I don't follow the South Beach diet. However, as a vegetarian it's important for me to get in enough protein every day- woman can not live on brown rice alone- and I thought perhaps the recipes in this cookbook would provide a good base for high-protein dinners (meat substituted, of course) to add a little variety to my diet. And well, it seemed like a good plan at the time... but when I actually got the book, I realized there was no way these recipes would be in a favourites list anytime soon.

First of all, there is a certain amount of labour and random ingredient involved. This is a little inconvenient, but hey, if the food's good, it'll be worth the extra effort, right?

Right?

Well, the gathering was done and the food... was not great. It wasn't even really that good. It was fairly mediocre- bland, uninspired.

Save your money and invest in a good cookbook. Even if it's not diet specific, you should be able to modify any recipes into fitting the requirements for South Beach, and you'll get a better meal to boot.