Disclosure: Â KLY was sent a copy of “The Perfect Portion Cookbook” for review.
Portion, portion, portion. Â Losing weight, maintaining your ideal weight, it’s all about portion size. Â Many people have found that deprivation or major changes in what they eat don’t work for them as well as controlling portion size. Â But it’s complicated to figure out what the right portion size looks like.
Anson Williams was in his local grocery store one day and saw 100 calorie portion snack packs – a “light-bulb” went off. Â How easy it is to control calories when everything is divided into 100 calorie sections, right?! Â If only there was a cookbook that would show you the size of a 100 calorie portion… now there is! Â As it says in the acknowledgements, this is a first-of-its-kind cookbook. Â A team of talented chefs, recipe writers, testers and nutritionists created a cookbook that not only has delicious recipes, but also accurate easy-to-measure 100 calorie portions. Â Smart!
The cookbook includes over a dozen recipe choices in each of the following categories with 150 recipes in total:
- Breakfast
- Soups, Salads & Sandwiches
- Casseroles & One-Pot Meals
- Everyday Meals
- Sides
- Entertaining
- Holiday Favorites
- Dressings, Sauces & Jams
- Desserts
In addition to the recipes, the cookbook includes:
- How to Use This Book
- Making a Meal Plan
- Calorie Goal-Planning Guide
- 7 Day Sample Menus
- 100 Calorie Portion Charts
- Smart Snacking
- Tipping the Scales
- How to Burn 100 Calories
The photographs are often as important as the words in a cookbook and “The Perfect Portion Cookbook” doesn’t disappoint with large, clear, mouth-watering photographs of the delicious foods. Â The recipes themselves are easy to read with ingredients in large, bold type and the directions are in numbered, short sections. Â The spacing makes the recipes readable at-a-glance and “helpful tips” add important, fun information. Â Most important to the unique nature of this cookbook, there are visual chart-type representations of the calorie portions that make it easy to understand how to find the right size for your plan. Â For example, the first recipe is for Quiche Lorraine and there is a large, clear pie chart on the recipe page showing that 100 calories would be 1/12 of the quiche. Â Also, included is the Recommended Serving, in this case for breakfast, 2 slices or 200 calories. Â Occasionally there is a two page spread that includes step-by-step photographs, walking the reader through the exact process of creating a dish.
I learned in the press release that “The Perfect Portion Cookbook” was co-written with New York Times best-selling cookbook author Bob Warden (QVC host) and food/nutrition expert Mona Dolgov. Â Anson Williams is the architect of the book and chief tasting officer.
Eat what you love, without guilt!
For more information:
The Perfect Portion Cookbook on Facebook
The Perfect Portion Cookbook Website
Twitter and Instagram: Â @100calportions