More Healthy Homestyle Cooking: Family Favorites You'll Make Again and Again by Evelyn Tribole

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Let's face it. If we had our druthers, we'd all like to eat more healthful foods and live healthier lifestyles. We'd like to meet the daily requirements of 3-5 servings of vegetables, 2-4 servings of fruits, and 2-3 servings of dairy and calcium-rich foods. And we certainly all wish we had more time in our frantic lives to spend with our families to enjoy freshly prepared wholesome foods at dinner time.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't always make room (or time) for proper nutrition. But, thankfully for us, Evelyn Tribole, author of the bestselling Healthy Homestyle Cooking, has come to the rescue —again. Taking her mantra of "taste, taste, taste" and recipe makeovers to another level, More Healthy Homestyle Cooking: Family Favorites You'll Make Again and Again is a mouth- watering collection of 200 delicious recipes for appetizers, main courses, side dishes, desserts and slow- cooker favorites that take flavor to new heights while still maintaining strong nutritional principles.

Tribole, a nutritionist with a consulting practice in Southern California, unabashedly admits that she loves food. While realizing the importance of nutrition, she also knows that nothing is as crucial as good taste. "Who cares how good a meal is nutritionally," she says, "if it doesn't taste good?" To that end, she takes dishes normally higher in fat and does a "makeover" for each recipe, all without sacrificing taste. For example, Thai-Style Pizza uses less peanut butter in the sauce along with reduced fat mozzarella, while Asian Super Slaw uses replaces vegetable oil with pineapple juice and sesame oil.

And if incredible taste isn't appealing enough, Tribole offers a score of wonderful dishes that can be prepared in 15 minutes or less. Spicy Garlic Shrimp and Shortcut Cheddar Soup are both delicious timesavers that are guaranteed to give home cooks more time with the family. Even recipes that require a bit more time are simple, straightforward and reassuringly uncomplicated. And, of course, Tribole, long famous for her desserts, indulges our sweet tooths with tempting treats such as Strawberry Cheesecake and a decadent Sacher Torte.

A nutrition scorecard gives before-and-after information on calories and fat content, and each recipe contains cholesterol, sodium and fiber information. Helpful tips abound, from a guide to making over any recipe and advice on substitutions and reduced-fat foods to information on the latest nutritional data along with ways to increase nutritional content in your favorite foods. Vivid full-color photographs round out a volume that is sure to be a useful addition to kitchens everywhere.

The author of Eating on the Run, Intuitive Eating, Stealth Health, and Healthy Homestyle Desserts, Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D. is also well-known to many as the former nutritional expert on Good Morning America, and her "Recipe Makeover" column has appeared in Shape magazine for more than ten years.

From the Publisher

200 all-new recipe makeovers.

The Queen of easy home cooking serves up more than 200 outrageously good recipes. And they're good for you!

"Tribole has done it again! Now there is no excuse not to eat healthy. Whether you're time-challenged, cooking phobic, health-conscious, or just ready for a change of taste, this book is for you. Even my kids loved the recipes!"--Elizabeth Somer, R.D., author of Food & Mood

"Evelyn is innovative, creative, and crystal clear in everything she does. She doesn't follow trends; she sets them!"--Graham Kerr, author and international culinary consultant

"You may never have to open another cookbook again! More Healthy Homestyle Cooking combines flavor, health, and convenience. Plus, it's filled with usable, down-to-earth tips."--Debra Waterhouse, R.D., author of Outsmarting the Midlife Fat Cell

"Once again, Evelyn has created quick, great-tasting, healthy food that the whole family will enjoy. Plus, she reveals her secrets in every recipe!"--Mindy Hermann, R.D., children's nutrition columnist and coauthor of The American Medical Association Family Health Cookbook

Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., is the author of six books on cooking and health, including Intuitive Eating and Healthy Homestyle Cooking, which sold over one million copies. Her popular "Recipe Makeover" column has appeared in Shape magazine for more than a decade, and she was the 1994-95 nutrition expert on Good Morning America. In 1995, she received the American Dietetic Association's national award for excellence in private practice and consultation. She lives in Irvine, California, with her husband and two children.

Publishers Weekly

In this follow-up to her 1994 bestseller Healthy Homestyle Cooking, Tribole continues to teach readers how to lighten up a varied assortment of family-pleasing dishes by using a smart collection of replacement ingredients and a refreshing dash of common sense. Don't cut out the mascarpone and cocoa so essential for tiramisu, she urges; pair them with fat-free cream cheese and sponge cake, swirled with frozen light whipped topping. Appetizers, entr es, "fixings," desserts and baked goods have all been revamped the Tribole way, and she tells exactly how she did it in two information-packed introductory chapters (one featuring helpful "conversion" charts--change coconut flakes to coconut extract and save 337 calories!). Each recipe has a "nutritional scorecard" totaling fat and calories before and after; tricks for making changes (such as using fruit puree for shortening in cakes); and a complete nutritional analysis. Some selections are naturally light and easy--Broiled Sole with Olive Topping or Portobello Pizzas (the caps serve as "crusts"). Others, like Chicken Kiev, demand more tinkering. If the goal is to have your Cheesy Green Enchiladas and eat them, too, then Tribole's methods will be great weapons in the battle against the bulge. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

Library Journal

Tribole is the author of Shape magazine's "Recipe Makeovers" column (but only one of these recipes appeared there), and her first Healthy Homestyle Cooking title has sold more than a million copies. For each recipe, she gives a "Nutrition Scorecard" listing calories and fat before and after her low-fat, low-calorie, low-cholesterol, high-fiber makeover. Many of the recipes are somewhat old-fashioned--Orange-Pineapple Fluff Gelatin, Chicken Kiev (though now stuffed with light Muenster cheese instead of herbed butter), Creamed Tuna on Toast--and the low-fat/no-fat substitutions make others seem like a shadow of their former selves. Obviously, however, there will be a good deal of demand. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

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