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Summary: Meals are only for 1 serving
Review: If you are trying to cook for a family this is NOT the book for you. All the recipies are for one serving. When you start to doubling and tripling the recipe you end up with 10-15 cups of vegetables for one meal. Not a good book if you also want to cook for the kids, they won't like the meals. And certainly not 'meals in minutes'. Some of the meals taste good and are perfect if you are only cooking for one.
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Summary: Recipes take too long to make!
Review: If you have someone at home to cook for you, this might be a fine book. However, I work full time and am looking for quick, healthy recipes. I started cooking breakfast this morning at 7:00 and by the time I had eaten, cleaned up the pile of pots and pans, run all of the peppers through the food processor for the next 8 meals I had bought food for, it was 9:30! No way to spend a sunny Saturday. Now it's time to start lunch!
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Summary: Minutes alright, lots of them
Review: It takes so many minutes to make these meals and you almost have to be a super chef to make most of them, and those "minutes" add up to several hours. The meals can be made in seconds also, lots more of them. It is really irritating that the title is so deceptive. I like this eating style, but I will not buy all of the spices and stuff that it takes to make them. There are some ridiculous ingredients that I haven't even heard of. If I could afford a personal chef, I would toss them this book and stick a five star plus rating here because I would love to taste some of them. If you are a great chef that likes to take some time to cook, head over to ebay and bid on mine or the many up for sale there. Oh yea, there are lots of easier zone recipes on the zone perfect site that are really quick and that taste great.As for the actual eating plan, the increase in energy is unbelieveable. I have no more late night cravings for sugary junk food which were extremely strong. I felt like a heroin addict searching for a fix except I was headed for Braums Ice cream store instead of downtown Plano. Those are gone and I can't believe it. I do thank the doc for that, but quit throwing recipe books together and sticking a new name on them unless the money goes to a really worthy cause.
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Summary: Minutes alright, lots of them
Review: It takes so many minutes to make these meals and you almost have to be a super chef to make most of them, and those "minutes" add up to several hours. The meals can be made in seconds also, lots more of them. It is really irritating that the title is so deceptive. I like this eating style, but I will not buy all of the spices and stuff that it takes to make them. There are some ridiculous ingredients that I haven't even heard of. If I could afford a personal chef, I would toss them this book and stick a five star plus rating here because I would love to taste some of them. If you are a great chef that likes to take some time to cook, head over to ebay and bid on mine or the many up for sale there. Oh yea, there are lots of easier zone recipes on the zone perfect site that are really quick and that taste great. As for the actual eating plan, the increase in energy is unbelieveable. I have no more late night cravings for sugary junk food which were extremely strong. I felt like a heroin addict searching for a fix except I was headed for Braums Ice cream store instead of downtown Plano. Those are gone and I can't believe it. I do thank the doc for that, but quit throwing recipe books together and sticking a new name on them unless the money goes to a really worthy cause.
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Summary: Delicious, wholesome one-dish meals
Review: Most of the recipes in this book are for delicious, easy-to-make, one-dish meals. Some of these will be a challenge to the sort of cook who serves Froot Loops or Pop-Tarts for breakfast and boiled weiners for dinner. Others won't. The recipes in this book are sized accurately. They are measured both in terms of the number of servings and the number of blocks of protein, fat and carbohydrate. Each recipe is designed to have an equal number of blocks of fat, carbohydrate and protein, and the number of blocks of each of these is listed. This is Barry Sears secret for designing meals that don't cause excessive secretion of insulin. Excessive insulin secretion causes sugar to be withdrawn from the blood stream and converted and stored as body fat. Probably, if you had a big crowd of people, some of them thin and some of them extra fat, you could easily sort them into two groups: the thin ones, who follow the sort of diet outlined in this cookbook, and the fat ones who don't. Most of the recipes here are for dinner. About 50 are for lunch and a couple dozen are for breakfast. Pick your favorites. There are several useful appendices. One lists the number of blocks of protein, fat or carbohydrate in various common foods. Another lists scientific references about various aspects of the Zone diet.
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Summary: Aroint !!!
Review: That's what Macbeth exclaimed when the witches approached him ; it is what I tell anyone who has been tempted into throwing away his money and purchase this book.
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Summary: Excellent compendium to the other SEARS books
Review: The cookbook provided the edge to make the diet R E A L L Y work for us
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Summary: This book is fabulous.
Review: This amazing cookbook has helped me lose eight hundred pounds. It's taught me how to use bread for sandwiches rather than two twinkies, how to make my famous "artery clogger chilli" without five sticks of butter. It's changed my life so much i don't know how to thank you guys at amazon[.com] for bringing it to my door.
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Summary: 150 Ways to Ruin Food with Vinegar, Salsa, and Worcester
Review: This book is not written for people who really enjoy the culinary arts. It basically is for the bachelor who doesn't want to be bothered making anything fancier than an omelette. Anyone with a family or anyone who has cooked extensively will be appalled by the suggestions in this book. Honestly, if just sticking to the diet is the primary objective, just eating a simple chicken, tofu, or fish dish with the appropriate amount of green veggies and fruit is more than adequate and ten times more delicious than some of the gruesome combinations in this book.
On the positive side, the book's layout is nice, especially the spiral binding which makes for easy reading while using. Too bad, that after making one too many of the catastrophic taste concoctions, I never used it again. Also handy are the Zone portion charts in the back of the book, but again these can be printed up in a fun format using the table function in Excel and mounted to the inside door of a cabinet for quick reference.
Overall this book is totally irrelevant and a waste of cash.
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Summary: UGH
Review: This book is not written for people who really enjoy the culinary arts. It basically is for the bachelor who doesn't want to be bothered making anything fancier than an omelette. Anyone with a family or anyone who has cooked extensively will be appalled by the suggestions in this book. Honestly, if just sticking to the diet is the primary objective, just eating a simple chicken, tofu, or fish dish with the appropriate amount of green veggies and fruit is more than adequate and ten times more delicious than some of the gruesome combinations in this book.
On the positive side, the book's layout is nice, especially the spiral binding which makes for easy reading while using. Too bad, that after making one too many of the catastrophic taste concoctions, I never used it again. Also handy are the Zone portion charts in the back of the book, but again these can be printed up in a fun format using the table function in Excel and mounted to the inside door of a cabinet for quick reference.
Overall this book is totally irrelevant and a waste of cash.
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