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Summary: Healthy Life Kitchen
Review: This is an excellent book. It is very insighful and educational. I learned so much about food and health. The recipes are wonderful. I have 3 picky children but after explaining the ideas and concepts in this book, they try everything and we have had great success with eating more healthy. We have more energy and have lost weight easily. What a great life change!!!!
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Summary: A great resouce for healthy information
Review: What a nice surprise. I'm not a Marilu Henner fan and I've only glanced at her previous books, but this one caught my eye because of the wealth of information in it. In an easy read fashion, she covers all the basics...how to evaluate your kitchen, how to make changes, what chemicals are harmful both in food and in cleaning supplies and healthy alternatives to both. She lists name brands for healthy food alternatives which takes the trial and error out of shopping. The recipes are not that different from "normal" cooking...a couple of healthy changes and you're on your way to a delicious meal. This book is not entirely vegetarian as it contains both fish and chicken recipes. It is a great place to start in making healthy changes in your life. It's like having several resource books and a cookbook all in one.
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Summary: Good but still lacking ...
Review: Where as the concept is great and we are recently milk free not totally dairy free it is not easy or always practical. There are great motivators and stories here some nice glossy food photos.Seems short on the practical level and also quite costly recipes. I also feel that most GREAT cook books need to have photos with most recipes. A cook book needs visuals and this title was very short here. Those that were included were great just not many. A great concept but should have could have been executed better!
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Summary: Informative - yet dangerous
Review: While the information contained in Marilu Henner's book coincides with tips and facts learned from nutrionists, alot of her recipes contain the use of pine nuts/peanuts. While of course, it's all to taste and preference, she does not show any kind of warning or disclaimer to the ill-fated allergic reaction one might have to nuts. More and more people, especially children, are discovering an allergy to nuts in the form of anaphylatic shock. The problem is one isn't aware of the allergy until a reaction is caused. As I learned in a lesson that almost cost me my life a few years back, I wasn't aware of my allergy to pine nuts until a meal containing them was ingested. Even the back of a bag of plain M&M's chocolate shows a statement pertaining to the fact that there "may be trace elements of peanut". Ms. Henner should have done the same in her book.
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Summary: A Kitchen Makeover!
Review: Wow! Marilu Henner's new book Healthy Life Kitchen is fantastic! Not only will it help you organize your kitchen, but she goes through the chemicals under your sink and in your food. I especially like the explanation of food chemicals--it will shock! I ran to my fridge and checked labels after reading it. She also lists sweetners (to use in place of refined white sugar) and ways to make a traditional high-fat, unhealthy recipe with meat and dairy into a healthy one--many using soy and fresh ingredients. The recipes are great, too. I have tried several of them. The Blueberry Crunch Muffins are fabulous! You will not be disappointed with this one.
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Summary: I am eating my way through a GREAT book!
Review: Wow, fantastic! I love to cook and I'm a cookbook junkie. Sometimes that hobby is hard to reconcile with a desire to eat healthy foods. Not anymore. Out of 200 recipes I will probably make at least 150, a huge percentage for any cookbook. The recipes are easy, and so beautiful I'm inspired to use my good dishes and garnish! I love fish, I always order it in a resturant but rarely make it at home. Just about all the fish dishes in this book are simple to prepare, delicious and impressive. The pastas are wonderful. The salads, the side dishes....I could gush on and on. This book is going to be a Christmas gift for everyone I love. Give yourself a wonderful gift today.
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