Eating For Life by Bill Phillips Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Eating For Life
Book Review: Days beyond Food and Delicious
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is pure poetry: How one could bask
To the waste the day
Delights
Merriment brought in the form of a pie
A smile is a just reward
Watering Mouths
Salivating, Viscosity rendering you weak
Your fingers follow its crisses
Its crosses
Then a thought crosses
Where were such things borne
These tastes
Ideas
Desires
Emotions
It began in the kitchen
And it will carry on with you for the rest of your life
Forever
Book Review: Delicious
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been avoiding real cooking and with this book and the body-for-life challenge I am actually excited about meals again. I have tried several of the recipes in this first week and they are all excellent meals, my whole family loves them.Book Review: Delicious and Nutritious!
Summary: 5 Stars
For eating healthy, this is about as good as it comes! I've tried other diet cookbooks and everything just seems really boring and bland.
Every recepie I've tried in this book so far is AMAZINGLY delicious (and nutritious, too)! Everything is also really easy to cook - especially if you're looking for week-night meals.
I HIGHLY recommend this book.
Book Review: Delicious and healthy!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is GREAT!! The meals are simple to cook, generally cheap, and above all healthy! There are plenty of breakfast meals, lunches, dinners, and even snacks to keep you eating a wide variety of meals for a long time. Additionally, in typical Bill Phillips fashion, the book starts off with educational text which is designed to teach you about food, nutrition, and diet. Through out the book you will also find inspirational words to keep you motivated and to support your positive lifestyle choices.
Sometimes it's difficult to find a health food cookbook where the meals actually taste good, but that is certainly not the case with Eating for Life. I can't say enough about how delicious each meal is. BIll Phillips and his team out did themselves when they came up with these meals.
The only problem I find with this book is that once the meal is cooked, I want to eat all of it. :)
Book Review: Delicious, nutritious...fabulous cookbook!
Summary: 4 Stars
Bill Phillips of "Body for Life" fame comes up with another winner with "Eating for Life: Your Guide to Great Health, Fat Loss and Increased Energy".
The book is a scrumptious way to eat healthy, lose weight and feel better. Bill's philosophy is that people should eat 5-6 healthy, size appropriate meals per day to keep blood sugars level and ward off fat. So the book is broken up into categories to eat at each of the meals: breakfast, desserts, lunches, midmeals, dinners and shakes.
Each recipe comes with a mouthwatering full color photograph and detailed instructions on how to make it. There is also a handy little picture that shows the actual brandname ingredients used in the recipe. For example Albacore Tuna Casserole shows a large color photograph of the dish and another smaller photo with a picture of the ingredients in it; Bumble Bee tuna, Healthy Request cream of mushroom soup, Lucerne fat free milk, Healthy Harvest pasta and Birds Eye peas...what a neat idea!
So far I have made a number of recipes from the book and they have all been delicious. There are a number of recipes such as Egg-Cellent Enchiladas, Golden Protein Pancakes, Cool Ranch Dip, Greek Pinwheels, Frosted Key Lime Pie (shake), Pina Colada (shake), Cilantro Burrito, Cool Taco Salad, Cajun Chicken, Beef and Barley Soup and many more.
The ingredients are easy to find and the recipes easy to prepare. Even if you are not on the Body for Life plan this is a wonderful cookbook to own.
There is a major drawback with the book and that is the lack of nutritional information. Yes you can go on the BFL website and get this information, but you shouldn't have too. It should be right in the book. One of the drawbacks with not having this information is portion size. The recipes are designed to be BETWEEN a man and a woman's portion. That means for example that the recipe for Singapore Shrimp as shown and prepared in the book is about 374 calories per portion. BUT a man could eat 468 calories as his daily portion and a woman would have to modify the recipe to 281 almost 100 calories less! But it does not tell you this in the book. I only learned this from gathering the nutrition information on the site where it gives average portions and male portions and female portions.
Another aspect of the book I don't care for is the use of foods like butterbuds (why not use a tiny portion of real butter) and fat free cheese and sour cream which I find tasteless. Instead I substitute tiny amounts of the tastier full fat version.
I really had to debate on whether to give this book 4 or 5 stars. It is my favorite cookbook now and its helping me eat healthier...but the lack of nutritional information in the book is a major blunder especially when the portion sizes vary so much from male to female. I know Bill might say use your palm or fist, but thats hard to do for certain food products. Thus I have to give it 4 stars.
Great recipes, beautiful layout..next time Bill give us the nutritional info. too! (BTW: Really appreciate Amazon's price on this too, much less than the bookstore.)