Taste of Home Best of Comfort Food Diet Cookbook: Lose weight with 760 amazing foods

I've had this cookbook for one month now and have successfully dropped 10 pounds. Although that number might seem small, anyone who has tried sustainable realistic dieting should recognize that 2 pounds a week is hard for a foodie like me. The recipes in this book have helped tremendously. They are all simple (five-seven ingredients), quickly prepared (around half an hour prep and cook time), and my personal favorite, delicious. The comfort food diet helps me feel like I'm not depriving myself of good food for the sake of appearance. The recipes I've made so far are things I'm happy to serve my family. I would recommend calculating your own nutritional data based on what you include as I find their estimates are usually a little off (higher than my calculations). Every single recipe I've made so far has been delectable and filling. I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't want to give up good food to diet.

A variety of uncomplicated recipes with easily-found ingredients. I appreciate that most recipes tell you exactly how big the serving size is (i.e. “1 1/2 cups) and not just “serves 6.” I’ve made around 10-12 of the recipes so far and they’ve all turned out well. Nothing “gourmet” here, just everyday meals that most people will enjoy.

I love this cookbook if I’m not mistaken, it has a picture of every recipe. The ingredients are not some far away items that you have to take a plane to India to purchase. You can get them right at your local grocer if they’re not already in your pantry. I highly suggest buying this book

I haven't cooked anything yet, so I may change my star rating later. I got this edition instead of getting each individual book, I didn't want to have repeated information & I don't have room for all of them. I've looked through, & I do think it will provide some helpful suggestions for losing weight. It includes recommendations that are common sense, like increase your vegetable & fruit consumption, reducing fat & sodium intake. In the recipes, they swap out items for the reduced, or "lightened" version (like cheeses or canned items). So far, pros (in my opinion): I like the meal planner pages, and some of the reference pages at the beginning. I think they made a good attempt at including a nice variety of recipes. Ingredients look reasonably easy to find. Cons, in my opinion: I think they included too many testimonies of how great the diet is. There are about 6, I believe. It comes across as filler material to me. Perhaps a bit too much reliance on all the low- or no- fat/sugar/sodium/whatever products. I do see some recipes I want to try. So I'll try to update my review afterwards when I see how some of them turn out.

I have had this for years and then lost in a housefire. i bought it again used. It is a great cookbook with lots of comfort food recipes that are healthier versions but still taste good. Most healthy versions of recipes tend to taste like cardboard, but every recipe i have tried in this book tastes normal.

I just received my copy and have been thumbing through it. There is hardly a recipe I will not make. I am 78 and have been cooking for over 60 years so I feel justified in writing a review before I have cooked anything. I can read a recipe! And these are fantastic! But the best part is that now my meat-and- potatoes husband will be satisfied satisfied as will I with My vegetable what vegetable loving preferences preferences.. With hundreds of cookbooks on my shelves this one is going straight to the small shelf next to the stove! Zillion & zillions of great meals are ahead of us!! P.S. I really enjoy the blurbs from featured home cooks ... AND the beautifully detailed nutritional info!!

This is my favorite so far of all the comfort diet taste of home cookbooks i own yet and I own several. It has numerous pictures and actual edible recipes that are not just full of fake sugars and other unhealthy ingredients. The recipes actually taste good and the front of the book has a lot of tips and 4 weeks of planned out meals. I order a second one for a gift. This book has nutritional information and several photos of the foods. I would highly recommend this book.

I love the recipes and photos, but my “new” purchase that I paid for is “used” with writing on some items and highlighting.

I am surprised how many of these recipes my partner is up for trying, he can be a bit difficult to cook for compared with me who will eat anything. So far we have liked all the ones we have tried with only one being unimpressive. Is a good book, I don't really thing of it as a diet book though. I am even ok with it all being in cups and have not found it hard to find ingredients as I have done with other US recipes (I'm in UK). Was a good buy.

Initially got this book from the library and liked it so much I had to give it a try. Not so much for cooking at first, but for seeing if my husband would agree to use these recipes to lose weight. Knowing he is negative about many things, I thought it a good idea to go in sideways, and left it on the seat of the car while I left him waiting. It worked ... when I got back he suggested to me that this would be a good book to buy, since he had sampled the recipes in the book. He is already picking out recipes and even attempting to make some. I would recommend this book heartily. Although aimed at weight loss, the overwhelming bonus of this book is COMFORT.

love the book. great food to make

Great bunch of recipes in here

Arrived quickly, found that alot of the recipe's are the same as what the other books all have.