The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great | Pam Anderson

The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great | Pam Anderson | Delicious

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	The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great Pam Anderson Houghton Mifflin, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A real chef tells us how to do it!

I love this cookbook! I wanted a cookbook geared towards losing weight with REAL ingredients, and freshness, and EASE, and Pam Anderson does all of it! I figured that if the food is good enough for Pam, a professionally trained chef and author, who would not eat inferior food products just to loose weight, then it will be good enough for me! I was right! Its got every day EASE, with professional chef quality and taste!

Even her clean up is often easy - I love her "one pan in the oven" dishes for supper - with the meat, the veggies, all on one large cookie sheet, roasted in the oven! How easy, and delicious is that!

For breakfast, I love her smoothies (get that fruit in early in the day!) and for lunch I especially love her salad variations which are healthful and delicious. Since I do not like store bought salad dressings, I love her simple olive oil/balsamic vinegar adornments.

I agree, I may have to omit some of the between meal stuff to lose weight, but ANY cookbook has to be made adaptable to your particular weight loss and lifestyle needs. But if I need something, I know its there for me, on those days when I would arrive at the dinner table too famished to use self control.

I also love her reflections on why she over ate, and getting to the ROOT of what "ails" us - although her book is about cooking, and not some deep psychological inventory - it points us in the right direction - a wholistic look at our lives and weight issues, and also emphasises what we all know - gotta get moving.

I also own her "Perfect Recipes for Having Company," and its fabulous, too - and not all are incompatible with weight loss, either.

Pam, you done it again!

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I have Ms. Anderson's other books, so I was shocked to see she came out with a low fat version. Her regular recipes always came out terrific, and the same can be said with this one. She also gives some very interesting insight into how she lost weight.

Good ideas & recipes...but missing the nutritional information!

I checked this book out of the library to see if it's something I'd add to my own collection (it isn't, but only because some key information is missing). One of the first things I noticed was the recipes provide only the calorie count -- no fat, no fiber, no sodium. Yikes!! I can't believe that even one editor, somewhere along the line, didn't suggest that more detailed nutritional information would be appreciated. (I think a lot of people following the WW program would go crazy trying to calculate their points.)

That said, there are some great recipes and good suggestions. Figure out what works for you, what you need in your life (I'm another afternoon tea person), and find a plan that works. Although I think my own lowfat creamy pasta recipe is a winner, the one in this book looks even better.

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Disappointing as a weight loss plan

I bought this book because I've been a fan of Pam Anderson's for a long time. Many of her recipes have become staples in my household. Ever since I found out that she'd lost a considerable amount of weight, I've been waiting for her to write a book about it. She has, and the recipes look so delicious that it's hard to believe they are weight-loss fare. Indeed some of the 500+ calorie pastas really are not, unless you plan the rest of the day accordingly.

And that is the main problem with the book: There is no plan to follow. Given that, I wish she'd included the standard nutritional info, such as protein, fat, carbs, and fiber, along with the calories to help readers create their own plan using the recipes.

The key to the book is in the title. The recipe for losing weight is exercise, and the actual food recipes are for eating great. The problem is, if you choose her breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes on the higher calorie end, you will not lose weight unless you engage in the hour or so of running every day that she prescribes. To maintain her weight loss, she says she's cut her runs down to 45 minutes a day.

I don't think this book will be useful to very many as a weight-loss book, unless you stick to the lower calorie recipes and don't go for all the extras and add-ins that are Anderson's trademarks. I think the recipes are probably most helpful for maintaining weight loss. And I'm sure it is very a delicious way to do so.

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