The Best Life Diet Cookbook More than 175 Delicious Convenient Family Friendly Recipes
The Best Life Diet Cookbook More than 175 Delicious Convenient Family Friendly Recipes
A god meal is one of life’s great pleasures, but we all know that it can be difficult to choose foods that make us happy and keep us healthy. In his New York Times bestselling book The Best Life Diet, Bob Greene showed more than a million people that you can lose weight and eat delicious food. Now, in The Best Life Diet Cookbook he provides more than 175 recipes that taste as good as they are good for you.
With recipes like Flank Steak with Potatoes and Garlic and Sweet-and-Sour Stuffed Chicken, it isn’t hard to eat well while shedding pounds. Slimmed-down comfort foods like Sweet Potato with Turkey Hash and Beef Stew with Winter Root Vegetables make family dinners satisfying and healthful. Rotisserie Chicken Salad with Oranges and Pistachios comes together in a snap. Or try one of the recipes contributed by world-class chefs like Charlie Trotter or Suzanne Goin, adapted to fit the Best Life guidelines. Craving something sweet? You won’t believe that Pear and Banana Crisp and Apple Pie with Oatmeal Crust are low in fat and calories.
Also included are three sets of two -week meal plans: The Quick and Easy Plan for when you’re most time-pressed; The Family-Friendly Plan with meals to satisfy the whole gang; and The Kitchen Connoisseur Plan for those looking for more of a challenge in the kitchen. Whether you’re trying to drop some pounds or simply want to maintain your weight, these plans do all the calorie-calculating for you.
The Best Life Diet Cookbook is full of useful shopping tips and culinary information. Illustrated with dozens of beautiful black-and-white and color photographs, it is a book you will turn to again and again.
Bob Greene firmly believes that every meal should be a celebration both of the pleasures of food and your commitment to living your best possible life, and with The Best Life Diet Cookbook, you can reclaim your joy of eating and live the life you deserve.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Doable, Healthy Recipes
The Best Life Diet Cookbook, by Bob Greene, is geared toward the cooking shy/inexperienced. Greene seems to think that many Americans are not cooking these days, so he is careful to present a book in which most of the recipes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less and are technically easy to make.
He understands that many Americans are too busy to cook–or simply don’t make cooking a priority. In the introduction he writes: “You can reclaim the experience of eating as a celebration by sitting down to enjoy these high quality, delicious dishes without over doing it.”
The book is comprised of recipes plus numerous two-week meal plans.
I love to cook and do so frequently, mixing new with my favorites. I always cook healthy (although not necessarily low-calorie) and have tried several of Greene’s recipes. So far, all have been very good.
* Most unusual for a salad was the lamb salad with cucumber and yogurt. Quiet delicious.
* The chicken breasts with pumpkin seeds was also very good. Pumpkin seeds are tasty and very healthy.
* Roasted root vegetables is a variation on what I often make and this recipe was very good, including unusual root veggies like rutabagas.
* YUM on the raw garlicky kale. I love kale and am always looking for new recipes to make with this super healthy and delicious veggie.
I enjoyed the recipes and bios from the world-class chefs, although I will admit that some are too time-consuming for me to consider making. Some of the recipes were simply show-offy chefy stuff; other, quite doable.
If you are searching for healthy and tasty recipes, The Best Life Diet Cookbook will do the trick.
By the author of HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT: BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME & YOUR PLANET.
2 Stars The very best life diet cookbook
I could not wait for my book to arrive as I was just starting a new eating plan that was devised for me through a dietician. The book arrived and I was immediately disappointed as the recipes were mostly things that I would never eat and the recipes were not made with ingredients that most people have on hand. I am not saying it is a bad book by any means I am just saying that it was not at all what I expected and I have no use for it.
1 Star Total Waste of Time and Money
While I respect that Bob Greene is trying to help many people if you are any where close to being a good cook don’t waste your money on this book. The layout and style is not visually pleasing to the eye and there is absolutely nothing revolutionary in the book regarding recipes. Very boring to read and from what I can tell very boring to cook!
5 Stars Great ideas!
I have seen this cookbook on Opera and was interested in trying it out for myself. I love most of the recipes, and can’t wait to try them all.
Easy, healthy, and tasty!
5 Stars A Healthy Diet Cookbook
Bob Greene begins this book by noting that (Acknowledgements page): “I wanted this cookbook to be something special. . . . [T]he collection of recipes that you’re about to experience employs innovative techniques and unique combinations of ingredients to create meals that are respectful of calories, nutritionally rich, and delicious.” In the Introduction (Page 1) he contends that “Eating is meant to be one of life’s great pleasures.” Hence, a cook book that claims that it has delicious meals that are also healthy and good for you. How well does it do at in meeting that high standard?
I think this volume actually does pretty well. Here’s, for example, a simple side dish–easy to make and still tasty. Marinated mushrooms (Page 189). Ingredients? Pretty easy. Button mushrooms, some lemon juice, chives, olive oil, and a wee bit of salt. What could be easier? Just toss the mushrooms with ingredients and enjoy. Simple–but yet tasty.
The soups section has a number of straightforward recipes. Chicken noodle soup is a mainstay in many people’s diets. Here, we see a pretty doable recipe that promises to taste good (Page 54). Chicken broth, chicken breast, carrots, celery, parsley, rosemary (always good in a recipe), thyme, spaghetti (whole grain). This looks like a good, simple, healthy recipe to me.
With respect to entrees, I have tried to move away from beef toward fowl and fish. In the category of entrees, Greene provides a recipe for Chicken with spring onions and mashed spring vegetables that looks outstanding. Another entree is vegetarian–Angel hair pasta with walnuts and peas. Looks simple to make and healthy to eat! And here’s another one that is quite tasty indeed–Chicken poached in white wine with tomatoes. Simple ingredients and a yummy outcome. . . .
Other featues: healthy desserts, some recipes from “world-class chefs,” meal plans, basic recipes (e.g., chicken and vegetable stock, vinaigrette), and techniques (such as how to slice beef, blanch fruits and veggies, and so on).
I wish that the pictures of the dishes were in color (while there are a few color plates, most photos are not), but that is hardly a major issue. Overall, this is a really solid cookbook, with pretty healthy recipes. A useful addition to my kitchen library. . . .
