Great Low Fat Cookbooks
#8484 - 05/07/03 01:47 PM
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Karin
Reged: 02/11/03
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Loc: Southern California
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I've been increasing my collection of low-fat cookbooks and I've found one author that has some really great recipes. I have both Secrets of Fat Free Cooking and Secrets of Fat Free Baking by Sandra Woodruff. Each one is $13.95, but if you go to Amazon.com they're $11.16 and if you order $25 worth of books, shipping is free. Most of the recipes are pretty safe, the ones that do include milk, buttermilk, etc. are easily remedied on our own. There's also a pocket edition of The Doctor's Pocket Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate counter which includes restaurants and fast food nutritional information along with information on regular every day foods. I find this invaluable when I travel, you never know when you'll get hungry on the road. That one is $6.99. My next purchase will be Christine France's low fat new book, she also has some great recipes.
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Buy.com has them for less and shipping is free. They are $11.02 and $5.02. I just love not paying shipping. Also if you are signed up at upromise to save money for your child's college, buy through their site to get more money saved.
Edited by torbetta (05/07/03 02:05 PM)
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I'll add in The Healthy Mexican Cookbook by Jacqueline MacMahan. Tons of great recipes, very few modifications needed. I also love Have Your Cake and Eat it Too, but I can't remember the author's name and I don't own it, just borrow from the library. This is a great book for baking - the only subs I ever have to make are soy milk for dairy.
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I just borrowed a book from the libary called Spicy Fat-Free Cooking Secrets by Gita Chandra. I haven't really looked at it too closely yet (too busy reading another book!), but when I glanced through two things that stuck out were a garlic toast recipe, and deviled eggs (with no yolks--uses tofu). If I come across anything good, I'll let you know.
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Thanks for the info, I'll head over there to check buy.com out!
I'll also head to Barnes & Noble tonight to look at some of these (providing they have them in stock). Thanks!!!
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I would be really curious to hear about that deviled egg recipe! Tofu deviled eggs! When I could handle them, I used to scarf those things up (although now that I think about it, they tasted so bad for you...which made them so addictive, lol)
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Heather
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I was just wandering if anyone had any tried and true old faithful cookbooks out there that they'd like to recommend (low fat or not)? Besides Eating for IBS, of course! That makes up nearly half of my cookbook collection! Lol.
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Heather
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Well, I use the Joy of Cooking for a standby. It's definitely not IBS safe, but a lot of the recipes are easily adapted (especially the baked goods) and it's such a great resource for information.
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Darn if I can't find the Healthy Mexican Cookbook. Went to Barnes & Noble last night and checked online with Amazon and buy.com, no luck. Is it an older book that may be out of print? I found another that has possibilities, the Ultimate Low-Fat Mexican Cookbook by Greer. I really miss Mexican food, it used to be a staple of my diet. Seems like the only safe Mexican food now is a grilled chicken taco. I'm tired of it.......LOL.
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I love deviled eggs...that's why that one stood out when I leafed through it real quick. I'll definitely post it for you. Be on the lookout! 
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Hi - It's from 1994, so may be out of print. The ISBN is 1-881656-04-7. I bought it about 8 years ago, brand new, but in a used book store for cheap (score!).
You could probably do an interlibrary loan request from your local library, and they'll track down a copy for you. Then you could just photocopy the recipes that look good.
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Heather
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Keep me posted on Mexican food cookbooks and possibilities. I used to eat it several times a week and I miss it. Last night all I wanted was bean and cheese burrito and a taco. I wanted it so bad I could taste it. I hate those cravings, it gets so hard to just say no.
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Heather or anyone else that has a tried and true Spanish Rice recipe: Is there a recipe in the Healthy Mexican Cookbook for some good Spanish Rice? I'm supposed to supply it on Mother's Day for 12.
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Karin - I found 3 copies at http://www.centuryone.com/outofprint.html
I used the search by author and the 3 copies came up in the search results.
Hope this helps! 
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Mags: I found it, the author's name is McMahan. If I can't find it tomorrow somewhere that I can pick it up at before Saturday, I'll order one from that site. Thanks for the help!!
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I love True Thai by Victor Sodsook, published by Morrow. It's a hardback, a good five years old, but definitely still in print as I see it in bookstores all the time. This is by far the very best Thai cookbook I've ever seen. It is truly authentic.
This is great you have access to a Southeast Asian market or a grocery store with a well-stocked Asian section. If you can't get the ingredients (fish sauce, fresh herbs, Thai soy sauces) the cookbook will just frustrate you.
The book is not specifically low-fat, but many of the recipes (and there are hundreds of them) are low fat anyway, or can be easily adjusted. What I love about this book is that there are very few red meat recipes at all - it's entirely chicken, seafood, and vegetarian (TONS of vegetarian recipes - whole chapters!)
I haven't made a single recipe from the book that wasn't fabulous.
- Heather
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Awesome! I LOVE Thai food! well, all asian food, basically...
we had a foreign exchange student from Bangkok last year and she was great... and consequently, i fell in love with thai food. mmmmmm yummy
beth
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Ditto to loving Thai! Actually, to tell the truth, I just ordered this from Buy.com...anxiously awaiting for its arrival 
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Heather
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Oh, you'll love it. Advice here - make the various chili pastes (red, yellow, etc.) on a separate day from when you plan to actually cook the food (most of the recipes call for one of the chili pastes). Otherwise, it's a lot of work for one meal. But, once you get the chili pastes made, they'll keep great in an airtight container in the freezer for a couple months, and you only use a few teaspoons or tablespoons per recipe. I usually keep the yellow and red on hand - haven't made the green one yet. There are so many recipes I'm still dying to make from that book!
- H
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I am a junior league cookbook fan. The recipes are definitely not all IBS safe, but many can be adapted. The really great thing about them is that recipes are submitted because someone has had good luck with them. Then many books require triple taste testing to make it in to the book. So you know you are getting good recipes. Plus, there are usually beautiful pictures of food and other things (flowers, table settings, scenery) and interesting info about the city they are from. One of my very favorites is the original Beyond Parsley, which I think is from the Kansas City Jr. League. If you like salmon and other seafood, the Seattle JL cook book is good - Simply Classic is its name. They are a visual pleasure as well as a culinary one!
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I just borrowed The Ultimate Ice Cream Book by Bruce Weinstein from the library. Of course the ice creams are just big fat teases, but they have a whole section (about 40 pages) on Sorbets & Granitas. So far I've tried Blueberry Sorbet. Yummy! They have many other great looking ones also such as banana, apple, peach, papaya, chocolate, watermelon, etc.
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