Diet 911: Food Cop to the Rescue With 265 New Low-Fat Recipes - Softcover

Bergman, Yolanda; Eller, Daryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553574507 ISBN 13: 9780553574500

Verlag: Bantam Books, 1998

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The best-selling author of Food Cop and nutrition consultant to Hollywood's stars presents a collection of 265 easy-to-prepare dishes that allows dieters to revel in flavor while staying healthy and avoiding fat. Reprint.

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s favorite food guru--who has such clients as Natalie Cole, Angelica Huston, Steven Spielberg, and Robin Williams--now offers more of her great-tasting recipes that will help change the bad eating habits of a lifetime. <i>Diet 911</i> is full of wonderfully good-for-you dishes that make it easy to give up the fatty, salty, or sugary junk that sabotage even the best intentions. Taken from her successful catering service, the recipes in this cookbook are created to satisfy those cravings that can defeat even the most conscientious dieter. With her trademark humor, Yolanda shares her own tips and tricks on how to survive the holidays, fine dining and fast food lunches on the run--and stay healthy. In simple, plain language she explains the pitfalls of fat-free food--too much sugar, artificial preservatives, false labeling--and helps you choose wisely. <i>Diet 911</i> makes it clear why eating healthy isn't just the best choice--it's the only choice!

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If there's one thing that I've learned after all my years as a diet counselor, it's that respect for mealtimes has gone by the wayside.  Sitting down with the whole family for a lovely, leisurely meal has become a thing of the past, or at least an only occasional occurrence.

As I've said before, eating has to fit into your lifestyle.  If breakfast doesn't suit you, pass.  If you don't have time for a traditional lunch, munch around it.  But I take exception to skipping dinner.  Dinner marks the end of the day and should be given the respect it deserves.  In turn, you'll be giving yourself the respect you deserve by feeding your body well and allowing your mind to just shut down and enjoy some gustatory sensations.  If you're like most people, you probably eat the bulk of your calories after 3:30 or 4 p.m. and on into the night anyway.  So why not work with it? Let's do dinner and do it right.  Easy, quick, but good for the body, the mind, and the soul.

Keep in mind, though, that when you eat dinner doesn't matter.  If you eat late, great.  Contrary to what many people say, I don't believe eating after 6 or 7 p.m. has any bearing on how healthy you are.  Europeans, particularly Mediterranean people, who are now being held up to us as paragons of health, have been eating late dinners for centuries and have survived quite nicely.

What's important is that you eat well--and I'm very aware that there are any number of obstacles that keep people from doing so.

To be truthful, one of the main reasons I've written this book is because I have had to learn how to put together healthy, low-fat meals quickly for my family.  I'm not going to lie and tell you that every evening is like dinner with the Waltons, but I have managed to create dinner dishes that are quick, delicious, and easy.  It relieves so much of the working mom's guilt (and we have plenty) to know that she's feeding her family well and not just throwing burgers or frozen dinners at them.  I get so upset when I see commercials that suggest that moms (they never show dads) stop by a burger joint to bring home dinner.  It's not the kind of food you want to feed your family on a regular basis.  I'm not saying that you shouldn't order out for pizza, or go to McDonald's occasionally to satisfy the kids.  But keep it to that--once in a while.

We talk so much these days about obese people who turn to food for love.  Well, there is love in food.  There is great pleasure in eating and sharing a meal with people you care about.  There is love in a meal prepared for you; there's no getting around that.  We need to respect that fact a little more in our society.  As you can see by the recipes here, giving love to your family through food doesn't mean you have to spend hours in the kitchen, and it doesn't have to mean any excessive chopping or prepping.  It just means planning a little better and learning some no-brainer kitchen tricks.

Single people deal with a different dilemma entirely.  They often feel like it's silly to take the time to make dinner for one.  It's easier to heat up a Lean Cuisine or Weight Watchers frozen dinner, foods with health claims on the label, but many are still loaded with artificial ingredients, fats, salts, and sugar.  They may make you feel like you've been "good," but your body is likely to be so dissatisfied by these meals, you'll be starving an hour later.  Four bites of a Lean Cuisine and in an hour, Ben & Jerry's, anyone?

If you're single you're also more likely to eat out, so why shop when everything will just go bad before you get to it?  But there's a solution.  You need to learn how to put your freezer to good use and stock your cabinets well. Great rice mixes, cup o' soup dinners, bags of frozen vegetables--these kinds of foods can be turned into a tasty, healthy meal in minutes.

We all need food that is as easy and convenient as frozen dinners but as satisfying as a gourmet meal, packed with nutrients, and lean besides.  Years ago, when I first began experimenting with low-fat and nonfat cooking, recipes that fit that description seemed impossible to make and I became very frustrated.  All of the so-called low-fat or fat-free recipes called for oil or some junky fat substitute like fat-free mayonnaise.  They weren't really fat free, and they weren't really healthy.  Many of them were just pared down, asking for one tablespoon of oil instead of two, for instance, or substituting nonfat yogurt for cream.  The result was either that they didn't go far enough in reducing fat or they were tasteless.

I really put my mind (and taste buds) to the task of creating lean dinners with flavor--and it worked.  Soon I was teaching Carrie Fisher's great Southern cook, Gloria, how to use some new techniques.  I was taking Kate Jackson's chef to the market to help her find the right foods.  Actress Mel Harris cooks for her own family, so I helped her plan meals for her husband, Cotter Smith, who needed some help getting his cholesterol levels down.  Mel herself wanted to lose weight.

The point is, good food with high health credentials is there for the taking, whether you have the luxury of having a chef or not-I certainly don't! This is about real-life cooking for people in the 1990s.  The dishes here are the ones I serve to my family and friends, use in my food business, and teach my clients.  They make it easy to bring dinner back into your life--you deserve it!


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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0553574507
• ISBN 13: 9780553574500
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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