Title: Better Homes & Gardens Calorie Counter’s Cookbook
Author: Better Homes & Gardens magazine staff
Date: 1970
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
ISBN: none
Length: 96 pages
Illustrations: photos, some in color
Quote: “Good food, attractively prepared, is a boon to the calorie-conscious dieter.”
Some of the recipes in this book are good food. Still, this is a slick magazine’s production, designed to please corporate sponsors, so a lot of recipes call for pre-packaged foods. This is not the place to look for tips on reducing calories by learning to appreciate salads or sandwiches without the oil-and-vinegar glop.
Unlike some other Better Homes & Gardens collections, this one offers almost two whole pages of vegetarian “main dishes,” and lots of vegetable dishes, salads, and sandwiches that could be served as “main dishes” and aren’t made with meat. There’s also a dessert section, which consists mainly of ways to dress up poor-quality fruit if you don’t have any fruit that is sweet, juicy, and beautiful all by itself.
It’s also easy, in this collection, to find recipes that don’t use the common allergy-trigger foods (milk, egg, yeast, corn, wheat, soy, nuts).
This is a nice companion to the Family Circle cookbook reviewed here yesterday. Same historical era, same simplistic belief that reducing the calorie content of food would make everyone slim, fit, and full of energy. It won't, but reducing fat in the diet is a step in the right direction toward having the thyroid metabolic rate of a slim, fit, energetic person.
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