My New Cookbook!

I love cookbooks. I love looking at different recipes and if the book has pictures it's even better. I have many cookbooks...with many recipes I haven't tried. My husband makes fun of me, and rolls his eyes every time I bring home a new book.

This book is different.

This is a Taste of Home cookbook...they are the best. I think I have three and a magazine subscription that my mother-in-law gets me each year for my birthday. This Taste of Home is the Comfort Foods Diet book.

What makes this "diet" book different from all the others? First of all it uses real, everyday foods. I don't have to make everything with ground turkey rather than beef, and I don't have to use reduced fat cheese...two things that frankly I'm not willing to use in my cooking. Second it lists the calories/serving of each meal. So if I want to make Mexican Chicken and Rice I know that one serving of it is 300 calories...great tool! Third, it has all kinds of tools and helpful hints about losing weight. For someone like me, this book is ideal because it allows me to eat what I want and still have some basic tools to cut down on the intake of too much food.

I will be sharing some of the tools and recipes from time to time from my new cook book. To start off, I'll post the tip on portion size references...very useful!

3 oz. of beef, chicken of pork = deck of cards

1 serving of cold cereal = baseball

1 medium potato = tennis ball

3 oz. deli meet = 3 CDs

1 serving of cheese = Domino

1/4 cup grated cheese = golf ball

1 teaspoon butter or jam = finger tip

1 tablespoon peanut butter = your thumb

1 average bagel = hockey puck

1 serving of rice or pasta = cupcake wrapper

Enjoy!