition of vegetables to her recipes.)
I’ve used other low-fat and/or low-sugar recipe books, but so far, this one is the best. For the best weight loss results, walk at least a half hour a day in addition to the use of Hughes’ recipes. You will see results.
1 Star I have had this book for 2 months have not made one recipe.
The recipes require a lot of ingredients. They are very involved and look as though they take a while to prepare. As I stated earlier I have not made one recipe from this book. These are not recipes that I or anyone in my family really eat. I should have looked at it closer before purchasing it. I would never have bought this book. I don’t need a book to tell me how to put 4 pear halves in 4 lettuce leaves and place cottage cheese in the middle for a dessert.
2 Stars Too detailed for everyday cooking.
Yeah, I work at home and though I have the free time for preparing meals I have to say I couldn’t see myself making even half of these recipes on a daily basis. That is of course the book’s intention. The ingredients are just too numerous, and since I’m the only one trying to stick to a 1,200 calorie diet, it makes grocery shopping impractical. I don’t think the 15-ingredient “Snapper on a Bed of Spinach-Cheese Sauce, Basil-Baked Tomatoes, and Gingered Rice” is something I could manage on a typical weeknight. “Stuffed Potatoes with Vegetables, Cheese, and Bacon, Sour Cream-Scallion Salad, and Sliced Fresh Apples” is more work than I want to put into a lunch that the First Lady won’t be attending. Some of the breakfasts are keepers, but most follow the 10+ ingredient mold. The desserts are okay. I think the author was reaching too hard while experimenting in the kitchen. All recipes serve four. It should also be noted that sugar, sodium, and nutritional data is not provided. For these reasons I can’t recommend this cookbook for the average cook/dieter. There are tons of “quicker” and “easier” low-cal cookbooks out there. Find a few.
5 Stars Excellent Gift
Bought this item for my daughter in law who loved my copy of the book. So happy she loves it and is having fun with the different ideas for dinner – she’s lost 20 lbs!
1 Star Too complicated …not what I was expecting.
I was hoping to have a full menu but this book splits it up on different sections, etc. Also, the recipies are way too complicated, nothing you would cook every day, unless you don’t work. Waste of money.
The 1200 Calorie a Day Menu Cookbook Quick and Easy Recipes for Delicious Low fat Breakfasts Lunches Dinners and Desserts
Imagine savoring three delicious, satisfying meals every day without worrying about counting calories or calculating fat grams. Now you can enjoy hundreds of combinations of tempting, flavorful breakfasts, lunches, dinners–even desserts–all for only 1200 calories a day.
5 Stars A great book
I used these recipes a couple years ago and easily dropped 20 pounds, almost without trying. I selected favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes and rotated them over the course of a few months. If you have time for the more complex recipes, then choose them. If you’re short on time, select the easier meals like milk and fruit on breakfast cereal or a sandwich and fruit for lunch. I liked the tostada recipe a lot, and have made many variations of the egg/sausage breakfast bake, adding mushrooms sauted in non-stick spray, chopped/seeded tomato, and chives. (I suspect the author would have no objection to the addition of vegetables to her recipes.)
I’ve used other low-fat and/or low-sugar recipe books, but so far, this one is the best. For the best weight loss results, walk at least a half hour a day in addition to the use of Hughes’ recipes. You will see results.
1 Star I have had this book for 2 months have not made one recipe.
The recipes require a lot of ingredients. They are very involved and look as though they take a while to prepare. As I stated earlier I have not made one recipe from this book. These are not recipes that I or anyone in my family really eat. I should have looked at it closer before purchasing it. I would never have bought this book. I don’t need a book to tell me how to put 4 pear halves in 4 lettuce leaves and place cottage cheese in the middle for a dessert.
2 Stars Too detailed for everyday cooking.
Yeah, I work at home and though I have the free time for preparing meals I have to say I couldn’t see myself making even half of these recipes on a daily basis. That is of course the book’s intention. The ingredients are just too numerous, and since I’m the only one trying to stick to a 1,200 calorie diet, it makes grocery shopping impractical. I don’t think the 15-ingredient “Snapper on a Bed of Spinach-Cheese Sauce, Basil-Baked Tomatoes, and Gingered Rice” is something I could manage on a typical weeknight. “Stuffed Potatoes with Vegetables, Cheese, and Bacon, Sour Cream-Scallion Salad, and Sliced Fresh Apples” is more work than I want to put into a lunch that the First Lady won’t be attending. Some of the breakfasts are keepers, but most follow the 10+ ingredient mold. The desserts are okay. I think the author was reaching too hard while experimenting in the kitchen. All recipes serve four. It should also be noted that sugar, sodium, and nutritional data is not provided. For these reasons I can’t recommend this cookbook for the average cook/dieter. There are tons of “quicker” and “easier” low-cal cookbooks out there. Find a few.
5 Stars Excellent Gift
Bought this item for my daughter in law who loved my copy of the book. So happy she loves it and is having fun with the different ideas for dinner – she’s lost 20 lbs!
1 Star Too complicated …not what I was expecting.
I was hoping to have a full menu but this book splits it up on different sections, etc. Also, the recipies are way too complicated, nothing you would cook every day, unless you don’t work. Waste of money.