The Hungry Girl Diet Cookbook: Healthy Recipes for Mix-n-Match Meals & Snacks

I ordered this cookbook after seeing Lisa on Dr Oz. I don't write many reviews but, feel like this book deserves one! I love the easy quick, creative recipes, all that I have tried have been excellent!! I need to get healthy and lose about 50 lbs. I lost 10lbs in the first 6 days! Literally the name of the book Hungry Girl is what sold me on it, never have I been hungry and some days dont get 3 snacks in because I'm full! I cannot say enough about this plan, lots of normal food that most people have on hand. Vegetable dishes that I would have never dreamed of, great for dieters or just getting more veggies in your diet. It does take some planning, I went thru the book on the first day and picked some recipes that had common ingredients. I had a short grocery list, it really is just normal foods that you alreay have/ use. The portions are huge and there are many vegan and vegetarian options along with plenty of meat too.The recipes are organized in sections: Breakfast, then Lunch/Dinner, and finally tons of awesome snacks and handy shopping tips. Try It!!!

My mother loves this author! Fun, light hearted, simple approach to eating healthfully in a fun way! You can feel the exuberance passing from the author through the book and into you. Her meals are organized well (with calories listed into ‘snacks’ and ‘meals’). Mix and match way of eating that will help you count calories if you want to or just have ideas already on paper. Feel like you’re just eating a little more healthfully instead of a diet. Her food ideas aren’t your typical easy answer “just eat Greek yogurt” health books that always tick me off to see in a book. Nope, she does not do that. She has foods that are interesting and actually thought out. We love the author and have all of her books. We also really like the shoppers grocery store guide as well.

I really like this recipe book and the diet plan. It uses real food and gives you large portions, with recipes that are low in fat, sugar and salt. I especially like the Egg Bene-chick breakfast recipe and the Spaghetti Squash Bolognese. I think this diet plan and recipe book have a real chance of modifying my good intake for the better. I've already lost some weight, and enjoyed all the food that I've gotten to eat. It's almost like, instead of making "diet" food, I'm making something special for myself to eat, and I don't have that feeling that I'm being punished for wanting to lose weight. A very good thing! I hope there's another one of these books soon, as I need more recipes already! Please - less mushrooms and side salads. I hate mushrooms, and I do substitute, but there are some recipes with a lot of them. The side salads seem kind of lousy - like whatever the recipe lacked was just tacked on in the salad ingredients, and not with the best results. Those are my two gripes. Other than that - great book! I can see myself being very successful with these recipes and improving my health and weight following this program. I truly hope she writes another book to use with the program. I think this is something that can work for the long run. NEVER said that before!

This book will be with me everywhere I go, it's got so many GREAT recipes in it and has the nutritional facts above every recipe (yes the nutrition facts are in the book) yayyyyy I love this. There's tons of amazing recipes and I love HUNGRY GIRL, she's amazing. Love love love the oatmeal section of the "breakfast" recipes. I love oatmeal and hungry girl has many different oatmeal recipes. Plus if your on the hungry girl diet you can just choose what to eat out of each section then have snacks...no counting. And this cookbook works with "other" diets also. You don't have to be on her diet to use it. Hungry Girl also added tons of amazing color pictures in this cookbook. I love this book.

I love this cookbook. Most cookbooks have recipes for 4 servings while this one is mainly for one person. I just love that. I love the egg mug breakfasts. So easy and tasty. If I had one complaint, I would say her recipes need more seasoning, maybe more salt (although I know we consume too much salt in our diet). I highly recommend this cookbook for those dieting. I also think her recipes will be easy to carry into regular eating habits once you have achieved your weight loss. She does use products that I would never have thought to use to make her food tasty and low calorie.

I love the variety and the recipes. This books is, of course, a perfect companion piece for the Hungry Girl Diet book, but it also stands alone just fine -- it provides recipes for breakfasts (broken into separate categories like eggs, breads, etc.), lunches & dinners, and snacks, all within the 300-350 range for meals and 100'ish range for snacks. It also has a handful of pics on inserts in the center of the book. Although I tend to like cookbooks with pictures of what it's "supposed" to look like, Lillien's recipes are simple and straight-forward, and the pictures aren't a necessity to success. I hope they update the Hungry Girl Diet app soon to incorporate these recipes!

Great recipes but would like to have photos for more recipes. It would be more inviting to make if you see a picture.

I have all of Lisa Lillians books, and have met her at 4 book signings. I cannot recommend her books enough. To this day, I still make her first "swapachinos" daily! This book though, is more focused on a way of life and how to achieve weight loss through your relationship with food. There are so many ways Lisa shows the reader how to swap heavy fats and calories for other things and not skimp on the taste! My 11 year daughter has been a fan of Lisas going back to when she was 4 (she also loves all the tv shows Lisas husband produces on nik) and since she is a vegetarian, Lisa has made it easy for me to find quick, easy, and healthy vegetarian options for her. Purchase the book, you won't be sorry!

Very creative recipes

Just love these recipes.....easy to make foods ....with weight loss results.......ordered from Amazon.ca on a Wednesday at 5 pm Vancouver Canada time....the book arrived Friday late afternoon......so not even three whole days were needed to deliver book...A VERY HAPPY CUSTOMER.....short delivery time and a very interesting book...Happy Weight Loss Stacey

Disappointing. No pictures

Purchased this cookbook for a birthday gift. She kept saying she wished she could find one of their cookbooks, so she will be excited. It arrived on time and the book looks nice with lots of low cal recipes. Will update when I hear from the recipient of this gift.

the food they use you already have so it make it so easy to use the book