From the cooking expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition, daily and weekly menus that make it easy for you to stay in the Zone
Offering a proven formula for permanent fat loss, optimal health and all-round peak performance, the Zone diet has an estimated over two million followers worldwide. Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to stay in the Zone while enjoying delicious, easy-to-fix meals. It features 150 recipes from Gloria Bakst, whose work as the cooking and lifestyle expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition appears in the "Cooking with Gloria" section of ZonePerfect's well-traveled website.
Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to adapt the Zone's 40-30-30 (carbs-fats-protein) formula to real food and your real life and supplies daily and weekly menus along with down-to-earth explanations of the latest nutrition research findings.
Easy and Tasty Recipes for Zone Living:
Lettuce Wraps with Thai Peanut Sauce
Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
Tuna and Apple Salad
Shrimp Scampi with Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Scallops with Orange and Sesame
Grilled Swordfish in Lime-Cilantro Sauce
Grilled Mahi-Mahi with Strawberries
Chicken Taco Salad
Open-Face Avocado-Chicken Salad Sandwich
Turkey Apple Quesadillas
Grilled Lemon-Basil Pork Chops
Chili-in-the-Zone
Zucchini Lasagna
Spicy Eggplant Stir-Fry
Steamed Butternut Squash with Bok Choy and Mushrooms
Sweet Crisps with Ricotta and Berries
Apple Crisp or Fresh Fruit Crisp
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Zone confusing:
I do not like this book. I was expecting a spin off from the original "Zone diet" by Barry Sears. This book changes the process from blocks to grams, much more confusing . The layout of the recipes further complicates. I ask myself , is this a complete meal recipe or just a partial representation to which I must add more grams? I am sorry I ordered this book.
Zone cooking not made easy.:
These recipes must be adapted for a woman, and they are a lot of work to prepare; although a great use of leftovers.
Great for a beginner:
I bought this book expecting a quick and easy way to prepare delicious and healthy dishes for myself and my family. While it is quick, simple and healthy, the taste of the recipes is just ok. I'm a very good cook and a lot of the recipes turned out bland. After a while I ended up adding extra spices or using different cooking techiniques to make the dishes palatable. All that being said, this book is a great resource for someone new to the Zone way of cooking and for someone that is either new to... more info
Honest review of a great book:
The introduction to the book is one of the best I have read. It explains what the zone perfect system of living is in a manner that is easy to understand. When one finishes reading it one is ready to follow the Zone Perfect System if they wish. The receipts are varied and give one options. The suggestions that are in the book make it an interesting and different kind of cook book.