Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Books read Mar 13





Diet: The Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Eating So You Lose Weight  by Sarah Talene
This book starts out with a table of contents where chapters are broken up into different categories, not meals.
Introduction  talks about how this book can help you and about healthy eating.
Each week is devoted to certain food groups and gives you a selection of foods to eat.
Free book is offered among the pages.
Shopping list is also included.  How to eat healthy when you eat out is another good chapter.
Seven day meal plan is also included for 3 meals each day.
Eat power food and examples are given, different spcies and herbs also.
Smoothie recipes are included that have a summary, title, list of ingredients - no directions if you need to do something special to them, other than run through the blender.
Soup recipes are included and they do come with directions.
No pictures and no nutritional information.
Reasons why you don't lose weight and what to change.
Free gift offer at the end and table of contents.



Crock Pot Cookbook: 50 Crock Pot Recipes for Healthy Families(healthy crock-pot recipes,slow cooking all year round,slow cooking methods,vegetarian crock-pot recipes,slow cooker vegan, cooking pot) by Patrice Clark
Starts with a table of contents where each is devoted to a meal. Free gift offer and intro about why use the pot.
Each recipe starts with a title, small color photo, prep and cook time and servings. Level is easy, medium or hard.
List of ingredients-some parts of the recipe are using metric, some american.
You should be able to substitute for your healhtier dietary needs: low fat, low sugar, low sodium products.
Directions are included.  No nutritional information.
Recipes do not start at the beginning of a page.
Free gift offer at the end.


Sous Vide Cookbook: 180 Modern Sous Vide Recipes - The Art and Science of Precision Cooking at Home (Plus Cocktails)  by Tina B.Baker 
This book starts with a table of contents where each one specializes in one item: how to cook sous vide, equipment, egg recipes, vegetable and fruit recipes, poultry, beef and lamb,  pork, fish, cocktails and sauces and desserts.
Free gift is offered. Intro tells you how to cook sous vide.
Quick reference guide for meats and what temperature they need to cook thoroughly, shellfish, fish, veggies, etges, etc.
Each recipe starts with a title, prep and cook time and servings.
List of ingredients and you should be able to use healthier options for your dietary needs: low fat, low sugar, low sodium products.
Directions are given along with some nutiriton facts: calories, total fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, total carb, fiber, protein.
Each recipe does not start at the top of a new page.
No sodium levels nor pictures.
As you go through the recipes the format and information all changes-it's from a total different source.
Each recipe in this section starts with a title, prep and cook time, servings. Nutritional information-not sure of portion size: calories, fat - NOT broken up into good or bad, sodium, carbs, fiber, protein and list of ingredients.
Directions are included.
Different formats alternate. 



Mexican: Easy Recipes 2 (Mrs. Goodfood's Around The World in 20 Recipe Books): Beginner´s Guide by Neyda Goodfood 
This cookbook starts out with a table of contents where chapters are broken up into meals.
Intro talks about culture and traditions of the area.
Each section has a summary and history of that particular item.
Each recipe includes a title, color photo, summary of the dish and where it originated from.
List of ingredients and how to make the dish.
There is no nutritional information but comes with other servings suggestions.
Uses mixed measurements, metric and american in same recipe.
Comes with a glossary of a few terms used.


Instant Pot for Two Cookbook: The Very Best Instant Pot Recipes for Two People by Nicola Waters 
Book starts out with free gift.  Explanation of abbrevaitions of terms used: sf, wa, v, and f. Table of contents where chapters are broken up into different products: chicekn,beef, etc.
Intro about the pot itself, covers everything and then some, how healthy it is, how safe, how easy to clean, etc.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings, prep and cook time. List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar products. Also I'd substitute for canned and prepackaged items by using fresh.
Directions are given and there is some nutrutiohal information per serving: calories, total fat, sat. fat, protein, carbs, fiber and sugarNO sodium levels.
There are NO pictures.
Read the directions all the way through because some use other equipment that you may not have.




Stylish bites – appetizers. Cookbook: 25 fast recipes for any occasion by Daniel Hall
Book starts out with an offer of a free gift, Table of contents where everything is a appetizer: starters, small plates, stylish bites, and sips recipes.
Introduction has many ways of preparing the dishes and notes each one.
Each recipe starts with a title, color photo, prep and cook time and servings.
List of ingredients and some you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, and low sugar products.
I would also swap out canned items for fresh ones. Directions are included..
There is no nutritional information.
Barley granola bites would be our choice for our healthier lifestyle.
Each recipe does NOT start at the beginning of a new page so you might miss some.


Al E. Gator: Short Stories, Games, Jokes, and More! (Fun Time Reader Book 34) by Uncle Amon 
Have read many other works from this author and they contain a lot of fun things.
This one starts out with a talb eof contents, free gift,  and a story about al e. gator and how he comes to the rescue.
Fun activity is included.
 Other stories with colorful pictures are included.  Funny jokes for kids are also included at the end.
Maze puzzles-so fun, along with the solutions, about the author is included at the end.



15-Minute Body Fix (3rd Edition): Resize Your Thighs, Blast Belly Fat & Sculpt Lean Arms! (Exercise) by Linda Westwood, 
This book starts out with a table of contents where workouts get their own chapters for different body parts.
Section on who will benefit from this book. An intro about physical fitness and some guidelines.
Love that it mentions you have to start eating healthier to make the workouts all beneficial.
Free book offer.
Each cahpter starts out with good descriptions and explains it in simple terms.
There are no diagrams or phtoos. Sneak peak at other books. 
 

Doctor Kangaroo: A Silly Rhyming Children's Picture Book by Gerald Hawksley
Colorful silly rhyming children's storay about a zebra and a crocodile.  Other animals and birds are also mentioned.
Every one has a problem and they send for the doctor-kangaroo.
He fixes them up real quick.  love that there are so many different animals in this book.
Jokes at the end. And a maze puzzle. Memory test. Bonus of five little monkeys is included.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.
 

Secrets in summer by Nancy Thayer
Starts out with Darcy and she's inherited her grandmothers house on the island. She had married young after college where she waitressed to make ends meet. She met Bose and they date and get married to divorce years later.
She's the librarian for children's section on the island and it's summer where the island blossoms to tens of thousands of visitors. She figures out who's renting the house behind her hedge-her ex and his new family. She listens to many of the conversations from the other side and is able to stop the island 20 year old try to persaude the 14 year old girl of taking drugs.
She also becomes friends with the older woman who has visitors for the summer also. Love hearing of the confrontations along with steamy scenes with her boyfriend Nash, an island contractor.
Growing up on an island reminds me of this where everybody knows everybody business and then some. Love the dream of the yarn shop by Susan, a friend.
Everybody has a secret and Darcy seems to hear them all and then some...
Fascinating to learn of all the drama but it's real life also.
From NLS for my BARD player.


 The Family We're Born With (Finding Family Book 1) 
 Had read another book by this author and enjoyed this one because it is about finding your true family.
Love how some spend a lot of money to track down their brother. It's Christmas and the mother is meeting her son that she gave away.
Like how others are around to help celebrate and how they are able to open up to one another.
Didn't care for the homosexual sex scenes at all-jumped over them, was only reading because of all the other content.


The Healthiest Shopping List (2nd Edition): 43 Healthiest Supermarket Finds Revealed! by Olivia Rogers
Starts with a table of contents where chapters are broken up into food categories.
Introduction is about food and what is healthy and what is not.
First Chapter starts with Healthy veggies and fruits. A brief summary of this section and then each food is broken up into paragraphs where it tells you what specific parts are the most nutritious.
Offer of a free book is placed among the chapters-several times.
Other chapters include healthy proteins, drinks, whole grains, healthy dairy, .
Good listings is great as a reference.
 




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