ENDED…HGG Review & Giveaway – Now Eat This! Autographed Book by Rocco Dispirito

December 9, 2011 By pinkdandy

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Losing weight or maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be difficult, especially if you don’t have the tools you need. There are often times that I wish I were an expert when it comes to making sure my family and I are eating very healthy. Rocco Dispirito has a new guide called Now Eat This! 100 Quick Calorie Cuts At Home/On The Go. This book is filled with tips and tricks on how to make better choices when it comes to food. And, this book is typically $12.99, but, is on sale right now for only $9.98.

What I love about this book is that it isn’t a book that you have to sit down and read the entire thing to know what it is about. So, I would actually consider this book as more of a guide, than a book. You can flip through pages to find ways to cut calories while you are at home or out on the town. The one thing that I wish was in this book are some recipes. Two of my favorite at home calorie cutting tips that I recently learned from this guide is that you can make simple swaps to really save on calories.

Instead of eating popcorn that comes in a bag, I opt for making popcorn fresh in a popcorn bowl with loose kernels. Natural popcorn tastes great to me and I don’t feel bad about eating it natural vs the butter popcorn, which always gives me a tummy ache. I also learned to swap whole milk in my coffee for skim milk and leave out the sugar. I can put as much skim milk as I want, to make my coffee creamy, but, skipping on sugar should really save me in the long run.

ABOUT EAT THIS! (from their website):

In this clever flip-format book from bestselling author and star of Rocco’s Dinner Party on Bravo, Rocco DiSpirito shows you the simple changes you can make every day that will help you shed pounds– without sacrificing great-tasting meals. With 100 effective tips for cutting hundreds of calories from all your dishes, this indispensable guide is the key to successful weight loss. One side of this groundbreaking book shows you how to cut calories when cooking at home. Flip it over and the other side helps you stick to your weight-loss regimen when you’re eating on-the-go.
Filled with simple cooking tricks, incredible calorie-reducing secrets, and new meal plans and shopping lists, this handy guide will help you enjoy all the dishes you thought you could never eat again– pizza, fried chicken, waffles, pasta, cookies, and much more!

Bio
Celebrity chef and author Rocco DiSpirito combines his world-class cooking with a passion for empowering home cooks. The James Beard award-winning chef began his career in a Queen’s pizzeria at age 11. Graduating with honors from the Culinary Institute of America in 1997, Rocco opened the 3-star Union Pacific in New York City where he established his culinary credentials. He was named Food & Wine’s Best New Chef and–as the first chef to grace its cover–was called ‘America’s Most Exciting Young Chef’ by Gourmet. In 2003 he launched Rocco’s for NBC’s The Restaurant, and in 2004, he hosted Food Talk with Rocco on WOR 710AM. His new television series, Rocco Gets Real, launched on A&E this October, coinciding with the publication of its companion cookbook, Rocco Gets Real: Cook at Home Every Day. His cookbooks include Rocco’s Real-Life Recipes, Rocco’s Italian American, Rocco’s Five Minute Flavor, and his James Beard award-winning Flavor, which New York magazine summed up as, ‘Dare I whisper, genius?’ Rocco appears regularly on The Biggest Loser and Top Chef.

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