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Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Lillien
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Media: Paperback
Edition: Ill
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0312377428
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
EAN: 9780312377427
ASIN: 0312377428
Publication Date: April 29, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Hit the Kitchen with Hungry Girl Just because you're watching your waistline doesn't mean you need to go hungry. Recipes from Hungry Girl--like the Fiber-Fried Chicken Strips featured below--feed your every craving without piling on the calories. What's more, Lisa Lillien's lighthearted love for food and fun shines through in every recipe, making it easy to follow her healthy example and even come up with your own simple calorie-saving shortcuts.
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Do you want to eat burgers, chocolate cake, frozen margaritas, fudge, and French fries—and still fit into your pants? Is life not worth living without brownies and onion rings? Do you want a surefire way to tame your cravings? From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories. Check it out! • Eggs Bene-Chick: 183 calories
• Bring on the Breakfast Pizza: 127 calories
• Ooey Gooey Chili Cheese Nachos: 216 calories
• Big Bopper Burger Stopper: 202 calories
• Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge: 65 calories
• Lord of the Onion Rings: 153 calories
• Rockin’ Tuna Melt: 212 calories
• 7-Layer Burrito Blitz: 277 calories
• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Sweet Potato Pie: 113 calories
• Cookie-rific Ice Cream Freeze: 160 calories
• With easy instructions, simple steps, and hilariously fun facts and figures, Hungry Girl recipes are as fun to read as they are to make! And when you’re not in your kitchen, check out HG’s 10 mini survival guides, plus tips ’n tricks that’ll help you make smarter food choices anywhere, anytime!
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 Incredible!!! May 14, 2008
This book is amazing. So far I have tried the chicken strips and they were awesome. Check out her website. She has a ton of recipes on there too! I've tried the double chocolate chip frappachino from starbucks and it was great. Her taco bell recipes were wonderful too!
GREAT FOR CALORIE-CONSCIOUS FOODIES May 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Hungry Girl is a great addition to the to the growing book genre for foodies and food fanatics who love food but want to modify their habit a bit and interleaf healthy ingredients into the mix - or batter if it were. The book encourages you to eat low-calorie versions of burgers, French fries, pizza, onion rings, burritos, chocolate cake, brownies, cheese nachos, frozen margaritas, fudge, ice cream freezes, and other "guilt-free" junk foods as well as cocktails. If life is just not worth living unless you can indulge your love of food, this book is for you. You can feel less guilty because the recipes are lower in fat and calories - that is the motto of this book. The author seems to believe that indulging yourself in low-calorie versions of junk food (called "guilt-free junk food") will tame your cravings. I really wonder if the opposite occurs.
The book is full of great ideas for making smarter food choices when you are at a party or in a fast food situation, and also provides weight-loss tips, cooking tips, and shopping lists. The book includes recipes for breakfasts, salads, soups, lunches, sandwiches, junk foods, chili, pizzas, appetizers, party foods, chocolate treats, fruit recipes, baked goods, coffee treats, desserts, and cocktails.
The book delivers on its promise - tasty, lower-calorie versions of classically unhealthy foods! If you know you are eating poorly and want to begin the journey to healthier eating, this book is a good first step to being conscious of what you are putting into your mouth. If you want to take a bigger step toward your dream body check out THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams as a companion book.
 Mixed review, but still recommend May 13, 2008
Of the four recipes that I've tried so far, I've enjoyed the ones that don't rely so much on fat-free products. The chopped buffalo salad was spicy, delicious, and quite filling, but I don't think that it tasted just like the industrial-strength version. It was easy to make and I recommend it to anyone who likes spicy food.
I was a little wary of the English muffin pizzas because I used to make those as a kid and never really cared for them. I also have never been crazy about turkey pepperoni. I added some pizza seasoning to the tomato sauce and cooked the pizzas in the oven rather than a toaster oven. I was pleasantly surprised at how tasty these little pizzas turned out - even with the fat-free mozzarella cheese. The turkey pepperoni was crispy and the pizzas (made from one English muffin) satisfied my hunger.
My husband liked the twice-baked potato, but I thought that it tasted strange. The mixture wasn't too cheesy and had an odd taste and consistency. I'm not a big fan of baked potatoes, but if I were to make this recipe again, I might use reduced fat cheese rather than fat-free cheese. And yes, I know that will change the calorie and fat content of the recipe.
The onion ring recipe was very disappointing. While the rings smelled and looked good, they didn't taste as great as the author promised they would. They were dry and sweet-tasting. I've tried other mock onion ring recipes before and have been let down. I think that I will stick to the fried ones in moderation when I do indulge.
One thing that I do like about this recipe book is that it doesn't tout a plan with all kinds of restrictions. I plan to use some of the recipes in this book along with some other resources that I have in my quest to eat healthier.
Great Cookbook May 13, 2008
I've been a subscribing member to Hungry Girl's email for about 6 months. And when I heard that they were coming out with this cookbook, I was so excited. And this book did not let me down. I like to eat, but I don't like cooking. The recipes in this book are simple, use few ingredients, easy to make, and are very tasty. I don't even look at my other cookbooks anymore. It doesn't even feel like it's a cookbook!
5 Stars for Hungry Girl! May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been a fan of the Hungry Girl website for a while now. It's so wonderful to finally have a collection of what I consider fabulous recipes right in front of me. I am NEVER disappointed in HG's recipes and Lisa is dead on when she says something is tasty (or not). My daughter made HG's delicious turkey meatloaf (from the HG book) for a terrific Mother's Day dinner for me. She followed it with HG's pudding/CoolWhip ice cream cone for dessert. I couldn't have asked for a better Mother's Day dinner!
The nutritional content is excellent information that is printed with every recipe in the book. I use my Weight Watchers point "slider" as a book marker so I can calculate the number of points in each dish.
The price of the book was extremely reasonable, too. I hope the NEXT book from HG has more color pictures though. I know it's expensive to print color photos but would be HAPPY TO PAY MORE $$ for the book if it had pictures for each recipe. You hear me HG?
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