The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (In the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love

The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (In the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love
by Missy Chase Lapine

The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (In the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love
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Author: Missy Chase Lapine
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 0762433205
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Running Press

Book Reviews of The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (In the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love

Book Review: A winning strategy in the kitchen for more than just men
Summary: 5 Stars

First off, truth be told, I'm not a man at all. I just happen to be a very picky adult woman who can't stomach eating whole vegetables. Health issues spurred me to make some changes in my diet, namely to include more vegetables and fiber. This was a tall order for me, but I'd been hearing rave reviews for books like these and Jessica Seinfeld's "Deceptively Delicious" which make a point of including disguised vegetables pureed seamlessly into the foods I happen to love--which also tend, very often, to be incredibly bad for you. This was a strategy I could live with. If it worked, so much the better; if it didn't, at worst it would be a failed experiment in cooking (to add to my always-growing pile of such experiments).

I looked into the original Sneaky Chef, this book, and several others of the same type before settling on this "men's health" edition, not only because it addressed my own problems but also because I probably eat more of what Lapine calls "man food" than most men I know. The introduction, where she talks about the different emphases men and women place on food and the tastes, sights and textures that appeal to them, I swear could've been written about me.

This was what sold me on the book: though there seems to be little love lost between Lapine and the eating habits of what she calls the "typical man", she writes not without understanding. In fact, simply trying a few of the recipes proves that she does, in fact, have a consummate understanding of what makes foods delicious to men AND women as well as what would make them healthier. The blueberry muffins include no butter and are sweetened with only vanilla extract, cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar in addition to the blueberries, and are loaded with white beans, whole wheat flour, and oat bran, but amazingly, to eat these muffins is to make no sacrifice of flavor. They smell heavenly in the oven and taste just as good out of it. Ditto the Bolognese sauce: while it simmered, I couldn't stop tasting it while adding involuntary "mmm"s. One serving of the sauce over whole wheat pasta makes for a delicious, filling and healthy meal that will give you energy for hours. I've also tried the sesame noodles, pesto pizza and quick stovetop popcorn, all of which were astounding successes!

Lapine is batting a thousand in my book. Now I can feel good about the food I'm eating without feeling deprived by a "diet", and all these recipes have the convenient feature of broadening the taste horizons of the picky man in my own life, who's as committed as I am to changing our habits and living more healthfully. To give us more recipes for healthy treats, I've got the original Sneaky Chef on the way to my house. If the original is half as helpful as its sequel, we'll be pleased.

Bravo to Missy Chase Lapine! Your recipes have achieved what years' worth of my doctors and nutritionists, not to mention my parents, dismissed as a pipe dream: made me eat vegetables... and like them! This is a system that works for more than just the men in your life--it'll work for you too.

Summary of The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (In the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love

The Sneaky Chef now targets the other picky eater in the family! For parents of finicky eaters, The Sneaky Chef was the answer to their prayers, giving them solutions for hiding healthy food in the meals kids crave. Within a month of publication, it was a New York Times bestseller. But author Missy Chase Lapine knew another secret: the kids aren?t the only ones in the family not eating their veggies! Hundreds of women wrote to tell her how the men in their lives were consistently making poor choices when it came to their diet. Men know they should eat better, but the classic male perception is that fruits and veggies are “rabbit food? and don?t seem to satisfy their appetite. Now “The Sneaky Chef? has donned her apron again and developed delicious recipes that are sure to appeal to guys. Recipes include “Macho Meatballs,? “Love Me Tenderloin,? and “Champion Chili.? These hearty meals successfully cloak ingredients that specifically target men?s health issues: foods proven to help the heart, lower cholesterol, ensure a healthy prostate, and other concerns. Now everyone in the family (kids and adults alike) can benefit from The Sneaky Chef?s bag of tricks.

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