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Learn to COOK - 5 A Day: Savor the Flavor of Fruits and Vegetables
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Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781579547066
ISBN: 1579547060
Label: Rodale Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2003-01-04
Publisher: Rodale Books
Studio: Rodale Books
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Imagine if there was a way to: Get the fruits and vegetables you need without effort. Make one simple and delicious meal that provides 100% of the servings you need for an entire day. Incorporate more vegetables into your family meals without their suspecting a thing.
There is!... and it’s all right here in 5 A Day: The Better Health Cookbook.
Fruits and vegetables – whether fresh, canned, dried, or frozen – are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients that help your body fight off a host of health problems. Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to lower cholesterol, lose weight, and protect themselves and their families from diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases? You and your family can start living longer, healthier lives today.
That’s right – eating just 5 servings of colorful, versatile fruits and vegetables can bring you health benefits beyond comparison. And 5 A Day: The Better Health Cookbook shows you just how simple – and delicious! – eating for better health can be. Besides offering you creative, easy-to-make recipes, 5 A Day also gives you lots of ideas for making a small change or addition to an existing recipe to help you reach your 5 a day goal in a snap.
You’ll reap the countless health rewards of a variety of wonderful foods, including Mexican Steak with Fruit Skewers, Crispy Beer-Batter Onion Rings, and Banana-Apple Sherbet. Please your family with Honey-Dijon Chicken, Mediterranean Pasta Salad, and Plumberry Granita. Feast on Grilled Southwestern Shrimp, Cherokee Corn and Beans with Acorn Squash, and Baked Apple Fritters.
Better health is just one mouthwatering meal away. Enjoy every bite!
5 A Day: The Better Health Cookbook includes more than 150 delicious, easy recipes your family will love; at-a-glance fruit and vegetable servings with every recipe; a 7-day menu plan that shows you how easy it is to make healthy food choices; 7 power menus, each packing all your 5 a day needs into one fantastic meal.
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Summary: Healthy & Easy Recipes
Comment: Great recipes and you don't have to access a gourmet kitchen for a gazillion ingredients. Practical for starting a healthy New Year.
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Summary: Inaccurate nutritional information
Comment: The book is basically laid out well but unfortunately, the nutritional information is computed incorrectly. If a reader is watching for lowfat recipes, the numbers given would be misleading.
For example, the apple walnut salad is said to serve 6 people with each serving containing 4.6 grams of fat. However, with 66 to 70 grams of fat in the entire recipe, the fat grams per serving would be 10 to 11 grams. Quite a difference!
Also, the chicken & grapefruit stir fry would have at least 6 grams of fat per serving rather than the 3 grams stated in the book. This problem would be significant for those with heart or coronary artery disease who are attempting to follow a very lowfat diet. I'm surprised the authors didn't have a nutritionist check these computations before going to press.
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Summary: Informative book with great recipes
Comment: What a great book! We all know we should be getting 5 fruits and vegetables a day, but this book shows you how to do it - and do it easily.
The beginning section tells you why 5 fruits and vegetables a day are so important to your health, and gives you a few hints as to how to make easy substitutions that will up your daily count of vegetables and fruits (for example: use dried fruits instead of nuts when making muffins and breads). It gives advice on how to incorporate fruits & veggies into your meals - e.g., buy a new produce item every week - and shows you how to update typical meals to add more fruits & veggies.
The majority of the book is recipes, broken down into sub-categories: fish and shellfish, side dishes, appetizers, breakfasts, fruit salads, etc. The recipes are well laid-out, with helpful labels like "30 minutes or less" and "make ahead." They include nutritional information as well as the number of fruit & vegetable servings. I wish this section included more pictures, as the ones they do include are really helpful.
I found this to be an extremely helpful book. Not only do you get many healthy - and appetizing - recipes, but the front section of the book is a powerful reminder for why it's so important to get your 5 a day. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Terrific Book!
Comment: A great recipe book to get those extra fruits and vegetables in your diet. Well written, nice layout with some wonderful, mouthwatering pictures. Some delicious recipes that aren't quite the ordinary, but yet aren't so different you're afraid to try them....or can't find the ingredients. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Both seasonal and year-round family favorites!
Comment: 5 A Day: The Better Health Cookbook is the collaborative effort of Elizabeth Pivonka (president of the Produce for Better Health Foundation) and Barbara Berry (vice president in charge of the Foundation's programs in education, marketing, communication, and research. On the well documented premise that eating five servings of fruits and vegetables will provide excellent health, this compendium showcasing 150 easy and delicious recipes will form a superb basis for any health conscious, palate pleasing menu. From Sweet Potato Pancakes with Apple-Walnut Topping; Citrus Salad with Raspberry-Vanilla Sauce; and Catfish with Tropical Fruit Salsa; to Artichokes Stuffed with Oriental Noodle Salad; Chicken and Grapefruit Stir-Fry; Watermelon-Blueberry Banana Split, 5 A Day offers wonderful recipes that are thorough "kitchen cook" friendly and certain to become both seasonal and year-round family favorites!
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