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Vegan Bite By Bite: How do you transition to a plant-based diet? The same way you eat a three-ton tomato: Bite By Bite!
Amazon/Kindle selected Vegan Bite By Bite as "Best Books of 2011 - Editor's Pick". "This is a great book for doctors and patients to have as a guide to disease prevention and health promotion." - Neal Barnard, M.D. Change your life…Bite by Bite Transitioning to a vegan diet begins with a decision to be open to change; it then becomes a commitment to your new lifestyle and culminates in a decisive plan of action. Along the way there is work and play, fun and struggle, setbacks and progress. Vegan Bite by Bite serves as your essential roadmap to help you navigate the kitchen, the market and the lifestyle changes that you will confront along the way. Vegan Bite by Bite • “Is there a Doctor in the House?” features interviews Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D., Joel Fuhrman, M.D., Michael Greger, M.D. and John McDougall, M.D. • Grocery lists • Menu plans • Recipes • Lifestyle advice Whether you’re firmly committed and ready to get started or considering the vegan lifestyle and don’t know how or where to begin, Vegan Bite by Bite is your one-stop resource for change.
322 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2010
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March 10, 2012
Because I was writing my thesis, I took a year to read Marilyn Peterson's Vegan Bite-by-Bite enjoyably. During this time, I found it to be a magnificent, enjoyable book with lots of easy-to-read how-to-do-it information along with attractive vegan recipes - lots of them - really easy-to-do vegan recipes, some of these recipes are veganized versions of classically nonvegetarian favorites. Vegan Bite-by-Bite can be read at several levels: a collection of great vegan recipes with information about how to become a health conscious vegetarian, and (b) an illustration of how to veganize and to work sensitively and lovingly with vegan food in order to please oneself and those who share meals with us - even if they're not vegetarian.
April 23, 2012
I thought I just needed to exercise more to shed the unattractive pounds I put on in the 3 years after college. I was also feeling low on energy, out of breath, slow to think, and I felt like the fried foods I love were trying to lure me into a trap. It made me crazy! But it was my diet that needed changing.
I lived by the standard, USDA-fed diet of "the best protein resource is chicken and beef" and "milk every morning with breakfast" until I started reading Vegan Bite By Bite. The book opened my mind to the harms of animal proteins, hormones, etc. and made me aware that there are other ways to get the nutrients my body needs without eating chicken, porkchops, steak, milk, cheese and eggs.
And after seeing the results of eating strictly plant-based meals for three weeks, I'm pretty much convinced that I'm better off.
SIDENOTE: The recipes in this book are surprisingly phenomenal. I used to love homemade, baked macaroni & cheese and I knew, come the holidays, it was going to be hard to not eat it when it was sat in front of me. But the author has a recipe for baked mac & cheese in her book! And I also recommend the squash enchiladas - THE BOMB!
Overall, this book is a wonderful resource for those who need help trying a vegan diet. But what makes this book different is that it not only eases curious vegetarians and carnivores into a vegan diet, but it may actually work.
I lived by the standard, USDA-fed diet of "the best protein resource is chicken and beef" and "milk every morning with breakfast" until I started reading Vegan Bite By Bite. The book opened my mind to the harms of animal proteins, hormones, etc. and made me aware that there are other ways to get the nutrients my body needs without eating chicken, porkchops, steak, milk, cheese and eggs.
And after seeing the results of eating strictly plant-based meals for three weeks, I'm pretty much convinced that I'm better off.
SIDENOTE: The recipes in this book are surprisingly phenomenal. I used to love homemade, baked macaroni & cheese and I knew, come the holidays, it was going to be hard to not eat it when it was sat in front of me. But the author has a recipe for baked mac & cheese in her book! And I also recommend the squash enchiladas - THE BOMB!
Overall, this book is a wonderful resource for those who need help trying a vegan diet. But what makes this book different is that it not only eases curious vegetarians and carnivores into a vegan diet, but it may actually work.
April 18, 2012
Dogmatic, poorly cited, opinionated, one-sided, lacking scientific basis. I was hoping for some good ideas about being vegan and improving my diet. Instead I was blasted by crazy extremist vegan-nazi rhetoric. I'm definitely for animal rights - that's not the issue. I have a problem with how the author demonizes all non-vegans. The nutritional information is also often wrong.
February 9, 2011
Great book for those new to a vegan diet . . . takes you step by step through the transition. See my full review coming soon on www.vegfamily.com.
January 5, 2012
This book is a great guide if you are thinking of going vegan or just need some help and/or tips to stay a healthy and conscious vegan.
September 1, 2014
This is a glorified literature review with "fake" recipes added. I only gave it two stars instead of one, because I appreciate a good bibliography.
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