Review by S. Walker for Eat What You Love: More than 300 Incredible Recipes Low in Sugar, Fat, and Calories
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The recipes are easy to follow and still have the great taste you expect. Love the cake batter milkshake, I do use other alternitive to sugar products that are more natural but splenda is okay too. I would like to see more recipes that use more natural sugar products such as brown rice sryup. I gave five stars due to easy to follow, taste, and low calories. I hope to see more from the author, this has made weight lose fun for my family and me.

Review by Steven A. Peterson for Eat What You Love: More than 300 Incredible Recipes Low in Sugar, Fat, and Calories
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Right up front, Marlene Koch lays out the purpose of this book (Page 9): “My fabulous news is that eating for pleasure and eating for good health can be one and the same. I am thrilled to tell you that with this book you never again have to be deprived or sacrifice the foods you love for the sake of your health–yes, you really can have it all.”

At the outset, Koch looks at some of the key nutritional concepts–calories, fat, salt, carbohydrates, and proteins. In each instance, she lays out the nuances (e.g., good versus not-so-good fats). She writes of diet and diabetes and then enters the realm of “meal planning,” including food exchanges, carbohydrate counting, and nutritional analysis. Then, a brief discussion of essential ingredients, ones that (Page 24) “. . .are simply low in sugar, fats, and calories” and assist, easily, developing tasty meals. Among these? Splenda, cottage cheese, cooking/baking sprays, oats, flavorings, and so on.

For any cookbook, though, it’s the recipes that are at the heart of matters. This book is divided into numerous categories, starting with hot and cold beverages and ending with creamy desserts. In between? Smoothies and shakes, breakfast entrees, appetizers, salads, pasta, poultry, seafood, and the like.

Just a few examples to illustrate. I use a chicken piccata recipe that works very well. This book features such a recipe as well. Many similarities with what I make, but some interesting differences. Ingredients: boneless chicken breasts, flour, olive oil, white wine, lemon juice, chicken broth (reduced sodium), capers (optional–but I can’t stand the thought of optional capers! They add such a nice taste), butter/margarine, and parsley. The steps to make the final dish are straightforward. Nice suggestion for a side dish (which I often use)–asparagus.

Other dishes that tempt me, just to provide some examples of what is in this book: classic Italian frittata, classic creamy coleslaw, pasta primavera (I often make this as a vegetarian dish, but the assembly of veggies used in the recipe here is awesome!), simple sweet and sour red cabbage (the twist here on the version that I make–use of cornstarch to thicken the sauce; I’ll try this next time around), crispy parmesan fish, and on it goes. . . .

A nice set of recipes. These look tasty. I intend to start experimenting over the next couple weeks. But this book has definitely captured my attention.

Review by Elaine Nelson for Eat What You Love: More than 300 Incredible Recipes Low in Sugar, Fat, and Calories
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The title of this book is very appropriate. Excellent easy to make healthy recipies that meet dietiary needs. Also excellent illustrations. I would recommend this book to everyone.