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Lose Weight by Eating: Easy Dinners

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Lots of good recipes here. As a certified nutrition coach, I am always looking for various recipes and cookbooks to recommend to my clients!

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I thought this book had some good recipes that are really tasty! I would definitely get this cookbooks for easy dinners!

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A great cook books with easy recipes. I made a few of these recipes and had my kids follow along to see just how easy it would be for them as well. It was a hit. I would highly recommend this cookbook for anyone from beginners to seasoned chefs.

I received a free advanced copy from Netgalley for an honest review.
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I really enjoyed the recipes in this book, though I will be honest that I wasn't watching my weight and was just seeing if these were tasty, and let me tell you, yes they were!

If you are looking for some new, healthy recipes that taste good, this is a good cookbook to consider. I don't know if I would recommend it to someone who has never cooked, but if you have a little bit of experience, I think you can manage this one!

Good food, good recipes!

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Great healthy recipes that will leave you full and happy. Never feel like you are on a diet with family favorites and wonderful variety. Audrey Johns, the author of Lose Weight with Your Instant Pot comes a follow up Lose Weight by Eating: Easy Dinners. The cook book also includes sides, sauces and after dinner yummies.

You won't have to worry if the kids will eat these recipes. Everything is fantastic.
Recipes like:
Beef Bourguignon
Boneless wings
Coconut Shrimp
Chicken Schwarma
Spaghetti Carbonara
Fried Rice and a section on Once a Week Cooking.

This is a great cook book if you are looking for healthy alternative recipes to restaurant favorites.

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I found a number of interesting recipes in this book and while of course I have not tried all of them the ones I have are worth repeating.

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There are some great recipes and tips! Would definitely buy a copy to keep in my kitchen! There are so many options to choose from and food is delicious.

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I loved how easy and well explained these recipes are, and most of the ingredients are pantry staples or things easily found at the grocery store. I will definitely be trying many of the recipes from this book.

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This cookbook is full of delicious, family-friendly recipes with simple ingredients that all skill levels can tackle.

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One way of changing our lifestyle is to actually start by changing what we eat and this book has been helpful and informative in providing a collection of recipe. This book is a wonderful and very simple introduction to real healthy eating for anyone currently eating a average-quality diet.

Great things about this book:
1. For those that just want the facts super-fast this book gives you a one page summary of the eating plan within the first 6 pages of the book. The book also contains lots of extra information backing up their conclusions as well, for those that want it.

2. This book is about eating healthily and how to improve your health and reduce your risk of getting ill in the future with diet - rather than just about mere weight loss - which is so refreshing. Slow weight normalization is a side effect of following this diet for sure, but it is not the primary focus.

This book is the only book on diet that you will never need. It is thorough, well-researched (with footnotes), well-organized, and fairly concise.

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Sweet cookbook that focuses on making healthy choices INSTEAD OF starving yourself; and teaching your children (daughters?) to do the same. Is it ridiculous that it's 2020 and we're still trying to teach girls and women this lesson? Yes. But thank goodness someone is doing it! Steps in the right direction I'd say.

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Thank you for a preview of this cookbook. So many great recipes I want to try. I will definitely be buying this one and adding it to my collection

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This recipe book is probably going to be a new go-to favorite for me. Not only does it have great recipes that aren't complicated and use everyday ingredients, it has fabulous pictures depicting the completed recipes. The book starts off by stressing the importance of meal planning in order to guarantee success. From personal experience, I can attest that this is a huge part of healthy eating. It's easier to eat well when the healthy foods are prepared and easy to grab. Also, it helps to ensure that meals are actually prepared when the ingredients are already prepped and ready to go.

I also enjoyed the variety of recipes included in this cookbook. It ranged from salads to entrees and then desserts. In addition, there were several good air fryer recipes which always pleases me as that's one of my favorite kitchen appliances.

I'm truly looking forward to trying out the air fried recipes, the BLTA salad, Stovetop Chicken Parmesan, Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese and Peanut Butter Banana Bites. That just names a few. I found almost all of the recipes quite appealing and look forward to making as many as possible.

I plan to invest in my own copy of Lose Weight by Eating: Easy Dinners because I plan to use it a great deal. Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow Cookbooks for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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This had a nice selection of recipes but with a very strong emphasis on chicken meals (I had a hard time finding something for pork, for example). But then, chicken is pretty healthy so it isn't surprising you'd find a lot of recipes in here for that one meat. The recipes are easy to use and there are a lot of photographs. The end of the book has some nice substitution suggestions for vegan/vegetarian or other dietary restrictions.

As noted in the title, the emphasis here is on dinner recipes. The book has a quick introduction on dinners, planning, pantry staples, and includes a grocery list format. The recipes are broken down by purpose or type: soups, salads, fast cooking/slow cooking, skinny fried, date night, kid favorites, one pot/dish/pan, once-a-week, proteins and side dishes, after dinner, then some interesting healthy marinades and rubs. A universal conversion chart rounds out the book chapters.

The recipe presentation is a bit messy but does use 3 colors (red, blue, black). The title is bold, there are serving size/prep time/cook time/ and per serving calories, fat, saturated fat, fiber, protein, carbs, and sugar breakdowns. There is a quick description/tips for the recipe (oddly in the middle instead of under the title), and then an ingredients list that is small and needs more spacing (too close together to make it easy to read). Steps are numbered and fairly short.

I liked that there were plenty of images to go with the recipes (though not an image for every recipe). The recipes were fairly easy to follow and I had good results with several items. I especially appreciated the healthy aspect.

In all, a good idea book for healthy dinners using a variety of tools (air fryer, instapot, etc) for interest and diversity in meals. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

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I really liked this cookbook. I have already used the recipe for miso soup and huevos rancheros and loved them. I can't wait to make more of the recipes in this book.

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This is a great cookbook. I found all the recipes very easy with ingredients that we easy to find in the grocery stores. I would recommend this cookbook.

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The author of this cookbook is apparently a blogger but she doesn't really give any introduction about herself and seems to assume you know who she is. This is apparently her fourth book and the focus is on simple, relatively low calorie dinners for families that are quick and easy to make.

Johns talks a lot about how over half of the recipes are vegetarian or vegan (or can be easily converted to these) which she says is at the request of her readers. I would not really recommend this book for vegetarians though and certainly not for vegans, as it's really a stretch to say that half of the recipes meet these needs. The vast majority of the recipes are for chicken breast dishes. The end of the book has a list of recipes that are gluten free or can be easily converted, and there are quite a few of these (often just by substituting gluten free panko crumbs or flour). Then there's a list of the vegetarian recipes, and most of these are for sauces, rubs and things like sides. Most of the sections for dinner recipes are entirely chicken breast recipes, with occasional beef and one or two salmon dishes. The only vegetarian dinners are a few soups, a butternut squash mac and cheese, a couple of plays on pizza (make it with french bread or a tortilla as the crust), a tostada recipe (she calls it single nachos) where you can leave off the meat and double the beans, shakshuka, and maybe a couple of others.

The majority of the dinners are chicken breasts that are cut in half, breaded in panko crumbs and baked with some variation of seasonings, or chicken breasts with sauces or seasonings cooked in another way, with a handful of typical family dinners like pastas, french bread pizza, etc. thrown in. There usually aren't sides provided with the dinners or suggestions, so the calorie count is only for the chicken breast or other entree. The sides chapter especially favors sweet potatoes.

Photos accompany some of the recipes (maybe 1/3?) and nutritional information is provided. Some short chapters focus on slow cooker, instant pot and air fryer recipes, though alternate directions are provided.

The author seems sweet and likeable, and the cookbook will be a good fit for folks who are short on time and like standard American dinners, especially with chicken breasts. Most of the recipes are kid-friendly and very traditional, with occasional heat that can be adjusted.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

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The description of the books sounded really interesting, but looking at the recipes, there were very few that I would make. They did seem quck and easy--but just did not appeal to me. There was some other information that was included in the book that readers might helpful, but I think that there are better books that have the same goals as this one.

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