Showing posts with label cookbooks:diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cookbooks:diet. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Diets To Live By!

To continue on a margarine-based theme, Diets To Live By! is a 1967 diet book that aimed to integrate Chiffon Margarine into every dish imaginable. Like many other company-sponsored diet books, the premise was that as long as you use their product in abundance, the remainder of your diet doesn't really matter. Sounds effective!


1. Front cover


2. This doesn't look very light to me! I have to admit, I've never seen margarine on steak before, but I suppose that doesn't mean anything.


3. Chicken goop and chicken goop with chicken cut-outs


4. This dish isn't remarkable. I just think there haven't been enough fish heads in this blog.


5. Back cover - Here you see the sunburst design popular in this cookbook. And you learn a bit about how soft Chiffon tastes like 'expensive spreads.'

Friday, January 05, 2007

Eat and Stay Slim

With the start of each new year comes the annual torrent of resolutions. The most popular resolutions revolve around health: losing weight, eating more nutritious foods, or exercising. For that reason, now's the perfect time to introduce Better Homes and Gardens' 1968 volume Eat And Stay Slim. It's just the thing to start you on the way to a healthier lifestyle.


1. Front cover - Eat and Stay Slim.. by gnawing on this giant hunk of beef!


2. Strange enough, a mouthless man (who looks a bit like Hunter S. Thompson) battles 'telltale bulge' and eats a candy bar.. all while two fully-faced children torment him at the beach. Hasn't he had a hard enough life, what with lacking a mouth and having a watch carved out of his arm?


3. In this scene, Shirley MacLaine can't zip up her cool paisley dress so she's given a letterman sweater.


4. Here the book shows its recommended exercise regimen.


5. If you lost your rolling pin, you might want to take your tandem bike out for a ride. It doesn't matter whether you sit in the back with your feet up or kill yourself peddling a fully-occupied tandem bicycle up a steep incline by yourself; it's just good exercise!


6. Welcome to Mount Reduction. I wonder how much altitude could have influenced this scene.


7. Don't you just hate Pampered Beef? They always get whatever they want while everyone else has to work for a living!


8. MMM MMM Good! Chilled Beef-A-Mato and Cuke-Buttermilk Soups! Great for parties! Best garnished with daisies!


9. "Iceberg Ring with crisp lettuce in lime-flavored gelatin proudly displays a peak of Tuna Salad -- a refreshing combination." And I'm proud to display this to you!


10. This is actually the picture that persuaded me to buy this book. Why would you try to melt desiccated skin over your asparagus? You have to look at it up close; no cheese has that kind of texture!