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Eating Well - 500 Calorie Dinners - Easy, Delicious Recipes and Menus
by Jessie Price, Nicci Micco and the Eating Well Test Kitchen
The Countryman Press
ISBN 978-0-88150-846-8
Published January 2010 - Hardcover - 224 pages - $24.95

Five-hundred-calorie dinners?  That doesn't sound as though you'd get much more than a salad for supper.  In the Foreword, Brian Wansink, Ph.D. and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, and director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab among other things, says the recipe developers and registered dieticians at Eating Well "give us heart-and-tummy-warming recipes with less grease, fewer calories and even less salt than do other contemporary cookbooks".  To me that sounds like exactly what we need to do in order to lose weight and eat healthily.  I liked this gauge: to lose 1 pound a week, cut 500 calories a day; to lose 2 pounds a week, cut 1,000 calories a day.  Your calorie goal is your current weight x 12 = calories a day needed to maintain your current weight.  The Contents in this book covers Appetizers; Soups & Salads; Vegetarian; Poultry; Fish & Seafood; Meat; Sides, and Desserts.  There is a lot of pertinent information to zip through so that you become aware of nutrition as well as calories.  You can also mix and match the meals to suit your mood and cravings.  I liked the visuals on pages 18 and 19 on what a 1,500 calorie day looks like.  Some of the recipes that appealed to me, and didn't sound like diet food, include: Sherried Mushrooms (49 cal); Creamy Spinach (53 cal); Skillet Gnocchi with Chard and White Beans (327 cal); Moo Shu Vegetables (171 cal); Mozzarella-Stuffed Turkey Burgers (300 cal); Beef & Bean Chile Verde (309 cal); Maple-Roasted Sweet Potatoes (96 cal) and Hot Fudge Pudding Cake (142 cal).  There is so much to learn from this book that it should be given to anyone with a kitchen!  We all have to eat to stay alive, so why not eat properly and give our bodies a fighting chance!
Nutritional guides and nutritional icons are given.  Beautiful illustrations.
Conclusion - Delicious-sounding recipes which will hopefully do the trick and help you lose weight.  One of the most appetizing "diet" books I've seen.