Don’t miss our interview with co-host Allison Fishman.
Are you wondering if there is a healthier and less caloric way to whip up your favorite dishes like pasta carbonara and fudge brownies? Cook Yourself Thin is Lifetime’s newest cooking show, helping you give your favorite meals a healthier and lower-calorie makeover. The series, which starts airing on May 4 at 5 p.m. EST, features three cooking experts, Harry Eastwood, Allison Fishman, and Candace Kumai, who incorporate their ingenious and savvy cooking techniques to make indulgent dishes tasting as indulgent as they were meant to be but with significantly less calories and fat. (Now showing at 8 a.m. EST weekdays.)
Based upon the super popular cookbook and British series of the same name, during each half-hour episode of Cook Yourself Thin, you’ll learn how to swap calorie-heavy ingredients for leaner and healthier additions. For instance, the three cooking experts will show you how to turn a traditional 1,300 calorie steak and potato dinner into a less than 400 calorie meal, or you’ll learn how to skim 400 calories off of a muffin.
Each episode chronicles one cooking novice who wants to lose weight, but still savor sumptuous meals. With step-by-step cooking instructions, their favorite meals get a skinny makeover and you get to learn secret and clever ways to slim down meals and your waist. Then after six weeks of Cook Yourself Thin, each participant is revisited at their home to see how their new culinary skills are keeping their tummies satisfied and flat.
Similar to newer cookbooks like Hungry Girl’s 200 Under 200 and Naturally Thin, more and more people are desperate to find creative ways to eat the foods they love and lose weight or maintain their healthy weight. Cook Yourself Thin is just another example that lets you have your cupcake and eat it too - gooey frosting and all!
Try Cook Yourself Thin’s Frosted Vanilla Cupcake or Pumpkin Spice Cookie recipes.
Get your copy of Cook Yourself Thin, or pre-order the upcoming book Cook Yourself Thin Faster (releases 12/29/09).
May 1st, 2009
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(Page 1 of 1, 10 total comments)mary c
Interesting show. Some good ideas.
posted Jun 26th, 2011 2:42 pmJanet Moyers
I tried the banana bread recipe. It is horrible. So salty I could not stand it. Why the salt? I also tried the mac. and cheese and don't like it. Why the worcestershire?
posted Sep 18th, 2010 9:44 amI am going to try the Red Velvet Cake and see about it.
I was going to get the cookbook but if this recipe is bad I will not and will tell others of my experience.
I love the show. The idea. But the recipes are going to have to be good for me to watch your show.
martha
I love this show. I am not a cook by any means but I now want to cook. Thank you.
posted Jun 29th, 2010 3:54 pmtracey
the best cooking show ever!!! love it....it has completely revolutionized the way i cook..
posted Sep 21st, 2009 2:56 pmDebra Russell
Love the show. Would like to get some of the receipes.
posted Sep 9th, 2009 10:31 amLorraine
How can you find the recipes that you have in your show. I've seen your show for the first time today and would like to have the recipes.
posted Aug 12th, 2009 8:51 pmann
i made mac cheese and it was good very,very good
posted Aug 9th, 2009 9:15 pmEarnestine Cole
I just found your show 2 weeks ago. I love it! I'm a radio health show host on the #1 Gospel station in my market. I would like to partner with your show and cookbook. On my radio show, I will encourage people to watch your show and order the cookbook. What do I want -- cookbooks to give away on my radio show and an opportunity to visit you on the set to see you do your show live. We will have a health fair in February for women only. I would like for you to consider being with us! We will raise money for children with heart disease. My telephone # is:
posted Aug 4th, 2009 2:41 pmPhyllis Griffiths
I am 350lbs can you help me i am also 52 years old. I have been heavy all my life. I even went and had my stomack stapled I did loose wt. but i gained some of it back because of preg. do you believe your book can help me i am wanting to be healthy.thank you for lessoning
posted Jul 29th, 2009 4:30 pmkimberly
i love the series cook yourself and i have the recipe book. when or are they going to continue the series and is there another cookbook with more recipes
posted Jul 12th, 2009 12:42 pm