Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Books read Sept 19









Mini Instant Pot Cookbook 2018: Superfast 3-Quart Models Electric Pressure Cooker Recipes – Cooking Healthy, Most Delicious & Easy Meals by Philip Johnson
Even though this is a smaller size it'd be half of the recipes that I currently use-no leftovers.
Table contents where recipes are broken up into meal categories. Intro about the instant pot is included, feature, lots of colorful pictures, settings on the unit.
Each recipe starts with a title, prep, cook time, servings and list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar and fresh instead of canned products.
Directions are given for a 3 quart instant pot so I figure if you double it you can then have leftover for another meal or freezer meal-depending on what items are included.
Some nutritonal info per servings: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs, fiber, protein, NO sodium.
There are NO pictures.
Classic hash brown frittata sound really good with a few substittuions.






35 Recipes For Slow Cooker Beef – Beef Slow Cooker Recipes by Pamela Kazmierczak
Table of conttnets where there is no special order to recipes.
Short intro. Each recipe has a title, summary of the dish, list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for a healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar and fresh for canned items.
Directions and servings suggestions. There are no pictures.
There is no nutritional information.  Nothing particular special about the recipes. some cater to foregin country and their special herbs and spices. 




Health: 139 POWERFUL & Scientifically PROVEN Health Tips to Boost Your Health, Shed Pounds & Live Longer! (4th Edition)by Linda Westwood
Table of contents where each habit has it's own chapter.  Free ebooks throughout the book.
There are also sneak peeks at other works by the author.
A lot of the habits are really common sense-to drink water, eat right, get plenty of sleep.
There are exercises but they don't show you by pictures of how they are done.
Have read other more powerful books.




Cooking Big Collection: Over 350 Delicious Recipes: (Healthy Recipes, Healthy Cookbook) by Brandy Irving
Starts with table of contents and includes many other books, all different authors, small ones but a lot of them.
Intro then recipes-NO pictures. summary of the item, list of ingredients,  directions on how to make. NO nutrtional information.
Books include summer drinks, sugar detox, Smoothie recipes, salting and pickling, more of the same showing vegetables and fruits pictures and what they will do for your health (really like this book),
canning and preserving,  freezer meals (like muffin recipes but no servings and lots of butter) , sausage making, instant pot smart pts cookbook (meal recipes some are healthy, pics, no nutr info)
food preservation book, clean eating 28 day plan  canning and preserving for baby,  canning and preserving,  another canning and preserving book,  bread cookbook (like that you can also use a bread machine)  baby food,  etc.


Instant Pot Mini Cookbook by Sarah Orwell
Starts with offer of a free book via mailing list-doesn't work.
Table of contents where recipes are broken up into daily plans.
Also food and meal categories.
Intro about the instant pot, the parts, what buttons do, foods you can eat on a ketogenic diet as this book is dedicated to that-low carb.
Each recipe starts with a title, color photo, servings, prep and cook time, release mode and time.
List of ingredients and how to make the item.
Nurtritional information includes calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs, protein, -NO sodium listed.
Not familiar with some of the ingredients but I'd still substitute for healthier options-fresh, not canned and low sodium products.
About the author is included at the end. Index listed at the end also.

 


Amish Friends Knitting Circle: Smicksburg Tales Two by Karen Anna Vogel
Enjoyed the first book and am familiar with the characters now so I know I will enjoy this one also as the days go by.
Table of contents where the recipes are also included and about the author at the end.
Love hearing of the seasonal things the children are able to do with a bit of supervision-so educational.
Glossary of Amish words are translated at the beginning.
Like how the book starts out-bringing you up to date on the previous book but adding new bits of information in the present day.
Like the idea of camp but felt they needed to charge or have others bring things they could use: food, fabric, etc because they spend a lot of time doing it.
Like also how their problems are solved and Recipes included and I can't wait to try the blueberry muffin on-always on the lookout for new ones.
Can't wait to read the next in the series. Wish they had patterns for items they are making for charity. Lots of changes occur over the time of the year and new rules are in place.

 

The Well-Crafted Mom: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Making a Life You Love Kindle Edition
by Kathleen Ann Harper Guide for making your life the one you love.
Starts with a table of contents. Each of those are broken up into  a theme, practical advice, coaching and craft.
Good advice which should work for all, with practice and patience. Love the crafting suggestions, so easy to do also.
Like ending how she mentions others in what chapters that helped out with their suggestions and resources.
About the author and other works are included at the end. 



Itch the Caveman 
Colorful children book about a caveman and he's got an itch. he tries jumping, twirling and other things to get rid of the itch.
He meets many others who try to help also. Interesting how he stops the itch. Silly book.



Essential Oil magic for quick and safe cleaning by arav books
Starts with a table of contents  and intro about cleaning with oils.
History about catrosphes in our times and how green cleaning helped.
Some oils also disinfect and purify the air. Like listings of herbs and a short paragraph of what uses they are for.
Also a section on how to blend them with others to achieve other effects.
List of key ingredients to get and tips.
Recipes included that tell you how to mix the ingredients and what to use them on in your house.




Yoga: The Yoga Beginner's Bible: Top 63 Illustrated Poses for Weight Loss, Stress Relief and Inner Peace (yoga for beginners, yoga books, meditation, mindfulness, ... yoga anatomy, fitness books Book 1)
Table of contents where chapters are broken up by health benefits you are strviing to obtain.
Intro about yoga, some history. Poses show the name of hte pose in foreign language and English translation, picture of one doing the pose and how to do it and the benefits.
Has many different types of yoga positions. I felt these poses, especially the ones in the back  would not be for beginners at all but you can work up to doing them.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end. Excerpt is included.




My Blog Traffic Sucks! 8 Simple Steps to Get 100,000 Blog Visitors without Working 8 Days a Week
I like how it details the habits you can perform to increase the traffic to your site. I don't want to go into making money from visitors, rather than a site with no ads but this book tells you how to analytically make money and email lists.
Resource reading links provided throughout the book. Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.


Mediterranean Diet: Mediterranean Cookbook For Beginners, Lose Weight And Get Healthy (Mediterranean Diet Recipes, Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Mediterranean ... Diet For Beginners, Mediterranean Recipes) by Lady Pannana
This book starts out with about the author and her many ways to contact her. Offer of free low carb book to help you get healthy. Table of contents where there's a lot of discussion what a Mediterranean diet is all about.
Recipes are broken up into meal categories.
Lots of history about the diet, how it helps you lose weight and other health benefits.
Each recipe contains a title, brief line about the dish, servings, prep cook and total time to make, list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sodium fresh vs canned products.
Directions on how to make. Found some of the recipes include about 20 ingredients going to to take some time to accumulate them all before starting the dish.
There are NO pictures. There is NO nutritional information.
Some of the titles are foreign and i have no idea what they mean.
Some recipes use American measurements, and England metric in same recipe.
15 day meal plans are also included.  Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.
Seems to be three different author names at other book retailers, not sure who really the authoris.










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