The 1200-Calorie-a-Day Menu Cookbook : Quick and Easy Recipes for Delicious Low-fat Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, and Desserts

by Nancy S. Hughes

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."

Every dinner contains no more than 400 calories per serving. Each breakfast and lunch contains only 350 calories per serving, and every delicious dessert contains just 100 calories per serving. All you have to do is select the meals you want to combine for any particular day.

Choose from such low-calorie offerings as: Buttermilk pancakes with blueberry sauce, canadian bacon, and sliced orangesRoast beef salad with blue cheese in pitas and fresh apple slicesSliced turkey with mushroom gravy, whipped potatoes, peppered peas, and apricot halvesRaspberry-kissed pears in phyllo nests

Each low-calorie, low-fat recipe includes easy-tofollow instruction and fat grams per serving. Many recipes can be prepared in 15 minutes or less.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

416 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

Reviews

[N.L. Riviezzo · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent collection of recipes. My primary complaint is that everything is for 4 servings or more which makes it not overly practical when cooking for one or two people. About half of the recipes can be divided but not easily. Also I found it a bit reliant on commercial products that are quite unhealthy even with reduced calories like light bread, fat free cream cheese and boxed cake mix which all have excessive amounts of high fructose corn syrup added to them. In lieu of light bread, I suggest English muffins - fewer calories, less by-products.

[Paula Wing · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots if recipe ideas, but a lot of prepared food choices that I don't usually cook with. For example, pimento stuffed olives, sugar free Jello, Molly McButter, fat free mayonnaise, egg substitute, diet Italian bread, orange juice concentrate, etc. My mom began her married life in the 1950s, and she might like the recipes - they seem a bit dated to me.However, the ones I have tried so far are flavorful and there are fresh vegetables and fruits included so I am giving it a try!

[Kellea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm starting to like these cookbooks with a "set menu" style of meal planning. I don't enjoy having to come up with new meals everyday so the more cookbooks like The 1200 Calorie A Day Cookbook I can find will make my life much easier. And although this book was published in 1994 and there have been new versions of this type of cookbook, this one is still a great resource with some great recipes. I definitely recommend this as an addition to your cookbook collection.

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[Isis Isis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Out of date with current wisdom in nutrition. Follow this diet and you'll be malnourished, losing muscle tone and lacking vitality for certain.