Betty Crocker's Best of Healthy and Hearty Cooking: More Than 400 Recipes Your Family Will Love

by Betty Crocker

Featuring easy-to-find ingredients, an illustrated collection of more than four hundred delicious dishes for every occasion--each containing only four hundred calories and twelve grams of fat or less--includes complete nutritional information and healthy eating goals.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Steven Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This cookbook certainly does one thing well--providing over 400 recipes that are reasonably health AND tasty. Main dish recipes contain relatively few calories and have low fat levels. The type face is large and easy to read; the color photographs give a sense of what the dishes would look like.

Up front, and in keeping with the cookbook's theme, is a nice essay "All About Healthy Eating." One positive feature (on page 27) is a table of suggested healthy weights for adults.

Some of the recipes that I have tried that taste good: Chicken `n Pepper Stir-Fry, Baked Lemon Chicken, Chicken Breasts with Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce, and Chicken with Orange Glaze. There are also some neat grilling recipes, such as Honey Mustard Pork Chops. One of the nice features in the grilling section is (on pages 270-271) relevant statistics regarding fat, calories, and sodium content of various condiments (such as barbeque sauce, mayo, salsa, Thai peanut sauce, etc.).

One issue that occurs to me: It is nice that the type face is large and that there are so many photos. But the consequence, to me, is not positive. This reduces the number of recipes that can be included in the volume. I'd much rather have more recipes and fewer photos and smaller print.

All in all, a good cookbook. But it would have been nice to sacrifice some glitz and give us even more recipes. . . .