Published by LadyGray on 1st December 2009
One of the very best investments I ever made was the South Beach Diet Parties & Holidays Cookbook for holidays and parties! The recipes are easy to follow and simple to make! Best of all, most of them are very, very good.
I suffer from Uncreative Diet Dilemna, which simply means that I’m incapable of preparing beautiful, fancy menus without calories. This book helps. There are more than 20 difference menus and 150 recipes (WITH PICTURES) . Just browsing through the menus motivated me to put together the rosemary shrimp skewers. Last Thanksgiving I treated my family to chocolate cake and pumpkin pie using the recipes in this book. Could I have figured out how to substitute splenda in my cheesecake recipe without this book — yes. Would I have decorated it with lemon zest or cocoa to add visual appeal — probably not. It’s only $10. Well worth the investment!
Published by LadyGray on 3rd October 2009
The shameless pursuit of health is the best way to describe Cheryl Forberg’s book
Positively Ageless.
I picked up this book last month as I was turning 49. There’s something about that 50 year marker that started me thinking about aging and the process of getting older. Ms. Forberg tackles the issues of age related disease onset and the dietary methods of keeping diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and general aging at bay.
In the first 100 pages she tackles the top American aging concerns and gives dietary tips for avoiding or treating these issues. There’s a lot of great diet information even though the first objective is not weight loss. Ms. Forberg, a nutritionist, points to the inclusion of soy, fiber, whole grains and the elimination of processed sugar as the answer to most aging dilemnas. But she also gives the reader many tips along the way for those super foods that help boost the results for health and appearance.
Positively Ageless tends to be more reference than storybook, but that shouldn’t keep anyone from considering this as a part of their kitchen bookshelf. The tips are more than enough to make me return to it time and again.
As an additional benefit, Ms. Forberg dresses up the health benefits with the more immediate gratification of using diet to avoid aging skin and appearances. While the true benefits of the book are in the disease prevention, there is something to be said for looking your best if you’re going to strive to live 100 years!
