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| Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Lillien
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  261 reviews
Sales Rank: 168
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0312377428
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
EAN: 9780312377427
ASIN: 0312377428
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Um...What? How do people think this stuff tastes good? May 22, 2008
14 out of 24 found this review helpful
I am amazed by how glowing the reviews for this book are! A girlfriend of mine bought it and I was not impressed by what I saw/tasted. If you have been dieting yourself to death for years, then I guess this stuff may taste good since your taste buds are probably on a deprivation level. For anyone who eats actual food on a regular basis, these recipes taste awful! I am also dismayed by all of the fake foods, artificial sweeteners and such.
I understand that she doesn't eat these things all the time and is an advocate for eating an apple as a snack rather than a fake-ish cupcake, and she says these foods are to sub-out the high caloric versions of foods that you crave -- but I cannot see how these foods could satisfy a craving for the average person with normal taste buds. I suggest eating the real thing you crave and hit the treadmill for a bit longer or have a salad for a meal to balance it out.
BTW, fake sugar actually causes MANY people to crave actual sugar that can lead to over eating, so these diet foods may actually sabotage your diet.
I appreciate the author's desire to help people eat better, but I think people should just try to be more responsible about what and how they eat, eat real foods, have the OCCATIONAL real treat that truly satisfies and exercise more -- it is really a no brainer. I recommend the book "In Defense of Food" and "The Omnivore's Dilemma" to anyone looking for guidance on healthy eating.
 Cute but not that satisfying May 9, 2008
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I am trying to lose a few pounds and came across this book recently. As far as cookbooks go, it is pretty lame. It relies on Splenda, fat free dairy products and fat free creamers. Whether these products are really healthy is open to debate. I cannot see myself making any of these faux convenience food items at all. pizza with an oatmeal and fiber cereal crust just sounds disgusting. I recommend the Weight Watchers and Zone cookbooks for something a little more tasty.
Great book if you're such a hungry girl you don't care about taste September 17, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I picked up this book mostly because it seemed like it had recipes for foods that I might actually enjoy like philly cheese steak, spicy chicken sandwhich etc and promised easy, low-fat, high-fiber recipes.
I wish I had glanced over the ingredient lists a bit more before purchasing. The recipes rely very heavily on "faux" foods such as fat free cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, soy crumbles, etc
Of all the recipes I tried so far, only the cheese steak is decent and it's basically just sauteed onions and meat, so....
The Fiber One breading she uses frequently for chicken dishes is imo horrible. I guess if you just really want to get some extra fiber or you like the taste of Fiber One, it's fine, but I didn't care for it at all.
All the fake dairy products make most of the recipes bland, with weird textures. Some of them I caught myself thinking might be decent if I swapped out all the fake ingredients for smaller amounts of real food, but overall everything I tried ranged from just edible to horrible.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone other than people who are determined to eat nachos and fries and such and are willing to resort to all these "diet" versions of foods to keep the calories down.
 Mixed review, but still recommend May 13, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Of the four recipes that I've tried so far, I've enjoyed the ones that don't rely so much on fat-free products. The chopped buffalo salad was spicy, delicious, and quite filling, but I don't think that it tasted just like the industrial-strength version. It was easy to make and I recommend it to anyone who likes spicy food.
I was a little wary of the English muffin pizzas because I used to make those as a kid and never really cared for them. I also have never been crazy about turkey pepperoni. I added some pizza seasoning to the tomato sauce and cooked the pizzas in the oven rather than a toaster oven. I was pleasantly surprised at how tasty these little pizzas turned out - even with the fat-free mozzarella cheese. The turkey pepperoni was crispy and the pizzas (made from one English muffin) satisfied my hunger.
My husband liked the twice-baked potato, but I thought that it tasted strange. The mixture wasn't too cheesy and had an odd taste and consistency. I'm not a big fan of baked potatoes, but if I were to make this recipe again, I might use reduced fat cheese rather than fat-free cheese. And yes, I know that will change the calorie and fat content of the recipe.
The onion ring recipe was very disappointing. While the rings smelled and looked good, they didn't taste as great as the author promised they would. They were dry and sweet-tasting. I've tried other mock onion ring recipes before and have been let down. I think that I will stick to the fried ones in moderation when I do indulge.
One thing that I do like about this recipe book is that it doesn't tout a plan with all kinds of restrictions. I plan to use some of the recipes in this book along with some other resources that I have in my quest to eat healthier.
disappointing book June 27, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Well, I had really high hopes for this book, but if you're looking to actually be healthy, and enjoy your food, and live a healthy lifestyle long-term, this probably isn't the book for you. Too many weird chemical and tofu substitutions. Even the recipes that seemed promising didn't really taste good when I actually made them. A MUCH better book is "The Most Decadent Diet Ever" by Devin Alexander. She uses real food that you can live with forever. Her "Chocolate Not Only In Your Dreams Cake", is absolutely to die for, and it has real brown sugar, not splenda, 5 grams of fiber (without adding fiber one cereal), tastes totally indulgent, and you get a real life size portion for 3 weight watchers points! Now that's what I'm talking about!!! And it was easy to make to boot!
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