You Are What You Eat Cookbook
by Gillian McKeith
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Book Reviews of You Are What You Eat Cookbook
Book Review: Not bad, but there are better books to buy.
Summary: 3 Stars
If you love her show, you may be tempted to buy her book, just like I was. I must warn you though, unless you are dedicated to using this book, it will probably wind up on your shelf collecting dust.
Pros:
1. The recipes are not bad and can be made pretty well. The taste of some of them is actually good.
2. They are very healthy recipes.
Cons:
1. The recipes are in metric, so for Americans, you will need a conversion chart or will have to do calculations. But if you really like a recipe, you can just write down the American measurements in the book itself, so you will only have to do calculations for a recipe once.
2. Most of the recipes require ingredients that CANNOT be found in most big chain stores. For many items, you will have to track down a health food store, a World Foods, or a specific retailer that carries what you need. This is NOT a book that you take to Walmart, grab your stuff and go. You WILL have to hunt down some ingredients. Some of the ingredients, I guarantee, you will never have heard of; many times I found myself looking at a list of ingredients and thinking, "What the hell is a ______?"
3. Some of the recipes taste like crap. I'm not going to lie. She LOVES using leeks. If you don't like onions, you're not going to like leeks. It's basically a gigantic green onion. She also likes using fish. If you don't like fish, you're not going to be a happy camper.
This book is not bad, but it's not great. If you are typical a overweight Midwesterner, you are probably not going to like this book very much. If you are really dedicated to ONLY eating the recipes in this book, you will lose weight. But you are probably not going to like it.
You might want to save yourself some trouble, and look somewhere else.
Book Review: Best diet ever. She is one fireball of a lady. Love her show too
Summary: 5 Stars
I got hooked on her show on BBC America, my sister bought me the cookbook a few months, and I've been on this diet or should I say life style change, for the past 2 weeks. My husband has dropped 20 lbs. and I've dropped 9, and we love the food. It's great to eat so healthy. Mind you I've always been a big veggie eater anyways, but in all my 46 years I've never cooked with fennel or leeks and now I can't live without it. She's right, my energy level is higher, my PMS is 75% improved and we are full. Buying organic is not that bad either, food tastes better and with not eating out or eating tons of meat, it is cheaper. We will keep on this lifestyle change and stick with it. Thanks Gillian. Now bring out another cookbook.... I had to order this book for my boss who know wants one as well, as he is jealous of my great healthy lunches. I love aduki beans.....I used to eat Lean Cusines, Weight Watchers etc, but Gillian is right, they have so much sodium. I'm not a fan of salt nor have I ever been, but my hands and ankles love me without the salt from these prepackaged foods. I'm hooked for life. A fan and skinner in Florida.Book Review: Some recipes contain items that are hard to find
Summary: 4 Stars
I love Gillian McKeith's program "You Are What You Eat" and decided that many of the recipes suggested to the participants of that show made sense. The only problem is that unless you live close to a large, well-stocked grocery store or health food store, chances are most of the recipes will do you little good.
I don't live in the middle of nowhere, but finding millet (used in many recipes) is almost impossible. Mung beans? Nope. Tahini sauce? Not at my supermarket. I use the overall idea of healthy eating espoused by the cookbook and make many substitutions. Unfortunately, that sort of defeats the purpose of the cookbook. I can't follow the recipes exactly.
To get an overall idea of what this cookbook contains, and before you buy, go to the UK's Channel 4 website for You Are What You Eat (just do a Google search) and take a look at the sample recipes. There are lots of them; you might be better off trying the recipes at the site before getting the cookbook.
Book Review: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT COOKBOOK
Summary: 4 Stars
I love Gillian's show and her recipes. The recipes are very tasty. The only reason I didn't give it a full five-star rating was because this book needs an English to American translation for the average American to understand it easily. For example, what is the Fahrenheit equivalent to Gas Mark 4? What's a courgette? How much is a dessert spoonful? Like I said, a FULL translation would be VERY helpful! However, I would still recommend the book.
I went to the Gillian McKeith website and got translations for the names of the foods and also to a metric-English conversion/calculator site to convert some of the measurements and the cooking temperatures. I'm not exactly sure how much a (English) dessert spoon holds, so I'm still guesstimating some measurements, but everything has turned out just great. I love eating all these fresh fruits and veggies and would recommend Gillian's books, plan, and attitude to anyone. Enjoy!
Book Review: Excellent book and well worth the money
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently started watching her tv show on BBC America and I am hooked! Everything she says makes perfect sense to me, although I am a health food freak. The cookbook itself contains very easy to follow recipes and most are quite tasty. I am not a good cook to begin with, but can easily follow these recipes. The book also gives nutritional information on the foods and explains why you should eat certain foods to help certain health conditions improve. I don't care if she is a doctor or a lawyer or a sheep herder, this is a great cookbook if you want to lose weight the healthy way, not through dieting but through proper nutrition. Excellent, and one of the few cookbooks I didn't receive and turn around to sell on ebay after realizing they are too complicated!