One-Pot Meals (Great Taste, Low Fat)

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Summary: Tasty, fast, easy, healthy and filling!
Review: This is my FAVORITE cookbook! It has lots and lots of recipes that have 200-400 calories per serving, are low fat, and all are complete meals. I like the fact that the authors incorporate so many vegetables into each recipe (I dislike a lot of cookbooks for their lack of veggies) and that each one takes less than 50 minutes on average (prep plus cooking time). Every recipe gives you an estimated prep time, cooking time and the nutritional content (cals, fat, sat fat, sodium, cholesterol, carbs and protein). There's a selection of skillet meals, oven meals and others. Just about every recipe I've tried has been excellent and (important to me) the serving size quoted has been FILLING. Nothing worse than being told a serving is 350 cals and then having to eat 2 servings to fill up. We end up cooking every second night - there's enough to have leftovers the second night (every recipe is for 4 servings). Some favorites include chicken with peanut sauce, vegetable frittata and easy chili. We cook something different every night so we're getting MUCH more variety than we used to.

This is not a cookbook for people who like to use packets and other conveniences: the ingredients are about 90% fresh (fresh herbs and ginger etc). You may have to shop a little differently to make sure you have all the ingredients. (I decide ahead of time what we'll be eating for the week and base my shopping list on those meals). Trust me, the freshness DOES make a difference to the taste and I've begun to reject recipes from other books that use the convenient/processed route. I thought it would cost more to cook with fresh ingredients, but because there are leftovers I end up cooking half as many meals so it really doesn't cost any more - less in fact. These are quick recipes that I make after work in the evenings even though there is some prep time - like I said, 30-50min per recipe. Good stuff! I need to find more books like this!