Review: Simple introduction to a healthy eating plan
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
The Mediterranean eating plan is highly recommended by the American Health Association due to its heart healthy ingredients and food preparation. As you might suspect there are a lot of health fats, fish, salads and pasta going on here so lets’ get started.If you can get this book for free, it’s a good introduction to the Mediterranean diet (or rather what I would like to call eating style). However, it is too short and incomplete to be downloaded at a price, since the recipes covered are simplistic in nature.The book has 7 recipes each for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a total of 21 recipes to try. There is a working Table of Contents and each recipe has a high quality photo which I appreciate. I also liked the two fish recipes as many recipe books do not give ideas on how to work with fish. Some of the spacing on my Kindle reader was off on the wrapping of text but I was able to still make out the ingredient list.The recipes mostly contain easy to find ingredients in your pantry and the cooking directions are extremely easy to follow. However, they are simplistic in nature and lack the ”what could go wrong” or “how to personalize” department. Despite being a diet oriented recipe book there is no nutritional data provided so if you are using this as a diet plan, you'll have to figure the calories and nutritional data yourself (easily done online at many diet websites).The breakfast and lunch recipes are a bit heavy on eggs and cheese, but if you like those ingredients (like me) you will be fine with that. Also there is some padding with over-simplistic recipes like Granola Berry Yogurt Crunch, Chickpea Salad and Greek Salad. Since there is only 21 recipes with the padding you are not getting a lot of main meal recipes and hence, along with the lack of nutritional data, I don't feel this book is of value if it has a cost.I think if you approach the book as an introduction and a meal plan for a two weeks this ebook could work for you. Be aware the selections are heavy on eggs, cheese and the dinners are all meat oriented.Reviewed by Cinnabarys.com