Customer Reviews

The Little Black Book of Smoothies (Little Black Books)

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This is a great recipe book. Some of the recipes are split into seasons so you can make smoothies for what is in season at the time. For such a small book it has tons of great information on fruit and ingredients, blending techniques and much more. A great book for anyone who likes smoothies.

If you are looking for a book that supplies HEATHY recipe ideas using basic ingredients you are going to be disappointed. While some of the combinations ran anywhere between yummy to interesting, very few of them were in the healthy category.

The occasional use of orange juice is fine with me in smoothies, but I find that there is way too much use of special juices, nectars, sherbet, and sorbets loaded with sugar. Some of the items like passion fruit sorbet, papaya nectar, and guava nectar are harder to find. I didn't like the use of special raspberry yogurt, lemon yogurt, or banana yogurt. I would rather stick to the basic vanilla or plain yogurt and just add fresh fruit or a squeeze of lemon.

While I can see how some people may like this book, it just didn't fit my needs. I wanted a book with the use of more whole ingredients and the option of adding my own sweetener or substitute instead of relying on sugary juices and sorbets. Having nutritional information would have been a big bonus.

This was purchased for my 13 year old daughter who is on a swim team and is starving after swim laps. She loves the pocket size and the variety of smoothies offered. The blending techniques at the forward were helpful and the recipes fun and delicious.

I got this as a gift for my mom. Both me and her like it, it has some good healthy recipes. Plus its cheap. Defiantly a good buy and works great as a gift.

This is a great little book for anyone who loves smoothies (or haven't discovered their passion for them). The book is really cute as well, all black (of course), with a pink label that has the title...pretty chic. I got this in addition to the Little Black Book of Cocktails, which is so fun as well (there's also one for BBQ).