Capture the power of taste

Tailoring Your Tastes is an important new concept cookbook based on two natural premises. The first foundation is the power of individual taste buds - if you like it, you will want to eat it. The second foundation is accommodation of normal attitudes & behaviours - a decision to change is usually followed by a rapidjump into new ways of doing things and an expectation of immediate success - conditions that lead to giving up on the desire for change. The tools in Tailoring Your Tastes work through these two filters by offering three variations on the same recipe to enable a gradual and permanent move to new healthier taste preferences.

Co-authored by registered dietitian, Linda Omichinski, and registered nurse, Heather Wiebe Hildebrand, Tamos Books of Winnipeg originally published this vibrant guide to acquiring a taste for healthier food choices. Full colour photographs, and a careful layout of the process for recipe alterations stimulate the desire to get started.

The credentials and personal stories of the authors add dimension to the book. Linda Omichinski is also the author of the best selling, You Count, Calories Don't (first published by Tamos Books) which broke important new ground with the freeing message that diets don't work and pose a health risk. She is the creator of HUGS, a healthy living nondiet program, that is delivered by a worldwide network of health professionals. Heather Wiebe Hildebrand is a licensed HUGS facilitator, a former dieter, a community health nurse and a person with diabetes.

Eating healthy has become the latest diet fad. Low fat and high fiber are the new status icons for a health conscious public. And what about taste? "Oh well, if it's good for me I can eat it" - an attitude that dooms the eater to rnuster up the same type of 'self control" that spells diet - "I shouldn't/ can't cat it." Tailoring Your Tastes is not a diet repackaged as healthy eating. The book sets out a truly unique set of nondiet nutrition concepts that are simple and easy to use.