Product Description

Collins Calorie Counter is the UK's best-selling Calorie counter's guide. With information on Kids' food, Fast Food and Family Favourites it's your one-stop, at-a-glance reference to incorporating Calorie counting easily into your everyday life. Controlling Calorie intake is one of the most effective ways of dieting. By detailing information on thousands of foods and food products, Collins Calorie Counter provides the most comprehensive coverage to help you track the Calories you eat from day to day. In addition to Calorie content for each entry, details are also given on the amount of protein, carbohydrate, fat and dietary fibre, helping you to plan a balanced diet. The contents are organised by types of food -- for example Fish, Flour and Baking, Fruit and Vegetables and Jams. This makes it easier to find what you are looking for and to compare similar food and products. Collins Calorie Counter is the ideal companion for weight-conscious shoppers everywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33237 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
Amazon review for the previous edition: 'Anyone who is thinking of dieting -- STOP HERE. This is the handyman guide to dieting. All weight loss classes will ask you to keep a watch on how many calories/fats/carbohydrates you eat per day -- BUT they never explain to you what foods have what in them!. If you don't know, you need this book'

Customer Reviews

Useless
I found this book to be completely useless. It lists just about every food by a 100g weight measurement including things like jam and pickle where a more user-friendly measurement might be more appropriate (eg by the teaspoon or tablespoon). It lists, for example, fish fingers by the 100g and Tunnocks tea cakes by the 100g instead of by an individual portion. I have returned my copy. Why the writers could not have put a bit of effort in and worked out portion sizes or even simply copied the information from the listing on the product I don't know.

Awesome for working out calories in your favourite meals
Had to write this review as I disagree with the previous review. Other calorie counting books have irritated me because they gave calorie content for teaspoons and tablespoon measurements which makes it very difficult to accurately compare foods side by side for calorie and fat content. If you want to calculate the calorie content of your favourite recipes, this book is ideal. If however you want a book to take out with you and get a rough estimate of what you are consuming there are tons of other books on the market that will do exactly that.

Good for dieting
Great help when dieting. This book has helped me count calories and fat while dieting.