Skinny Bitch in the Kitch KickAss Recipes for

get it at the library
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
All I can say is YUK! to the language and recipes.

Gret for people who enjoy such stuff.

No meat, no dairy, of course you can stay thin!
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Just wanted to let other potential buyers know that this book is a vegan cookbook, no meat, no fish, no chicken and no dairy here girls, lots of tofu, soya and rice milk. Was really disappointed when I got this book – thought that the recipes were vegan/vegetarian as well as others …

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This cookbook is only okay. Lots of the ingredients are hard to find or very unusual. My biggest complaint is no nutrition information – fat, calories, etc. I will probably never use the book because of that fact. The Skinny Bitch regular book was hilarious, engaging and very enlightening. I really enjoyed that book. The cookbook was a dud. Maybe the authors will read this review and add nutritional stats to a website, or pdf file that could be downloaded by cookbook owners?

excellent
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
If you want to start questioning what the nation’s advertisers are trying to feed you, then please check this out. Our TVs are saturated with ads for unhealthy foods – hamburgers, soda, fries, you name it, and there’s a billion dollars going into trying to fool you into eating that stuff. The consequences? Record high rates of obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. The chapters about the vegan lifetsyle are great- and it’s exactly what the country needs to hear. All of the current major public health issues, from heart disease to diabetes, find their source in an unhealthy, meat-and-sugar-centered diet. By giving up meat alone, you already cut down your risk of heart disease by 15% – just imagine the number of lives that we could save, of humans and other animals too, by making that simple and easy transition. For vegans, heart disease is virtually nonexistant compared to the nonvegetarian statistics. I knew of this before I read the book and took a look at it after I became vegan, while wandering around in the medical campus bookstore. That in itself should testify to the accuracy of this book’s reccomendations, and how badly we need to hear it.

For the sake of your health, check it out

waste of money
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I just got this book. I preordered it without seeing it first since I had already read “Skinny Bitches”. Big mistake. Had I seen the recipes I wouldn’t have purchased it. Most people could have figured out these “recipes” without this book. How to make a reuben-used vegan deli meat, want to make a hamburger-use a vegan burger, vegan cheese and vegan bun. I would say that about 85-90% of the recipes consist of a typical meat dish with a vegan meat replacement product. I was hoping for some more alternative recipes. In their book they talk a good talk about eating natural and healthy and here the recipes are mostly proccessed food (vegan cheeses, vegan meat products). I like a good veggie burger or fake chicken breast but not all the time. There are a few recipes with tofu, TVP and seitan,and a couple of lentil recipes. There were maybe two or three recipes that I would try. Spend your money on a real cookbook.

sorrowful address to women
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Not having read this book at all, I am not commmenting on the contents. I am commenting on the title. I find it disappointing that the author’s find it necessary to sell books by the use of such derogatory terms for women. We complain about rap music lyrics that are misogynistic, but then we turn around and find no problem with this title and it’s continued use throughout the cookbook.

And no, I am not an old lady or some ancient fossil. I celebrate the beauty of women as we have been given by God, and I find the title, and the need to use it so pathetically in this venue, a sad statement of what we claim to value in this country.

We can’t have it both ways, people. Double standards don’t work. Peace!

Addendum: I finally perused through this book while at the store. Not only do I deeply defend my initial opinion/review, I also wish to add that the vulgarity used within this book shows an anger and resentment coming from within its author/s. It is not a book written by one who is at peace either with themselves or the world. I wish I could be kinder with my words but there is no other way of describing the contents. Heavy sigh. May peace truly be within all our hearts.

Skinny Bitch
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Ok. First of all you really need to read “skinny bitch” in addition to buying this recipe book so you can understand what is happening in the world of food meets politics meets major health problems. That way you can infect the people you love with your knowledge and bring to light many important reasons why to become a vegetarian.

This recipe book is great because after you decide not to eat Ms. Piggy anymore you can learn how to cook with veggies and other organic meatless foods. This cookbook is easy to follow and has easy find to ingredients, and won’t keep you slaving over a hot stove for hours.

obvious “recipes”, nothing creative
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I’m a supporter of the “Skinny Bitch” lifestyle (vegan, sugar-free, etc.) and eat a strict vegan diet myself, free of all things fake and processed. So I expected to enjoy this “cookbook”. It’s really worthless though. The “recipes” are for things like a ham and swiss sandwich, instructing you to just make the sandwich with vegan ham and vegan swiss. That’s so NOT helpful. Anyone can make basic foods by replacing ingredients with vegan versions (usually terribly processed). If you want a real cookbook with real recipes (instead of an insult to your intelligence), you’ll have to look elsewhere.

Old recipes with new twists
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Well, I thought the recipes were fabulous, because I actually have *tried* the recipes. Yes, at first look at the titles, you’ll think, ‘oh jeez, I’ve made that a million times before as a vegetarian/vegan’. But they introduce lots of herbs and ingredients to regular vegetarian fare that makes you enjoy the flavor and want to continue to eat healthy, not just settling for vegan food for the vegan-ness of it. Last night I made the “beef” stew — the one with the red wine and fresh rosemary. It was deeee-lish. I had to add a couple tablespoonds of dried thyme and you must cover while you simmer, but the recipe is very hearty and scrumptuous. I’ve also tried the caesar dressing, the one with the silken tofu, and it is very, very good. Enjoy!

So/So and Not that Healthy
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I really loved Skinny Bitch, so I was a little disapointed with this book. The recipes are yummy, but they’re not all that healthy. Just because you replace the meat, milk or cheese in a recipe with vegan meat, milk or cheese does not make it healthy. I am a vegan and am now shopping for a new cookbook because this one isn’t cutting it for me. Most of the recipes are heavy on oil, soy and grains which don’t do much for you if you’re not getting your leafy green nutrients and can actually be filled with fat and calories. That said, if you are just beginning veganism, this may be the book for you. The recipes are really fun, and can show you that food doesn’t need animal products to be tasty. There are tons of other products out there that make really yummy food and a lot of the recipes in this book are actually better than the meat or cheese versions. Also, the recipes are really easy, so you can master them quickly. The linguini with pine nuts and sun-dried tomatoes is fabulous! I wish I had purchased this book when I first converted to veganism because it would have made things a lot easier and I probably wouldn’t have ended up quitting and starting all over again so many times. I’ve been a vegan for a while now though, and my body now craves healthier, lighter meals.

Not what I had hoped
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
While I loved “Skinny Bitch” and completely agree with its philosophy, the recipie book has few recipies, and many of them are for snacks. Plus, they don’t give a lot of advice on where to find the products.

Not very useful cookbook
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This follow-up recipe book to Skinny Bitch kind of contradicts many of the things they talk about in the original book. Even though they say processed food is bad in the main book, this recipe book is filled with recipes calling for fake cheese and meat substitutes left and right. It’s almost like they took a regular cookbook and anywhere that called for chicken, they said to use “fake chicken substitute” and anywhere that called for cheese they said to use “fake cheese substitute” and anywhere that called for ground beef they said to use “fake beef crumbles” and voila, a vegan cookbook.

They also go on and on and on about how healthy coconut oil is and they use tons of it for everything. Last i checked, the verdict wasn’t out yet on whether coconut oil was healthy or not, but one thing is certain and that’s that it does contain a lot of saturated fat, and although research is starting to show that *maybe* the link between saturated fat and heart disease isn’t as strong as they once thought, it’s a little bit too soon to start saying “slather all your food in coconut oil because it’s so super healthy.”

This book doesn’t bother me as much as the original, but it just seems like there’s not much point to it. I didn’t see a lot of whole food recipes despite the fact that the original book talks about how we should concentrate on eating whole foods. You would be better off getting either of these vegan cookbooks if you want interesting vegan food: Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook or Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock. If you want a cookbook that really focuses on whole foods try: Super Natural Cooking: Five Delicious Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Foods into Your Cooking.

Partial Review
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I can’t give a full review because I didn’t actually read the book. I bought this book as a gift for my sister and what I heard from her is that it’s really interesting but she was a little disappointed that most of the recipes are vegetarian. So, I think the book is a good choice if you are a vegetarian or don’t mind a lot of meatless recipes but if you are like my sister and use a lot of chicken and beef in cooking, you might want to get a different book.

EXCELLENT!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I LOVE THE RECIPES IN THIS BOOK AND HAVE TRIED QUITE A FEW ALREADY, THEY ARE DELICIOUS!!! I HAVE TO SAY I HAVE CONVERTED TO VEGANISM EASILY!

Finally a cookbook of normal food for vegans!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Does lasagna, potatoes au gratin, or a brownie sound good? I thought so!

This cookbook has includes a wide range of foods that are fantastic every-day choices. Another plus is that most of the ingredients are repetitive so you can stock your pantry and have some pretty versitile menu options.

Below are the sections:

Breakfasts

PMS Snacks

Appetizers

Soups & Stews

Salads

Sandwiches

International

Italian

Down Home Cookin’

Staple Meals

Dressings, Sauces & Substitutes

Happy Endings (Desserts)

A particularly helpful part of this book is the glossary which defines/describes most of the foods/ingredients that would not be commonly known.

This book has less raunchy language than the other Skinny Bitch book and I think they got it right with this one.

Highly recommend!

great for a new vegan
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’m a new vegan who’s been cooking conventionally for over 40 years and needed help. I’m a good cook but I needed ideas and inspiration to make meals for my family every night without using meat. In the 4 weeks I’ve been a vegan I have made many of the recipes in this book and they’ve gone over great with my husband (and with me). They were easy, not too time consuming and helped me be a vegan without serving couscous and portabello mushrooms every single night. The only fake meat or fake cheese I’ve purchased has been Boca burgers and some “ground not-beef” crumbles. I’ve stuck with the recipes based on veggies and it’s gone great. I also bought Veganomicon and as a new Vegan I’ve used many more of the recipes from this book (SB in the Kitch), although over time I’ll likely incorporate more complicated recipes. In addition, I have been able to make every recipe with items from Price Chopper and Stop n Shop.

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book has great recepies for going vegan in a fun & delicious manner! My Husband’s fav dish, Mac & Cheese, passed his high standards as being as good as the original, and, he said if I wasn’t there watching him, he would have gone for thirds! Go vegan, it’s good for your body, good for the planet, and for the critters too! Laurel

Better for basics/begginers
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
To start with, this cookbook is based on a vegan diet.

Am I a vegan? No, I’m not even a vegetarian, and I don’t intend on becoming either in the near future. However, I still feel that this book had some worth too it. Yes, the recipes are very basic in it, and most show you how to replace certain foods with other vegan food, which honestly, I would have no idea how to do as I have not had much experience in the kitchen, never mind that of a vegan diet which I have never followed. But, I am not totally clueless either when it comes to cooking, and I realize that this book will not be of much help to those looking for something a bit more advanced or innovative.

Honestly, this book really made me want to try some vegan food, and that is mainly what the authors want the reader to do. I give this book four stars for that reason. The only reason why I don’t give it five is because it wasn’t the most outstanding cookbook I’ve seen in terms of being challenging and such, but is still good enough to get one started with the basics.

These Bitches Rock! Life changing!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have read many books on health and nutrition, most take me quite a while to read because I have a tendency to get bored easily. Not with these girls! They talk like they are your best friend, and trust me, only true friends have the gall to say things like that to you. They are for me, right on target with their theories and this cookbook shows you how easy and fun this lifestyle really can be! if you haven’t read it yet, read Skinny Bitch!

recipies for the rest of us
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book is full of yummy recipies. When eaten in recommended quantities, these foods will not add any inches to your waist-line, but still manage to be tasty and fill you up.

Good but not great
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Some good recipes but too much reliance on fake “meat” and “cheese”—not enough on beans, nuts, grains.

Impractical, unappetizing food.
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The recipes are impractical and unappetizing and the tone of the writing is indeed bitchy and unpleasant.

Another fad diet book, with an extra helping of hate and anger!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This book is full of non-facts, psudeo-science and outright lies. It’s is just another fad diet book, where just like any other of these bad advice books- you can lose a few pounds then gain it all back.

It has a hidden vegan agenda- nothing wrong with being vegan mind you, but why not be honest about it?

Advices goes from the “of course, heard it a thousand times” to completely wacky.

Most of the recipes are about as nutritionally balanced and tasty as eating the book itself.

And, to top it off there’s a undercurrent and subtext of hateful anger in this series of books.

Why oh why did I not read the reviews?!
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I basically bought this book mainly based on the title/cover/back cover. What a stupid move. My bad. I just wish I had read reviews or had someone scream at me: THIS BOOK IS 100% VEGAN!!! Or at least put it on the cover or back cover. Even given that, I found more negatives. There are no caloric or nutritional facts presented. There are no pictures of any of the dishes…I guess they realize tofu just doesn’t look appetizing to most of us. Pretty much every single recipe calls for coconut oil, onion, and garlic–what if you don’t like the taste of using coconut oil?! What if you don’t like smelling like onions/garlic every day? Also, being called a bitch continuously got old, as well as the cheeky use of various curse words, including the “F” word, throughout. Yes, I am a “hungry girl who wants to stop cooking crap and start looking hot,” but not doing so by scrapping all the foods I enjoy and substituting tofu and tree bark.

Not all meat is bad for you. Be careful ladies.
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I have read the book. I am a man that was asked to read this. I find it very PETAish. I like a good cut of beef. I will tell you this. I have a friend that works for Dept of Agriculture. He is a scientist that has studied and even wrote his term paper on the subject of organic chemicals in beef. Did you get that, all chemicals are ORGANIC. All beef is good at moderate levels. Where do you get healthy protien from? We need protein. When you cook the beef properly, it burns off the organic chemicals, it was designed that way. You people think that being a vegan is so much better. Um, most world class athletes are not vegans. Why? Moderation!!! I eat meat along with my veggies and fruits. My last physical my doctor said I was quite healthy and should live a long time. You ladies need to be wise. My friend tried to convert me to veganism. It’s not going to work. As an ex athlete myself, I know the beef, chicken and a soda will not kill me. Don’t be sucked into this “Fad” diet thing just because it was written by women. I knew that the Atkins diet was a fad too. I didn’t get sucked into that either, although I knew a lot of people that did. I guess it’s true, there is one born every minute. Being a vegan has been proven to make you live any heathier or longer. If these women hate people that eat meat, then just come out and say it. Using scare tactics with seems to be one sided is irrespondsible. By the way, I will end with this, I am Italian, my family has been dining with “Satan” according to this book. My grangmother is 96 years old. My grandfather was 82. My great grand paents lived to be in their late 80’s. My mom and dad are still alive, mom is 72. Dad is 71. My dad still walks the golf course with me, all eighteen holes. I will tell you they work out 3 times a week, hmmm. Think that might be why they’re healthy. No food alone makes you healthy. Exercise and diet. Ladies, don’t fall for this, these authors are probably members of PETA just pushing an agenda and don’t really care about your health.

Great for vegans and non-vegans alike!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
First let me say that some of the other reviewers aren’t exactly fair. This is a vegan cookbook. It’s not fair to use this review space to share opinions about the entire vegan lifestyle. You knew it was a vegan cookbook, so don’t complain that none of the recipes call for meat or that you think not eating meat is unhealthy.

That being said, I think this is a great cookbook for vegans and non-vegans. There is a consistent use of faux meats and cheeses, so if you are not comfortable with that, this is not the cookbook for you. Yes, some of the recipes are simple, but it seems like the book is also about inspiring vegan cooking ideas rather than just recipes for complicated dishes. This is really great for new vegans or new cooks. It’s also great for non-vegans who want healthier alternatives to their favorite meat and cheese meals, but are not sure where to start. However, the recipes are not lost on more advanced cooks or vegans because some of the dishes (most of the soups and appetizers) can become very complicated.

Some of my favorite recipes are:

Cream of Broccoli Soup

Macaroni and Cheese

Meatloaf

Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Corn Bread Muffins

Basic Fruit and Nut Muffins

Fruit Crisp

Stuffed Mushrooms

Potato Skins

I can basically survive very happily on these meals and I feel as if they are decadent. I am a vegan who has struggled to give up dairy products and these recipes don’t make me feel like I’m giving up anything. My parents, whom have high cholesterol, also greatly enjoy the recipes and my mother’s cholesterol has gone down 30 points. Finally, my fiancé, who REFUSES to even look at a meal without meat, loves everything I make from this book and now says I’m the best cook he knows. He especially likes the casseroles and the mashed potatoes.

Good
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I like this cookbook. its straight forward and easy to make things. Some include ingredients that you may have to buy (coconut oil etc) but all in all, its god a lot of good ideas.

One thing that i didnt like was that there is no nutritional information for the recipes, which i really pay attention to.

NOT IMPRESSED
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
THERE WAS TO MUCH SWEARING, I’M NOT A PRUDE BUT THIS KIND OF LANGUAGE WAS UNCALLED FOR TO GET THEIR POINT ACROSS. I WON’T BUY ANYMORE OF THEIR BOOKS. THEY HAVE A NEGATIVE APPROACH, I WASN’T IMPRESSED AT ALL!

somewhat complicated recipes
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The recipes in the book require alot of vegan ingredients that are hard to find, have to go to natural food store for most things.

Fun, Sassy, and Educational!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I definitely enjoyed this book. It’s fast paced, witty, and refreshing with the acerbic sense of humor in which it was written and the honesty as well. It was a shocking read, I was expecting a “love yourself and starve” diet book but the fact is that itpresents the realities of what we are putting into our body and what kind of damage we do to ourselves. It was both entertaining and startling to read honestly. I haven’t looked at food the same way since and my family is slowly starting to switch over to vegan diet after both my husband and I reading the book and thinking long and hard about it. I like that the authors don’t emphasize perfection but rather conscientiousness about our bodies and eating habits. It was a worthwhile read! I bought the cookbook too!

Skinny Bitch
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
A clever book but I did not know it was a totally vegan cookbook until it arrived. I had chosen it as a gift for a friend who is not a vegan. I gave it to her anyway because I didn’t have time to purchase anything in place of it.

He’ll never know
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I cannot cook to save my life so knowing what to substitute (or what to buy for a substitute) isn’t common sense for me. I bought the book because I LOVED skinny bitch and I really wanted some good ideas on what vegan foods I could make so I didn’t starve to death.

Although all the recipes are vegan twists to regular, every day foods, I find it very cool that I can cook them and my significant other won’t look at them in disgust. Him being the person who said, “So you can’t eat anything that comes from the dirt?,” when I said that I was going vegan.

So if you live with a hungry, meat eating hippo, this book could be a good thing for the both of you.

An Introduction to Vegetarian Cooking
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The first book, “Skinny Bitch,” shocked me into a new awareness of what I was eating. I decided to try the vegetarian lifestyle to see if it would work for me. I started by eating a few prepackaged meals (spring rolls with soy and a veggie pot pie) to jump-start my efforts. It took me about a week to gather the necessary ingredients. In the meantime I had veggie burritos at Taco Time and vegetable fajitas at a local Mexican restaurant.

You may find a health food store that stocks nutritional yeast flakes, Ener-G egg replacer and Bragg Liquid Aminos. In general this book uses safflower and olive oil. The truth of the matter is that many of the recipes call for coconut oil (a little expensive $10 for 414 ml), which may or may not work for you. I found it less appetizing in savory dishes and appropriate for sweet foods like cookies. It is easy to substitute olive oil for the coconut oil in some of the recipes like Hummus and Macaroni and Cheese. Why you would want coconut oil in those recipes is beyond my understanding.

The recipes are divided into interesting sections like Bitchin’ Breakfast, PMS ( Pissy Mood Snacks), Grown-Up Appetizers, Sassy Soups and Stews, Skinny-Ass Salads, Hearty-Ass Sandwiches, International Bitch, Italian Bitch, Down Home Cookin’, Skinny Bitch Staple Meals, Divine Dressings and Happy Endings. This book has a sassy style and is actually quite funny in places. Some of the more gourmet offerings include:

Pecan-crusted French Toast

Crabby Cakes with Remoulade Sauce

Potato and Pumpkin Curry with Brown Basmatic Rice

Penne with Butternut Squash, Sage Pesto, and Almonds

Roasted Sausage, Peppers, Onions, and Garlic over Soft Polenta

Balsamic Portobello Mushrooms over Grilled Vegetable Couscous

Since I was throwing myself into this vegetarian lifestyle with a sense of abandon I decided to try twelve recipes. I managed to make four of the recipes in one night without much trouble. The buttery shortbread cookies looked easy enough until I noticed the quantity of orange juice and knew it wouldn’t work. So I decided to substitute 5 tablespoons soymilk for the 1 tablespoon orange juice. To get the crumb mixture to hold together you may need to add additional tablespoons of milk depending on where you live. The dough seemed to work best when the crumbed mixture was pressed together in small batches and then rolled out. Each time you just add some more crumbs to the top and proceed as normal. The recipe made 32 “Buttery Shortbread Cookies.”

While the cookies were baking I made the “Marinated Tofu Feta” which was the easiest recipe in the book. I’d recommend only using half the tofu and using half the salt. It would have been helpful if the authors mentioned how long you could store the marinated tofu. Actually it tasted pretty good so you might eat it up fast in a few days.

Next I tackled a “Fruit Smoothie,” which was easy enough. You may want to use orange juice with the “Very Berry” Smoothie. If you use soymilk be prepared to sweeten the drink. I blended in two tablespoons of rice syrup but you could also use a packet of stevia.

To end the night’s testing spree I then made the “Green Goddess Pasta” for dinner. It was fairly easy to make except I have a few tips that will make it easier. To begin with, make sure the vegan butter you buy will actually melt. I tried using a Spectrum spread and it simply would not melt. So after tossing away the garlic and unmelted spread I ended up just using a stick of butter. You can do that if you are a Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian (you can then still eat eggs and dairy products if you choose – this book frowns on such behaviors and I totally understand why). I really tried to stay true to the recipes but haven’t found a good vegan butter substitute. The pasta dish really allows for variation because you could technically use any type of pasta. I used an organic penne rigate and added the broccoli and zucchini a little ahead of the kale. I also didn’t use any of the cooking water with the butter. That didn’t sound like a good idea and the additional salt seemed too much since I was using salted butter.

The recipes I still want to try include:

French Scramble

Granola

“Chicken” Salad Sandwich (a substitute is easy to find in the frozen section of a health food store)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Vanilla Cake with Frosting

Caesar Dressing (made with tofu)

Hummus, Tempeh, and Cucumber Wrap

Summer Garden Pasta

Since cooking from a new cookbook is always a little risky I felt that the evening’s recipe testing session went quite well. I was happy with all the dishes and was ready to try more. I’m still sipping on my fruit smoothie for dessert and I have three dinners (the pasta dish makes four servings) frozen and ready to go for nights when I don’t want to cook.

~The Rebecca Review

P.S. The Recipe Testing continues…

4/29/2008 – The “Quesadillas” are delicious and so easy to make. I think you will love the recipe.

5/1/2008 – The “Apple Muffins (a variation of fruit and nut muffins)” are good straight out of the oven with some honey.

5/2/2008 – Today I tried the Chocolate Pancakes, a variation on Basic Pancakes. They were so good I ate three. They are made with whole wheat flour but you would never know it. I would buy this book just for this one recipe. The “Chicken” Salad Sandwich is easy to make because you are using meatless chicken…therefore, no cooking! The Worthington Meatless Chicken Vegetarian Protein Slices worked well in this recipe.

5/6/2008 – The Quick Tortilla Pizzas are so gourmet with a roasted red pepper sauce and Kalamata olives. The pizza sauce is easy to make in a blender, no food processor needed. If you are in the mood, add three tablespoons of tomato paste to the sauce.

5/8/2008 – Today I made the chocolate chip cookies and couldn’t believe how good they were even without eggs and butter. The recipe calls for coconut oil which is perfect with the chocolate chips. My husband even asked for a second cookie.

Yummm-O
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this cookbook after reading the first book “Skinny Bitch.” I am in no way a Vegan, nor is my husband. I do however love trying new things. I have cooked many things from this cookbook and everything has been WONDERFUL! The directions are easy to follow and the meals turn out perfectly every time. We eat the Veggie Enchiladas at least once a week! My husband doesn’t realize he’s not eatting meat. Instead he compliments me on how delicious the dinners are. Get it, you’ll LOVE it!!!

Good, mostly-simple recipes.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Not as many recipes in here as I’d hoped, but still not a bad selection.

Great gift
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Have given this to a number of girlfriends for gifts and they have all loved it. I read it a while back and was very impressed by how practical the advice and recipes were. Plus everything has been delicious and for the price you really cant beat it. Even the girls who are vegetarians have really liked it which is a high bar

My new workhorse everyday cookbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
If you are hostile to vegetarian philosophy, don’t bother. Don’t bother with the book, and you can save your ranting time for something more pleasant. Maybe get a massage? Shop for shoes? Help out in a soup kitchen? The list is endless.

I was working in a bookstore shelving the nutrition section when I came across Skinny Bitches. I thought it was another martini diet/how the rich stay emaciated gimmick book. I was pleasantly surprised to find instead that it is a vegan primer, with attitude.

That tickled me, because most vegan books either speak to the converted, or adopt a peacenik/I-spend-all-my-time-in-yoga-class-or-mediating persona. That’s not bad in itself. I just like seeing something different, something that will speak to a new audience.

As for me, I’ve been a vegetarian for more than twenty years, a vegan for a third of that. I’m middle aged but often mistaken for a college student. My doctor is all smiles at my check-up, and I have the vitals of a twenty-five year old. I have good genes, yes, but I give my diet great credit for my excellent health. My siblings who are not vegetarians have not fared so well. I really doubt someone eating a low-carb/high protein diet after twenty years would be in such good shape. Most of the low-carb people I know have dull, aging skin. Why is that? But that’s another topic.

As for this book as a cookbook, it has become my daily workhorse cookbook. That’s pretty amazing, since I have over 200 vegetarian cookbooks in my house. No, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch isn’t that innovative. But I have innovative cookbooks I use twice a year because I’m too busy to make big productions of meals. I’m a single mom with two kids, and food has to be fast, healthy, delicious and not too weird. These are comfortingly familiar kinds of meals, which appeal to me, even after years of experimenting with some very strange ingredients. The use of meat substitutes makes these recipes less strange to my kids, and presumably, to a new audience of vegan cooks.

Moreover, the quality of the recipes are excellent. The seasoning and preparation make them special. For example, I’ve made mashed potatoes a zillion times, but my kids liked the mashed potatoes even better than my other recipes.

The inclusion of coconut oil is a question mark for me. Even if you see coconut oil touted everywhere on the net as a ‘miracle oil’, and often promoted by the arch-enemies of vegetarianism who believe you need a lot of animal fat to be healthy, i.e. Nourishing Traditions, as a skeptic I will withhold opinion until the data is conclusive. If you “buy” the coconut oil sales pitch, we vegans needn’t worry so much about the amount of saturated fat there, which is considerable, because we’re not eating meat and dairy and getting it other places. Nonetheless, it did make the cooked greens taste fabulous–the sweetness of the coconut oil cuts down on the bitterness of the greens, and I’m sure I’ll make them this way forever. Coconut oil is also a very satisfactory shortening for vegan cooking. So regardless if it is a ‘miracle oil’ or not, I tend to think it will have its uses in the vegan kitchen.

Bottom line: I liked this book, liked its unpretentiousness toward food, and liked its message about veganism. But again, if you are hostile towards vegetarian philosophy, don’t bother.

perfectly funny and informative
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
hilarious and helpful. these two women cracked me up while giving me straightforward, insightful advice. I could go on for days about this book, but ill keep it simple. buy it. it’s great.

Disappointing and not innovative
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I loved “Skinny Bitch.” It was well researched and entertaining to read, and the information in it helped me revise my eating habits. Am I completely vegan? No. Have I eliminated most processed and refined crap from my diet and replaced it with “whole” foods? Yes. I also lost 22 pounds in 3 months, and didn’t miss the crap.

I was excited for the cookbook to come out with the hopes that it would contain new, innovative recipes integrating the Skinny Bitch philosophy of health and eating. Instead, it is modified retreads of old recipes. “Chicken” recipes, caeser salad, quesadillas — I really didn’t need a cookbook to teach me how to make these recipes vegan. There is actually a recipe that calls for putting a veggie burger on a bun with lettuce and tomato. Not really innovative. . . basically the recipes are the same old stuff with modified ingredients. Reubens, onion rings, garlic fries, Denver “bitchlette” (omelet), if you don’t know how to substitute, buy this book!

I was also surprised that no nutritional information is available for each recipe. I was also surprised at the use of regular russet potatoes in recipes. The book seems heavy on the starch recipes, and does not have innovations on how to incorporate more good veggies and fruits into the diet of people who would consume these recipes.

I have edited this review! My original review had a lot of negative comments about the use of coconut oil in the recipes, and concerns about saturated fat. Several folks sent comments directing me to more recent research/information on coconut oil, and it is not as bad as I thought! Thanks for the info. . .

Still don’t like the cookbook, though!

Disappointing, if I had previewed it (instead of preordering it) I would never have purchased it!

Over the Top
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I was disappointed in this book because of the language. I expected some, but it is over the top and unnecessary. I bought it for my daughter and she feels the same. A lot of the recipes are not practical for our families.

Better vegan recipes elsewhere
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I’m keen on eating and drinking less animal products so I thought this book would be right up my alley. However, when it arrived from the library I was very disappointed. I am just grateful I didn’t actually purchase this book. My biggest complaint, as others have said, is that this cookbook is not creative and relies far too much on processed meat substitutes. This may not be a problem for everyone, but as an avid cook bugged me. As others have said, many of these recipes are things you could have come up with simply by, for example, swapping in veggie burgers for beef or turkey burgers. It’s not that this isn’t a good swap, but it’s a bit insulting to think that we couldn’t have figured it out on our own. It also seems to suggest that a meal needs meat (if even a vegan substitute) at the center of the plate when in fact, perfectly delicious meals can be made with lots of vegetables and/or legumes. I’ve found far more delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes by checking out cookbooks like 1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes: Easy, Great-Tasting Dishes for Everyone — from Appetizers and Soups to Entrees and Desserts, Eat, Drink & Be Vegan: Great Vegan Food for Special and Everyday Celebrations, Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, and others. While not all of these cookbooks are low fat, many of their recipes can be easily made so. Best of all, they show that you can make a delicious meal without relying on veggie burgers. (Not that these aren’t good, as I do enjoy them on occasion, but there are a lot of other delicious vegan options as well!)

Additionally, I was surprised that the recipes didn’t list any nutrition, calorie, or fat information. This will likely be a disappointment for those counting calories or keeping an eye on things like fat or carbs.

Overall, I do not recommend this book as there are so many other fantastic vegan and vegetarian cookbooks that have more creative recipes.

Not too bad…
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Pretty simple ideas. Not totally bad =:0)

The title fits me perfectly so I like that.

For less the $8.00…You can’t go wrong getting this.

Eat right!!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book is eye catching because of its title but it also has substance. The recipes are simple and a great way to eat right while replacing your frozen dinners, junk food etc. Delicious and also healthy

Also try Finger Licking Different.

Good Book
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I liked the book alot, and it touched on some very interesting subjects, on which I learned alot, and some I ready knew about, but the only thing I didn’t like, was that it was geared more toward turning into a complete vegan. Hence, I have nothing against being completely vegan, and since I was recently diagnosed with IBS, this book did help alot. However, I still sometimes eat meat and fish, but now have gone completely Organic and Grass-Fed meat only. I would recommend this book to others, as I did recommend it to my son ( he is 14) to read it, to help him understand the current food industry and where our food furture is heading. I did like the Kitchen one also, has some great receipes!

L Powers, Orange, CA

Might want to find an alternative
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
The first book that was written was very informational and started me on a kick to truly look at ingredients and find out what is in my food. This book however is not necessarily realistic in adding these recipes to your diet. A lot of the recipes call for coconut oil and have fake cheeses and meat that you could use. Soy is a big ingredient in a lot of the fake foods. Research done on soy shows that too much consumption can have a negative effect on your diet, especially if you have hypothyrodism or other ailments. There is research that goes both ways but too much of a good thing isn’t always good. I guess you need to do research what you eat and find if it truly is good for you. I don’t condone it, I just don’t eat a lot of it. I do have this book and haven’t really made much out of it. I am not in to eating fake food and would rather eat and buy things that are natural… so if you like that route too… I don’t recommend it. If you are in to fake foods and coconut oil… go for it.

The Kitchen Skinny
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
“Skinny B*tch in the Kitch” is Rory Freedman and Kim Barnounin’s follow-up to their bestselling book. They’ve become a cottage industry with journals, exercise DVDs, this cookbook– and apparently a sitcom about eco-friendly vegan women in the works. “Skinny B*tch in the Kitch” is a mixed bag. There’s a great deal less negativity, fewer rants, it’s a case of a sequel being superior to the original.

The recipes are simple, easy to follow,and healthy. They show that a vegan diet need not be one of deprivation. They’re good for a person getting started. They offer commonsense advice.

On the other hand, it has some drawbacks: use of too many meat substitutes (like seitan),lack of variety of cuisines (African cuisine has great vegan recipes), no pictures of the recipes, and sadly, too few recipes. It’s a skinny volume. It should be plumped out–since there’s a lot of good vegan cuisine out there.

“Skinny B*tch in the Kitch” is an okay follow-up. One hopes there will be more adventures in the kitchen from this pair.

Excellent cookbook!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Being a male vegetarian, I was unsure what to think about a cookbook for “Hungry Girls who want to stop cooking crap (and start looking hot!)” However, after checking it out from the library, my wife and I were amazed at the great quality (both in terms of health and taste) of these recipes. They are generally easy to follow, quick and provide great tasting meals. If I could have only 5 cookbooks, this would definitely be one of them.

Carla Bray
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Excellent and hystarical cookbook! These ladies don’t pamper you or make the facts “soft”. I love it!!!!! It’s perfect for my dietary needs and everyone-I mean everyone can gain better health from eating this way.

Worth it
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The vegan Mac n Cheese in the book is to die for (but makes enough for an army – freezes well though). I had no idea anything vegan could be as good as all the recipes I’ve made from this book. Sometimes you buy a cookbook and after you make a recipe and eat it say ‘wow – did the writer even taste this cr*p before this got published????’ Not this one. I’m pretty sure they tasted it all, cuz so far, SO GOOOOOOOOD!

Great sequel to a book that changed my life AGAIN
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
At first, I picked up this book and thought it was too basic. A recipe for how to make a salad? I can do that on my own. But, as someone who’s been a vegetarian for 20 years, I hadn’t really ventured into some of the ingredients used here. Fake meat products made from soy? Yeah, I’ve had veggie burgers and soy sausages for breakfast, but veggie bacon? steak strips? chicken? Now I’m happily venturing into a new direction. The beef stew is to die for. My husband thought he was eating meat and asked why I prepared it. The mac ‘n cheese is no substitute for the real thing, but satisfied my urge for it, with a lot fewer fat grams. The sage pesto with butternut squash is good enough for 5 star dining and entertaining. I was getting bored with salad, pasta and grains, now I have new things to try. For the price, you can’t go wrong, even if you only find one recipie you like and use it regularly. I have already found several to add to my repertoire.

revolutionize your kitchen, your waistline, and your attitude!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I absolutely love this book and it’s predecessor, “Skinny Bitch.” Both give you the straight facts with solid, documented references, but are easy and entertaining to read. Old (eating) habits can die hard, but read these books, do what they say, and you’ll feel great, get thin, be healthy, and enjoy a good laugh.

Anyone who rates this book less than 5 stars is outta their minds. Read these books and you won’t be disappointed!

Good book, but read “skinny bitch” before in the kitch
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I was looking for a diet plan, and recipe book, when I came across this book. It seemed very intriguing, and the description, “Kick ass recipes for hungry girls who want to stop cooking crap (and start looking hot!)” seemed exactly what I was looking for. I had NO idea it was a book pushing veganism. It’s smart really, I wasn’t even looking to become a vegetarian, and this book gave me the kick start I needed to go vegetarian, and turned off any temptations I may have had. I mean, imagine what it’d do if I had been flirting with the idea! Usually, on any kind of diet (restrictive or even just the literal meaning: what one dines on usually) I get bored and lose my will power to stick with it… if I was on a diet, the temptation to eat some chocolate was always stronger than my will to lose the weight. BUT, this book made me not even WANT meat. I had no interest in it. It became an item that just wasn’t an edible option, the same way eating a shoe or something like grass isn’t an option, this made meat not an option. I seriously just didn’t want it anymore… Other times if I were to try a vegetarian diet, I forgot I was trying, or didn’t care enough to continue it, this made it a way of life. Whether or not you want to become a vegetarian, the recipes are good, and you should give it a try.

Fantastic Recipes – Powerful Women
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Loved this book! It’s truly actionable and inspiring. I paired it with Saundra Pelletier’s “Saddle Up Your Own White Horse” and am ready to go conquer the world!Saddle Up Your Own White Horse: 5 Principles Every Woman Needs to Know

Good basic vegan cookbook for beginners…
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I got this book from the library and while I am not a vegan, still managed to make and enjoy a few of these recipes. I am a cookbook whore (as you can probably tell, I don’t mind their f*@&ing language) and this is a small, basic cookbook that serves well for those times when you are uninspired and are tired of meat, but can’t think of what to make. I made the Club Sandwich with vegan turkey, vegan bacon, vegan mayo, etc. and was pretty impressed at how close it is to the real thing but without the heavy greasy feeling afterwards. No, this will not teach you how to cook or give you super exotic haute cuisine, but expand your library of basics if you’re looking for a meat-free alternative.

Not for people who enjoy real food.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This book is too “radically vegan” for my taste. And speaking of “taste”, nothing in this book has any. What the heck is “vegan bacon”, anyway? Why bother? I guess it’s easy to be a skinny bitch if you never eat anything that tastes good. It would explain the “skinny” and also the “bitch”…

Now I understand. Thanks, but I’d rather not be either.

May be good for beginning vegans…
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I received this as a present. Let me start off by saying that I myself like to cook complex, creative, and innovative vegan meals. I’ve been vegetarian for a while, and vegan for a few months now.

I have two takes on this book:

1) It’s not what I expected. In a bad way. It just uses old recipes and veganizes them in a way that’s easy, lazy, and uncreative. Instead of real cheese, they use soy cheese (most of which tastes crappy). Instead of real meat, they use “fake turkey/chicken/etc”. Yes, that would be great and all, but the point of turning someone vegan is trying to get them to see that vegan food can taste just as good, if not better, as omni food. They don’t tell you that you cannot easily obtain soy cheeses and meats that don’t taste like crap.

2) It’s great, in a way, for stumped new vegans. It makes them realize that everything can be veganized, and that there are alternatives out there for regular omni recipes. It sort of gives them a message of being able to have what they had when they were omni, except with a vegan twist.

All in all, I did not like this book. Maybe it’s because I’m more advanced in the kitchen. It’s too “fast food” -ish.

But for very basic beginning vegans, it might be a different place to start.

There’s a full range of books I would still recommend over this one.

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I gave this book as a gift. The Title brought waves of laughter at the birthday party. I don’t know from my own experience, if the recipes

are any good. I am not a Vegan.

Has anyone lost weight on this diet??????
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I bought this book to try to loose weight. I see no indication in the book or in any of these reviews that it has actually helped anyone loose a pound. The recipes don’t look any lower fat than the foods they are substituting for. If this has helped anyone loose weight and keep it off, I would love to know.

Yummy!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Love this cookbook. Great way to eat and stay healthy with delicious, NUTRITIOUS recipes. I love these girls!! Highly recommended!

Bad book. Bad concept.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I hate the title. One i have lost 20 pounds in 6 months by eating a balanced diet. We are omnivores for a reason. Being vegan is a life style choice. Not a diet fad choice.

Boooo to the book and recipe cook book.

Oh and i am mostly dairy free due to an intolerance.

There is better vegan books out there than this one.

skinny bitches rule
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Skinny Bitch in the kitchen is a great book for anyone wanting to get healthy while eating great food without all the crap in it. Loved the book. A must get for skinny bitches.

Not what I expected…
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I was expecting “weird” recipes, but the ones in the book are pretty much just normal. The only difference is that they say “vegan cheese” where you are supposed to add real cheese, or it says “use vegan beef chunks” instead of real beef. I just feel it lacks creativity. I will give my book to my vegetarian friend, because I find much better recipes off the internet.

The book, Skinny Bitch, is HILARIOUS though! I reccommend that 100%!!!

Step away from the burger girls!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
As awesome as it’s counter part. Needed to cmplete the idea and give you ideas for your own healthful, mindful living with a good kick in the pants to boot!

Great low fat cookbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Skinny Bitch in the Kitch is a great low fat cookbook. We also have the Skinny Bitch Book which is a great read and acompanyment for the cookbook!Taste recipes I have made for my whole family.

Easy, vegan recipes
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I really like this book. The recipes are easy, and they are all healthy recipes, which is ideal for anyone interested in eating food that tastes good and is healthy. I liked the variety also; main dishes, sandwiches, comfort foods, snack foods, –all with a healthy, vegan twist. It’s even humourous:) BTW–There are also a lot of vegan deserts in the book as well, but even if they have nutrients that the traditional deserts have not–it’s still junk food–and the chocolate chip cookies are too good to resist! Beware!

The only down side with creating these delicious meals may be finding the ingedients. I live in rural, North America, and although I can find plenty of tofu, whole wheat, vegan cheese and much of the ingredients listed at my local health food store–I am not ale to get much vegan “meats” that are called for in the book; such as vegan chicken, bacon etc. If I wanted to be strictly vegan–I think I would need more access to these food items. (I don’t feel like driving two hours or subscribing to an overpriced mail-order supermarket to get these things!)

Overall, I’m glad that I have tried something new–vegan cooking. Tofu scrambled non-eggs really is yummy and satisfying! Since I bought the book, I use the recipes on a regular basis, and am able to substitute many vegetables for some of the vegetables in the recipes. I am not a strict vegan, I would eat honey, for example, but since I have bought the book, I am mainly vegan now.

Bon Apetit!

You’ll be happy if your a VEGAN !
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I had no clue this was all about Vegan food. I am sorry but I love my meat dinners. I was sooo disapointed with this book. However the company was great. Shipped in just a few days and in mint condition.

A good Start
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought this book after reading Skinny Bitch. I have to admit that it’s taken me several months to get on board with the Vegan diet and to try some of the recipes. What really changed my mind was Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman. So far I’ve tried the Guacamole (EXCELLENT!) and the tofu ricotta (ALSO EXCELLENT!). I wouldn’t have this as my only Vegan cookbook but it’s a good supplement.

Education or Titillation?
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Many reviews of these books stated that they were humorous and irreverent. But they should have read vulgar and boring. In spite of excellent advice on the “how’s and why’s” of a vegan lifestyle I wonder whether the price of a “cleaner” plate is worth having to wade through such garbage-mouth. Expletives such as” F***ing” have no place describing a salad. Get these girls a Thesaurus! In the subheading `Use Your Head’ the authors state: “There is nothing uglier than a pretty woman that is nasty”. Might I add – Oh yes there is! A pretty woman who for no good reason splatters her readers with unnecessary filth. If language that would get a movie an “R” rating and pointless profanity is your style, then this is the book for you. If not, don’t waste your time here. There are better ways to become educated.

Big Disappointment
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Like many others here I loved Skinny Bitch. After reading it I stopped eating meat and never looked back. And like others I was excited to read their cookbook only to be disappointed once I did.

Basically the recipes involve nothing more than switching out the real meat for fake meat i.e. chicken salad with fake chicken, egg scramble with fake eggs and fake sausage. Page after page this is what it is.

I have to say I’ve lost a little respect for the two women that wrote Skinny Bitch. They rant on and on in Skinny Bitch about eating “dead animal carcass” and in their cookbook it is all about making dishes that aren’t dead animal carcass but at least taste like it. They are so anti meat, yet they are making all of the dishes that taste like it. What is up with that?

Don’t get me wrong, Skinny Bitch changed my life, but I guess all it took to write it was some research and a good marketing ploy. The girls can convince you never to eat dairy or meat again, but after that you are on your own.

I’m just getting to know some of the cookbooks out there and so far Veganomicon is great and I personally like Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet.

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch is a huge waste of money. It’s a cute marketing ploy that is just going to rip you off.

Good Resource
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book is filled with delicious recipes for Vegans. It was very helpful when I decided to go Vegan and was short on recipes to make my favorite foods.

Great beginners cookbook for vegans and people that just want to eat healthier
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After I read the first book, Skinny Bitch, I knew I had to run out and get this one as well. The recipes in this book are delicious (the first thing I made was the carrot cake – omg, yum!). I recommend this book for people that just want to eat healthier, or are new vegetarians or vegans.

Yummie!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
. This is a vegetarian cook book plain and simple, so if you are looking for meat go else ware. I am a vegetarian, so I truly enjoy the recipes. Some are a little basic but others are for things I would have never tried on my own. So far I have made 4-5 dishes and I have not been disappointed yet. If you are looking for veg./vegan recipes this is the book for you. Although it is fun, and candid which I love, I do wish that it had the nutritional information to accompany each recipe. I am very satisfied with my purchase.

What a silly series
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
After reading the recipes in this book, I’ve come to realize that not only are they blatantly obvious, but there is no nutritional information to back up any of these recipes. Consult a good Vietnamese or Chinese cookbook to find true vegan recipes. This is silly.

Tagline idea “stop cooking crap” is good, recipes out of place
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This book does not promote good nutrition! I was expecting to see some ingredients that I’d have to buy at a naturals store but mostly expecting ingredients that are nutrient dense and at most moderate fat/sugar content; meaning most recipes heavy on herbs/fruit/vegetable, which provide flavor and nutritients while being lower calorie. This book does not have the elements of healthy eating and therefore is misleading. Where are the recipes like homemade salsa with whole wheat chips, hummus w/ whole wheat pita, bruschetta on whole wheat baguette, meatless chili made with chickpeas (w/out soy substitute!), vegetable summer rolls, miso soup, veg barley soup, etc. — anything that has a high nutrient content, is fiber rich and tastes great is not crap and helps you “start looking hot”. Many of these recipes use vegan cheese, vegan mayonaise, vegan sour cream, vegan butter etc. Anyone that knows anything about basic nutrition would look for recipes that skip these components all together. Not only are they ‘fake’ and therefore not natural, they do not taste better than the real thing as the book claims. Someone trying to be healthy should rarely if ever eat ‘junk foods’ and if they want something sweet, then make a fruit dessert with no added sugar and preservatives. This book is directed at two types of people, 1. Someone who has a poor self image with a low nutrition background and will follow these recipes to a T because they don’t know any better and think it will make them thin or 2. written for someone that wants to eat foods with animal products but can’t find natural substitutions so goes for processed meat/dairyless subtitutions. Not for someone looking for healthy/natural foods. Tofu is good, as it’s own food should have been included in some recipes but shouldn’t be thrown into any recipe that grandma used chicken/pork/beef in. Whole wheat products are great which I give them that for insisting on loosing the refined grains, however the “skinny bitch” may now have a vitamin/mineral deficiency since these products are not fortified with anything, which is neglected to be mentioned in this book. Or girls that are only eating non-heme (vegetable sourced) iron may have problems with anemia, especially if they drink alot of tea or coffee. Too misleading for the average woman.

I love it!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’m really surprised at the amount of negative reviews for this. I suppose this book won’t be useful for people who are already great at cooking, but prior to going vegan over a year ago, I had never cooked anything besides the occasional bowl of pasta. This book helped a lot, and I’ve made some really amazing meals from it that even my (meat and dairy eating) family love too. Even though a few of the reviewers here complain about the hard to find ingredients, I personally think the recipes in this book are way more simplistic than a lot of other vegan cookbooks and I rarely have a problem finding ingredients. Anyone who says that probably hasn’t done a lot of vegan cooking.

There are a few recipes in this that I didn’t care for – namely I didn’t like the eggplant parm, Mediterranean pasta salad, or pancakes. But every other recipe I’ve tried from this book has been incredibly delicious and a big hit with my family. The lasagna is the best!

I’m so happy that I bought this!

Love this cookbook!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Every recipe I have made from this cookbook has been delicious. Even my husband, who is not a vegetarian or vegan, loves the recipes from this book.

A Mixed Dish
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
For anyone “learning to be a Vegan” this book is a great starting place. The flavours are great and I love how quick and easy the recipes are – but like other reviewers I was disappointed by the lack of nutritional information. They are REALLY heavy-handed with the salt and I’ve learnt to cut it in half or leave it out. There is a very heavy reliance on manufactured goods like fake meat and non-cheese (the later is very difficult to come by in Australia). I wonder how many recipes made it to the test kitchens? I keep finding errors – it lists ingredients that don’t get used, or simply leaves steps out, which is frustrating. However I’ve given it a high rating because it was a terrific point for leaping off: now let’s hit the real food!

Great for new professional
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
A wonderful user-friendly book to give to recent college grads who are out on their own (Help wean them off dorm food and beer!!) My daughter and her roommate love it and even when they don’t follow the recipes exactly–it gives them a starting point!

I Found a Few Recipes I’ll Use…
Rating:3 out of 5 stars

Interestingly I got SB in the Kitch and Hungry Girl cookbooks on the same cookbook search. What Hungry Girl does with additives and low-fat, lower sugar highly processed foods, SB in the Kitch does with Vegan and natural foods. Taking the bad foods we all love to eat, SB in the Kitch adds healthier ingredients and subtracts high-fat, high-processed, high-calorie and low-nutrition ingredients to make the food taste as close to the original as possible. None of the recipes have nutrition details. I found a few I’ll use and will keep on hand which make the purchase price okay in my book, but not as many as I’d like. International dishes, breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts are covered. Italian foods get their own chapter and a helpful glossary of terms and unfamiliar items is included.

never recieved my book
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I would have loved it if i accually received my book, but i didnt and i am really upset, anything that wont fit inside a mailbox then needs to be signed for and not just left on someones porch so someone can just walk right up there and take it.

Just as bad as their first book
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This book is just as pathetic as their first book, Skinny Bitch. It’s amazing how these two uneducated women procured a book deal in the first place! The bottom line: this is a load of crap. One reviewer mentioned that the nutritional values aren’t listed for the recipes. Well, I’m sure the authors don’t know the nutritional value and didn’t bother to find out either. And using coconut oil? Tons of saturated fat there. Both their books are so unbalanced and no doubt would actually do harm if you followed their “plan”. You may become a skinny bitch, but a totally unhealthy one.

Life changing book
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book changed my life after reading it and I have recommended it to several people since.

Bitchin!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love these recipes. I’m not vegan, but they are great alternatives when you don’t know what to eat and you want to be healthy.

Great book for beginners
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’m so glad they did a cookbook! For someone that’s eaten meat and crap all her life its nice to have a beginners guide on changing my eating habits. When I read the other book I thought there would be no way I’d give up mac and cheese and steak and lobster and BUTTER. I had no idea there were so many substitutes. I just had no idea on where to even begin. I always thought being a vegitarian/vegan meant barley, sprouts and wheatgrass. HA so not true!! The cookbook is really helpful!! It shows that you really can have foods you like by changing the ingredients. I dont even notice the change in taste either. The morning farm sausage patties are awesome. I actually prefer it to the real sausage. I actually went from a size 9 to size 7 in one month by following the skinny bitch plan. I for sure will be ready for beach season. This is not a book for people who have been vegans/vegitarians all their life and think its easy to make the switch.

Super Funny, and life changing!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
If you read the whole thing and are still too stubborn to take action and follow it, at least you’ll get a good laugh. These girls are awesome!

Good, simple, healthy food
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Yes, the recipes are simple, but that’s why I love them. I like simple comfort foods, not fancy-pants food that’ll take me hours to prepare. This book was fantastic, and their humor is wonderful. Then again, I’m from Jersey, so I like that kind of expletive-filled talk.

I’m an excellent cook–hello! I’m a fat chick!–and I still found the ideas in this book to be innovative and original. My family’s favorites are the breakfast burrito, onion rings, stuffed mushrooms and garlic fries, just to name a few.

The authors are bitchin’ women who rock. I hope they publish a new book every year. I’ll definitely buy it.

Yep, it’s disappointing
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Other reviewers have said it well – this book is disappointing. Better vegan cookbooks: Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, 2007, and Vegan Planet by Robin Robertson, 2003.

Bitch in the kitchen PLEASE
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The recipes all call for alot of things that most of us would not have on hand in a typical kitchen. There are some yummy ideas for meals, IF YOU DONT LIKE MEAT!

Love to be a skinny bitch
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Love both the books! Great recipes. Book is as much for entertainment as for information, so you have to take some of the advice with grain of salt…

However the books do offer great insight as to the pitfalls and secrets of some of our favorite foods.

Everything is yummy!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Well, I guess I can’t say EVERYTHING in this is yummy, because I haven’t actually tried everything yet, but I am getting there. However, every recipe I have tried is wonderful! Seriously! If you want to eat well without sacrificing taste, you definitely need to get this recipe book.

I just realized I didn’t specify one very important thing. I am not a vegan (or a vegetarian for that matter) and never intend to be, so I didn’t use the dairy replacements. However, I never used meat for any of the recipes. I have no idea what the vegan replacement products taste like…

Not the best, but not the worst…
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This is a decent vegan starter book for those who are unsure of how to switch from regular eating to vegan eating. It takes very basic recipes and incorporates the staples of vegan cooking, like Bragg Aminos, nutritional yeast and tofu and shows us that eating vegan is all about replacing what we’re used to eating with vegan substitutes. And if you don’t agree with an ingredient (coconut oil), just replace it with your oil of choice. Granted, we don’t need recipes telling us to put a patty on a bun and add lettuce, tomato, then eat…but it does show us that going vegan isn’t as difficult or bland as people may think. A bit of nutritional information would have been nice (calories, protein, fat, carbs) at the end of each recipe. If you’re looking for a “skimming-the-surface” kind of vegan cookbook, then start with this one and branch out from there; so many options, it’s overwhelming! Better yet…go to the bookstore or library FIRST and peruse the vegan cookbook aisles before purchasing a book online so you don’t leave reviews about regretting ordering something without first seeing it. Don’t blame the authors for that. That’s what bookstores and libraries are for! Overall, an adequate, unintimidating place to start, but there are better cookbooks out there…

Surprisingly tasty and snarky..
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I have to say that this cookbook was a pleasant surprise in two ways:

Pros

1) From the reviews on here I expected to be disappointed with this, but it ended up being equally as fun and helpful as the original book.

2)There are some amazingly tasty and healthy recipes in here..I would be satisfied if I had paid $14 for just the potato scramble and lentil soup recipes alone!

Con

1) I really, really would have liked nutritional information…but don’t think that’s too shabby since that’s my only complaint.

I use the recipes almost everyday
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
A friend gave this book to me and I have enjoyed the recipes so much that I have bought the book as a gift more than once. I would say that 98 percent of the recipes are fabulous and a couple can use some help. The writing is super funny as well.

Not what I expected
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
First, I thought this book was going to be about eating healthy and still living a normal life; What I actually found the authors of Skinny Bitch & Skinny Bitch in the Kitch want, is for me to become almost vegan, which is fine if you don’t like meat, cheese or any sort of dairy. Second, I feel that this is just as much a “trend diet” as any of the other diets out there. Last, the recipes are fine, however, not something I could eat every day. Both books have a very creative and enjoyable writing style, and I enjoyed reading about dieting and health for the first time ever! I just didn’t expect to be told not to eat meat or drink milk.

Too many meat substitutes
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I bought this book expecting a decent vegan cookbook. The writers seem to be really into eating healthy, natural food, but many of the recipes in this book rely on at least one (sometimes more!) meat or cheese substitute. I guess that maybe this is a book trying to ease meat-eaters into a vegan diet, but even then a lot of the recipes are just common sense and shouldn’t be in a cookbook. Do you really have to be told that if you want a vegan burger, you need to use a vegan burger patty instead of a meat one or that you need to use vegan cheese to make a vegan quesadilla? There are a couple of recipes in here that I do plan to try out, but I am probably going to get rid of it and just keep on using the cookbooks that I already had.

This is NOT “healthy food”
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
A lot of the reviewers here on Amazon seem to be confused – and the authors of this book are, as well. Of course a balanced vegan diet can be healthy, but being vegan certainly doesn’t guarantee that a recipe will be good for you! Packaged veggie burgers and processed soy cheese? That’s only low fat if you compare it with frozen burgers and processed american cheese. Please, if you want healthy vegetarian/vegan recipes, this is absolutely the wrong book! Try the Moosewood Cookbook, Veganomicon, How it All Vegan, Nonna’s Italian Kitchen… there are many classics.

And also, to those of you who thought the recipes tasted great, I really think you should try these other cookbooks as well… because I promise that the food will be much better. “Skinny Bitch” has some of the lamest vegan recipes I’ve ever seen – trust me, real vegans who want to be healthy and who like to cook real food don’t eat that way.

Vegan Help
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
If you’re gonna be vegan, these are some great recipes…I did however find some of them to be rather lengthy and to require some ingredients that take some additional shopping time/money. I did the “be a vegan for a month” like the authors suggested in their 1st book, Skinny Bitch, and DID find the cookbook to be helpful!

Cute.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Cute book. Not a LOT of recipes, but enough for some little things. Cute gift to give.

Funny but many other cookbooks are better
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I love the writing style of Skinny Bitch and that’s why I bought the cook book. I have to say that you can find better Vegan cookbooks that have a much more extensive receipes.

Skinny Bitch is awesome!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love this book, and the first book that goes with it. It has changed my whole perspective of food and the food industry. I highly recommend to anyone who is sick of feeling like crap and wants to look hot!!! Great receipes!

Lots of processed vegan substitutes
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Compared to other cookbooks, this is hilarious to read. But giggles were pretty much all I got from it. See, here’s the thing…..most of these recipes call for vegan “substitute” foods as ingredients….vegan “sausage”, vegan “bacon”, vegan “cheese”, vegan “burgers”. I want to be preparing and eating foods that are LESS processed….and to me, those vegan substitutes are all highly processed. And, not that good. And, many of them are only substitutes for the taste and texture of the real thing, not the nutrition – for example, the vegan cheese slices that don’t have any calcium in them…so when I use vegan cheese, I’m adding a highly processed ingredient with basically no nutritional value; pretty much empty calories. It’s just the opposite of the direction I want to go in. I’d rather find recipes that don’t call for either cheese or a cheese substitute in the first place, or any other “substitute” foods. I don’t think a diet high in highly processed substitute foods is very healthy. So I enjoyed the humor, but I’m still looking for a cookbook.

The dumbing down of America!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This is not a good book by any stretch of the imagination. The book is riddled with foul language, starting with the distasteful title. The recipes are basic and things you could find online or by using your own mind. The authors come across as two arrogant pimply-gum-popping-teens who are stuck on body image and using swear words. Two thumbs down!

Skinny Bitch in the Kitchen
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I have made several of the recipes from the book and they tasted awful. I did not like one thing, nor did I make use of a new ingredient. I do not reccomend this book for cooking. The original Skinny Bitch, was very good and had some great new tips to add to your diet, but those bitches can’t cook!

Eh
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
It is ok, a lot of the recipes are for things I don’t really care for (tofu, etc)

Great healthy recipes!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book is a wonderful follow up to “Skinny Bitch.” There is a variety of very tasty and healthy recipes, and like “Skinny Bitch” it is written in a very straight forward and humorous tone!

trash
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Nothing new here and full of unnecessary gutter language. I wouldn’t recommend this. There are many good books to recommend such as “Eat to Live”, by Joel Fuhrman, MD, which is full of scienticif references to back up everything he recommends.

Want another book to learn to be healthier?
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Very basic recipes. Good and easy to follow. Mostly though, in line with their first book, I liked their approach to becoming more healthy. Pretty much, do whatever you want to your body, but you could put in good stuff and turn out better. Wholesome grains nourish you, as do greens. Learned a lot about milk products, until then I thought that milk was better for me than it actually is. Asian diet also prefers soy milk. Love food. Love life.

just ok
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
after reading skinny bitch….i thought this would be amazing! but its just ok, worth the money! not my type of recipes though, i thought there was too much processed foods….not whole foods

Good for Beginner Vegans
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I would agree that there is an awful lot of processed veg ingredients, but for someone sticking their toe into vegan water after reading Skinny Bitch and are willing to give it a go, I think it’s not a bad transition cookbook. Once over from “the dark side” of eating corpses and animal secretions, they may tighten their palates by going in a whole foods direction. The mac and cheese is a winner.

A waste
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
If you think you need a recipe book just to tell you to substitute vegan cheese, vegan meat, vegan dairy, etc to all the food you make all the time anyway, this book would be good. But if you don’t need a cookbook to tell you putting a vegan “hamburger” paddy between slices of vegan bread with vegan cheese to make vegan cheeseburger, then get a different book. I’m so glad I got this one from the library before spending $10 for them to tell me that I can make vegan mac and cheese by using vegan macaroni and vegan cheese. Seriously? I like a bit more creativity in my vegan cookbooks. And for the authors to give their readers credit for being able to realize that they don’t need to be instructed on how to make a vegan grilled cheese sandwich.

Great book and great food!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Skinny Bitch is great! My wife and I love the recipes in this book. I do most of the cooking in the house and have always loved to cook. Not only do these meals taste great, but they are easy to make. One of our favorites in here are the stuffed pasta shells with the marinara sauce.

We went Vegan about 3 months ago and if you are Vegan or looking at becoming Vegan then this book is great for recipes. All of the Skinny Bitch books really are great and full of useful information.

Get ready to cook and get ready to love being in the kitchen with these great recipes.

Not the book I thought it was….
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This book, although interesting, is not what I thought it was when I purchased it. It made me not want to eat ANYTHING AT ALL! It is a book that supports a strict vegan diet, no meat, chicken or fish. No milk, cheese or yogurt. Nothing that comes from anything that may have been breathing. Unfortunately, if I ate like that, I would never eat anything at all as I was definately raised on meat and potatoes with everything in moderation. Most of the book focuses on the unfathomable slaughtering process these animals/fish go through to get to your plate. It focuses on animal cruelty and politics for most of the book. Basically slamming the farming industry. Although interesting, it’s written more like a “tell all” book, not a diet book. It requires an extreme change in life style for the average person. If you are considering a vegan diet or are already a vegetarian, this book would be great. I am sure it will reconfirm everything you already know and believe. I personally returned the book.

LOVE skinny bitch, but too many ingredients!
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I LOVED the first book, and the cookbook was just a little disappointing because some of the recipes are just a little complicated with ingredients that arent common (i.e.) only at health food store.

Are you planning on becoming a vegan?
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Unless you’re planning on becoming a vegan, or are already one, this book is not for you. Many of the recipes and food items discussed consisted of strictly organic products. I personally eat organic, but I also eat meat (turkey, fish & chicken). They write about strictly vegan diets that for the most part don’t even sound appetizing. I enjoyed the humorous aspects of the book. Their approach was unique although not practical for the majority of people.

skinny bitch in the kitch
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
this book is so helpful. it has many GOOD receiped. i’d recommend this book to everyone wanting to stop eating [...] and become healthy.

IT’S NOT AS GOOD AS IT’S CRACKED UP TO BE…
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
…UNLESS YOU ARE A VEGAN.

I liked the way the book was written, the in your face and tell it like it is attitude made it fun to read. But there wasn’t much to read. It was mostly just vegan recipe’s…which would be GREAT, if you’re a VEGAN.

I’m not vegan, so I probably won’t use this cook book. And I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless they were a VEGAN.

“Real Life” Recipes …and Yummy!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I am baffled by the last post. “We need protien”? Ummm hello, the average American gets WAY more protien than needed!!! “Where do we get protien”? Ummm Duh! The same place animals do!!! Veggies and Grains! Beans also have a TON of protien!!

I love these simple recipes, especially when cooking for “the real world” who does not understand how easy it is to switch! I will be making this for my neice and nephew the next time they come over…because it was a HUGE hit with my hubbie (who is not a Vegetarian or Vegan)

I am now a Vegan and lost over 15 lbs since dumping the eggs, cheese, milk and other garbage from my life….

THIS IS NOT A FAD DIET!!!It is a realistic and yummy approach towards a healthy and ethically sound change in your life.

Great Recipes
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Not much left to eat but atleast now I’m more aware of what I’m eating:)

AWESOME vegan cookbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After trying some recipes from this cookbook that I found in a magazine (all of which we loved), I looked it up on amazon.com and decided not to purchase it based on the mixed reviews. My mom though gave it to me for Christmas and all I can say is that it is one of the best cookbooks I have. Even my non-vegetarian husband loves all of the meals I have made from here. Great use of ingredients in new ways — wonderful tasting fresh healthy food. I am not sure if the negative reviews were based off of people who hadn’t really ready the Skinny Bitch book or did not realize this is a vegan philosophy.