Learn to COOK - Super Smoothies: 50 Recipes for Health and Energy
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.875
EAN: 9780811825405
ISBN: 081182540X
Label: Chronicle Books
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 108
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Studio: Chronicle Books
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Editorial Reviews:
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Encouraged by more than 180,000 copies of Smoothies sold, the best-selling authors of Smoothies, Wraps, and Cocktail Food are back to bring the blender into the new millennium. These days, smoothie lovers want more than just fruit-filled refreshment they want great nutrition along with great taste. Super Smoothies offers 50 energy-enhancing, health-boosting recipes. Whether you're looking for a potassium-charged postworkout drink, a flu-fighting immune system booster, or a kid-friendly breakfast on the go, Super Smoothies has a delicious, nutrition-packed smoothie for every lifestyle. With its eye-catching design and luscious full-color photography, Super Smoothies will turn any kitchen into a fabulous juice bar.
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Summary: My family loves these smoothies
Comment: I purchased this book a week ago and have been making smoothies everyday since. Yes, there are a variety of ingredients, but I found most of them at my grocery store. I enjoy trying the pairings I would never think of, such as in the adios anemia where prunes are paired with bananas and vanilla soy milk. It was very creamy and I couldn't even taste prunes . My young daughters even enjoyed this and others which included silken tofu. Everyday they want to pick the smoothie I make next and can't wait to try it. My daughters are excited about eating healthy food, what could be better than that! I know soon we will have our favorites and it will be easier to keep the ingredients on hand.
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Summary: Great Ideas
Comment: Very good smoothie ideas. I especially like the one for PMS, very tasty and works good on cramps. I make smoothies all the time and this book had some interesting tips and healthy ideas.
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Summary: fun - but Healthy?? for EVERY lifestyle?
Comment: Sixteen of the recipes require sorbet, sherbet, or frozen yogurt. Two more call for Gatorade, and three more after that are cocktails. These smoothies may be healthy TREATS, but they are not healthy enough to replace meals.
Also, twenty-six recipes call for dairy. I realize that vegan is a less common lifestyle. Still. The authors describe almond and rice and soy milk in the Binders section, but they do not recommend which to substitute in a particular recipe. Furthermore, the authors do not suggest anything to replace yogurt. Soy yogurt has a strong soy flavor. Would more banana work instead? Would soy milk ice cubes? Do the other ingredients mask the soy flavor? The authors don't say.
I've only made the Virility Vibe so far. It's not bad, not startlingly good, but that may be because the banana I used was less than perfectly ripe, but then how often are perfectly ripe bananas an option?
Rereading my review, it seems negative to me, but this isn't a bad book. It just doesn't have much of what I was looking for: vegan recipes healthy enough to eat everyday, say, for breakfast.
As an aside, one needn't make pear nectar; no recipe is provided in the book. Most groceries stock it.
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Summary: energy rush
Comment: it's user friendly style, simple fruit/vegatable index, unusual smoothie ideas, and bright images motivate the reader to drink healthy.
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Summary: Not Such A Smooth Move
Comment: Since I had been so happy with the Corpening sisters' first smoothie book, I was eager to give this second one a try, too. Unfortunately, I find these *specialty* smoothies quite off-putting. *All* of the smoothies are made with healthful ingredients, and to imply that some are particularly beneficial for your immune system, heart, energy level, decreasing stress, etc., is just plain misleading! Then there are separate smoothies for men, women, and children, including one calling for breast milk or formula! As a single mom, I want to make just one smoothie that is suitable for both myself and my son! This is just plain silly! I'm sure that the majority of these recipes could be altered so that you could/would serve them to everybody in your family at the same time, (my son does not want to share a smoothie called "pms potion" with me!) but why bother when the recipes in the first book are already completely drinker friendly.
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