Hungry Girl – aka Lisa Lillien – loves french toast so much that she’s devoted an entire chapter in her new book to it. Yet somehow, she’s able to stay true to her healthy, low-calorie roots. According to The Los Angeles Times, her new page-turner is called Hungry Girl 1-2-3: The Easiest, Most Delicious, Guilt-Free Recipes on the Planet, a follow-up to her New York Times‘ bestseller Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200 (as in 200 recipes under 200 calories).
“You can use a lot of great ingredients that give you the decadent taste without all the calories,” said Lisa, whose daily email blasts reach over a million subscribers. The new book doesn’t limit itself only to 200-calorie dishes, but many do come in around that range. Fans will find lots of entrees and recipes with ease of cooking in mind: Crock-pot recipes, foil-pack recipes, microwave recipes and even no-cook recipes. There’s also an entire chapter dedicated to bagged broccoli slaw — it’s a mix of broccoli, cabbage and carrots — that Lillien uses as the base for several veggie-rich dishes. She also feeds it to her bunnies. “We go through a big bag of that each day; we all eat it.”
So what about the french toast? Light bread, low-fat waffles or low-calorie hot-dog buns take the place of more calorie-rich bread; add in some sugar-free syrup, light whipped butter, egg whites and you still have plenty of room to play, Lillien says. (The Super-Cheesy Ham-Stuffed French Toast is 256 calories per serving, yet still manages to include not one but two kinds of cheese.)
