Too much about the eggs
928267
Not as good as the previous two books. Sometimes it was quite boring.
297177
Might be better suited for small eggs.  Large and extra large eggs are a no go with this product.
4292640
Really too much description of personal habits and descriptions of what they eat. A different crime novel to be sure. Slightly entertaining.
3990290
This will be a wonderful game and Im excited to use it this weekend but the eggs came dirty....almost like they were used. Thats why it lost 2 stars.
2378979
I wanted to like this book more than I did. And there are certainly quite a few aspects of this book to like. However, there are also several points where the emperor (that would be David A. Kessler, M.D.,) is underdressed, to say the least. No matter how impressive his credentials are, no matter how detailed the research is that he presents, and no matter how well drawn many of his arguments are, the fact still remains that there are too many places where he just let the ball drop-- and somebody who was the commissioner of the U.S. F.D.A. under 2 presidents can and should do better.

Here are some examples. This is a 320 page book analyzing the science of how and why people overeat, the ways in which the food industry takes advantage of this fact, and some ideas about what might be done about it(most of which are based on cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, but not particularly new ones-- I'm an M.S.W., so I'm very familiar with these.) In these 320 pages, less than one page, and I'm really not joking, is devoted to the topic of exercise. This is inexcusable. A doctor absolutely should know better than this! Then, the brief chapter on the deadly phentermine/fenfluramine diet drug combo too lightly skips over the tens of thousands of cases of permanent heart defects it caused (at minimum) by referring to them as "some cases" of "side effects." Its positive effects are grossly overexaggerated, and no figures or facts are presented to back them up: only anecdotes. Again, Kessler knows better than this! But the biggest problem of all is yet to come.

Then, after an entire book alternating between scientific theory and sometimes weird dwelling on "salt, fat, sugar, fat, fat, fat, sugar" in commercially available food items, we get the "food rehab" section. At last, the big answer! But the problem is that even though it's repackaged to sound new and exciting, there's nothing new here at all. It's the same old "structure imposed from the outside with meal plans" (pg. 210), planned eating, trying to talk yourself out of eating what you want, small portions, putting up "fat" pictures of yourself on the fridge door, 1200 calories a day (really, that's what he says-- this advice is 20 years or more out of date!), and so on, and so on, ibid, etc....

But this is the same controlled eating that hasn't been working for people for eighty years and more by now.  I didn't go to Harvard. But I DO have a masters' degree in social work, and I DID do a literature review article a year ago that analyzed all available controlled eating studies. Remember that "95% of all diets fail within two years figure? The facts tell us that it's a gross underestimate. 98% is much closer to the truth. And the closer that a diet plan is to what Kessler proposes, the more likely it is to fail. Excluding exercise guarantees failure. No matter how unpleasant or unpalatable this reality is, it is what we get from the facts. That's why we need to see something MORE emerge from the meticulously arranged facts which Kessler does present here.

I think that's why it's so disappointing to see the same failed plans reassembled and proposed yet again. So much more could have been done. Maybe somebody else needs to come along, take the facts that were presented here, and really use them to come up with something new that could actually work. The answer is there-- we just don't know what it is yet. But we're not going to find out by continuing to go over the same things that haven't worked the last zillion times they were tried.
3144662
The pictures, layout and information are great, but I was disappointed in the excessive use of non-food, non-Paleo ingredients like whey and egg protein - without suggesting real-food alternatives.
1690930
Way too much cooking with odd ingredients for me.  However, the stories of the women are well done.  She's an interesting writer.
1587940
Nice designs, but awfully big.  Use extra-large or Jumbo eggs!
918590
Cool! I eat like 10x as much eggs now, and I don't put it away because I'm bored with it. I drop in 4 eggs, and I don't stir them. Do a 1.50 minute, and they stay a little runny, maybe even sunny side up. Take em down!
4502935
I bought this book out of curiosity. I would love to raise my child as a healthy, happy eater and this book seemed to be useful. However, to me, the things are too subtle that I couldn't get into it. I admit that there are very interesting facts and they were eye-opening. Things like, you wouldn't want your kid's feet to be hanging in the air because it is uncomfortable - when you adult sit on a high bar stool without the foot rest, it is darn hard to eat. Yes. It gave me a-ha moments with these kinds of things. But visual stimulation, eliminating things that obstruct concentration, associating food & eating with good memories... My husband and I weren't raised in any special way but very healthy and happy eaters. I just didn't see the necessity of all the things explained in the book.
2165809
I can't believe how much eggs and sugar goes into some of these recipes.  Two and three cups of sugar?!  16, 18 20+ eggs?! I can not in good mind make my family a treat using those amounts.  Might as well make them something from wheat.  So needless to say I  now wish I had not purchased this book because I won't  be using it.
1793567
Too many parts to deal with and not convienient to clean. Medium egg would not fit in the cup without spilling over. Eggs are not smooth, more like a rough outter skin. Yolk is not centered when done, makes it hard to slice for deviled eggs. I returned them and the store said they had lots of people returning them, so I was not alone.
610627
While a few recipes, like Laura Bush's Carrot Muffins, Rick Perry's Aunt Jene's Coconut Pie, and George Bush's Brownies are serious recipes, too many are just can-dumping casseroles or outrageous (Mountain Oysters) that try to be funny. They should have simply published a coffee table picture book showing larger photos of the lovely courthouses, or else gotten serious about offering real (tested) recipes that had been edited to make sure ingredients and preparation steps made sense and were correct. Sorry I wasted my money on this book. The good recipes are available online for free and the rest of the book just takes up space on a crowded shelf.
1887692
Paula will all have us 50 pounds overweight.  Way too much butter and other fattening ingredients.  It does not stand out from other cookbooks and recipes are repeated in her other books.
2075447
It would have been better if there was one list for foods rather than scattered throughout the book....exp: veg in one section, dairy in another, meats in another part of the book etc. Too much flipping/searching involved.
4047937
Well of course, you would not expect a bunny to have a chocolate rabbit - would you?

It is egg-hunting morning and Max and Ruby are out early wanting to win the grand prize of the chocolate chicken.  Ruby explains that the person who finds the most eggs gets the chicken.  Easy-peazy, or so it seems.

Why looks for eggs when there is so much more to see like mud puddles and acorns.  As Ruby gathers eggs, Max finds spoons and ants.

Max still wants that chicken but has a plan that does not involve looking for eggs.

Not a very good plan and I am sure that parents will have a hard time explaining to their young children how you can have a happily ever after ending when stealing is involved.

The illustrations are colorful and engaging, just not sure that the overall theme is something that most parents would want to read to their children.
1846066
I bought this book, to help me with what to do with the other half. I hate to waste anything from my home grown eggs. The Table of Contents does not interact at all, it only tells you, how many egg yolks or whites are used. When you type in 2 egg yolks for example, and go to that section, then you have to page through the recipes. Very time consuming. A working Table of Contents of how many egg yolks or whites, followed by a working Table of Contents in that section, of the recipes, would work so much better. Make a better version and I will buy it.