Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

The 101 recipes in this volume are all short and simple with easy-to-follow steps, using readily available ingredients and are accompanied by a full-colour photograph of the finished dish. Whether you choose chicken with coriander tomato sauce, nutty stuf

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

Good Nutritional Information but..., 26 Jun 2008
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

handy helper, 28 Mar 2008
This book is a handy helper with lots of great ideas. The recepies are simple to follw and not too footery. I wish they would advise which dishes could be frozen and there are no top tips to alter the meals - as they do in the magazing - but this is still a gem of a book and a perfect size to have in the kitchen.

My Favourite Recipe Book, 16 Mar 2008
Great, easy to follow recipe's that are guaranteed to be both filling and tasty. I highly recommend the Pumpkin and Bean Spaghetti (pp 66-67)!

The only down side is that this book - like many recipe books - expects you to be feeding a family. I would have liked to have seen more recipe's aimed at serving 2 or fewer people.

Sterling Stuff, 21 Nov 2007
This little book was great. Had plenty of choice, book was well set out and the recipies were very easy to follow and the majority were relatively quick to make (vital for when you get home from work starving and could eat your body weight in food before turning on the kettle nevermind the oven). Having tried two of the recipies on the weekend (and not having killed anyone as a result) I declare this book a success!!



A great lil' cook book, 28 Feb 2007
There's a whole series of these '101...' recipe books from Good Food Magazine, and they're all bang on the money. The lay-out is concise (there's a recipe on one page, and a nice, clear photo of what the dish should look like on the adjacent page) and the recipes are simple and easy to follow; no single recipe is broken down into more than 4 steps. Of course, I haven't tried them all, but those I have were all successful ('Baked Buttery Squash' is my most recent favourite). What's more, you hardly notice the fact that they're all low fat.

I wouldn't say this is the only cook book you'll ever need, but it's definitely a worthy addition to anyone's collection regardless of whether you're looking to lose weight or not.

Matt Pucci

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

Good Nutritional Information but..., 26 Jun 2008
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

handy helper, 28 Mar 2008
This book is a handy helper with lots of great ideas. The recepies are simple to follw and not too footery. I wish they would advise which dishes could be frozen and there are no top tips to alter the meals - as they do in the magazing - but this is still a gem of a book and a perfect size to have in the kitchen.

My Favourite Recipe Book, 16 Mar 2008
Great, easy to follow recipe's that are guaranteed to be both filling and tasty. I highly recommend the Pumpkin and Bean Spaghetti (pp 66-67)!

The only down side is that this book - like many recipe books - expects you to be feeding a family. I would have liked to have seen more recipe's aimed at serving 2 or fewer people.

Sterling Stuff, 21 Nov 2007
This little book was great. Had plenty of choice, book was well set out and the recipies were very easy to follow and the majority were relatively quick to make (vital for when you get home from work starving and could eat your body weight in food before turning on the kettle nevermind the oven). Having tried two of the recipies on the weekend (and not having killed anyone as a result) I declare this book a success!!



A great lil' cook book, 28 Feb 2007
There's a whole series of these '101...' recipe books from Good Food Magazine, and they're all bang on the money. The lay-out is concise (there's a recipe on one page, and a nice, clear photo of what the dish should look like on the adjacent page) and the recipes are simple and easy to follow; no single recipe is broken down into more than 4 steps. Of course, I haven't tried them all, but those I have were all successful ('Baked Buttery Squash' is my most recent favourite). What's more, you hardly notice the fact that they're all low fat.

I wouldn't say this is the only cook book you'll ever need, but it's definitely a worthy addition to anyone's collection regardless of whether you're looking to lose weight or not.

Matt Pucci

SIMPLY MOUTH WATERING, 30 Sep 2008
I have just spent my lunchtime pouring over this book, and I cannot wait to try the recipes out. Rosemary starts out with her usual splurg about dieting, and then explains about the Slim to Win Diet. There is a fat attack to start your diet, or you can simply personalise your own diet, and after looking through the book, you cannot fail by personalising. There are starters, lunches, recipes for meat eaters, fish eaters and vegetarians, and whole section on roasts and also a fail free christmas menu, and for those of you who have a sweet tooth a whole section on puddings. I simply cannot recommend this enough -

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

Good Nutritional Information but..., 26 Jun 2008
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

handy helper, 28 Mar 2008
This book is a handy helper with lots of great ideas. The recepies are simple to follw and not too footery. I wish they would advise which dishes could be frozen and there are no top tips to alter the meals - as they do in the magazing - but this is still a gem of a book and a perfect size to have in the kitchen.

My Favourite Recipe Book, 16 Mar 2008
Great, easy to follow recipe's that are guaranteed to be both filling and tasty. I highly recommend the Pumpkin and Bean Spaghetti (pp 66-67)!

The only down side is that this book - like many recipe books - expects you to be feeding a family. I would have liked to have seen more recipe's aimed at serving 2 or fewer people.

Sterling Stuff, 21 Nov 2007
This little book was great. Had plenty of choice, book was well set out and the recipies were very easy to follow and the majority were relatively quick to make (vital for when you get home from work starving and could eat your body weight in food before turning on the kettle nevermind the oven). Having tried two of the recipies on the weekend (and not having killed anyone as a result) I declare this book a success!!



A great lil' cook book, 28 Feb 2007
There's a whole series of these '101...' recipe books from Good Food Magazine, and they're all bang on the money. The lay-out is concise (there's a recipe on one page, and a nice, clear photo of what the dish should look like on the adjacent page) and the recipes are simple and easy to follow; no single recipe is broken down into more than 4 steps. Of course, I haven't tried them all, but those I have were all successful ('Baked Buttery Squash' is my most recent favourite). What's more, you hardly notice the fact that they're all low fat.

I wouldn't say this is the only cook book you'll ever need, but it's definitely a worthy addition to anyone's collection regardless of whether you're looking to lose weight or not.

Matt Pucci

SIMPLY MOUTH WATERING, 30 Sep 2008
I have just spent my lunchtime pouring over this book, and I cannot wait to try the recipes out. Rosemary starts out with her usual splurg about dieting, and then explains about the Slim to Win Diet. There is a fat attack to start your diet, or you can simply personalise your own diet, and after looking through the book, you cannot fail by personalising. There are starters, lunches, recipes for meat eaters, fish eaters and vegetarians, and whole section on roasts and also a fail free christmas menu, and for those of you who have a sweet tooth a whole section on puddings. I simply cannot recommend this enough -

Brilliant! One of the best of the series, 01 Nov 2008
I have purchased other cookbooks form the 101 range and this one does not dissapoint. It is one of the best ones!

The recipes are not only incrediabley healthy, low in fat amd high in fibre they are actually tasty and very satisfying(properly filling and so tasty) ! I think that nearly all of the recipes contain at least one of your 5-a day fruit and vegtables some of them contain your whole 5!!! The desserts also have some PROPER but healthy deserts (not just fruit) like hot chocloate custard pots, and ginger compote cruch for example.

The sections are
Classics made healthy (really good)
Healthy mid-week meals
Feel good sides
Healthy meals without meat
Guilt free entertaining (looks like you spent hours prparing and cooking when you did not)
Sweet and low

As always the pictures that go with each recipe are really good, plus the recipes are easy to do!

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

Good Nutritional Information but..., 26 Jun 2008
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

handy helper, 28 Mar 2008
This book is a handy helper with lots of great ideas. The recepies are simple to follw and not too footery. I wish they would advise which dishes could be frozen and there are no top tips to alter the meals - as they do in the magazing - but this is still a gem of a book and a perfect size to have in the kitchen.

My Favourite Recipe Book, 16 Mar 2008
Great, easy to follow recipe's that are guaranteed to be both filling and tasty. I highly recommend the Pumpkin and Bean Spaghetti (pp 66-67)!

The only down side is that this book - like many recipe books - expects you to be feeding a family. I would have liked to have seen more recipe's aimed at serving 2 or fewer people.

Sterling Stuff, 21 Nov 2007
This little book was great. Had plenty of choice, book was well set out and the recipies were very easy to follow and the majority were relatively quick to make (vital for when you get home from work starving and could eat your body weight in food before turning on the kettle nevermind the oven). Having tried two of the recipies on the weekend (and not having killed anyone as a result) I declare this book a success!!



A great lil' cook book, 28 Feb 2007
There's a whole series of these '101...' recipe books from Good Food Magazine, and they're all bang on the money. The lay-out is concise (there's a recipe on one page, and a nice, clear photo of what the dish should look like on the adjacent page) and the recipes are simple and easy to follow; no single recipe is broken down into more than 4 steps. Of course, I haven't tried them all, but those I have were all successful ('Baked Buttery Squash' is my most recent favourite). What's more, you hardly notice the fact that they're all low fat.

I wouldn't say this is the only cook book you'll ever need, but it's definitely a worthy addition to anyone's collection regardless of whether you're looking to lose weight or not.

Matt Pucci

SIMPLY MOUTH WATERING, 30 Sep 2008
I have just spent my lunchtime pouring over this book, and I cannot wait to try the recipes out. Rosemary starts out with her usual splurg about dieting, and then explains about the Slim to Win Diet. There is a fat attack to start your diet, or you can simply personalise your own diet, and after looking through the book, you cannot fail by personalising. There are starters, lunches, recipes for meat eaters, fish eaters and vegetarians, and whole section on roasts and also a fail free christmas menu, and for those of you who have a sweet tooth a whole section on puddings. I simply cannot recommend this enough -

Brilliant! One of the best of the series, 01 Nov 2008
I have purchased other cookbooks form the 101 range and this one does not dissapoint. It is one of the best ones!

The recipes are not only incrediabley healthy, low in fat amd high in fibre they are actually tasty and very satisfying(properly filling and so tasty) ! I think that nearly all of the recipes contain at least one of your 5-a day fruit and vegtables some of them contain your whole 5!!! The desserts also have some PROPER but healthy deserts (not just fruit) like hot chocloate custard pots, and ginger compote cruch for example.

The sections are
Classics made healthy (really good)
Healthy mid-week meals
Feel good sides
Healthy meals without meat
Guilt free entertaining (looks like you spent hours prparing and cooking when you did not)
Sweet and low

As always the pictures that go with each recipe are really good, plus the recipes are easy to do!

Excellent!, 02 Nov 2008
This is a really good cookbook for those with dietary issues. I avoid gluten and dairy, and although this book was just gluten free, it is easy to substitute soy milk or other non-dairy ingredients for the recipes in the book.

I made the Christmas cake last Christmas, and will be baking it again for this Christmas. It had a lovely baked almond 'crust' and was really moist inside. I've made quite a few of their recipes and they've all turned out really well - banana bread, yorkshire puds and the like.

The recipes are really easy to follow and well laid out. Most of the ingredients are easy to get hold of too - which is always a bonus!

Building recipes triumphantly out of fresh ingredients, 17 Oct 2008
Once you or someone you cook for are diagnosed as coeliac, you have a choice: either you try to keep your diet much as it was using gluten-free alternative versions of products, or you construct a new dietary regimen based on the things that you can still eat without risk. Pasta embodies this choice: it is off limits to the coeliac in its normal form, so you can either buy the gluten-free version (harder to obtain, more expensive, and frankly a bit peculiar in its texture and taste) or you can switch to a different source of carbohydrate that does not contain gluten, such as rice or potatoes, and use that when previously you would have used pasta. If you are already used to cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients, the second option will not be daunting and will ultimately prove more satisfactory.

This volume works on that premise: building a strong and varied selection of recipes for all times of the day, for the most part out of basic ingredients that require no modification for the coeliac. Those recipes are at the book's core. Some of them display considerable ingenuity: cakes, as you would expect, are a particular challenge to the gluten-free chef, and this book rises well to that challenge. Rice flour, almonds and polenta often take the place of wheat flour, with all sorts of ingenious ways of keeping these moist and flavoursome: who could resist, for instance, Lady Dundee's Orange Cake, which begins by simmering oranges for an hour or two until tender, then putting them in their entirety into a blender - peel, flesh, pips and all - and liquidising them? In other areas of the book the need for ingenuity in avoiding gluten is less, and there will be occasions when you are surprised glancing over a recipe for risotto, for example that the recipe is gluten-free because it seems so "normal" and lacking in any special difficulty. Which is, of course, the point I made at the start: it is possible to construct a perfectly acceptable, "normal" diet out of the numerous ingredients that are safe for the coeliac. The book is not, then, simply a guide to the things that are difficult to cook for a coeliac, but a balanced and rounded selection of all sorts of recipes, united by the fact one can be confident that anything in these pages is safe for a coeliac.

Recipes based on the ingredients requiring no modification are at the heart of the book. There is other material as well: a section of recipes to cook with gluten-free pasta, a whole section relating to basic carbohydrates such as breads or pizza bases, and an overview of the condition discussing which basic foodstuffs are safe and which off limits, buying gluten-free foods, eating out as a coeliac and so on. This would be suitable for a newly-diagnosed coeliac, their partner or, perhaps, someone about to get a visit from a coeliac relative or friend.

All in all, a balanced and wide-ranging book, with recipes of a high quality. You will find yourself passing recipes on to people who can eat gluten, and will hear them give that ultimate (and rather irritating) accolade, "you'd never know it was gluten-free". If you or your partner or child are coeliac, you will probably acquire a variety of recipe books as you explore the options open to you, but this will probably be the one you use most. If a friend or relative for whom you cook from time to time is coeliac, this is probably all you need, giving you a range of recipes that are appetising as well as safe, and a basic overview of the condition. Ultimately a recipe book stands or falls on the quality of the food described in it, and this, by building on those core ingredients that are safe, building on strengths rather trying to compensate for difficulties, passes that test with flying colours. Thoroughly recommended.


Lovely although a little complex..., 09 Jul 2008
A well balanced array of recipes in all. The recipes call for a myriad of ingredients, I make a fab Vicky sponge just substituting normal SR flour for Gluten Free SR flour and I also substitute butter as my hubby and I are also allergic to dairy. I need a recipe book that I can whip up something from when I get home from work. This is a good book for impressing a gluten free sceptic with though! As with most recipe books you need to use this in conjunction with your own recipes.

great recipe book, 25 Nov 2007
brilliant easy to follow recipes which always work and are also a hit with non suffers of coeliac disease chocolate brownies are amazing

Some super tips, 06 Jan 2007
This is a good book, as it encourages the reader to use normal ingredients rather than prepacked mixes, and offers recipes for basics which I never imagined I could substitute. Some of the highlights include the great tip of using rice paper wrappers as a crunchy coating for fish (you won't miss batter), the soda bread recipe, and the breakfast health bar which went down a treat - no-one guessed there was anything odd about it, and it's the first time I have cooked with rice flakes. In fact, this book allows you to cook for yourself and others, without things tasting odd or artificial. Although many of the recipes are too high in fat for me (this applies to Irish cookery in general), I have successfully reduced the fat in all cases.

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

Good Nutritional Information but..., 26 Jun 2008
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

handy helper, 28 Mar 2008
This book is a handy helper with lots of great ideas. The recepies are simple to follw and not too footery. I wish they would advise which dishes could be frozen and there are no top tips to alter the meals - as they do in the magazing - but this is still a gem of a book and a perfect size to have in the kitchen.

My Favourite Recipe Book, 16 Mar 2008
Great, easy to follow recipe's that are guaranteed to be both filling and tasty. I highly recommend the Pumpkin and Bean Spaghetti (pp 66-67)!

The only down side is that this book - like many recipe books - expects you to be feeding a family. I would have liked to have seen more recipe's aimed at serving 2 or fewer people.

Sterling Stuff, 21 Nov 2007
This little book was great. Had plenty of choice, book was well set out and the recipies were very easy to follow and the majority were relatively quick to make (vital for when you get home from work starving and could eat your body weight in food before turning on the kettle nevermind the oven). Having tried two of the recipies on the weekend (and not having killed anyone as a result) I declare this book a success!!



A great lil' cook book, 28 Feb 2007
There's a whole series of these '101...' recipe books from Good Food Magazine, and they're all bang on the money. The lay-out is concise (there's a recipe on one page, and a nice, clear photo of what the dish should look like on the adjacent page) and the recipes are simple and easy to follow; no single recipe is broken down into more than 4 steps. Of course, I haven't tried them all, but those I have were all successful ('Baked Buttery Squash' is my most recent favourite). What's more, you hardly notice the fact that they're all low fat.

I wouldn't say this is the only cook book you'll ever need, but it's definitely a worthy addition to anyone's collection regardless of whether you're looking to lose weight or not.

Matt Pucci

SIMPLY MOUTH WATERING, 30 Sep 2008
I have just spent my lunchtime pouring over this book, and I cannot wait to try the recipes out. Rosemary starts out with her usual splurg about dieting, and then explains about the Slim to Win Diet. There is a fat attack to start your diet, or you can simply personalise your own diet, and after looking through the book, you cannot fail by personalising. There are starters, lunches, recipes for meat eaters, fish eaters and vegetarians, and whole section on roasts and also a fail free christmas menu, and for those of you who have a sweet tooth a whole section on puddings. I simply cannot recommend this enough -

Brilliant! One of the best of the series, 01 Nov 2008
I have purchased other cookbooks form the 101 range and this one does not dissapoint. It is one of the best ones!

The recipes are not only incrediabley healthy, low in fat amd high in fibre they are actually tasty and very satisfying(properly filling and so tasty) ! I think that nearly all of the recipes contain at least one of your 5-a day fruit and vegtables some of them contain your whole 5!!! The desserts also have some PROPER but healthy deserts (not just fruit) like hot chocloate custard pots, and ginger compote cruch for example.

The sections are
Classics made healthy (really good)
Healthy mid-week meals
Feel good sides
Healthy meals without meat
Guilt free entertaining (looks like you spent hours prparing and cooking when you did not)
Sweet and low

As always the pictures that go with each recipe are really good, plus the recipes are easy to do!

Excellent!, 02 Nov 2008
This is a really good cookbook for those with dietary issues. I avoid gluten and dairy, and although this book was just gluten free, it is easy to substitute soy milk or other non-dairy ingredients for the recipes in the book.

I made the Christmas cake last Christmas, and will be baking it again for this Christmas. It had a lovely baked almond 'crust' and was really moist inside. I've made quite a few of their recipes and they've all turned out really well - banana bread, yorkshire puds and the like.

The recipes are really easy to follow and well laid out. Most of the ingredients are easy to get hold of too - which is always a bonus!

Building recipes triumphantly out of fresh ingredients, 17 Oct 2008
Once you or someone you cook for are diagnosed as coeliac, you have a choice: either you try to keep your diet much as it was using gluten-free alternative versions of products, or you construct a new dietary regimen based on the things that you can still eat without risk. Pasta embodies this choice: it is off limits to the coeliac in its normal form, so you can either buy the gluten-free version (harder to obtain, more expensive, and frankly a bit peculiar in its texture and taste) or you can switch to a different source of carbohydrate that does not contain gluten, such as rice or potatoes, and use that when previously you would have used pasta. If you are already used to cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients, the second option will not be daunting and will ultimately prove more satisfactory.

This volume works on that premise: building a strong and varied selection of recipes for all times of the day, for the most part out of basic ingredients that require no modification for the coeliac. Those recipes are at the book's core. Some of them display considerable ingenuity: cakes, as you would expect, are a particular challenge to the gluten-free chef, and this book rises well to that challenge. Rice flour, almonds and polenta often take the place of wheat flour, with all sorts of ingenious ways of keeping these moist and flavoursome: who could resist, for instance, Lady Dundee's Orange Cake, which begins by simmering oranges for an hour or two until tender, then putting them in their entirety into a blender - peel, flesh, pips and all - and liquidising them? In other areas of the book the need for ingenuity in avoiding gluten is less, and there will be occasions when you are surprised glancing over a recipe for risotto, for example that the recipe is gluten-free because it seems so "normal" and lacking in any special difficulty. Which is, of course, the point I made at the start: it is possible to construct a perfectly acceptable, "normal" diet out of the numerous ingredients that are safe for the coeliac. The book is not, then, simply a guide to the things that are difficult to cook for a coeliac, but a balanced and rounded selection of all sorts of recipes, united by the fact one can be confident that anything in these pages is safe for a coeliac.

Recipes based on the ingredients requiring no modification are at the heart of the book. There is other material as well: a section of recipes to cook with gluten-free pasta, a whole section relating to basic carbohydrates such as breads or pizza bases, and an overview of the condition discussing which basic foodstuffs are safe and which off limits, buying gluten-free foods, eating out as a coeliac and so on. This would be suitable for a newly-diagnosed coeliac, their partner or, perhaps, someone about to get a visit from a coeliac relative or friend.

All in all, a balanced and wide-ranging book, with recipes of a high quality. You will find yourself passing recipes on to people who can eat gluten, and will hear them give that ultimate (and rather irritating) accolade, "you'd never know it was gluten-free". If you or your partner or child are coeliac, you will probably acquire a variety of recipe books as you explore the options open to you, but this will probably be the one you use most. If a friend or relative for whom you cook from time to time is coeliac, this is probably all you need, giving you a range of recipes that are appetising as well as safe, and a basic overview of the condition. Ultimately a recipe book stands or falls on the quality of the food described in it, and this, by building on those core ingredients that are safe, building on strengths rather trying to compensate for difficulties, passes that test with flying colours. Thoroughly recommended.


Lovely although a little complex..., 09 Jul 2008
A well balanced array of recipes in all. The recipes call for a myriad of ingredients, I make a fab Vicky sponge just substituting normal SR flour for Gluten Free SR flour and I also substitute butter as my hubby and I are also allergic to dairy. I need a recipe book that I can whip up something from when I get home from work. This is a good book for impressing a gluten free sceptic with though! As with most recipe books you need to use this in conjunction with your own recipes.

great recipe book, 25 Nov 2007
brilliant easy to follow recipes which always work and are also a hit with non suffers of coeliac disease chocolate brownies are amazing

Some super tips, 06 Jan 2007
This is a good book, as it encourages the reader to use normal ingredients rather than prepacked mixes, and offers recipes for basics which I never imagined I could substitute. Some of the highlights include the great tip of using rice paper wrappers as a crunchy coating for fish (you won't miss batter), the soda bread recipe, and the breakfast health bar which went down a treat - no-one guessed there was anything odd about it, and it's the first time I have cooked with rice flakes. In fact, this book allows you to cook for yourself and others, without things tasting odd or artificial. Although many of the recipes are too high in fat for me (this applies to Irish cookery in general), I have successfully reduced the fat in all cases.

highly recommended., 05 Jul 2008
I bought this, and 2 other carb counting books, because I have 2 children who are Type 1 diabetic and we need to carb count for the basal bolus insulin regime they are using. I found it so useful I bought another 3, 1 each for the kids and 1 to be kept in the kitchen. The other books got left on the shelf, this one is far and away the easiest to use (& to carry around) and the best thing it's all UK foods, products and measurments. Since my children are teenagers the fact that it includes fast foods from the likes of McDonalds is really helpful too, they are much more inclined to use this than the others. All in all we have been really pleased with this book and would recommend it to anyone needing to keep an eye on their carb intake.

Collins Carb Counter, 11 Jan 2005
This essential for anyone with type 1 diabetes that is on a basal-bolus insulin regime. Our daughter has the condition and we need to work out her carbohydrate intake with every meal to calculate her insulin.

Free Carbohydrate listings on the internet seem to be based on strange American foods - so it is good to have a book that covers British foods. This book is excellent value, is a handy pocket size and is very comprehensive.

I gave the book 4 stars rather than five because it mainly Gives Carbs per hundred grams - which is fine at home when you can weigh things. But when eating out or at other peoples houses it would be useful to have more portion descriptions - rather than just giving a total weight for many foods.

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

Good Nutritional Information but..., 26 Jun 2008
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

handy helper, 28 Mar 2008
This book is a handy helper with lots of great ideas. The recepies are simple to follw and not too footery. I wish they would advise which dishes could be frozen and there are no top tips to alter the meals - as they do in the magazing - but this is still a gem of a book and a perfect size to have in the kitchen.

My Favourite Recipe Book, 16 Mar 2008
Great, easy to follow recipe's that are guaranteed to be both filling and tasty. I highly recommend the Pumpkin and Bean Spaghetti (pp 66-67)!

The only down side is that this book - like many recipe books - expects you to be feeding a family. I would have liked to have seen more recipe's aimed at serving 2 or fewer people.

Sterling Stuff, 21 Nov 2007
This little book was great. Had plenty of choice, book was well set out and the recipies were very easy to follow and the majority were relatively quick to make (vital for when you get home from work starving and could eat your body weight in food before turning on the kettle nevermind the oven). Having tried two of the recipies on the weekend (and not having killed anyone as a result) I declare this book a success!!



A great lil' cook book, 28 Feb 2007
There's a whole series of these '101...' recipe books from Good Food Magazine, and they're all bang on the money. The lay-out is concise (there's a recipe on one page, and a nice, clear photo of what the dish should look like on the adjacent page) and the recipes are simple and easy to follow; no single recipe is broken down into more than 4 steps. Of course, I haven't tried them all, but those I have were all successful ('Baked Buttery Squash' is my most recent favourite). What's more, you hardly notice the fact that they're all low fat.

I wouldn't say this is the only cook book you'll ever need, but it's definitely a worthy addition to anyone's collection regardless of whether you're looking to lose weight or not.

Matt Pucci

SIMPLY MOUTH WATERING, 30 Sep 2008
I have just spent my lunchtime pouring over this book, and I cannot wait to try the recipes out. Rosemary starts out with her usual splurg about dieting, and then explains about the Slim to Win Diet. There is a fat attack to start your diet, or you can simply personalise your own diet, and after looking through the book, you cannot fail by personalising. There are starters, lunches, recipes for meat eaters, fish eaters and vegetarians, and whole section on roasts and also a fail free christmas menu, and for those of you who have a sweet tooth a whole section on puddings. I simply cannot recommend this enough -

Brilliant! One of the best of the series, 01 Nov 2008
I have purchased other cookbooks form the 101 range and this one does not dissapoint. It is one of the best ones!

The recipes are not only incrediabley healthy, low in fat amd high in fibre they are actually tasty and very satisfying(properly filling and so tasty) ! I think that nearly all of the recipes contain at least one of your 5-a day fruit and vegtables some of them contain your whole 5!!! The desserts also have some PROPER but healthy deserts (not just fruit) like hot chocloate custard pots, and ginger compote cruch for example.

The sections are
Classics made healthy (really good)
Healthy mid-week meals
Feel good sides
Healthy meals without meat
Guilt free entertaining (looks like you spent hours prparing and cooking when you did not)
Sweet and low

As always the pictures that go with each recipe are really good, plus the recipes are easy to do!

Excellent!, 02 Nov 2008
This is a really good cookbook for those with dietary issues. I avoid gluten and dairy, and although this book was just gluten free, it is easy to substitute soy milk or other non-dairy ingredients for the recipes in the book.

I made the Christmas cake last Christmas, and will be baking it again for this Christmas. It had a lovely baked almond 'crust' and was really moist inside. I've made quite a few of their recipes and they've all turned out really well - banana bread, yorkshire puds and the like.

The recipes are really easy to follow and well laid out. Most of the ingredients are easy to get hold of too - which is always a bonus!

Building recipes triumphantly out of fresh ingredients, 17 Oct 2008
Once you or someone you cook for are diagnosed as coeliac, you have a choice: either you try to keep your diet much as it was using gluten-free alternative versions of products, or you construct a new dietary regimen based on the things that you can still eat without risk. Pasta embodies this choice: it is off limits to the coeliac in its normal form, so you can either buy the gluten-free version (harder to obtain, more expensive, and frankly a bit peculiar in its texture and taste) or you can switch to a different source of carbohydrate that does not contain gluten, such as rice or potatoes, and use that when previously you would have used pasta. If you are already used to cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients, the second option will not be daunting and will ultimately prove more satisfactory.

This volume works on that premise: building a strong and varied selection of recipes for all times of the day, for the most part out of basic ingredients that require no modification for the coeliac. Those recipes are at the book's core. Some of them display considerable ingenuity: cakes, as you would expect, are a particular challenge to the gluten-free chef, and this book rises well to that challenge. Rice flour, almonds and polenta often take the place of wheat flour, with all sorts of ingenious ways of keeping these moist and flavoursome: who could resist, for instance, Lady Dundee's Orange Cake, which begins by simmering oranges for an hour or two until tender, then putting them in their entirety into a blender - peel, flesh, pips and all - and liquidising them? In other areas of the book the need for ingenuity in avoiding gluten is less, and there will be occasions when you are surprised glancing over a recipe for risotto, for example that the recipe is gluten-free because it seems so "normal" and lacking in any special difficulty. Which is, of course, the point I made at the start: it is possible to construct a perfectly acceptable, "normal" diet out of the numerous ingredients that are safe for the coeliac. The book is not, then, simply a guide to the things that are difficult to cook for a coeliac, but a balanced and rounded selection of all sorts of recipes, united by the fact one can be confident that anything in these pages is safe for a coeliac.

Recipes based on the ingredients requiring no modification are at the heart of the book. There is other material as well: a section of recipes to cook with gluten-free pasta, a whole section relating to basic carbohydrates such as breads or pizza bases, and an overview of the condition discussing which basic foodstuffs are safe and which off limits, buying gluten-free foods, eating out as a coeliac and so on. This would be suitable for a newly-diagnosed coeliac, their partner or, perhaps, someone about to get a visit from a coeliac relative or friend.

All in all, a balanced and wide-ranging book, with recipes of a high quality. You will find yourself passing recipes on to people who can eat gluten, and will hear them give that ultimate (and rather irritating) accolade, "you'd never know it was gluten-free". If you or your partner or child are coeliac, you will probably acquire a variety of recipe books as you explore the options open to you, but this will probably be the one you use most. If a friend or relative for whom you cook from time to time is coeliac, this is probably all you need, giving you a range of recipes that are appetising as well as safe, and a basic overview of the condition. Ultimately a recipe book stands or falls on the quality of the food described in it, and this, by building on those core ingredients that are safe, building on strengths rather trying to compensate for difficulties, passes that test with flying colours. Thoroughly recommended.


Lovely although a little complex..., 09 Jul 2008
A well balanced array of recipes in all. The recipes call for a myriad of ingredients, I make a fab Vicky sponge just substituting normal SR flour for Gluten Free SR flour and I also substitute butter as my hubby and I are also allergic to dairy. I need a recipe book that I can whip up something from when I get home from work. This is a good book for impressing a gluten free sceptic with though! As with most recipe books you need to use this in conjunction with your own recipes.

great recipe book, 25 Nov 2007
brilliant easy to follow recipes which always work and are also a hit with non suffers of coeliac disease chocolate brownies are amazing

Some super tips, 06 Jan 2007
This is a good book, as it encourages the reader to use normal ingredients rather than prepacked mixes, and offers recipes for basics which I never imagined I could substitute. Some of the highlights include the great tip of using rice paper wrappers as a crunchy coating for fish (you won't miss batter), the soda bread recipe, and the breakfast health bar which went down a treat - no-one guessed there was anything odd about it, and it's the first time I have cooked with rice flakes. In fact, this book allows you to cook for yourself and others, without things tasting odd or artificial. Although many of the recipes are too high in fat for me (this applies to Irish cookery in general), I have successfully reduced the fat in all cases.

highly recommended., 05 Jul 2008
I bought this, and 2 other carb counting books, because I have 2 children who are Type 1 diabetic and we need to carb count for the basal bolus insulin regime they are using. I found it so useful I bought another 3, 1 each for the kids and 1 to be kept in the kitchen. The other books got left on the shelf, this one is far and away the easiest to use (& to carry around) and the best thing it's all UK foods, products and measurments. Since my children are teenagers the fact that it includes fast foods from the likes of McDonalds is really helpful too, they are much more inclined to use this than the others. All in all we have been really pleased with this book and would recommend it to anyone needing to keep an eye on their carb intake.

Collins Carb Counter, 11 Jan 2005
This essential for anyone with type 1 diabetes that is on a basal-bolus insulin regime. Our daughter has the condition and we need to work out her carbohydrate intake with every meal to calculate her insulin.

Free Carbohydrate listings on the internet seem to be based on strange American foods - so it is good to have a book that covers British foods. This book is excellent value, is a handy pocket size and is very comprehensive.

I gave the book 4 stars rather than five because it mainly Gives Carbs per hundred grams - which is fine at home when you can weigh things. But when eating out or at other peoples houses it would be useful to have more portion descriptions - rather than just giving a total weight for many foods.

Fails as an everyday diet book, 05 Aug 2008
I have recently been diagnosed with insulin resistance, and told I needed to follow a low GI diet. A recipe book created by a chef who was also diagnosed as insulin resistant seemed like an obvious choice, but I was very disappointed for several reasons.

First, most of the recipes do not seem practical for everyday living. Many of them have long cooking times and need perishable or unusual ingredients, and therefore need forward planning.

Second, I feel there is not enough information to enable the reader to make their own low GI recipes. There is GI table in the front, but over-simplified (for my tastes) into low, medium or high GI and not containing that many foods. Also, bread in particular may be low, medium or high GI depending on variety - again, I'd have liked more information.

Third, I felt many of the recipes were a bit of a cop-out. Meat and fish have zero GI, and a good few of the recipes are meat/fish with vegetables or salad, served with boiled new potatoes. I don't need new ways of cooking meat, I need ways to avoid boiled new potatoes with every meal. Also, almost all the deserts are based on stewed fruits.

All that having been said, I really liked the soup section, and there are a few useful and adaptable recipes in here. I particularly liked the idea of using pearl barley to make risotto. It's a good 'special occasions' book, or an addition to other GI books you may have; just don't try using it as a diet book unless you have a lot of spare time!

fantastic GI recipes, 30 Dec 2007
I was sceptical about Warrall-Thompson and GI since he seems to endorse everything and anything. But in fact the science bit explaining GI is by an expert and the recipes are by WT and tweaked by another expert to make them lower GI. The result is a set of recipes that are simply great. We have made about half of the recipes in the book and every single one has been delicious and we will make them again. Unlike some other cookery books, if you follow the instructions, the recipes just work. (The only criticism is that he doesn't always give a heat setting - do I fry the fish cakes at a high or medium heat?) Another reviewer mentioned that some take a while and that's true (but the fish pie really is worth it!) and some involve overnight marinades but the techniques are not difficult and the results are superb.

Don't be intimidated - these are easy!, 13 Feb 2007
I've had this book for a year and use it every week. The recipes are almost all accessible, delicious, and by no means as time-consuming as you might think. I've lost the half-stone I intended to, but have stuck with this new way of eating as I find it a pleasure.

Eventually a non-frustrating diet!, 24 Jul 2006
This book with stunning photography is nothing like a diet book. I really like it because all the recipes of the book are easy to prepare, delicious and there are recipes for breakfasts, dinners and even snacks! It is really easy to be on this diet as you are not frustrated, you can eat good food, and you don't have to eliminate any food groups.
The texts are very clear and helped me understand how the GI Diet works and what are its positive effects on my body.

GI and the South Beach Diet, 13 May 2006
I've been on the South Beach Diet for over a month now (and doing well I hasten to add) and brought this book to liven things up a bit.
The advice in here is bit different to the South Beach (which is based on GI food values) and explains how to combine low to high GI foods to maximise choices.
The recipes look simple enough (and delicous) and overall as a keen cook I am really pleased to find some recipes to suit my diet plan and hobby. There is now a new book out on the GL diet (boy do they like to confuse us) based on Glycaemic Load! I may try that next!!!!!!

Designed to catapult your body into a state of fat meltdown, Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution (and the accompanying Dr Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook has taken America by storm. It targets insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. The bodies of most overeaters are continually in a state of hyperinsulinism; their bodies are so adept at releasing insulin to help convert excess carbohydrates to fat that there's always too much of the hormone circulating through the body. This puts the body into a bind; it always wants to store fat. Even when people with hyperinsulinism try to lose weight--especially when they cut fat but increase carbohydrate consumption--their efforts will fail. This is why Dr Atkins refers to insulin as "the fat-producing hormone".

Dr Atkins' diet is extremely low in carbohydrates, which helps to regulate insulin production and decrease circulating insulin; less insulin soon results in less fat storage and fewer food cravings. The diet is far from torturous, though--those who've tried it attest that hunger is not a part of this plan. Ninety per cent of Dr Atkins' patients--more than 25,000 of them--have experienced dramatic weight loss. --Karim Nanji, Amazon.com

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutritious. I am a Nigella and Jamie follower and I cook a great deal...I consider myself an excellent 'amateur' cook and this excellent book will be a staple in my kitchen - especially valuable during the current 'credit crunch' when we all need to make cut-backs on living expenses - with this book, you will spend less and eat better!

I give it a glowing 10/10 - do buy it!

Good Nutritional Information but..., 26 Jun 2008
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!

handy helper, 28 Mar 2008
This book is a handy helper with lots of great ideas. The recepies are simple to follw and not too footery. I wish they would advise which dishes could be frozen and there are no top tips to alter the meals - as they do in the magazing - but this is still a gem of a book and a perfect size to have in the kitchen.

My Favourite Recipe Book, 16 Mar 2008
Great, easy to follow recipe's that are guaranteed to be both filling and tasty. I highly recommend the Pumpkin and Bean Spaghetti (pp 66-67)!

The only down side is that this book - like many recipe books - expects you to be feeding a family. I would have liked to have seen more recipe's aimed at serving 2 or fewer people.

Sterling Stuff, 21 Nov 2007
This little book was great. Had plenty of choice, book was well set out and the recipies were very easy to follow and the majority were relatively quick to make (vital for when you get home from work starving and could eat your body weight in food before turning on the kettle nevermind the oven). Having tried two of the recipies on the weekend (and not having killed anyone as a result) I declare this book a success!!



A great lil' cook book, 28 Feb 2007
There's a whole series of these '101...' recipe books from Good Food Magazine, and they're all bang on the money. The lay-out is concise (there's a recipe on one page, and a nice, clear photo of what the dish should look like on the adjacent page) and the recipes are simple and easy to follow; no single recipe is broken down into more than 4 steps. Of course, I haven't tried them all, but those I have were all successful ('Baked Buttery Squash' is my most recent favourite). What's more, you hardly notice the fact that they're all low fat.

I wouldn't say this is the only cook book you'll ever need, but it's definitely a worthy addition to anyone's collection regardless of whether you're looking to lose weight or not.

Matt Pucci

SIMPLY MOUTH WATERING, 30 Sep 2008
I have just spent my lunchtime pouring over this book, and I cannot wait to try the recipes out. Rosemary starts out with her usual splurg about dieting, and then explains about the Slim to Win Diet. There is a fat attack to start your diet, or you can simply personalise your own diet, and after looking through the book, you cannot fail by personalising. There are starters, lunches, recipes for meat eaters, fish eaters and vegetarians, and whole section on roasts and also a fail free christmas menu, and for those of you who have a sweet tooth a whole section on puddings. I simply cannot recommend this enough -

Brilliant! One of the best of the series, 01 Nov 2008
I have purchased other cookbooks form the 101 range and this one does not dissapoint. It is one of the best ones!

The recipes are not only incrediabley healthy, low in fat amd high in fibre they are actually tasty and very satisfying(properly filling and so tasty) ! I think that nearly all of the recipes contain at least one of your 5-a day fruit and vegtables some of them contain your whole 5!!! The desserts also have some PROPER but healthy deserts (not just fruit) like hot chocloate custard pots, and ginger compote cruch for example.

The sections are
Classics made healthy (really good)
Healthy mid-week meals
Feel good sides
Healthy meals without meat
Guilt free entertaining (looks like you spent hours prparing and cooking when you did not)
Sweet and low

As always the pictures that go with each recipe are really good, plus the recipes are easy to do!

Excellent!, 02 Nov 2008
This is a really good cookbook for those with dietary issues. I avoid gluten and dairy, and although this book was just gluten free, it is easy to substitute soy milk or other non-dairy ingredients for the recipes in the book.

I made the Christmas cake last Christmas, and will be baking it again for this Christmas. It had a lovely baked almond 'crust' and was really moist inside. I've made quite a few of their recipes and they've all turned out really well - banana bread, yorkshire puds and the like.

The recipes are really easy to follow and well laid out. Most of the ingredients are easy to get hold of too - which is always a bonus!

Building recipes triumphantly out of fresh ingredients, 17 Oct 2008
Once you or someone you cook for are diagnosed as coeliac, you have a choice: either you try to keep your diet much as it was using gluten-free alternative versions of products, or you construct a new dietary regimen based on the things that you can still eat without risk. Pasta embodies this choice: it is off limits to the coeliac in its normal form, so you can either buy the gluten-free version (harder to obtain, more expensive, and frankly a bit peculiar in its texture and taste) or you can switch to a different source of carbohydrate that does not contain gluten, such as rice or potatoes, and use that when previously you would have used pasta. If you are already used to cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients, the second option will not be daunting and will ultimately prove more satisfactory.

This volume works on that premise: building a strong and varied selection of recipes for all times of the day, for the most part out of basic ingredients that require no modification for the coeliac. Those recipes are at the book's core. Some of them display considerable ingenuity: cakes, as you would expect, are a particular challenge to the gluten-free chef, and this book rises well to that challenge. Rice flour, almonds and polenta often take the place of wheat flour, with all sorts of ingenious ways of keeping these moist and flavoursome: who could resist, for instance, Lady Dundee's Orange Cake, which begins by simmering oranges for an hour or two until tender, then putting them in their entirety into a blender - peel, flesh, pips and all - and liquidising them? In other areas of the book the need for ingenuity in avoiding gluten is less, and there will be occasions when you are surprised glancing over a recipe for risotto, for example that the recipe is gluten-free because it seems so "normal" and lacking in any special difficulty. Which is, of course, the point I made at the start: it is possible to construct a perfectly acceptable, "normal" diet out of the numerous ingredients that are safe for the coeliac. The book is not, then, simply a guide to the things that are difficult to cook for a coeliac, but a balanced and rounded selection of all sorts of recipes, united by the fact one can be confident that anything in these pages is safe for a coeliac.

Recipes based on the ingredients requiring no modification are at the heart of the book. There is other material as well: a section of recipes to cook with gluten-free pasta, a whole section relating to basic carbohydrates such as breads or pizza bases, and an overview of the condition discussing which basic foodstuffs are safe and which off limits, buying gluten-free foods, eating out as a coeliac and so on. This would be suitable for a newly-diagnosed coeliac, their partner or, perhaps, someone about to get a visit from a coeliac relative or friend.

All in all, a balanced and wide-ranging book, with recipes of a high quality. You will find yourself passing recipes on to people who can eat gluten, and will hear them give that ultimate (and rather irritating) accolade, "you'd never know it was gluten-free". If you or your partner or child are coeliac, you will probably acquire a variety of recipe books as you explore the options open to you, but this will probably be the one you use most. If a friend or relative for whom you cook from time to time is coeliac, this is probably all you need, giving you a range of recipes that are appetising as well as safe, and a basic overview of the condition. Ultimately a recipe book stands or falls on the quality of the food described in it, and this, by building on those core ingredients that are safe, building on strengths rather trying to compensate for difficulties, passes that test with flying colours. Thoroughly recommended.


Lovely although a little complex..., 09 Jul 2008
A well balanced array of recipes in all. The recipes call for a myriad of ingredients, I make a fab Vicky sponge just substituting normal SR flour for Gluten Free SR flour and I also substitute butter as my hubby and I are also allergic to dairy. I need a recipe book that I can whip up something from when I get home from work. This is a good book for impressing a gluten free sceptic with though! As with most recipe books you need to use this in conjunction with your own recipes.

great recipe book, 25 Nov 2007
brilliant easy to follow recipes which always work and are also a hit with non suffers of coeliac disease chocolate brownies are amazing

Some super tips, 06 Jan 2007
This is a good book, as it encourages the reader to use normal ingredients rather than prepacked mixes, and offers recipes for basics which I never imagined I could substitute. Some of the highlights include the great tip of using rice paper wrappers as a crunchy coating for fish (you won't miss batter), the soda bread recipe, and the breakfast health bar which went down a treat - no-one guessed there was anything odd about it, and it's the first time I have cooked with rice flakes. In fact, this book allows you to cook for yourself and others, without things tasting odd or artificial. Although many of the recipes are too high in fat for me (this applies to Irish cookery in general), I have successfully reduced the fat in all cases.

highly recommended., 05 Jul 2008
I bought this, and 2 other carb counting books, because I have 2 children who are Type 1 diabetic and we need to carb count for the basal bolus insulin regime they are using. I found it so useful I bought another 3, 1 each for the kids and 1 to be kept in the kitchen. The other books got left on the shelf, this one is far and away the easiest to use (& to carry around) and the best thing it's all UK foods, products and measurments. Since my children are teenagers the fact that it includes fast foods from the likes of McDonalds is really helpful too, they are much more inclined to use this than the others. All in all we have been really pleased with this book and would recommend it to anyone needing to keep an eye on their carb intake.

Collins Carb Counter, 11 Jan 2005
This essential for anyone with type 1 diabetes that is on a basal-bolus insulin regime. Our daughter has the condition and we need to work out her carbohydrate intake with every meal to calculate her insulin.

Free Carbohydrate listings on the internet seem to be based on strange American foods - so it is good to have a book that covers British foods. This book is excellent value, is a handy pocket size and is very comprehensive.

I gave the book 4 stars rather than five because it mainly Gives Carbs per hundred grams - which is fine at home when you can weigh things. But when eating out or at other peoples houses it would be useful to have more portion descriptions - rather than just giving a total weight for many foods.

Fails as an everyday diet book, 05 Aug 2008
I have recently been diagnosed with insulin resistance, and told I needed to follow a low GI diet. A recipe book created by a chef who was also diagnosed as insulin resistant seemed like an obvious choice, but I was very disappointed for several reasons.

First, most of the recipes do not seem practical for everyday living. Many of them have long cooking times and need perishable or unusual ingredients, and therefore need forward planning.

Second, I feel there is not enough information to enable the reader to make their own low GI recipes. There is GI table in the front, but over-simplified (for my tastes) into low, medium or high GI and not containing that many foods. Also, bread in particular may be low, medium or high GI depending on variety - again, I'd have liked more information.

Third, I felt many of the recipes were a bit of a cop-out. Meat and fish have zero GI, and a good few of the recipes are meat/fish with vegetables or salad, served with boiled new potatoes. I don't need new ways of cooking meat, I need ways to avoid boiled new potatoes with every meal. Also, almost all the deserts are based on stewed fruits.

All that having been said, I really liked the soup section, and there are a few useful and adaptable recipes in here. I particularly liked the idea of using pearl barley to make risotto. It's a good 'special occasions' book, or an addition to other GI books you may have; just don't try using it as a diet book unless you have a lot of spare time!

fantastic GI recipes, 30 Dec 2007
I was sceptical about Warrall-Thompson and GI since he seems to endorse everything and anything. But in fact the science bit explaining GI is by an expert and the recipes are by WT and tweaked by another expert to make them lower GI. The result is a set of recipes that are simply great. We have made about half of the recipes in the book and every single one has been delicious and we will make them again. Unlike some other cookery books, if you follow the instructions, the recipes just work. (The only criticism is that he doesn't always give a heat setting - do I fry the fish cakes at a high or medium heat?) Another reviewer mentioned that some take a while and that's true (but the fish pie really is worth it!) and some involve overnight marinades but the techniques are not difficult and the results are superb.

Don't be intimidated - these are easy!, 13 Feb 2007
I've had this book for a year and use it every week. The recipes are almost all accessible, delicious, and by no means as time-consuming as you might think. I've lost the half-stone I intended to, but have stuck with this new way of eating as I find it a pleasure.

Eventually a non-frustrating diet!, 24 Jul 2006
This book with stunning photography is nothing like a diet book. I really like it because all the recipes of the book are easy to prepare, delicious and there are recipes for breakfasts, dinners and even snacks! It is really easy to be on this diet as you are not frustrated, you can eat good food, and you don't have to eliminate any food groups.
The texts are very clear and helped me understand how the GI Diet works and what are its positive effects on my body.

GI and the South Beach Diet, 13 May 2006
I've been on the South Beach Diet for over a month now (and doing well I hasten to add) and brought this book to liven things up a bit.
The advice in here is bit different to the South Beach (which is based on GI food values) and explains how to combine low to high GI foods to maximise choices.
The recipes look simple enough (and delicous) and overall as a keen cook I am really pleased to find some recipes to suit my diet plan and hobby. There is now a new book out on the GL diet (boy do they like to confuse us) based on Glycaemic Load! I may try that next!!!!!!

Could be better, 11 Nov 2008
First of all the diet works a treat, i was very pleased with the results and found it easy. But i'm not reviewing the diet i'm reviewing the book. The book is great if you want to know the in's and out's of the science behind the Atkins theory. I personally thought even though it made sense it dragged on. I just wanted to get to the part were i started to lose weight. Eventually i came to about three pages in the book with lists of foods that were allowed on the Atkins diet.
To be honest i could have probably googled the information and not bothered with the book but it is nice to hear it from the doctors mouth.

It's like magic - but not for vegetarians, 15 Sep 2008
Be warned that if you are vegetarian, Dr Atkins says his diet would be too boring because you would have insufficient choice of protein foods. But if you're not, it's brilliant, and it really does reduce weight FAST with no hunger after the first few days. And despite what the scaremongers say, it *does* include green veg, and after the first fortnight it includes a wide range of veg and some fruit and is perfectly well balanced. Others have come along afterwards and you may find them presented in a way you like better: e.g. Nerys and India's Idiot Proof Diet is great and has a supportive forum pig2twig, which helps a lot. Or the Stone Age Diet. Atkins gives a lot of science information, and you may like that, or not. Many have read Atkins and worked out their own diet based on his theory: break your addiction to carbs and your insulin levels settle down and release you from hunger. And the weight drops off. And he also recommends you eat fresh food, not the processed stuff that is ruining the health of the western world. It's like magic, and you almost want to run about converting other fatties who are struggling with the establishment's insistence that we should all eat brown bread and potatoes to lose weight. But the research is starting to show that Atkins was right. And thousands of people will tell you it worked for them. He's The KING.

I'm thin now !, 15 Sep 2008
Good to get the background behind the idea.

Stick to it and you will be thin like me.

PS Exercise helps a lot too.

to the negative people...., 29 Aug 2008
I keep reading about negative stuff about the diet but do u not think to yourselves that for thousands of years man lived on meat and veg alone.They didn't have bread then and yet they survived.So are you saying that because we have all these luxuaries now, we have to eat them to be healthy? I think not!

Dangerous diet, 08 Aug 2008
I used this book to diet 4 years ago. I enjoyed the food but not the results. Yes, I lost weight but it appears to have left me with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I had no such problems before spending 4 months on this diet. Just be aware, it may not agree with everyone

Finally! A book for real families., 18 Nov 2008
I can't praise this book enough.

I have accumulated plenty of cook books over the years that have been slowly gathering dust, as the receipes in them just don't fit my busy family life.
This book is different. Here, you will find a no nonsense practical approach to cooking affordable nutritious meals for the family, as well as hits and tips on tempting fussy children without giving them junk food.

You will not find gourmet recipes to feed a dinner party.
You will not find long lists of ingredients and even longer lists of preparation details.
What you will find are recipes for tasty meals with a minimum of fuss, and simple ingredients that are readily available.

I could go on and on about this book. Just take my advice. If you are the cook in a family or feeling the pinch or just generally too pushed for time to bother cooking decent food, buy this book!

It seems to work!, 18 Nov 2008
A great book; it guides you through the week with shopping lists and menus without being overly prescriptive. I would recommend this book to any one that is attempting to work and feed a young family at the same time.

If you only buy one cook book - buy this one!, 17 Nov 2008
This book is a witty and entertaining read, as well as being a good cook book. The recipes are great. Every one I have tried has worked well and tasted delicious. I can't wait to try some more.

A much better book than Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which I bought at the same time.

EXCELLENT, 16 Nov 2008
If you only buy one cookery book this year, make it this one. Simple, clearly written, easy to follow recipies.

This book would make an excellent Christmas stocking filler present - but best of all are the end results - the meals are fantastic, and money saving too.

Well done.

Buy this Book!, 13 Nov 2008
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend. I am so glad I did. It is packed full of fabulous, easy to follow recipes that don't cost the earth to make, that will delight whoever you are feeding and are both easy to prepare and highly nutri