Hungry Girl Simply 6: All-Natural Recipes with 6 Ingred… (2024)

Reviewing a cookbook is a thoroughly new experience for me. As most of you may know, I’m a thriller girl.
Recently contacted by Jordan Hanley at St Martin’s Press, I was offered the opportunity to do just that. Both a bit flattered and anxious to try something completely different, I wholeheartedly agreed to “start cooking!” Here we go!

My husband and I split the cooking duties in our home. (Ok fine…truthfully he cooks more than I do!). Lately, we’ve found ourselves in a dining rut, cranking out the same few dishes over and over.

Lisa Lillien known to all as The Hungry Girl is a rapidly rising star and quite well known! I’ve seen her on Dr. Oz and several other cooking shows on both the Food Network and The Cooking Channel. Must admit, I had never tried one of her dishes before.

Her latest cookbook, Hungry Girl - Simply Six just became our favorite go-to cookbook.

Let’s start with the pictures themselves. Each dish is accompanied by beautifully plated photos that will leave you salivating and wanting to devour it!

As advertised, every recipe is only six ingredients. Are you kidding? Fantastic. And perhaps just as amazing? Every single recipe we’ve tried (so far) has been a winner. Also accompanied by amazing tips along the way.
My husband and I discovered that these recipes act as a great foundation to stand on their own. Allowing us to put on our junior chefs’ hat and experiment with adding something here and there to suit your own tastes.

You’re given the calorie count and all nutritional information as well as your prep and cook times. All recipes are under 375 calories! All are amazing! Bon–appetite!!

Some of the delicious recipes we tried and would recommend were:
EZ BBQ Chicken Quesadilla - our only change was we grilled the chicken breast.
Tropical fish tacos - we added a table spoon of dressing to the coleslaw mix.
Scott’s Nutty Avacado Salmon - yum!! Actually making this one again tonight!
Sweet and Spicy Buffalo Chicken Nuggets (not too spicy)
There are countless post-it’s marking the pages of recipes we still want to try! This book never makes it into my pantry. It is a permanent fixture on my kitchen counter!

Thank you so much to Jordan Hanley at St Martin’s Press and Lisa Lillien for my copy to read, review and continue to use on a daily basis!

A great book!

I found a lot of neat recipes to copy, that work extremely well with my Weight Watchers, including Chocolate Chip cookies!

She provides substitutes - oatmeal instead of flour, etc. that I would have never thought of. I also love the fact that she includes nutritional information, which makes each recipe extremely easy to enter into my WW app.

I love that Author, Lillien provided some great tips, as well, including ways to "spice" your food, besides reaching for the salt shaker.

Fabulous!

3.5 stars

Interesting concept, and tons of extra tips, tricks, and suggestions. Cookbook well suited if you need dairy or grain free recipes, and especially if you like peanut butter (I don’t) or zoodles. Planning to try a few recipes, will see how we enjoy them.

Disappointed in the amount of pre-made items used for these recipes. Use pre-made teriyaki sauce, pre-made gravy, etc. The whole reason I need a cookbook is trying to make simple meals from simple ingredients. Most of those pre-made sauces have additives I’m not interested in.

I was also surprised that at least 1/3 of the book is dessert.

A few good ideas. I wish she worried about sodium and sugar as much as calories

Nice book! This is a lot more than a basic book of recipes. Lillien includes many tips and techniques using some of the most popular methods: Instant Pot, sheet pans, and more. She offers a LOT of practical tips to make cooking easier. Instead of just encouraging readers to make a recipe, she helps prepare readers to take control of their own food preparation. I love that she also provide WW Freestyle points for the recipes on her website. I am very happy that I purchased this book!

It’s a great cookbook. Most everything looks great and like I can get my kids to eat it. I would give it 5 stars but it calls for a lot of low fat ingredients and sugar substitutes. I’d rather clean eating. But it’s easy enough to use the clean ingredients and get a similar outcome, even if it’s a few more calories. Pictures for almost every recipe!

I like that the recipes include the calories per serving.

No. Just. No.

Eh. There is nothing new or exciting here. Sure, some recipes look good, but nothing you can’t find for free on the internet.

Nothing new or inspiring. You could find as much quickly online.

I love Lillien's books - her tone is great, like talking to a friend who's obsesses with food AND with dieting. These recipes are quick and generally include ingredients you probably have around the house. In some cases, I found them to be almost too streamlined - I thought the chicken chili could use a little more depth. But overall, if you want to get a healthy meal together in 30 minutes or less, this is your go-to. Some of the meat and chicken recipes are variations from other books (like Hungry Girlfredo) - I thought her Big Book had more to offer for those proteins. This book really shines in the breakfast chapters - her oats and egg recipes are super.

A lot of the portions here are for one or two people, but you could easily double for a family. She still uses artificial sweetener (I realize there are natural sources for zero calorie sweeteners, but I dont' trust them), but otherwise the recipes include non-diet 'regular' food. The book has full nutrition info for everything.

A great everyday resource.

I loved this cookbook. It is so well organized. There are calorie counts for every recipe, and pictures accompany most. The recipes are listed in a variety of ways to help the busy cook: 15 minutes prep, 30 minutes prep, easy veg, make in instant pot, etc.

There are useful keys of how to make cauliflower rice, how to make zoodles, how to make spice blends etc. easily.

The only downside is that the book is bulky and heavy. I read the paper, but I have it on my Kindle to be useful in the kitchen.

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There were so many good ideas and pictures that deserved 4 stars. The type of book this is I don’t know if I agree with. Sweetener substitute and the like, I am more of the natural route, so with that being said I did find recipes that I would make. This book is worth a look see.

I found about twenty recipes that I’d like to try. Mostly in the breakfast and dessert sections I loved the way this book was organized. I loved the font, the pictures and the advice. I love the simplicity of the recipes. Very doable.

I've always wanted to read a cookbook from hungry girl. But maybe this one isn't the best. Her meals are simple. Just a few ingredients or less. But none of the recipes caught my eye or were already staple variations in my home

I really love this cookbook! I borrowed it from the library, but now I plan to purchase it on Kindle. There are lots of recipes I want to try in it. It is well-organized and the recipes truly do look fast and easy to make.

If you are looking for healthy and quick to make dishes, this book is for you! I found a couple of recipes to try.

This is a cookbook I borrowed from the library, but would like to own. It's simple, pretty and doable. This is how I like to eat!

Lots of good ideas here, many of these recipes are low fat. I enjoy reading cookbooks, I get a lot of good ideas for dinner.

Easy to follow, fun recipes. Different options from crock pot to instapot to sheet pan recipes. Great and yummy ideas.

Love her books. This one is packed full of great recipes I can't wait to try.

I’ve been kind of sour on Hungry Girl cookbooks. But this is a good one. Simple, healthy and WW smartpoints. I might have to buy it.

Some really great looking recipes.

Got quite a few good recipes from this one--I love the simple recipes with fewer ingredients!!!

Great recipes and lots of pictures. Love the sheet pan shrimp.

Great ideas but some ingredients may need substitutions. (Oh well welcome to 21ST century cooking, does it work with aquafaba?)

A fabulous cookbook offering simple, delicious recipes that do not require exotic ingredients. If you don't know about Hungry Girl and her recipes, it's time to find out.

We made a few breakfast items, and they were not for us!