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I'd second this recommendation - I love the book and use it for making family meals on fast and non-fast days. So far the fish pie, chicken pie and turkey meatballs (I think) and chilli have all turned out great, sensible portions and I just add veg for the fasters if needed and carbs for the non-fasters. They definitely don't taste like they're 'diet food'

Another thumbs up for this book! Everything I've tried has been delicious! Can't decide on a favourite but it's between the Chicken Jalfrezi and the Cottage Pie. Yummy!

Just joining in to add my thumbs up for the Hairy Boys! I use the book a lot and have found it very useful. The food really doesn't feel like "diet" food and is easy to cook. I do avoid the cakes section though, as I think I'd eat too many! I made the lemon drizzle cupcakes as a loaf cake though - it was delicious. We ate it all. Very very quickly!!!

Is it this book?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hairy-Diete ... 238&sr=1-1

Or is there another one?
Ta

Yep. That's the one. A great buy.

I bought this after the recommendation on here - we'll be trying our first two recipes this week. Can't wait!

Great stuff thanks! Will get it now as the kindle version is reduced at the mo!

Do try the chili and ginger salmon it is divine! Nothing like diet food. I have it fast day with roasted veg. Have yet to find a recipe I don't like. The Spanish chicken is great, I vary the veg and add extra.

Just bought the kindle version and it looks fab! Will definitely be trying some of those recipes

I have been doing these, I did the Jalphressi and the sweet and sour yesterday for fasting this week ( and OH lunches at work) They were both excellent.

I don't use the oil but fry light and also use more tom puree than cornflour as it lower in calories, the sauce splits a bit, but the taste is better IMO.

I did the chilli with Half lean mince and half quorn, and this was very good too, it drops the fat down a fair bit doing this.

The Jellies are good, but "flatten" your lemonade first or it sets with a "head" on it!

Most of the recipes are on MFP too so that makes logging very easy as well.

Wicked,

Thank you for all the recommendations! I have just ordered the book and can't wait to try out the recipes mentioned by you all!

I made the minced beef and potato pie with the pizza dough but found it very tricky to divide the dough and get it to fit into the pie case so I then tried it with short crust pastry (this was before I started this WOL), very nice. I like the filling that much I have just worked out that there are 847 calories in the pie filling alone before dividing it into portions. This would be good for a few fast days. What do other members think?

[wildmissus]

I've made the mince beef and potato pies with the pizza dough a few times - they freeze well but reheat in the oven not microwave. The pizza dough was a bit fiddly at first but it is stretchy. I have one on a fast day with some sprouts and a little gravy. Today I'm going to make the cheese, leek & onion pasties and with all this cold weather I'll have them with potato croquettes and heinz spaghetti. Tomorrow I'll have one with salad and a little bit of mayo for fast day dinner.

Bought the kindle version - I'll try a few of the recipes over the next few weeks.

My kids absolutely loved the chicken Korma... I've also done the alfresco and cottage pie, and have the ingredients for the fish pie. So far everything has been delicious