Customer Reviews

The Balanced Diet Cookbook: Easy Menus and Recipes for Combining Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats

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This is an excellent cookbook for anyone interested in Balanced Eating. The author takes the concepts of The Zone and puts them into easy to make and tasty meals. He adds a few suggestions of things to add to make the meals more appealing. Recommended companion book to: 40-30-30 Fat Burning Nutrition.

Although I am not a die hard zone fanatic, this book allows me to eat a balanced and delicious meal. The receipes are fast, easy to follow, and loved by my whole family (including my choosy children). The best receipe is on page 112, szechuan chicken, the best i've ever had. OPRAH NEEDS THIS BOOK.

A fairly balanced cookbook, with helpful hints in the front for maintaining a zone diet. However, many of the recipes and suggestions rely heavily on high glycemic carbs, not necessarily the best for someone who is trying to stay on the diet without hunger. A beautiful salmon recipe recommends a small baked potato as accompaniment. A better suggestion would be a cup of steamed broccoli and a cup of strawberries. If you are new to the Zone, beware!

The recipes in Taylor's book are easy to prepare, very tasty, and don't call for expensive or hard-to-find ingredients. Though I'm not strictly following the zone plan, I find myself preparing one of the book's recipes almost once a week, simply because they're so great and easy-to-prepare. As someone who has struggled with finding ingredient-friendly, time-friendly zone meals, I was delighted with the selections in Taylor's book (the chicken almandine is fabulous! ). I just wish there were more of them. I highly recommend this book.

If you are a busy zoner then you will love this book. The recipes are easy to prepare and all the ones I have tried, have been outstanding. Even my picky husband and daughter love them. I like the fact that Mr. Taylor adds suggestions for balancing a meal, if the recipe is not balanced. No sitting and planning meals for hours. Just pick your meal and what your craving. It's so easy!

This is the book I've been looking for! I have two kids under five and not much time to cook. My husband and I have been trying to eat 40-30-30 for the past year. Dr. Sears needs to hire a good chef though! The recipes in his books just don't have the flavor that Bill Taylor's do. Thank you Bill!

OK - so we're all agreed - there oughtta be an index in this otherwise delicious cookbook. And may I suggest the recipes should be standardized (each one to feed four and let the reader do the math)?

It's great to find a useful addition to my 40-30-30/Zone collection. This way of eating really suits my family, and we are not easy to please, having two conflicting food allergies, one picky eater, three kids and two dieting parents amongst us. Taste, speed and nutrition are important, too, and Taylor delivers all of this. It's wonderful to see my family eating fish without complaints and yogurt or cottage cheese for breakfast. Plus, the recipes are so simple my oldest wants to try the Szechuan Chicken for his Home Ec homework. Fine by me!

The recipes in this book are great. However, some demon possessed the author and he excluded an index! And the table of contents is too slim to deserve the title. No matter how good it is --and it is-- I am frustrated to have to thumb page by page to find that great banana bread recipe again. Buy the book but dis the author for shabby work!

I agree it's too bad there's no index in this terrific cookbook, but don't blame the author! As a publishing executive, I can say that it is not the author who decides whether to include an index, but the publisher, unless, of course, the book is self-published (which this is not).

Please do yourself a favor and order this book...it's great.

The recipes helped me get started eating in the Zone. I found most of them to be basic, down to earth, easy to use recipes. The only improvement would be an index for the recipes.