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I should have read the reviews before I bought this book. I feel very ripped off by it. It does not follow the Zone recommendations, as others mention here. There is a lot of hidden sugar (for instance, one recipe calls for 9 T of ketchup, which is LOADED with sugar). Alcohol is used in a lot of the recipes, there is lots of bread and jam. As someone else mentioned, I couldn't believe the pringles. Also, much of the carbo stuff is not fresh produce. Almost every salad in the dinner selection includes mandarin oranges and the dressing is made with the sugary mandarin orange syrup. Basically, the book completely disregards a lot of the core Zone principles, and is loaded with insulin spiking sugars, a lot of them hidden. Andrea

buy a different cookbook

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If you enjoy "cooking" with pringles, jello and miracle whip, then this "cookbook" is for you! The opening pages have many typos and repetition of sentences, which I at first thought was a mistake. But as I read the recipes I began to realize that inane repetition may just be the author's style. The "over 200 recipes" are basically just slight variations of one recipe, for example the Snack menu is as follows: Recipe 1: cottage cheese, apple, almonds. Recipe 2: cottage cheese, orange, almonds. And so on for one and a half pages! Little creativity exists in the recipes and most are just the previous recipe with one change (instead of writing "try this with pork or chicken", the whole recipe is re-written for a one-ingredient change.) This is a cookbook for the unimaginative.

A great cookbook!

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This book was very helpful to me! I am not one who enjoys tofu or other 'dieting' type foods. And I don't have a lot of time to figure out the number of Carbs, Protein, and Fat Blocks in my food. I did the Zone diet for about three weeks without this book and I was getting tired of the food, and getting frustrated with the amount of time it was taking me to figure out my meals and go shopping. Faye Hoffoss has written a great cookbook here and she has taken the time to figure out all the Carb, Protein, and Fat Blocks for you. She even has a shopping list written out for each week for you! I have my parents on this diet with me and they are very excited to be getting some of these foods back into their diet. Again, this book may not follow Dr. Sears' model in the sense that it doesn't contain a lot of dieting foods, but it still helps keep you in the zone and the foods are good! This is an all around good cookbook. I hope you enjoy it!

Zone Cooking Made Easy: 6 Weeks of Delicious Zone Balanced M

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I just purchased this published cookbook but I have an advantage because of knowing Faye Hoffoss for a long time. I saw that she and her family were losing weight and of course asked her about it. I was 58 years old and was 173 pounds at the time. I have 2 sons and 2 daughters and 9 grandsons and like to keep close to my children and their families. I always prided myself in making good meals that they would enjoy. When I became health concious, I found it difficult to make healthy meals with ingredients we were not accustomed to. When I spoke with Faye, she gave me a copy of her book--that she had printed up before she had it published. While trying different diets, I found it difficult to change cooking and eating habits. After talking to Faye Hoffoss and using the recipes from her unpublished book, I have gone from 173 pounds to 140 pounds. The book works for me and my family because it is using ingredients we love but balancing them so that we are satisfied. Balancing your foods make it much easier to eat at a restaurant. (It seems that when we get together, at home or in a restaurant, we love to eat. I have since purchased 4 of Barry Sears books and use recipes from his books but use Faye Hoffoss' book more. . I am slowly incorporating healthier eating habits by adding things like whole wheat bread and unprocessed rice. I have to say, not just because she is my friend, that the only way for me to have a permanent weight loss is to make foods that we are familier with--and that are closest to the way we have always eaten. (At home, and in the restaurants.) I just purchased her published book, one must have a friend's published works!!!!!(However, I will keep the published one for display but will continue to use the copy Faye gave me before having it published.) BOTH BOOKS CONTAIN THE SAME RECIPES WITH ONLY MINOR CHANGES IN THE PUBLISHED VERSION. I recommend the book, because it works for me, a grandmother that likes to have my family come to home to eat.

Why I wrote this book

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I am truly sorry if my book is a disappointment. At the same time I am grateful for any complaints. It gives me the opportunity to say why I made the cookbook. Three years ago you could have called my family "The Fat Family," 50 pounds or more overweight and heading for some serious health problems. My grown daughter (the only skinny person in my family) introduced me to the "Zone Diet." The rest of my family hated a lot of the foods Barry Sears suggested. They found the food too different, craved food that we could no longer eat, and refused to eat the meals I spent hours preparing. I had to compromise. We may not be strictly in "The Zone," but we have lost close to 200 pounds, our blood pressure and cholesterol are in great shape and we feel much better. Since losing most of the excess weight, we have taken one day off every week or so to treat ourselves to a "normal" dinner. We eat a balanced breakfast, lunch and snack, but for dinner that day we eat anything we want, including dessert, such as cake, ice cream, pie, or whatever decadent food we may be craving. We then eat a zone snack before bed to put us back in "The Zone." We haven't gained any weight and are still losing. This is a lifetime commitment. People fail because they go on strict diets only to find they can't live with it forever. Let's face it, there are people out there who want to lose weight but don't have the willpower to stick with such a drastic change. There are also some who would make the drastic change, only to go back to their old eating habits when they find it too restricting. They not only gain back the weight they lost, they usually gaining the weight back, or worse, end up weighing more than when they started. "Yo Yo Dieting." My book is for that kind of person. We are happy with this diet. It's one that we can easily live with for the rest of our lives.