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by: Kristy Walker
Topics include: tsp slivered almonds, light rye crackers, spray nonstick cooking spray, tsp almond butter, toast rye bread, cup yellow squash, cucumber yogurt sauce, spread avocado, tsp olive oil, smoked tofu, cup red onion, olive oil spray, tsp sesame oil, cup green beans, cup zucchini, protein powder
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Self proclaimed diet junkie, Kristy Walker, discovered ZonePerfect and became such a believer of this dieting method she’s made it a lifelong way to eat. Balancing proteins, carbs and fats, she feels it’s improved her energy, mental focus and complexion.
The 130 recipes developed with two natural food chefs — Janet Hampel and Alana Sugar — feature fresh foods as vibrant as they are good for you. You’ll find:
• Nourishing breakfasts like blackberry and cherry smoothie and scrambled Mexican tofu.
• Colorful lunch salads such as ham, melon, goat cheese on arugula or tangerine shrimp salad with avocado dressing.
• Distinctive dinner recipes such as swiss chard with ginger butternut squash and arame; orange almond tofu stir fry; to seared sea bass with capers and olives.
Recognizing you don’t always have time to cook, the recipes have been coded into 3 cooking times so you can select the recipe that fits your lifestyle.
About the Author
Kristy Walker, BS is a certified ZonePerfect Instructor and national sales manager for the ZonePerfect Nutrition Company. She’s worked over 20 years in the natural foods industry and her teachings and writings focus on natural and organic foods.
We have tried four dinner recipes in this book so far, and all were good. I was surprised to see that many dinner recipes are only recipies on how to prepare veggies, and then the end of the recipe it says "Tip: this dish goes well with grilled chicken or beef" etc, so you are left on your own to figure out what meat to serve and how to prepare it.
However, this cookbook does have a great variety of recipies that don't just use the same old zone veggies.
The baked salmon on fennel and mustard dill sauce recipe was excellent (and soo easy) and left my 6 year old asking for a third helping!
Beautiful pictures of the finished meal, but I got a kick out of one salad that was pictured with bow tie pasta...which was not in the recipe and is a zone diet no-no!
absolutely delicious meals
Reviewer: working mom (New York, NY United States)
the meals in this book are so tasty and easy to make, i keep coming back for more every day. i found the variety of vegetables, both standard and unique, plus the variety of herbs and spices in almost every recipe, just knocks my socks off everytime i try a new recipe.
i looked into having zone meals delivered, but the cost was too prohibitive. i like to cook and figured i'd save money by buying a recipe book and doing the cooking myself.
i have not studied the zone diet and only casually know how it works (i've tried just about every other diet). i stuck to these recipes about 80% during the week and about 50% on the weekends. After 6 weeks, i lost 15lbs, my colesteral lowered from 200 to 160, and my grocery receipts added up to about 50% less than zone delivery service in my area.
i am a working mom and don't have a lot of time to cook. i found most of the recipes simple and easy to make, esp the breakfasts. some ingredients are unique, but if you're in a metropolitan area, they should be readily available. the uniqueness just adds to the amazing flavors. the only problem is that they discontinued the zone perfect protein powder with out a substitute. this cuts out most of the smoothie recipes and a couple others. i also don't do tofu, and a few of the lunches and dinners are tofu based, so i skip some recipes. However, i do make most of the recipes and i am always satisfied after every meal and don't feel extra hungry in between.
i think the biggest winner in the "diet wars" is the one that keeps people coming back with or without willpower. this book does that for me. these recipes make dieting and healthy eating a no-brainer and i keep going back for more. this book is a real winner!
Reviews:
This book is ok, the forward is helpful and well written, but many of the recipes are a bit fancy and esoteric for everyday family cooking. Also they tend to use a lot of ingredients that are a bit pricey considering you only need a small amount for the dish. I think the book is fine for someone who likes their dinners to be like those found in fancy restaurants, but not for the anerage person who wants to cook healthy simple food.
Disappointing format, conten
I have to admit, I didn't actually cook anything out of this book, so I can't comment on how anything tastes. I was so dissapointed in that the recipes didn't include any nutritional information other than the 'balanced portion' block information. Also, most of these recipes are for 1 serving! Some of the dinners were calculated for 4 servings, but they were in the minority! I'm just not interested in multiplying the recipes out every time I need to make a grocery list or prepare a meal to figure out what I need. I was looking for a way to prepare zone meals using food readily available in grocery stores (had to look up what steel-cut oats were), and not by adding zone perfect protein powder to everything. I normally use cookbooks by Oxmoor House (Southern Living, Cooking Light), and for now I'll continue to do so. This one's getting returned.