I have a really, really too-big collection of cookbooks, especially diet cookbooks. I’ll admit, most of my cookbooks are “diet” cookbooks (how boring am I? I mean, really). Even if I don’t particularly follow any specific diet, such as the South Beach Diet, I DO enjoy buying the cookbooks if the recipes look healthy and tasty. I was drawn to this one because it was on sale--fortunately the South Beach brand of cookbooks are easily available for reasonably prices. This one has some great entrees (the Asian-style dishes are all amazing!), but my main gripe is that the recipe lists are a bit on the long side. I have a tiny kitchen and I rarely keep a large list of ingredients on hand, so I wouldn’t recommend this to people who want quick and easy meals with a small list of ingredients (one great one I found that uses smaller lists of ingredients is Hungry Girl’s new cookbook).

This is a decent cookbook for all standard SB dieters, as well as those trying to watch their weight in general, though it’s more of a every-now-and-then cookbook for me and my small kitchen.