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Quick and Easy Low-Cal Vegan Comfort Food

With Quick and Easy Low-Cal Vegan Comfort Food Alicia C. Simpson combines a sensible approach to a whole-foods vegan diet with delicious down-home recipes like Sweet Potato Souffl, Breakfast Biscuit Sandwich, and Butter Rum Pound Cake. Healthy eating never tasted so good!

Robin Robertson, best-selling author of Quick-Fix Vegan, Vegan on the Cheap, and Vegan Fire & Spice

Alicias enticing recipes are nutrient-rich, flavor-packed, and built from familiar, whole ingredients, and her delightful descriptions make you feel like shes in the kitchen with you preparing delicious, sensible meals.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, best-selling author of Color Me Vegan, Vegans Daily Companion, and The 30-Day Vegan Challenge

Alicia has really outdone herself with this book. Finally we can have decadent soul food without the calories or fat. Many of Alicias recipes are made without oil and using wholesome, fresh ingredients. I highly recommend this book!

Lindsay S. Nixon, author of The Happy Herbivore Cookbook and Everyday Happy Herbivore

This book is a must-have for anyone (vegan or not!) who is looking to get rid of excess calories and keep all of the fun and flavor in comfort food favorites. Alicia shows us how to control portions while discussing the nutritional science from a vegan point of view in a book that is thoughtfully laid out and fun to read.

Joni Marie Newman, coauthor of The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions

Forget having to drop the fun and flavor from your meals in order to make them figure-friendly, because Alicias Quick & Easy Low-Cal Vegan Comfort Food will have you dreaming of lower-calorie vegan Cheese Fries, Chorizo Breakfast Quesadillas, and Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream, and devouring them too!

Celine Steen, coauthor of Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites

From Baked Hush Puppies and Vegetable Noodle Soup to Chickpea Cacciatore and Lemongrass Soda, Alicia has some amazing recipes in store for you. Welcome to the new world of good-for-you comfort food!

Kathy Hester, author of The Vegan Slow Cooker

Also by Alicia C. Simpson

Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food:

65 EVERYDAY MEAL IDEAS FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER
WITH OVER 150 GREAT-TASTING, DOWN-HOME RECIPES

Quick and Easy Vegan Celebrations:

150 GREAT-TASTING RECIPES PLUS FESTIVE MENUS
FOR VEGANTASTIC HOLIDAYS AND GET-TOGETHERS
ALL THROUGH THE YEAR

QUICK AND EASY

150 DOWN-HOME RECIPES PACKED WITH FLAVOR, NOT CALORIES

Alicia C. Simpson

QUICK AND EASY LOW-CAL VEGAN COMFORT FOOD: 150 Down-Home Recipes Packed with Flavor, Not Calories

Copyright 2012 Alicia C. Simpson
Photographs and food styling copyright 2012 Sara Lynn Paige

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Simpson, Alicia C.

Quick and easy low-cal vegan comfort food : 150 down-home recipes packed with flavor, not calories / Alicia C. Simpson.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-61519-042-3 (pbk.)ISBN 1-61519-042-2 (pbk.)ISBN

978-1-61519-142-0 (ebook)ISBN 1-61519-142-9 (ebook) 1. Vegan cooking.

2. Comfort food. 3. Low-calorie dietRecipes. I. Title.

TX837.S497 2011

641.5636dc23

2011043502

ISBN: 978-1-61519-042-3
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-61519-142-0

Cover design by Susi Oberhelman

Cover photographs Sara Lynn Paige, featuring Seitan Cheesesteak ()

Author photograph by Kelly Donovan

Text design by Pauline Neuwirth, Neuwirth & Associates, Inc.

Manufactured in the United States of America
Distributed by Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Distributed simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen and Son Ltd.

First published May 2012
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To my parents John and Linda Simpson.

You are two of the most supportive, loving, and giving people

I have ever been blessed to know. You are what love is.

QUICK AND EASY

LOW-CAL
Vegan Comfort Food

ITS CONFESSION TIME. Im not your typical low-calorie, low-fat health nut. My policy has always been simply to eat the foods I love, exercise daily, and keep a positive attitude. When I set out to write this book, my philosophy on food stayed the same. Although the recipes in this book are low-calorie, none of them were designed specifically to be low-calorie (except for Fettucine Slim-Fredo, call a whole foods vegan will help put you on the right track. By whole foods vegan, I dont mean vegans who shop at the popular health food chain by the same name, but vegans who eat a wholesome diet made up of generous servings of nutrient-rich whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seedsnot a diet made up of nutrient-poor junk foods.

Not to worry, there is still room in your life for your favorite sweet treats. This book has a chapter dedicated to Sinful Sweets (), and it is filled with recipes for donuts, ice creams, cakes, and cupcakes. Actually, it is surprising how few calories are in many desserts. The real problem arises when we eat three cupcakes instead of one, or two cups of ice cream instead of a half-cup serving. This wont be a problem for you, though, because this book will teach you how to use proper serving sizes to create satisfying meals with real food and work in your favorite desserts, too, without a single calorie more than you need.