The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight & Eating Great (2024)

I love the recipes! I love everything about this book EXCEPT the way the food pics are organized. I prefer the pics to be next to the recipe so I can see what I am shooting for.

I like Anderson’s writing, and this book would be truly valuable for someone who is trying to cook more to eat more healthily. As someone who is already pretty adept home cook there aren’t a lot of new ideas here for me.

This book was my answer to my request for a lower calorie version of How to Cook Without a Book, and while not written out the same way, I've memorized the best chicken recipe I know that my mom requests of me all the time. I can't recommend this book highly enough. If you're looking to cook delicious food with lower calorie values, this book is fantastic.

Filled with voice-of-experience tips for curbing appetite (Pam Anderson is still maintaining her forty-pound weight loss), no-nonsense shortcuts for getting food on the table pronto, and recipes that could only have been developed by this food-loving pro-this new book The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great, offers no compromises, no wasted steps, just extraordinary results from ordinary ingredients.

We met Pam Anderson when she visited the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver. You can listen to her talk about The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great here: http://www.authorsontourlive.com/?p=131

I love Pam Anderson's recipes. They're well done, approachable, pretty and tasty. That said, there weren't enough I thought I'd make to actually warrant purchasing this book. I didn't like how the photos and the recipes were separated. I like my drool-worthy pics next to the recipe so I can see what my end product (might) look like. It's also fun to find your mouth watering and want to make that recipe.

And please, whatever you do, don't buy this thinking it's an actual diet. It isn't. It's a cookbook that aims (successfully) to give you encouraging tips and guidance and great recipes to enjoy while eating better. It's not a diet book.

I am still using this book weekly. I have learned a whole new way of cooking - efficient, quick, and healthy. Best of all, the recipes are TASTY!! I have learned how to roast veggies better in the oven, sear pretty much all types of meat, and how to do foil meals in the oven! Love it love it love it. My only objection is that a few of the recipes are too"gourmet" for us, but I can adapt most of them.

I love the fact that she gives general recipes, suggested combinations, and then just lists of possible ingredients (like for soup, salad, omelettes, etc.) When I get in food ruts, it's great to open this book and get some fresh ideas.

Pam Anderson made a decision to make a healthy life for herself when she was in her 40's and managed to lose over 40 pounds. Her recipes are healthy and delicious! Her attitude about putting yourself first and taking the time to be healthy is inspiring.

Common sense advice (which are really reminders - we've heard it all before numerous times, eat sensibly, exercise) and delicious - easy! recipes. I'm particularly impressed with her method of using evaporated milk in creamy pasta sauces. This is definitely a good reference book for the kitchen.

Well written, interesting, some great ideas and recipes. But the photos are all in one section, not anywhere near the recipe to match. Yuck. But a good read and gave me some new ideas, so that's good.

Many good, easy recipes.

One of the best cookbooks I've come across, low-fat or not. I use this all the time . . . and if you've ever seen my kitchen, you know that means a lot.

My favorite cookbook author of all time!

Really great. I love her variations on a theme. I've been losing one pound a week on her program. (Which, as she states, isn't really a diet but a lifestyle change.)

everything in here is delicious! Not a single bad recipe. I'm HUGE fan of this woman.

Found some new recipes to try this week.

Get again

good, interesting, some good recipes

Tells the story of an overweight busy woman who changed her priorities so she could take care of herself with exercise and healthy food. Has some good basic recipies that can be modified.

I liked her lifestyle philosophy and the recipes are great too.