Cook Yourself Thin

[MonkeyDishwasher]

SO has anybody seen this show or used the cookbook? I've made several of the recipes, and all I can do is rave about it!

Basically the idea is that you can have your favorite foods if you cook them a bit differently (by switching up some ingredients), and it shows you how to make meals with fewer calories, but without sacrificing the flavor. For instance a few of the meals I've made (and their calorie cutting secrets):

-Buffalo Chicken Salad (Makes your own Blue cheese dressing, and marinates the chicken in hot sauce mixed with brown sugar and apple cider then coats the chicken in panko crumbs and bakes it)
-Red velvet Cupcakes (Subs beets for butter, cutting fat and calories and adds more red)
-Chicken Parmesan with Zucchini "Pasta" (Cooks the chicken in a parmesan cheese and bread crumb coating, uses veggie peeled zucchini instead of carb-y spaghetti)
-Turkey Mini Meatloaves (Turkey instead of beef, and intentionally cuts down the serving size)
-Brownies with White Chocolate Chips and Raspberries (Subs butternut squash for butter, uses a LOT of cocoa powder and little flour)

Judging by the Lifetime boards for the show, there seem to have been a few dicrepencies from the on air versions of the recipes to the book, and even then a few recipes need a bit of tweaking (such as too short cooking time on the brownies, combined with too much squash).

So, has anybody tried it out? What have your experiences been with it? Personally, I'm very happy with every recipe I've made (except for 1). If you haven't, I'd look it up and give it a try! It's a fun way to look at food a bit differently and how to make it a bit healthier for yourself. If not for weight loss, for the sheer curiosity and novelty of it!