Richard Simmons Farewell to Fat Cookbook

I realize this cookbook is dated, but the recipes that I’ve tried have all been delicious and my family loves them. It’s a really great addition to anyone’s cookbook shelf!

This book is for my health and hopefully lose some fat off my body, I am going to be 70 years old and I feel great and now with, Richard Simmons Farewell To Fat, I can feel even better.

I have used this book for more than 20 years and these recipe's are very good and low calorie. Gumbo buffalo wings, philly steak, apple pie and other recipe's are awesome. I have a 27 year old daughter and she asked me to purchase this book again, so we could continueto enjoy the recipe's. My previous purchase was on QVC in the 90's and we have a 12 year old and she too enjoys these recipe's. Good food is good food no matter of the era. You will enjoy this book.

I'd like to start off by saying that I have lost 55 pounds (a lot on my 4'11" frame) with Richard Simmons and his Food Mover program. For me, he is the most reliable and trustworthy method of losing weight.I bought this cookbook for the Richard Simmons name, of course. I have had the opportunity to make the Mayflower Shepherds Pie (minus the beef + soy crumbles for my non-beef eating family). It came out great, and the entire family liked it a lot.The book offers a wide variety of recipes with a color photo for each one. The recipes are easy to follow anf each have it's own, individualized quirky name (followed by a story of why he chose the name). It keeps the book interesting in the way Food Network Magazine is more interesting than many of its counterparts... Individualized stories and fun facts.Each recipe is given an amount of portions but unfortunately doesnt give a portion amount which is kind of inconvenient (I would rather be told that 1 cup of mac n cheese is equal to one portion rather than "this recipe yields six portions). I also find some of the portions way too big for my Food Mover plan (one pound of salmon = 16oz... divided by four portions.. that's 4oz of fish in one meal... my entire protein allotment for an entire day on Food Mover!)Regardless of its shortcomings, I do believe this book is worth having in your collection.

This is an older cookbook. I purchased it hoping to find a recipe that was originally printed in his magazine. (It's his recipe for apricot chicken, if anyone has it to share.) It is the best apricot chicken recipe I've ever used.) However, the recipe is not in this book. Otherwise, the recipes and ways to modify to reduce fat and calories are well-known now, so I don't need this book.

I had the deal a meal set years ago and really liked the meals and recipes, I was really excited when someone told me about this cook book. It has all my favorite recipes in it. My adult son has even used it quite a bit. He loves the macaroni and bacon recipe!

Always good to find recipes both tasty and easy on weight gain. If I had known exactly what this book is before I bought it, I would buy it again. Not a lot of recipes, but good ones.

Nice cookbook. I am not a cook this book benefit me because everything is measured out makes it real easy for me.

I bought a used book. It arrived quickly. It was in very good condition. Was like new. The book itself is nice. Each page has a photo of each recipe. The recipes are easy to follow. I haven't cooked anything from the book yet, but I am experienced cook and I can find some interesting recipes that I'd like to try. However, I don't find the recipes to be particularity "fat free" or "calorie reduced". A person using this cook book still needs to use common sense and portion control. The recipes seem like "normal" recipes with reduced fat cheese, reduced fat mayo, etc. For instance "Philadelphia Cheese Steak Sandwich". It has 583 calories per serving. Crab Cakes have 129 calories per serving, which is 1 crab cake. It hardly seems worth all the trouble to make the crab cakes and then just be able to eat 1. I think it has some nice recipe ideas, but you may need to do some of your own figuring out as to how to apply them to your own daily intake.