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Title: Play Your Carbs Right!...With The Brennans by Theodore M. Brennan, Ellen C. Brennan ISBN: 0-9663519-3-2 Publisher: Shamrock Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: BEST DIET EVER
Comment: This is the BEST DIET EVER! It is better than Atkins and the "new" South Beach Diet. Play Your Carbs Right!...With The Brennans is so easy to follow. I lost 20 pounds in only 9 weeks by eating delicious food and following delicious recipes. Plus, even when I cheated, the diet wasn't ruined - I just had to account for it. Truly, this is a realistic way to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle!
Rating: 5
Summary: An Easy-to-Understand Diet Book with Wonderful Recipes
Comment: Finally, an easy-to-understand diet book with many wonderful recipes! The Brennans' PLAY YOUR CARBS RIGHT! has given me new incentive to continue the low carb plan and I have been successful. While the review by Ms. Terry recommends the book, her criticisms are misleading. First, this book IS a diet book with a formula for weight loss, not merely a cookbook. The book explains in simple terms how to change one's eating habits for a healthier life. Happily, it contains many creative recipes, too. Second, Splenda (which Ms.Terry prefers)contains maltodextrin, which(as bad as sugar)is indeed too high on the glycemic list for diabetics. The Brennans know what they are writing about. Three, I've been using PLAY YOUR CARBS RIGHT! for several weeks and, while not a gourmet cook, I have not had any problems understanding the recipes. I refer readers to Top 500 Reviewer, Ms. Mellot's assessment of the book, which is much more comprehensive and on target.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good book could have been excellent
Comment: As a big fan and visitor of New Orleans, I jumped for joy when I saw the Brennans had written a low carb cookbook. About 80% of the recipes in this book are sure-fire successes -- they're easy to make, bursting with restaurant quality flavor, and most are quite low in carbs. I'd have to even say this is the best of the four low carb cookbooks I own. But here are my problems with the book:
1. All the desserts use Sweet and Low, not Splenda. A dessert made with Sweet and Low is more like a punishment than a treat -- sorry, Brennans.
2. A good editor could have made the book so much better by eliminating phrases like "bake until soft" by replacing it with "bake for ____ minutes." There are lots of little sloppy lapses like this throughout the book. There are also recipes where ingredients will be mentioned in the steps of the recipe that aren't listed in the ingredient list -- so you have no idea how much to use or even if it's a typo.
3. The Brennans are not health professionals and should really spare the diet advice and just give us more recipes. Anybody cooking with this book has undoubtedly done his or her homework on the low carb lifestyle and doesn't need a couple of gourmands instructing them on how to eat to be healthy.
I wish the Brennans would put out a second edition of this book and fix the errors in it. It has the potential to be a superb book! I do recommend it now -- heartily -- but think it could be so much better than it is.
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