To think Pinch of Nom is not that amazing?

[GallbladderWoes]

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I had 2 PON books for Christmas, and a lot of the recipes aren't great, and a lot are very basic!

Don't get me wrong there's some good ones but the diet cola Chinese chicken takes ages when there's much easier ways to make a tasty, healthy low fat Chinese, and tonight I made the ham and potato cakes as "an easy dinner" and they have basically been a massive faff and all fallen apart.

Gahhhh.

I have an unhealthy addiction to healthy recipe books. I often flick through PON but rarely make anything. The hairy dieters win by a country mile, if you want to spend some time cooking, and make something super delicious, then you won't go wrong with anything from any of their dieters books

I haven't got any of their books - but my tip is to borrow cookery books from the library then copy and print out (or photograph) your one or two favourite recipes!

@Cockle1234

I have an unhealthy addiction to healthy recipe books. I often flick through PON but rarely make anything. The hairy dieters win by a country mile, if you want to spend some time cooking, and make something super delicious, then you won't go wrong with anything from any of their dieters books

I agree. They are excellent. This site is recommended by Two Chubby Cubs too. It's slimming world recipes so variations of many others but still good for a browse.

www.latoyah.co.uk/p/slimming-world-friendly-dinners.html?m=1

I've got the 4 books and there's loads of recipes I still want to try and quite a few that are now favourites. I have to tweak a few here and there and I use sugar instead of artificial sweetener, buy they were well worth it and I look forward to trying some new ones soon

I use their books occasionally. The recipes might be basic, but so are my cooking skills, so that’s ok with me.

Prefer the Hairy Bikers diet books, though.

Hairy bikers all the way for me— amazing taste - low fat beef coconut curry is my Xmas eve dinner every year!!

Anyone else make the hairy bikers pie with potato pastry— that’s a bit of a faff but very nice

I had the first book. I made three recipes out of it and there was something not quite right about each of them. So I sold the book on eBay.

Dear god I so agree OP. PON is like some mad slimming world spin off cult. Their original book was about 80% rip off recipes and after building their following sharing slimming world recipes directly from books they decreed that no
Photos of their books would be allowed to be shared on the fb page. So hypocritical! I prefer the Scott baptie high protein handbooks

Two Chubby Cubs are excellent!

I like the BBC food website although I buy cookery books I tend to just look through them but I try the recipes on here I also rate the recipes in the Sainsbury’s magazine.

I like the campfire stew!

Can anyone else recommend a recipe book with slow cooker recipes that don't include a million ingredients?

I have one of the books and I'm very disappointed with it, it will be going to the charity shop this week.

There’s loads of nice recipe books on kindle for 99p at the mo - cashing in on January health kicks. They don’t tend to have big names like jamie Oliver/Joe wicks/pinch of nom but I like the mindful chef one, and I got one pot, pan, planet for £2.99 the other day which I’ve had my eye on for a while. It’s not the same as a big glossy book, but if you have an iPad you can get the kindle app for free and see all the recipes in colour.

I thought Pinch of Nom was originally a blog by someone who was doing Slimming World, so all the recipes work with Slimming World's way of eating?

They're just basic recipes but they use low fat options of everything which aren't actually good for you compared to the real full fat versions

I got The Meal Prep King book for Christmas and was pleasantly surprised. I’ve already made 2 lovely recipes out of it (Caribbean pork and cottage pie) and really enjoyed them and there are a few more I like the look of but I don’t think my fussy kids will eat them tbh.

@Slicedbread

I thought Pinch of Nom was originally a blog by someone who was doing Slimming World, so all the recipes work with Slimming World's way of eating?

SW then sued them I believe, for using syn values and healthy whatsits without permission

Am mildly sceptical about any diet cola recipe as the sweeteners are generally not meant to be cooked and there would be little purpose. The sugar in regular coke has a purpose, to caramelise in cola chicken but would be surprised if the diet cola recipes worked.

I've also been a bit disappointed with PON books. The hairy dieters are a bit better, but I only ever seem to get 1-2 regular recipes out of each book I buy.

I've started to copy out the recipes that I know are winners and add them to a folder so that I can actually find them.

If anyone knows of any decent low-carb books, I'm all ears!

I haven’t even bothered looking at it, the stupid name put me right off.

The Mediterranean lamb in the last book is really good, I think that book is better than the latest one.

2 chubby cubs have some good recipes if you can be bothered to scroll to the end of the page to find the recipe.

@Zilla1 - there's only 300ml of Diet Coke in the recipe, the rest of the liquid is stock & passata so there's no caramelisation on the meat, if that makes sense? It's very tasty though.

It’s full of artificial sweetener and carb. Far more suitable to Slimming World than any other healthy eating plan I’ve been on

I don’t ever put in the artificial sweetener, Slimming world is the same.