35 Quick & Easy HCG Recipes

By Ann Chambers

The HCG diet is a near-miraculous weight-loss program, allowing users to lose up to a pound a day! The diet is, however, very limited in foods allowed with no fats, dressings, dairy or many other common components of familiar dishes.
35 Quick & Easy HCG Recipes showcases the best recipes compiled by a group of foodies dieting together. All recipes comply exactly with the HCG protocol. Book is illustrated with color photos!

Visit the Lakehouse Publishing website to download free forms to make the HCG diet even simpler. The site also contains extra free HCG recipes and tips.

These tasty, quick, and easy recipes make it a breeze to follow the HCG diet and watch the pounds disappear! Without a variety of recipes to make the meals more interesting, the diet quickly becomes bland and stifling. Break out with these spicy, nutritious dishes!

The book also includes an overview of the diet, allowed foods and portions, the maintenance transition, and tips to make following the HCG plan easier.

Linked Table of Contents allows readers to click the recipe name and go directly to it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ann Chambers
• Release date: Jul 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466132924

Ann Chambers

Ann Chambers is a journalist, author, and long-time foodie. She worked in a variety of restaurants as a teen and college student, developing an interest in food and cooking. Semi-retired after 20 years working full time as a reporter, editor, and researcher, she is now busy experimenting in the kitchen and tending the garden. Over the past year she has compiled 6 new e-cookbooks, including 25 Quick & Easy Quesadilla Recipes, 35 Quick & Easy HCG Recipes, and her latest offering Gourmet Ice Pops for Kids and Adults.

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Introduction

After seeing the phenomenal results from the HCG diet on several family members and friends, I decided the make the leap and try it myself. I rounded up a couple of friends and we all dieted together. We soon realized that the limited ingredients in the diet created a challenge when creating lunches and dinners.

The diet allows one protein portion and one vegetable portion per meal. The part that's tricky is finding ways to keep food moist and delicious while cooking without fats or oils or dairy, etc. Spices and sauces are extremely important for creating some taste diversity in the extremely limited foods allowed.

So, from day 1 of the diet, my friends and I started experimenting, looking for great taste and diversity. We scoured the Internet looking for ideas and adapted the best of what we found to make it tastier, easier, and faster to prepare. We put our heads together with everyone we know who has tried the diet and picked up all their great ideas too!

This book features our 35 top taste treats for the HCG diet. Try them out and you will see that these great recipes make the days and meals fly by.

The recipes also include tips and tricks we discovered along the way to help make sticking to the diet easier and to make the meals quick and easy to prepare.

There are several versions of the HCG diet in use today. The diet was invented in the 1950s by Dr. Simeon. Over the years, slightly different versions have developed. They are all very similar, but food items included can vary a little bit. Some also recommend slightly different weights per serving of vegetables or meats.

These recipes comply exactly to the version of the diet we used, but if your version is a bit different, just adjust them. For example, my version of the diet called for 3.5 ounces of meats measured raw or 3 ounces of cooked meat. If yours calls for 4 ounces raw meat per serving, increase the meat amounts by that half ounce and you're all set.

One of the best tips we can offer is to think in bulk even though you are eating very small portions. Once you try a recipe and know you like it, make more than one serving. For example, if