Great Cookbook: Looney Spoons
I have a friend who kept on raving about this book … until I was forced to get it in order to shut her up. Now I am also raving about it.
Looneyspoons: Low-Fat Food Made Fun!
It’s a low fat recipe book by two Canadian women. And yes … it is a little bit looney with all sorts of odd facts and interesting tidbits and crazy cartoons. Looney Spoons and its companion Crazy Plates have become best sellers and once you get it and try out some of the recipes it’s easy to see why. The recipes are great. They TASTE great. There is no way on earth you’d ever guess that the recipes are low fat.
If you go on over to Amazon you’ll see dozens of testimonials absolutely raving about this book. One woman has lost 142 pounds (a whole person) so far just by incorporating the Looney Spoons recipes into her diet several times a week.
Several of the reviewers say that their kids love the recipes too … which is why my friend raves about it so much.
One reader says this …
I’m one of those cookbook collectors, who owns dozens of beautiful, pristine, read but unused cookbooks. But Looneyspoons (along with it’s ’sequel’ Crazy Plates and of course Joy of Cooking) is the book on my shelf with the most folded, spattered, tattered, scribbled-on pages, because it is truly one of the books I go back to again and again for reliable recipes that are great and reliable.
I agree … my really good cookbooks are a mess. YOu can tell the recipies I use over and over just by the accumulation of spots and stains.
The ingredients are easy to find and most of the recipes are fast and easy to make.
Now the only drawback is that some of the recipes are really HIGH on the carbs scale. If you have to watch your carbs (diabetes) you will have to either balance these recipes out by serving smaller portions or just stick to the lower carb recipes.