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Pure & Simple: A Natural Food Way of Life
Discover how natural, unprocessed foods can help you live a happier, healthier, and slimmer life with this book featuring over sixty recipes.
In Pure and Simple, Pascale Naessens shares her method for staying happy, healthy, and slim, with more than sixty recipes. She recommends a lifestyle that embraces only natural, unprocessed foods, but she is not advocating for a diet dominated by restrictions. Instead she celebrates delicious meals, pleasure, and health. Her approach has only one rule--no carbohydrates with protein. So, you can eat anything you want, but not together. She works with a basic series of food meat or fish + vegetables; carbohydrates + vegetables; or dairy + vegetables. And her mouthwatering recipes for appetizers, mains, and desserts make adopting this eating style entirely uncomplicated. You don't need to count calories or restrict portion sizes. If you are overweight, you will lose the extra pounds. You will cook delicious food simply and easily. You can drink wine. You will be satisfied. And you will enjoy your food with relish.
"Forget calories, focus on food quality, and let your body do the rest! Pascale Naessens shows how to put this prescription into practice with delicious recipes in her beautiful book Pure & Simple," --David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD, author of Always Hungry?
In Pure and Simple, Pascale Naessens shares her method for staying happy, healthy, and slim, with more than sixty recipes. She recommends a lifestyle that embraces only natural, unprocessed foods, but she is not advocating for a diet dominated by restrictions. Instead she celebrates delicious meals, pleasure, and health. Her approach has only one rule--no carbohydrates with protein. So, you can eat anything you want, but not together. She works with a basic series of food meat or fish + vegetables; carbohydrates + vegetables; or dairy + vegetables. And her mouthwatering recipes for appetizers, mains, and desserts make adopting this eating style entirely uncomplicated. You don't need to count calories or restrict portion sizes. If you are overweight, you will lose the extra pounds. You will cook delicious food simply and easily. You can drink wine. You will be satisfied. And you will enjoy your food with relish.
"Forget calories, focus on food quality, and let your body do the rest! Pascale Naessens shows how to put this prescription into practice with delicious recipes in her beautiful book Pure & Simple," --David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD, author of Always Hungry?
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305 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2017
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April 17, 2017
(I received an ARC from the NETGALLEY)
RATING: 3 STARS
I was interested in this book as I am looking for ways to eat healthier and cleaner. I am not sure about this food combining method, but the recipes look fun to try. I will post updates if I do try this method. If nothing less, this book satisfied my cookbook browsing with it's lovely pictures.
RATING: 3 STARS
I was interested in this book as I am looking for ways to eat healthier and cleaner. I am not sure about this food combining method, but the recipes look fun to try. I will post updates if I do try this method. If nothing less, this book satisfied my cookbook browsing with it's lovely pictures.
May 4, 2017
This is a delightful book full of new insight and interesting ideas. The author states, “This book is a reflection of my hunger to live a good life.” She goes on to say, “The best moments in life often occur at the table.” It is obvious that she wants to make this time together, around the table, a time of pleasure and a celebration of the “good life” for which she “hungers”.
As she puts it, “You’re not just cooking, but creating, developing yourself, and feeding yourself and others. And when you use natural, high-quality ingredients, you know that every bite is good for you. You are free to enjoy your dinner without restricting portion sizes or counting calories.” This last statement caught my attention. It is an oft repeated one in her book. She is convinced and lives by this mantra.
Although not stated, I think that she would agree, that we have taken the joy out of eating by making it about calories and speed. This is what she seems to be saying when she says, “How you eat is no less important than what you eat. If you want to successfully acquire new and healthy eating habits, there are two conditions: the food must be good; and you must feel satisfied after each meal.” Her goal is to help her readers understand the food they eat and how they can be better at making it an enjoyable and, even, exciting experience.
It all comes down to this one idea, “My one rule: do not eat concentrated carbohydrates with concentrated protein in the same meal. So, you can eat everything, but not together.”
Finally, as she says, “Healthy eating is not about radical choices; on the contrary, it about finding the right balance.”
I am not a cook, but I do enjoy food. The author has made even the recipes an enjoyable reading experience. She has beautifully laid out pictures of the various dishes prepared. She also pulls back the curtain. She sprinkles her recipes with “tip” which help the novice chef (and interested reader) know what goes on behind the scenes so to speak. Those little secrets that make it all work.
As she puts it, “You’re not just cooking, but creating, developing yourself, and feeding yourself and others. And when you use natural, high-quality ingredients, you know that every bite is good for you. You are free to enjoy your dinner without restricting portion sizes or counting calories.” This last statement caught my attention. It is an oft repeated one in her book. She is convinced and lives by this mantra.
Although not stated, I think that she would agree, that we have taken the joy out of eating by making it about calories and speed. This is what she seems to be saying when she says, “How you eat is no less important than what you eat. If you want to successfully acquire new and healthy eating habits, there are two conditions: the food must be good; and you must feel satisfied after each meal.” Her goal is to help her readers understand the food they eat and how they can be better at making it an enjoyable and, even, exciting experience.
It all comes down to this one idea, “My one rule: do not eat concentrated carbohydrates with concentrated protein in the same meal. So, you can eat everything, but not together.”
Finally, as she says, “Healthy eating is not about radical choices; on the contrary, it about finding the right balance.”
I am not a cook, but I do enjoy food. The author has made even the recipes an enjoyable reading experience. She has beautifully laid out pictures of the various dishes prepared. She also pulls back the curtain. She sprinkles her recipes with “tip” which help the novice chef (and interested reader) know what goes on behind the scenes so to speak. Those little secrets that make it all work.
March 29, 2017
This is a beautiful cookbook full of the most gorgeous recipes and photographs. My only complaint is that I do not find the authors theory on food combining to be evidenced-based. Otherwise, I truly thought this book was rich in unique, healthy and flavorful recipes fit for even an amateur cook. I can't wait to start cooking!
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