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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:  245 reviews
Sales Rank: 92
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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Amazon.com Review
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.
Product Description
Do you want to eat burgers, chocolate cake, frozen margaritas, fudge, and French fries—and still fit into your pants? Is life not worth living without brownies and onion rings? Do you want a surefire way to tame your cravings? From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories. Check it out! • Eggs Bene-Chick: 183 calories
• Bring on the Breakfast Pizza: 127 calories
• Ooey Gooey Chili Cheese Nachos: 216 calories
• Big Bopper Burger Stopper: 202 calories
• Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge: 65 calories
• Lord of the Onion Rings: 153 calories
• Rockin’ Tuna Melt: 212 calories
• 7-Layer Burrito Blitz: 277 calories
• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Sweet Potato Pie: 113 calories
• Cookie-rific Ice Cream Freeze: 160 calories
• With easy instructions, simple steps, and hilariously fun facts and figures, Hungry Girl recipes are as fun to read as they are to make! And when you’re not in your kitchen, check out HG’s 10 mini survival guides, plus tips ’n tricks that’ll help you make smarter food choices anywhere, anytime!
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 a huge disappoinment May 5, 2008
175 out of 206 found this review helpful
I really, really wanted to like this book, partly because of Hungry Girl's easy, breezy style. I had been forewarned by one of the recipes that appeared on the HG website (for mock French onion soup) that I never made again, but since I am always searching for good low-points WW recipes, I thought I'd give the book a try.
So far, I've made a handful of the recipes, all of which have resulted in varying degrees of disappointment as is most often the case when making mock foods. For instance, the mock chocolate peanut butter fudge (a potentially promising combination of brownie mix, canned pumpkin and peanut butter) counts on a tiny bit of peanut butter to mask what turns out to be the much too prominent taste of pumpkin. I admit that one small piece was quite filling, but at the price of sitting in my stomach for hours like a rock. Even the non-mock recipes, like the "Yummy, Yummy Eggplant Goo," are largely poorer versions of better recipes that are just as low in fat and calories as the HG version.
The cutesy recipe titles are somewhat grating (which would have been easily overlooked if the recipes were good) and the author's descriptions of the finished products won't measure up unless you have fairly dull taste buds and an overactive imagination.
If you just want to stuff yourself with mock and/or fiber-filled recipes and don't really care what the food tastes like, then this is your book. My bet is that most people will try a few of the recipes before deciding that it is better to have occasional smaller portions of real food.
 My favorite cookbook so far this year April 30, 2008
94 out of 110 found this review helpful
As soon as I saw this book at a bookstore I knew I had to buy it. It's filled with food I want to eat! Its 160 recipes are easy to make, delicious (at least every one I've tried) and guilt-free. In other words, this book is a treasure, and my favorite cookbook so far this year.
As author Lisa Lillien writes, she's not a nutritionist or a doctor, she's just hungry! She's also funny, with the wit of a teenage goofball. The author's photo on the back cover shows her sitting on the floor wearing a Cookie Monster T-shirt. That informal, silly tone is everywhere. Recipe names include the Ginormous Cereal Bowl-Anza, I Can't Believe It's Not Sweet Potato Pie, Lord of the Onion Rings and My Big Fat Greek Pita.
There are lots of extras. Each recipe lists the calories, grams of fat, sodium, carbs, fiber, sugars and protein, and the front of the book has a long list of recommended name-brand products to use for ingredients. Many recipes include Fun Facts (for example, chocolate syrup was used to represent blood in the famous "Psycho" shower scene) or what the author calls Happy Girl Shockers, trivia tidbits scattered throughout the book. Did you know that Taco Bell's Fiesta Taco SALAD has a whopping 840 calories?
In the middle of the book is a full-color, eight-page photo insert, which shows 27 different dishes with the page numbers where that recipe appears. There are photos of all the recipes in the book on its companion website.
Here is the chapter list:
1. Rise & Dine
2. Chop `Til Ya Drop
3. Souper Douper
4. Let's Do Lunch
5. Junk Food Junkie
6. Manly Meals
7. Party Time
8. Chocolate 911
9. Fruity Call
10. Oven Lovin'
11. Zappuccino
12. Happy Hour
13. Fun With...
14. Survival Guides
My other new favorite cookbook: The Most Decadent Diet Ever!
Predictable and Processed May 7, 2008
45 out of 52 found this review helpful
I have mixed thoughts about the Hungry Girl Book. If you like her web site, you will like the book.
The benefit of the book is that it provides one with suggestions for swapping high calorie, high fat ingredients with lower calorie, lower or fat-free ingredients. The recipes are also very quick and easy.
The problems with the book are; 1) It relies on A LOT of processed ingredients with nutritionally empty, artificial ingredients - e.g. it is okay and healthy to eat low-fat natural cheese and a whole grain hamburger bun instead of plastic pieces of Fat free American cheese with an overprocessed, white flour, tasteless low calorie hamburger bun 2) There is an overemphasis on getting the calories down as far as possible - interesting, catchy approach to draw people to the book, but IT IS AT THE EXPENSE OF TASTE AND NUTRITION 3) Some of the recipes are not "recipes" - I do not need to be told to use low calorie bread, fat-fat cheese, and lean meat to create a sandwich 4) The descriptions are overly enthusiastic - they will not taste that good. It eventually makes you less willing to believe what she is selling after a while. 5) Hungry Girl has financial tie-ins with certain food products (I don't know if I am allowed to name them by brand), like those shirataki noodles (her picture is on them) and muffins (she has her own flavors). This biases her suggestions and swaps - there are better options available. 6) Most of the swaps that she suggests and similar recipes are available already on her web site. If you want to modify one of your favorites, you can find all sorts of swaps on her site or around the internet.
Fun and informative, plus you can find pictures of all the recipes online! April 30, 2008
44 out of 57 found this review helpful
I subscribed to the Hungry Girl newsletter about a month ago and it's one of the few newsletters I actually read all the way through! Hungry Girl is really funny and she dishes out so much good info on new products and new ways to try recipes. I got this book today and I can't wait to try some of the recipes out, they all look so yummy.
The only thing I was a little disappointed about was the fact that there weren't that many pictures. But this disappointment quickly faded when I realized that pictures of all the book's recipes can be easily found over at hungry-girl.com/book. What a great idea! It's probably really expensive to include a lot of glossy photos in a book, especially for a first-time author, so having them available online is a really smart way of getting around this.
 Cute, but the food is chemical laden & just disgusting. May 4, 2008
37 out of 68 found this review helpful
I'm so beyond confused how anyone could like this book. The reviews have to be done by her friends. By her own admitance in the intro of the book, the author says that she doesn't think healthy food can taste good. She then proceeds to put fiber one cereal in a dressing-less Chinese chicken salad instead of crunchy noodles, I guess. And she suggests dish after dish with the main ingredient being those tasteless tofu noodles that truly feel like you're eating worms! She also uses tons of Splenda and other chemical-y foods. It's like the the whole goal is gorge yourself while eating a few calories. But if you're going to do that, why not just eat carrots and broccoli and other real food?
Oh, there are so many brand names in there too, it's like a huge paid advertisement.
All of that said, the text is clever. If you're going to read it, ok. But don't think about cooking or eating it. Buy a chef's cookbook for that.
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