| View Larger Image | The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life | Hardcoverby Dawn Jackson Blatner (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 304 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 10, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 33,377rd |
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If you'd like to have all the health benefits of a vegetarian diet--but can't imagine giving up meat . . . If you'd like to lose weight, increase energy, and boost your immunity--but can't stand following a bunch of rules and restrictions . . . The Flexitarian Diet is just for you! "With her flexible mix-and-match plans, Dawn Jackson Blatner gives us a smart new approach to cooking and eating." --Joy Bauer, M.S., RD, CDN, "Today" show dietitian and bestselling author of Joy Bauer's Food Cures "The Flexitarian Diet is a fresh approach to eating that's balanced, smart, and completely do-able." --Ellie Krieger, host of Food Network's "Healthy Appetite" and author of The Food You Crave “Offers a comprehensive, simple-to-follow approach to flexitarian eating-the most modern, adaptable, delicious way to eat out there." --Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, senior food and nutrition editor of Health magazine “It's about time someone told consumers interested in taking control of their weight and health how to get the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle without having to cut meat completely out of their life.” --Byrd Schas, senior health producer, New Media, Lifetime Entertainment Services |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 28 reviews)
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Be Healthier and Prevent Disease by N. Zimmerman  5 Stars
September 01, 2009
I eliminated red meat from my diet years ago and have been maintaining a flexitarian way of eating without knowing the name for it. The information and advice Blatner presents in this book is concise and reliable. You CAN loose weight, be healthier and be more disease free. I'm doing it! The recipes are numerous, varied, very tasty and satisfying. They are also easy and quick to cook. The Pantry Staples List and the weekly shopping lists are invaluable. The pantry list enabled me to easily switch over the ingredients I keep on hand. The shopping lists take the drudgery out of shopping and I can spend that time on cooking and enjoying the meals.
I would recommend this author and specifically this book to any one looking to eat healthier and be more disease free.
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Informative and Easy to Read! by A. Seibert (Allentown, PA) 5 Stars
August 28, 2009
This book is very user friendly. It is very easy to read, you feel like that author is standing right next to you telling you about the diet first hand. It is very informative and gives a lot of practical examples for the common person. A great book even if you are not going to follow the flexitarian diet - it's good to show you the know hows of eating healthier through many aspects.
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Great lifestyle plan by Lee-Lee (NJ, USA)  4 Stars
July 08, 2009
I have been interested in vegetarian diet plans for many years but have found it hard to stick to 100%. Vegan? Forget it. But vegetarian is easier to follow and enjoyable for me. However, I found that I was one of those people who needed more protein and found vegetarian ptotein substitutes just didn't work for me. This book gave me the option to have the "on again, off again" veggie lifestyle that I was looking for. The science made a lot of sense, the plan is extremely easy to stick to and took out some of the "guilt" of being the almost-veggie that I've been for years. This is a great plan for people like me who want healthy options but want a wider variety of foods.
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How To Become A Vegetarian In 8,000,000 Steps by celtic melody (Chicago) 5 Stars
June 03, 2009
That's the number of daily meal combinations that you can create Dawn Jackson Blatner's mix and match menus/recipes. Part 1 explains her purpose behind the five by five by five plan: five is the average number of ingredients people run into the grocery store to buy after work for that night's dinner. Five small meals a day to fuel your metabolism: 300 calorie breakfast, 400 calorie lunch, 500 calorie dinner, and 2 150- calorie snacks which equals 1500 calories a day. Need only 1200 calories? No problem eliminate snacks. Need 1800 calories? No problem. Double up breakfast. That's the whole point of being FLEXIBLE. The calorie count design allows me to be lazy and have the occasional Amy's Mattar Paneer Tofu(vegan) with a broiled banana for dinner without feeling like I've blown anything. It even has a quiz where you can see where you are one the flexitarian scale.
Part 2: Introduces you to some vegetarian foods you may not be familiar with if you are a carnivore. She also talks to you about setting up your healthy pantry, getting in more fruits and veggies (even into the picky veggie-hating eaters in your family. Nuts, cheese, and barbeque or sweet and sour sauce anyone? There is a chart that tells you how long to cook different grains such as quinoa, teff, kasha etc. I love the fact that this info is all in handy chart form making it easy to use for those of us, like me, with short attention spans.
Part 3 has those mix-and-match meal plans that I love so much. She has 5 different week with 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches, 7 dinners, and 7 snacks complete with shopping lists should you want to follow the plan exactly. Note: the shopping lists assume you've stocked your pantry so, if you skipped that part, you might want to go back and reread it.
All the recipes are for one person which it ideal for those of us who are the only vegetarians in our family. But, you can easily double, triple, or quadruple the recipes to fit your family needs. I consider this a plus. I've bought quite a few vegetarian cookbooks that make 4, 6, even 8 portions. WAY too much for me.
This book is great for anyone who wants to be vegetarian some, most, or all of the time, and is just too TIRED to plan it all out.
Incidentally, I tried this for 3 weeks before posting a review. I found that I ate vegan 20 out of 21 of those days simply because those are the recipes I picked. I substituted soy and almond milk for regular milk, scrambled tofu for scrambled eggs, and soy yogurt and vegan cheese (note: some "vegetarian cheeses have casein so read labels). My point being that you CAN use this book if you or someone in your family is vegan. Oh. And, I lost 8 lbs. Not too shabby.
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Love to Flex by T. Gidus 5 Stars
April 24, 2009
The concept for this book is brilliant. Many people don't want to commit to becoming vegetarian but they want to reduce their meat intake. This book is a wonderful guide on easing your way into reducing animal protein in your diet and the numerous benefits for your health and the planet that can result. Even if you don't have to lose weight, this book is a great resource. Dawn makes it less scary to try some traditional vegetarian foods like tofu and tempeh and offers very simple recipes and meals plans. I highly recommend this book!
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