TikTok user Georgina shared a video of the book and its pages to the app on October 7, dubbing it the “worst book” she had ever purchased from the retail giant.
Inside the book, which was advertised as a low-calorie vegetarian one, featured various classic recipes using meat, including beef and chicken.
Georgina flipped through the pages showing the camera what recipes it detailed—crab salad, vegetable soup with beef, chicory and ham stew and chicken goulash all made the cut.
The video can also be seen in full here.
“You might be thinking, ‘why is this book so rubbish?’” she continued. “This is a vegetarian low-calorie cookbook,” she revealed before showing the cover.
The book claims on the cover to contain: “80 dishes under 300 calories losing weight or staying fit.”
The ease of publishing is valuable for authors to get their work in the public sphere, but it also means customers take a risk in terms of quality when choosing to order.
The vegetarian cookbook was published by an author named Wilma Larkin and is one of many cookbooks they have listed. Others include more vegetarian cookbooks, a “perfect steak cookbook” and even ones specifically for diabetics and those recovering from heart attacks.
Previously, it retailed for $8.99 and had a 1.5 star rating, with reviews that were far from positive.
“For a vegetarian cookbook there’s a lot of recipes with meat…? The formatting is awful too! Terrible book, don’t buy it,” wrote one reviewer.
