Most people want to eat better these days, which means watching sodium sugar ,fat and calorie intake. My question is, do my cookbook readers want to see the nutritional breakdown of the recipes? Would such a thing encourage you or discourage you to make and eat the recipes? I just plugged my new test recipe's ingredients into caloriecount.about.com and according to that website, each serving will only set you back about 70 calories. There will be some oil for frying, but just a drizzle. I'm working on a vegetarian sausage recipe.
That brings me to another question. Would anyone out there be interested in helping me test recipes? I would send you the recipe in question and only ask that you not share it with anyone. It would have to be kept confidential. You could, however, blog about your results and the taste and appearance of the food. Any takers?
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I think nutritional and caloric info is important. Alas, no time to be a tester though!
I wouldn't mind helping, as long as it's vegetarian
Calories info at the bottom of each recipe is never bad! I wish I could be a tester but living at mom makes things more difficult though. I have a friend who maybe would love doing. I'll check it out with her!
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Judith, I am working on some vegetarian recipes to go into the book, even though it's for meat eaters and non-meat eaters alike. I'll let you know. Thanks! And thanks to everyone for their input. Depending on the number of recipes I have, I may analyze them. Thanks again!
I would LOOVE to be a tester!!!
I'm always interested in the break down of things. Even if the count is high, I don't worry about it if it's for just one of my daily meals (and then I try to eat lower calorie stuff the rest of the day)
I would be honored to be a recipe tester! I think that it would be a blast. ^-^ Let me know!
I guess I am in the minority, sounds like too much work to calculate the info but if people want it and you don't mind doing it, why not?
I would love to help out and pretty much eat everything except pork. It would have to be energy and health allowing though, I could probably test out two recipes. I'm also testing out another cookbook at the same time so if that isn't enough for you, I understand.
I always read the nutritional information on prepackaged foods, but only because they often include preservatives and ungodly amounts of sodium. I don't necessarily feel I need that in a cookbook, since by following a recipe I know what's going into it.
I would also test for you!
I love having all the information in a cook book. If I want, I can still ignore it afterwards. (Sometimes you need all the bad food you can get. Where's my ice cream?)
And if you want, I'd love to test some recipes for you. (And it might be great to get the BF to eat even more healthy stuff, he came to me as a "Why don't we grab some fast food?" guy.)
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