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(More customer reviews)This is the first book I have retuned to Amazon!
I was, at first, impressed by the per serving numbers given at the bottom of every recipe -- all so wonderfully low! Then when I got around to reading the actual ingredients I found the author expects everyone to eat less than my 9# Shih Tzu (and ingredient combinations most dogs would refuse). The portions are ALL extremely small! Eating only what this author recommends would be a starvation diet for most adult renal patients, and especially for my 210 pound husband. By the time I doubled the portion sizes the nutritional values were near what I usually prepare from my regular recipes using low sodium products, and fresh ingredients.
Many of the recipes had ingredient combinations I would never have tried. I know my husband won't eat any kind of fruit preserves on any kind of meat. Though some of the desserts looked yummy the portions sizes were almost infinitesimal
If the book were $9.95, I probably would have kept it for some of the tips like soaking fresh vegetable overnight to leech out the naturally occurring elements my husband must limit. But at the current price it was not worth it.
Also, there was a printing error which omitted the index pages from the letter D to letter P, but I would have returned it even if all of the pages had been there.
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