Muscle Meals: Delicious, low-fat, high-protein recipes [A Cookbook to Build Muscle and Lose Fat!] [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

John Romano (Author), Lyman Dally (Illustrator)

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Review

Operating on the premise that good body building requires good nutrition, chef and nutritional consultant John Romano has compiled a collection of high-protein, high-in-complex-calories recipes. Body builders and body builder wannabes will be pleased with the scope and variety of the recipe collection. But here's the surprise: so will everybody else. The recipes are surprisingly good, and are truly low in fat and reasonably low in sugar. What's not to like about crab and corn chowder, cioppino, salad with lemon-garlic dressing, grilled zucchini and eggplant, and pasta with red pepper and basil? Calorie, carbohydrate, protein and fat counts are provided as well. For example, the recipe for wheat berry breakfast pudding calls for cooked wheat berries, unflavored gelatin, cottage cheese, 10 packets of sugar substitute, nonfat milk, and seasoning and spices. The book is well designed and handsomely illustrated. It contains a number of useful informational segments on kitchen equipment and cooking techniques as well. Its one downside - and it's a small one - is that cooking of this type usually requires a good bit of time. Muscle Meals should be on the short list for anyone looking for an integrated body building and fitness program -- From Independent Publisher

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Advanced Research Press; 1st edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889462012
• ISBN-13: 978-1889462011
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #586,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars personally and professionally indispensible, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Muscle Meals: Delicious, low-fat, high-protein recipes [A Cookbook to Build Muscle and Lose Fat!] (Hardcover)

As the Director of the Intrafitt Performance Nutrition and Exercise Center at Gold's Gym, Venice for the past ten years, I've had the pleasure of working with thousands of professional, olympic, amateur and armchair athletes, clients with diabetes, heart conditions, medical concerns, dieting histories, life changes, families; people from every walk of life. I am also a professional adventure racer, and have my own nutrition and exercise program to adhere to. One of the best tools I have in my nutrition counseling is John Romano's Muscle Meals. Professionally, Muscle Meals teaches clients how to prepare extremely healthy gourmet meals, greatly increasing their compliance toward their fitness goal or body composition. Each recipe has a complete listing of it's nutritional breakdown and is presented in an easy to follow manner. The recipes and food ideas are simple and quick, with taste and diversity that would seem laborious, but take minutes, not a full day to prepare. Personally, since I've started using Muscle Meals recipes, people seem to miraculously appear at my doorstep and office entrance at meal times; I never knew I had so many hungry friends!! For our office and my kitchen, Muscle Meals is indispensible.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Use the book to gain muscle, not loose fat, April 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Muscle Meals: Delicious, low-fat, high-protein recipes [A Cookbook to Build Muscle and Lose Fat!] (Hardcover)

If you can get past the goofy, narcistic illustrations in the book, the majority of the recipies are fairly good. However, it will help to know your way around the kitchen as some of the recipies need tinkering to make them either work or taste acceptable. Doubling up of some recipies (i.e. one with protien powder, one without)gives the impression that there are more recipies here than there really are. An average to good cookbook for serious bodybuilders trying to add muscle but are tired of the replacement meal in a blender routine. Would not recommend the book for someone who is looking to only loose weight. The nutritional information given is for large servings.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, November 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Muscle Meals: Delicious, low-fat, high-protein recipes [A Cookbook to Build Muscle and Lose Fat!] (Hardcover)

As much as I tried this book just didn't work for me. I feel there are many better diet/exercise books on the market that will give you much more for your money.