Eating well and losing weight have never been easier - or more delicious! This comprehensive Weight Watchers cookbook is packed with more than 500 fresh and flavorful recipes for every meal and virtually every occasion. With countless cooking tips, helpful how-to's, and sixty color photographs, Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook is the all-in-one kitchen resource you'll turn to again and again for grat iseas and inspiration.

Whether you're looking for a quick and easy weeknight dinner or something special to spice up a weekend brunch, you'll find a variety of recipes to choose from on every page. How about tasty Chicken Fajitas, smoky Roasted Broccoli with Cumin-Chipotle Butter, or rich Chocolate Fondue? With choices like these, ranging from classic comfort foods to zesty international dishes, boredom is never on the menu.

Throughout, Weight Watchers nutrition and cooking experts offer you simple, flexible ways to achieve your weight loss goals without giving up favorite foods. So get cooking today with Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook - and enjoy!

Here's what is inside:

• More than 500 healthy recipes, including Core Plan recipes and POINTS values for every recipe.
• Information on Weight Watchers popular Flex Plan
• A brand-new holiday baking chapter, with recipes from around the world
• Handy recipe icons (for Core Plan, 20 minutes or less, spicy, and 5 POINTS values or less)
• Complete nutrition information - including trans fats
• Valuable tips, how to's, substitutions, and leftover ideas
• And much more

Recipes are varied and cover the whole gamut: sauces; breads; soups; meat, chicken, fish, and vegetarian entrees; pasta; vegetable, grain, and potato side dishes; and, of course, desserts. The recipes are more healthful but not drastically different from foods you and your family enjoy now. Many are familiar comfort foods, such as Pizza, Oven "Fried" Chicken, Beef Stew, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Chocolate Layer Cake, and Cheesecake. Internationally inspired favorites include Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), Orange-Flavored Fajitas, Moo Shu Chicken, Tandoori Haddock, and Senegalese Peanut Soup. The nutritional breakdown for each recipe is more complete than in most cookbooks, and includes calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate, fiber, protein, calcium, and Weight Watchers' points. --Joan Price

Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.0

Rating - 3 Date: 2009-01-04
Content: I like this cookbook and use it often, but I find that the dinners are much better than the sweets and baked goods. I've tried several of the sweet recipes and they don't work out. For instance I just made the rice pudding and I had to add much more milk to keep it from burning, had to cook it for longer than required but the rice still came out a little hard. It's a strange recipe, you cook it on the stovetop and then bake it. The entrees I've tried have all come out very good.
Summary: A good cookbook for entrees

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-12-29
Content: "Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook", copywrite 1998, 2007 printing, is a good cookbook for Weight Watchers. However, it could have been great, with some more attention to detail.

I did Weight Watchers back in the early 1970s, when Weight Watchers was still a new organization. Back then, the diet was simple and strict. It was a low-fat Atkins type of diet. It was difficult to stay on the diet, as eating urges developed. Over the years, the Weight Watchers program has gotten more sophisticated and more complex. Currently, the program uses a 'points' system and has changed from a 'diet' to a way of life. Over the years I 'visited' the Weight Watchers program, again and again. The recipes have gotten better and more tasty, using herbs and spices for more flavor.

There are some problems with the cookbook. More photos and drawings of finished dishes are needed, so beginning cooks can aim for the best results. The format of the recipes causes difficulties, because it is not easy to spot the recipe 'points' or to assess serving sizes. The book does not have enough really simple recipes for beginning cooks. Perhaps it should have a beginner's section.

Quibbles aside, the dishes are good, healthful, and tasty.
Summary: good, could have been great

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-16
Content: The book was just as described and was delivered on time. I would definately order from this seller again.
Summary: Excellent

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-11-13
Content: This cookbook is great, actually anything from weight watchers is pretty good. I am not trying to lose weight, but my brother is and so my brother's girlfriend has been using these recipes. Honestly, they're absolutely delicious. Even without trying to lose weight I would go out of my way to come home for dinner to eat meals because the food is just that great.

I highly recommend buying this book the recipes are great, weight watchers tries to unsure that you get all the nutrients and vitamins you need to be healthy, and everyone in the family would eat it. definitely get this book!! you will love it!
Summary: GREAT FOOD

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-09-18
Content: I ordered this book in hopes I could find a few good recipes. Well, I love everyone I have tried so far, and so does the whole family. The recipes taste great and they are very good for you as well. I would recommend it to anyone, wheather your watching your weight or not!
Summary: Love It!