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We often view food and weight loss as opposing enemies waging a battle for our bodies. But the right foods are actually your best allies in the quest for a slimmer and healthier you. Here are 5 tips for making food your friend as you pursue your goal of a healthy and permanent weight loss: 1. Eat protein. A great food friend, protein keeps hunger away longer than fats and carbohydrates can. It also helps burn fat and maintain muscle mass. Lean meat, beans and legumes offer an endless variety of creative and healthy recipe ideas. For snacks, think low fat cheeses, nuts and yogurt. But beware: many yogurts have surprisingly high sugar content. Choose a low fat or non-fat version, and then add your own fruit or granola. 2. Spoon in some spice. Spices not only enhance your food’s natural flavor, they also activate your taste buds. This makes each bite more satisfying, so you’ll actually eat less. When your sweet tooth acts up, try a piece of red-hot candy instead of your typical treat. Your taste buds will love the sugar and spice, and your body will love the low calorie count. 3. Drink water. Besides its many well-known health benefits, water can also satisfy your appetite–or what you may think is your appetite. Your hungry feeling might really be thirst. Enjoy a refreshing glass of ice cold water before you start swallowing snacks, and you may not need those. Try a flavored carbonated water or something piping hot and herbal, if plain water isn’t your cup of tea. 4. Switch and swap. If you absolutely love tortilla chips, banishing them entirely feels miserable, and usually fails. Shop around for a healthier substitute, such as a no-added-salt variety, or a veggie version. You may discover you enjoy the new taste even more. At meals, serve yourself a little more vegetables and a little less carbs. By merely eating more salad and less bread and pasta, you can swap out an entire dress or pants size in a single year. Think about it . . . 5. Enjoy your favorites – wisely. For some of our favorite foods (read: dessert), there is no substitute. So enjoy them, but be smart. Buy the smaller ice cream, and only one, even though they’re on sale and the larger one is more cost effective. When you have a hankering for fresh baked brownies, make a pan of them on a weeknight. Indulge in one or two, then cut up the rest, wrap them on a nice plate, and take them to work the next morning. Your colleagues will certainly make sure you don’t eat them all yourself. The right foods are essential for good health. They’re also your best allies for achieving healthy and permanent weight loss. By partnering wisely with food rather than fighting against it, you’ll make steady strides toward achieving and maintaining your weight loss goal. Along the way, you’ll discover that food is your friend.
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Fast Weeknight Favorites (Hardcover) $18.01 Presents two hundred tasty, easy-to-follow recipes for weeknight meals that can be prepared in thirty minutes or less, all organized by main ingredient and including fast skillet dinners, grilled dishes, speedy stir-fries, and slow-cooked, one-pot favo…

Cooking Light the Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook (Hardcover) $19.57 Culls favorite entries from the popular magazine column to present a volume of weeknight recipes that focuses on flavor and nutrition, in a lavishly photographed and accessible collection that is complemented by menus and nutritional information.

Semi-Homemade Fast Fix Family Favorites (Paperback) $13.43 Bringing together ready-made and prepared foods with homemade and fresh products, the author of Semi-Homemade Cooking presents more than three hundred quick-and-easy dishes for the entire family, covering 20-Minute Weeknight Meals, One-Dish Won…

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Weight Watchers All-Time Favorites $22.48 This full-color cookbook is an exciting collection of the best recipes ever developed by the experts at Weight Watchers—225 tempting dishes never before presented in book form. If you’re a fan of the Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook but are looking even more recipe choices, this new Weight Watchers collection will be an irresistible new kitchen companion. It’s packed with recipes that you’ll love, whether you’re cooking for a weeknight family supper, a casual backyard get-together with neighbors, or a festive gathering with friends.

Weeknight Grilling with the BBQ Queens $6.98 With 100 easy, versatile, absolutely delicious recipes for weeknight dinners on the grill, this book is a life-saver for busy cooks looking for delicious, stress-free meals during the week. All the recipes are included on a two-page spread for maximum convenience, the ingredients called for are either readily available in grocery stores or already sitting in the pantry, and most can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. The BBQ Queens explain a variety of grilling techniques, such as skewering and stir-grilling; offer Time-Saving Tiara Touches providing shortcuts and other ways to streamline dinner prep; suggest side dishes to round out a complete meal; and include recipes for turning grilled leftovers into wonderful new dishes.

Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals $22.48 Heeding the pleas of modern multitasking home cooks, Television Food Network’s Sara Moulton returns with 200 delicious and quick main dishes, sides, and desserts for busy workweek dinners.As the host of Cooking Live and Sara’s Secrets, the food editor of Good Morning America, and the bestselling author of Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, Sara Moulton is one of this country’s most popular and accessible celebrity chefs. It was while touring the U.S. promoting her first book, in fact, that Sara’s fans begged her for fast, tasty, and wholesome weeknight entrees. She realized that she, too, had a need for those kinds of dishes, which was all her busy schedule would allow. In writing this book, Sara rethought dinner itself, so that mealtimes no longer featured the same predictable recipes. Instead she offers “breakfast for dinner” or hearty soups or sandwiches. The result is a cookbook filled with easy and popular ethnic dishes to spice up the repertoire, her own versions of American classics, dishes to whip up from pantry staples as well as supermarket salad bar and deli items, and slow-cooking recipes for leisurely weekends.With recipes that will satisfy taste buds as well as time constraints, Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals covers the spectrum from entree salads (Thai-style Steak Salad with Spicy Mint Dressing), substantial sandwiches (Scampi Heroes), hearty soups for supper (Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Chorizo and Greens), breakfast foods for dinner (Potato Pancakes with Smoked Salmon and Fried Eggs), pasta (Quick Asparagus Lasagna), seafood (Steamed Mussels in Curried Coconut Broth), vegetable plates (Exotic Mushroom Pot Pie), meat dishes (Meatloaf Burgers), double-duty dishes (leftover rice in Cheatin’ Jambalaya), weekend dishes to cook ahead (Slow-cooked Chinese Spareribs), recipes that either can be put together in no time with prepared supermarket ingredients (Crispy Polenta Slices with Gorgonzola and Leeks) or from a well-stocked pantry (Linguine with White Bean, Sun-dried Tomato, and Olive Sauce), to delectable desserts (Chocolate Bread Pudding, Gingerbread Pancakes with Butterscotch Apples, Nectarine and Plum Upside-down Cake). Recipes include hands-on cooking time and total cooking time as well as suggestions for side-dish pairings. Twenty-four beautiful color photos, warm and friendly headnotes, and lots of Sara’s tips and shortcuts (including advice on stocking a pantry, basic recipes, simple sides, quick sauces, and mail-order sources) make this another cookbook for Sara’s fans to cherish.

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