The newest Cookbook Club starts tomorrow- we will be reviewing Skinny Bitch Ultimate Everyday Cookbook. I ordered my book from Amazon the other day and received my copy yesterday and was so excited to get down to menu planning for the next few weeks, however my excitement turned into shock and disappointment. As I flipped through the cookbook I came to see that most of the recipes are centered around oil/Earth balance, faux cheese and SUGAR! The most appalling thing for me was how much sugar is used in many of the recipes I really just can’t believe it and on top of that they list the nutritional value for each serving of the recipes but don’t include sugar which is just strange to me- they include calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, protein, fiber and carbs but not sugar- why not sugar because you probably wouldn’t buy this book if you saw how much they use?
Maybe I’m being a little too quick to judge this cookbook since I haven’t made any of the recipes yet so I am going to spend the next few weeks testing out the recipes and letting them speak for themselves. However, there are a few recipes that sound really good but are just not healthy (or at least healthy enough) for me that I will be making modifications of. So after two hours of reviewing the cookbook and planning my menu here are the next two weeks:
Have you tried out this cookbook yet? What are you thoughts? Have the book and want to test it out with us?- send me an email and I’ll add you to the review list!
Oh em geeee! If I’m having lots o’ sugar it will be in cake or cookies or brownies or something baked!
PS It’s allllmost lunch time which means I can heat up the pre-cooked extras you had for dinner last night. I’m seriously salivating. And yes that’s gross but it’s true!
Personally, I love this cookbook.
I recently became a vegetarian (back in November) and I thought this book was extremely helpful as a resource for some basic information and I think the recipes are most helpful as inspiration. A lot of the recipes require herbs, spices and ingredients I don’t necessarily have but I enjoy taking the recipes and making them work with what I have on hand. My favorite part of the book is the first 20+ pages where she lays down a basic foundation which I found extremely helpful.
I hope you enjoy the recipes! I can’t wait to hear about your favorites.
I’m sure everything tastes fine but I’ve seen the book and looked through the recipes and that dependence on fake foods is why I didn’t want to participate. I’ll probably be sticking with AfR since there’s so much more I wanted to make out of that book.
I have seen ”Skinny Bitch in the Kitch” by Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman and didn’t like it at all. I didn’t try any recipes because it was only ”regular” recipes with fake meats and fake cheese…anybody can do that!
The Ultimate Cookbook is better it’s not all faux meet and such but there is a lot of sugar and oil and such used