The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook: Over 125 Delicious, Life-Changing, Plant-Based Recipes

This is an incredible and informative cookbook. I have gifted it to family and friends for heart healthy and delicious recipes. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, dressings and more. Highly recommend the collard sushi recipe for events! Big hit.

I did not want another book on this subject as I have the program ideas from my research. I recommend The Engine 2 cookbook by Rip & Jane also. This one has a basic summary of the plan and some really good recipes for followers. I am not totally following this. I guess I am a 'flexitarian'. I see no reason not to consume eggs and cannot live without an occasional bite of cheese or fish/poultry. I do try to make this a rarity. I have followed this program for about a month. I feel better and have lost about 4 lbs. (I need to lose 10 to not have a BMI of overweight.) This program and cookbook allows me to indulge my powerful sweet tooth by eating fruit and EVEN SOME MAPLE SYRUP! My main goal is to lower my cholesterol count. My BP has lowered already. So here is hoping my LDL responds.

I am a very picky eater, I tried to go on vegan diet twice. First time it lasted one and a half year, second time nine months. One of reasons - I didn't like food (I am not big fan of beans and vegan cheeses any kind), and also I think I can't tolerate vegan meat substitute made out of soy. Second time I went off vegan diet, because I started to feel sick, my digestion was completely out of whack, and I was week all the time. I did health DNA test, and it showed that my body has problem absorbing vitamin B. I decided to still eat 90% vegan and add once or twice a week eggs, fish, or meat. Now I had to find vegan recipes which I would like. Finally vegan cookbook with recipes, which I like. I've made two recipes from this book. First one was Eat Loaf, I did add a little bit Himalayan pink salt, and even it had beans, it was really good. I've made some changes: I added some sauce directly to mixture, also I added 2 tbsp of ground flex seeds to hold it together and I pulsated all in food processor. I baked it in large 10x13 pan (instead of bread pan), and I really recommend to do this way - you will get more flavor. Today I've made Savory Smoky Oars and it is good too. As always I've made some changes: added a little bit of salt, I didn't have and don't like can tomatoes, I used tomato paste instead (one mistake not adding a little bit more water for this substitute), I also didn't have liquid smoke, I added smoked paprika and a little bit chipotle pepper (I omitted hot sauce).

I've been trying to adhere to a Prevent and Reversal diet, and appreciate the concept. In practice, it's a fairly difficult program to adhere to, mostly because of the prohibitions against fat, salt and sugar. Though my tastes have changed somewhat, there's no way that many of these bland offerings satisfy. Maybe with more time under my belt, that too will change. We'll see. I do appreciate the recap of the major components of the diet, but wonder about things like: Tahini must not be in hummus, yet sesame seeds are permitted in other dishes in the cookbook. Tahini is nothing more than ground up sesame seeds. So, why exclude the tablespoon or two that might be used to add flavor to hummus? Other dishes call for a tablespoon of more of either chia or flax seeds. Last time I checked, all three, sesame, chia and flax, were roughly 60 calories per tablespoon, mostly from fat. If fat is to be avoided at all cost, why are the seed variations permitted? (and again, if the seeds are okay, why does processing sesame seeds into tahini pull them from the list?) Use rolled oats a lot, but not instant or quick cook versions? Really? It's hard enough to get down Essy's Breakfast Bowl with uncooked quick cook oats. (Ironically, this has been an eye opener for me. I never tried dry oats for breakfast, and found I truly prefer it to cooked oatmeal. I go one step further, I actually bake the oats to get a bit of a brown on them. This renders a subtle nutty undertone to the breakfast bowl.) As noted by other reviewers, a number of these recipes are for sauces and condiments, digging into the number of real recipes for meals. You're not really getting 125 recipes. Missing from this cookbook is the DeBoom Cherry Chili published elsewhere by one of the authors. A sad omission, as this is in my top 5 heart health vegan recipe list. I do love the spiral bound format for the cookbook and wish more authors would offer that as an option. Were it not for that, I'd only rate the recipes at 3 star. One question to Essy, how many calories a day do you consume? I did some quick math on Essy's Breakfast bowl. That dish, with chia seeds, banana, raisins, 1/2 to one cup of additional berries, and the 1/4 cup of second cereal (listed as an optional add on) pushes the caloric content to at least 600 calories. That's a third of my allotted calories, and I'm a 6' 182 pound male.

I bought this book and the how not to die cookbook, and for my surprise this one has no good recipes, they don't make you feel full, almost vegetables and fruits but not many protein and carbs and they are really important, i don't recommend it if you want to learn how to make lunch recipes or dinner meals. Is more for the sides, if you want to learn that buy it.

Excelente. Recetas sencillas y riquísimas.

Le ricette sono molto facili da eseguire. Purtroppo non si trovano con facilità alcuni ingredienti come spesso accade quando si usano cookbook di altri paesi.

The recipes in this book are fairly easy, even for people like me who don't always follow measurements or ingredient lists exactly. Amongst others I've made the S.O.B Burgers (watch the YouTube video with Jane and Ann) - I put too much liquid stock in, and didn't have enough cooked rice - so instead of making burgers I cooked it as an S.O.B. bake in the oven instead ... it was yummy. The version of the book I have is missing the 'Hearty Salads' pages 151 to 167 though ... not sure if others have the same problem? Thanks Frances

Erstklassige Rezepte - einfach zum Nachkochen mit tollen Ideen für Alternativen, um die Ansprüche einer pflanzenbasierten Vollwertkost ohne Fett-, Zucker- und Salzzusätze gerecht zu werden. Es werden einfache Wege gezeigt, gewohnte Zutaten zu ersetzen und zahlreiche Anregungen geboten. Für Einsteiger zur Heranführen an die gesunde vegane Ernährung oder auch Fortgeschrittene, die neue Ideen suchen oder Ihre Ernährung weiter optimieren wollen. Die Autorinnen haben zudem einen YouTube Kanal, auf dem Sie zahlreiche Rezepte und Variationen vorstellen. Es lohnt sich auf jeden Fall dort reinzuschauen, evtl. auch zur Kaufentscheidung. Wie unschwer erkennbar- ich bin schlichtweg begeistert!!! Die Wirksamkeit dieser Ernährung für Herz- und Diabetespatienten ist in zahlreichen Studien seit langem belegt.