Quick and Easy 400-Calorie Recipes is filled with comfort food recipes reduced in both sodium and calories. Each recipe comes with full nutritional information. Unfortunately, there are no photos included.
I also question some of the directions. In More Like Your Mama’s Tuna Casserole, for example, putting cooked egg noodles in a slow cooker for 7-9 hours on low sounds like a recipe for disaster (or at least mushy and/or broken noodles).
On the other hand, some of these recipes are really innovative. Making mole sauce with a can of tomatoes and some spices is an awesome, and gluten free, idea! It also only takes twenty minutes to cook. Will it taste identical to old fashioned mole? Probably not, but close enough with almost no calories and little work is a win for me.
Quick and Easy 400-Calorie Recipes is rather hit and miss for me. I need photos to get my mouth watering. Still, it does have some ingenious ideas for reducing calories so 4 stars from me.
Thanks to New Shoe Press and NetGalley for a digital review copy of the book.