I bought this cookbook and was excited to get into it. I then found that I didn't like it at all. I am a picky eater, and most of the recipes include things that I will not eat, however if I leave them out of the recipe, then the recipe would be lacking in flavor. The other thing I don't like about it is that they remove sugar and use sugar substitutes. I don't like that either. So I recently bought the sparkpeople cookbook, and I am much happier with it.