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Full review by
Tania
expert review 
on 12th Sep 2007
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Good Points: I took great pleasure and virtue from fault finding throughout the entire programme.
Bad Points: The whole idea is ludicrous.
General comments: Cook Yourself Thin is an absolute farce. The very title itself is an indication of how WRONG the concept of this show is... I mean cook yourself thin? Thin is such a horrible word. Shouldn't it be called cook yourself healthy or something?
Ok the official babble: four women who love food and still manage to look 'fantastic', don't compromise on taste and promise to get you to drop a dress size within 6 weeks...
The reality; four incredibly patronising posh girls who look about as comfortable in a kitchen as the Queen at a squat party, try to make 'skinny' alternatives to our supposedly favourite fatty foods. Apparently these girls don't do denial. What they do manage is to insult the intelligence of anyone with any degree culinary ability by using cliche after cliche and assuming we're all stupid.
Included in the 'tasty' recipes are pizzas made with pitta bread, a low fat alternative to chocolate cake and fruit tarts made with biscuits instead of pastry. I'm guessing these recipes are supposed to be part of a clever and never tried before concept; but instead, the show falls flat on it's behind by making the assumption that all women are silly, unable to stop eating chocolate and desperately want to get thin. To me, this is a pointless exercise... if you want a fruit tart, for goodness sake HAVE ONE! Just be sensible about it!
They can package it how they like but the fact is; if you follow this plan, you are still dieting. The whole concept behind the show takes away the true essence of what cooking food is all about; ie pleasure. Instead of encouraging us to love our curves, it supports the increasingly stupid amount of pressure women are under to look a certain way. What ever happened to eating stuff that's good for you, exercise and a little bit of indulgence now and again, eh? These girls just don't cut it and quite frankly need to take their fiddly recipes elsewhere.
Absolute rubbish. Give me Nigella any day!
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