Alli Cookbook

The recipes in this cookbook are very simple and easy to do. I’m taking the Alli diet pills to go along with the alli recipes. The pills work and the recipes

I was very surprised to see the other review for this book, but then I saw the line about the person NOT owning it. I preordered this book, and like the other reviewer, felt that the recipes would be the same...however, I forgot to cancel the preorder, so lo and behold, it arrived at my house in mid-December. This has become my FAVORITE diet cookbook! Unlike the South Beach Diet cookbooks, which contained laundry lists of ingredients and yielded usually unflavorful dishes, the Alli Cookbook contains (1) many, many more recipes than are found in the main book--250 pages of recipe text alone, (2) food for a large variety of tastes including vegetarian, (3) carefully thought out and easy to prepare dishes, (4) creative and interestingly seasoned dishes, and (5) dishes you would never think you would find in a diet cookbook. I am somewhat of a picky eater when it comes to "healthy foods" and I was still able to find dozens of recipes to suit my tastes. The bottom line is that this cookbook has helped me succeed on the Alli plan by adding needed variety and easy-to-cook dishes to my meal plan -- so much so, that even when I get busy and forget to take the pills for several days, I still lose weight and almost never feel deprived. I don't think I would be at the point in the diet with the recipes in the Alli Diet Plan book alone, and I credit this cookbook. (Since starting the diet in mid-November, I've lost 15 pounds, even with some cheating around the holidays, and I'm within 10 pounds of my overall goal.) If you want to enhance your chance for success on the Alli plan and want to enjoy some really flavorful dishes, you need to add this book to your Alli toolkit!

Great diet cookbook

I was slightly disappointed with this book. A few years ago I bought the book Cooking Thin with Kathleen Daelemans. Her book was amazing and full of interesting, unique, simple dishes. When I saw that she was one of the contributing chefs for the Alli cookbook, I bought it even though I'm not following the Alli plan. The recipes in this book seemed pretty much like the recipes you would get in any diet book. There was nothing I found too interesting.Another downside for the people who are actually following the Alli plan is that the nutrition facts included are for a complete meal, not just that recipe. For example, if you're cooking the chicken in red wine sauce, they recommend completing the meal with a medium baked potato, a tablespoon of low-fat sour cream, a cup and a half of mesclun salad with fat-free Italian dressing, swiss cheese, and slivered almonds. While I like that they include recommendations on how to finish the meal, they include all of those components in the nutrition facts. So you have no idea what the numbers are on just the chicken in red wine sauce.

Very few redeeming qualities. It has photos. Now for the bad qualities: 1) recipes do not make use of low calorie, high satiety foods 2) recipes are for several servings, even though the use-case is an individual, not a whole family 3) ingredients are not measured by grams 4) none of the recipes taste great so far, and I tried 4 recipes. 5) recipes use oils and sugars when they don't have to.Book should have had great ideas of how to best use 15g of fat in a recipe, but didn't deliver.

I have a copy and a friend saw this so I bought it for her as a gift and she loves it. At the end of the recipe it gives you ideas for sides.

Great book but some receipes you really need to tweak to make them fit your taste buds as some are a little tasteless. Over all an excellent book. There is a reference for eating out in the back. My only complaint is that it should be small enough to put in your pocket or purse.

Love this book, lots of great recipes and easy to find ingredients. Lots of Pictures in it. Just an overall great cookbook for low to no carb foods

Worth the money & shipment is on time

Bought this book as my Dr has prescribed me the tablets. Its got some interesting recipes, but I'll probably only be using a handful. As this is American, some ingredients are impossible to get hold of, and its difficult to know what to substitute.

there are some delicious recipes in this book, along with the Alli tablets I lost quite a bit of weight and inches with this