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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:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 23
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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 A GOOD START May 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you want to begin to modify your eating habits and make your diet a bit healthier, Hungry Girl will put you on that road. The book provides low-calorie versions of burgers, French fries, pizzas, onion rings, burritos, chocolate cake, brownies, cheese nachos, frozen margaritas, fudge, ice cream freezes, and other "guilt-free" junk foods as well as cocktails. The author has created recipes that are lower in fat and calories so you can occasionally eat some of your favorite foods without feeling quite as guilty.
The book is full of ideas for making better 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 fundamentally 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. Debra Lawrence, author of THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams
 Um...What? How do people think this stuff tastes good? May 22, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am amazed by how glowing the reviews for this book are! A girlfriend of mine bought it and I was not impressed by what I saw/tasted. If you have been dieting yourself to death for years, then I guess this stuff may taste good since your taste buds are probably on a deprivation level. For anyone who eats actual food on a regular basis, these recipes taste awful! I am also dismayed by all of the fake foods, artificial sweeteners and such.
I understand that she doesn't eat these things all the time and is an advocate for eating an apple as a snack rather than a fake-ish cupcake, and she says these foods are to sub-out the high caloric versions of foods that you crave -- but I cannot see how these foods could satisfy a craving for the average person with normal taste buds. I suggest eating the real thing you crave and hit the treadmill for a bit longer or have a salad for a meal to balance it out.
BTW, fake sugar actually causes MANY people to crave actual sugar that can lead to over eating, so these diet foods may actually sabotage your diet.
I appreciate the author's desire to help people eat better, but I think people should just try to be more responsible about what and how they eat, eat real foods, have the OCCATIONAL real treat that truly satisfies and exercise more -- it is really a no brainer. I recommend the book "In Defense of Food" and "The Omnivore's Dilemma" to anyone looking for guidance on healthy eating.
B+ for taste and A+ for low cal/low fat May 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These recipes are absolutely amazing for what you are eating. You see "fat free" this and "lite" this in all the ingredients but when combined the taste is so amazing you honestly do not realize what you are eating is healthier than the alternatives.
I just made the "Dream Puffs" tonight and I was floored - so freaking good. Sweet, puffy donut-like pastry with cold creamy filling for only 45 calories and 1.5 grams of fat? Ridiculous! (As long as you don't eat the whole tray, lol)
I also tried the imitation recipe of the Taco Bell crunch wrap supreme and was equally impressed. You get a pretty big portion of (delicious) food that filled me up and was only 220 calories and 4.5 grams of fat.
One thing I noticed is that there are a LOT of common ingredients amongst the different recipes, so you won't find yourself buying a whole huge thing of vanilla soy milk and going what on earth am I going to do with the rest of this?
Finally.... I'd recommended this to the single or the couple. I live by myself and half the time I don't feel like cooking because 1. most recipes just make too much and 2. I'm too lazy. A lot of these are written for one or two servings so that is very convenient for me and almost all of them are really simple.
Great for singles who are watching their weight May 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a college student and I recently started weight watchers. I bought this book on a whim last week and I love it. I have already tried lots of the recipes and look forward to trying more. My favorite recipe so far is the spicy crispy chicken, which was delicious, and I have enjoyed everything that I have made. I even served the egg rolls to some of my friends who aren't dieting and they seemed to like them. The book is great for singles because it has lots of recipes that make 1-2 servings and the ingredient lists are pretty simple so you shouldn't have to go out and buy lots of random stuff. Also if you are on weight watchers, the points for all the recipes are on the hungry girl website as well as pictures. All in all, I would recommend this book and if you already have it, I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am.
 Wonderful recipes May 20, 2008
Great cookbook. I just wished that the pictures of the recipes were closer to the actual recipe instead of being in the back of the book.
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