Low-Calorie Desserts
Better Homes and Gardens
1972
Submitter: There are some reasonable recipes here, but the whole thing looks really dated.
Holly: I’m all for dessert less than 150 calories, and submitter is right – there are some tasty-sounding treats here. The photography is very 1970s, though. Food blogs today have such gorgeous images; this can’t hold a candle to what you see online today. The dishware and the utensils are old fashioned too. Not retro, but old fashioned. The difference is in the image quality and design of the book. It isn’t the Better Homes & Gardens we all know and love today, presenting classic recipes on kitschy retro plates. It’s just old.
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Of course many desserts can be 150 calories or fewer — just make the portions small!
Mmmmm, I can taste the saccharine now
The food looks good but the recipes seem overly complicated. ‘Fancy’ food was the norm for cookbooks back then. I’d love to know what’s in that sliced loaf.
No matter what the meal is, a nice selection of fresh fruit always makes an excellent dessert.
I collect that Better Homes and Garden series!!! There are many more strange recipes in all the other books, too.
I know, right? I just love it when diet ads tell you that you can eat things like pizza and cake, but that’s really only if each serving is just barely enough to feed a tiny, underweight mouse. Diets don’t work.