I bought this book expecting a quick and easy way to prepare delicious and healthy dishes for myself and my family.While it is quick, simple and healthy, the taste of the recipes is just ok.I'm a very good cook and a lot of the recipes turned out bland.After a while I ended up adding extra spices or using different cooking techiniques to make the dishes palatable.All that being said, this book is a great resource for someone new to the Zone way of cooking and for someone that is either new to cooking or ,as in my mom's case, hates cooking and wants something easy to make.
I loved the fact that the author had suggestions for complementary dishes included in each recipe to help you decide which meat to serve with which vegetable and how to make it a complete Zone meal.No guesswork here!
Also, the first few chapters are devoted to teaching the reader about the Zone and it's health benefits as well as how to come up with an eating plan.There are also sample menus for week.It is a very well thought out book, but I just wish that the recipes were more interesting and that the book included pictures of the dishes.It's a good book to start with though.
Product Description
From the cooking expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition, daily and weekly menus that make it easy for you to stay in the Zone
Offering a proven formula for permanent fat loss, optimal health and all-round peak performance, the Zone diet has an estimated over two million followers worldwide. Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to stay in the Zone while enjoying delicious, easy-to-fix meals. It features 150 recipes from Gloria Bakst, whose work as the cooking and lifestyle expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition appears in the "Cooking with Gloria" section of ZonePerfect's well-traveled website.
Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to adapt the Zone's 40-30-30 (carbs-fats-protein) formula to real food and your real life and supplies daily and weekly menus along with down-to-earth explanations of the latest nutrition research findings.
Easy and Tasty Recipes for Zone Living:
- Lettuce Wraps with Thai Peanut Sauce
- Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
- Tuna and Apple Salad
- Shrimp Scampi with Sun-Dried Tomatoes
- Scallops with Orange and Sesame
- Grilled Swordfish in Lime-Cilantro Sauce
- Grilled Mahi-Mahi with Strawberries
- Chicken Taco Salad
- Open-Face Avocado-Chicken Salad Sandwich
- Turkey Apple Quesadillas
- Grilled Lemon-Basil Pork Chops
- Chili-in-the-Zone
- Zucchini Lasagna
- Spicy Eggplant Stir-Fry
- Steamed Butternut Squash with Bok Choy and Mushrooms
- Sweet Crisps with Ricotta and Berries
- Apple Crisp or Fresh Fruit Crisp
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