The Easy PCOS Diet Cookbook: Fuss-Free Recipes for Busy People on the Insulin Resistance Diet

by Tara Spencer

The easy way to take control of your PCOS symptoms—The Easy PCOS Diet Cookbook gives you fuss-free recipes to fight PCOS with an insulin resistance diet.

Struggling with PCOS symptoms is already hard enough, but following an insulin resistance diet to alleviate them shouldn’t be. That’s why Tara Spencer, a nutritionist specializing in PCOS who suffers from the condition herself, created The Easy PCOS Diet Cookbook—to give busy PCOS fighters the easiest, most hassle-free recipes to eliminate symptoms. The Easy PCOS Diet Cookbook helps readers prepare super simple meals using 5-ingredient recipes—many of which require only 30-minutes or less to make or just one pot—so that they take control of PCOS without wasting any time.

The Easy PCOS Diet Cookbook

125 Easy Recipes providing a mix of 5-ingredient recipes, 30-minute recipes, one-pot recipes, one-pan recipes, and no-cook recipesEasy-to-Find Ingredients using affordable, and easily found items from any grocery storeEssential Info on PCOS teaching you need-to-know information about changing your lifestyle and diet to feel betterLiving with PCOS isn’t easy, but changing your diet to manage symptoms can be with The Easy PCOS Diet Cookbook.

Genres: Cookbooks, Health, Food, Cooking, Nonfiction

392 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 14, 2018

Reviews

[Raya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Confusing and Contradicting

Though the author says to restrict dairy, a lot Greek yogurt was in a recipe. I also went shopping for week 1 but some recipes were for 4 people and some were only for one so portioning was hard and I am having to get creative to avoid waste. The week one shopping list cost me $150. I'll be trying a different book.

[KriisGaia · Rating 4 out of 5]

PCOS, Polycystic Ovarian syndrome, affects about 10% of western women. The author, Tara Spencer, is a sufferer of PCOS. After a decade, since her diagnosis, of experimentation and education about the syndrome, she has nearly eliminated her symptoms.

The Easy PCOS Diet Cookbook collection of recipes is designed to help sufferers with easy to make recipes. All of the recipes are either five ingredients, take less than 30 minutes to prepare, use only one pot or pan, are no-cook, or can be cooked in bulk to be reheated later.

Section One of the book covers reversing PCOS with the Insulin Resistance Diet. This section explains the role of insulin resistance in PCOS and offers dietary guidelines, provides a handy list of foods to enjoy, and which to avoid.

The end of Section One covers Setting Up Your Kitchen, listing the essential equipment for your kitchen, pantry essentials, and even provides a list of essential perishable foods. The Time and Money-Saving Shopping Tips give you various strategies you can use in the grocery store. A brief description of each for the recipe labels (5-ingredient, 30 minute, etc.) rounds out the end of the chapter.

The recipes chapters include:

Smoothies and Breakfast
Hearty Soups and Salads
Easy Appetizers and Sides
Vegan and Vegetarian Mains
Fish and Seafood Mains
Chicken and Turkey Mains
Beef and Pork Mains
Snacks and Sweet Treats
Sauces, Dressings, and Staples

There were only a few pictures throughout the book, those appear only at the beginning of each section. These pictures, however, do mention the name of the recipe and the page number for easy reference.

The ingredients required for the recipes are all easily sourced. I found that even the bulk cook recipes were easy, most recipes taking under an hour.

Each of the recipes indicates at the top what the benefit is (some are for weight management, others inflammation fighters, etc.) and all give the prep and cook times.

Each of the recipes also includes a brief description and brief instructions, all easy to follow. None of the recipes are terribly complicated and it is only the soups which have to simmer for a while (and the jam) which are time-consuming. All of the recipes end with a tip and the nutritional values.

Uncomplicated, And Something For Everyone

With most recipes for diets geared at a specific condition, it is a balancing act to ensure that the recipes will both help the sufferer but also please the rest of the family. I have no doubt that these recipes will do both.

After all of the recipes, you will find a Two-Week Meal Plan with Shopping Lists, a Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Food List, Measurements and Conversions Chart, and the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 List.

A brief resources page is followed by a brief references page. The two indexes available reference the recipes by Type, and by Title.

Even though I am thankfully not a PCOS sufferer, I found this book useful. The recipes are so easy that they will work for anyone and none appear as if they would skimp on flavor.

See the full review and the recipe for Pear and Fennel Pork Chops at The RecipesNow! Reviews And Recipes Magazine. This review is written in response to a complimentary hard copy of the book provided by the publisher in hopes of an honest review. Enjoy!

[Reba Reads · Rating 2 out of 5]

Updated: Dropping to 2 stars after trying the first recipe tonight. No pictures, so there's nothing to reference visually. Estimated cook times do not include other ingredients that you have to also cook, like grains (most of the recipes), so expect twice the cooking time than listed for lots of recipes. It was also difficult to follow the recipe. I was skipping around a lot rather than moving through the recipe sequentially because I was prepping during a 30 minute tomato drying waiting period (yeah, that's a thing). It just didn't feel intuitive at all, like this book was written for people who are already used to cooking all the time...when the audience for this book is primarily people who are currently eating unhealthy. Original Review: 3 stars because I haven't tried the recipes yet but reading the rest of the book was quick and informative, just the right amount of information for a cookbook. A great place to start, less intimidating than the nonfiction book about PCOS that I also bought.

[Laura J · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an excellent book with many recipes to choose from, which are delicious. The only reason I am rating this 4 instead of 5 stars, is because the recipes are all around the same level of difficulty in terms of steps for cooking, which is unfortunately too much time for me.

I find myself reaching for my other PCOS diet book more often just because I know the recipes will be easier and faster to make and usually require less ingredients. That said, though, when I want something with a little more effort but very delicious - this is my go-to.

[Midnight Muses · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has been amazing. It has some really good information in a way that is easy to understand and not too long. It also has great recipes that I have been diving into and really enjoying. And I'm already starting to feel so much better

[usodac · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

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[Mirella Ivanova · Rating 5 out of 5]

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