Review: a big variety of tasty, healthy drinks
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2012
This book is full of a huge variety of healthy, low-fat drinks. A few years ago I stopped drinking soft drinks and one of my main problems ever since is that there really aren't many interesting, tasty drinks to choose from.We all know we should drink at least 2 liters of liquid per day, but water is so incredibly boring and there is only so much of green tea you want to drink. What I really like about this recipe book is the great variety of drinks: shakes, smoothies, punches, flavoured water - and even some light alcoholic drinks.All recipes come with nutritional information and I think that this is very helpful information. Unfortunately so many recipe books and drinks books don't feature this information.I've seen that some reviewers complained about the fact that a few recipes of the book still have a lot of calories - I think it all depends on what your objective is and what you compare against. The recipes here contain healthy ingredients - fruits, skim yogurt, etc. So the result are healthy drinks. Healthy does not necessarily mean low-calories, just by adding fruits you obviously add a lot of calories. But it all depends on what you compare it against. If you compare against most of the commercially available drinks you'll find that the recipes here have less calories - obviously, if you compare against water, that's a completely different story.The recipe book comes with an interactive TOC that works with the Kindle navigation system. The font size of the recipes is by default quite small, but you can obviously change this in the menu settings of your kindle. Personally I would change the artificial sweetener with Stevia or Xylitol, but that's a personal choice and a substitution that can be easily made.In general, I find that there's a great variety of healthy, low-fat drinks here, and the formatting is also nice and professional.