The Abs Diet 6-Minute Meals for 6-Pack Abs: More Than 150 Great-Tasting Recipes to Melt Away Fat!
The Abs Diet 6-Minute Meals for 6-Pack Abs: More Than 150 Great-Tasting Recipes to Melt Away Fat!
Tens of thousands of Americans have changed their bodies—and their lives—with the help of The Abs Diet, the New York Times bestseller from David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health® magazine. A key factor in the diet’s success is the meal plan, with its healthy, great-tasting, easy recipes featuring the Abs Diet 12 Powerfoods. Now, to meet the demands of today’s time-strapped society, Zinczenko and coauthor Ted Spiker present The Abs Diet 6-Minute Meals for 6-Pack Abs to help readers make the right food choices—in less time than it takes to pick up a meal at a drive-thru.
The Abs Diet 6-Minute Meals for 6-Pack Abs features:
• 101 6-minute recipes: fast and easy recipes like Barbecue Chicken Pizza, Smokehouse Salad, Summer Vegetable Couscous, and more
• the 12 Abs Diet Powerfoods, plus what makes them nutritional powerhouses and how they increase lean muscle mass and discourage storing fat
• shopping lists, appliance recommendations, and more
• a 7-day meal plan (for those who prefer not to mix-and-match)
• a bonus chapter with 60-minute Sunday creations and 15-minute meals when you have more time
This user-friendly cookbook is the perfect resource for followers of The Abs Diet as well as anyone who wants to change their body to improve their health, their looks, or their athletic performance.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Good quick recipes
This book has a lot of good recipes, but most of them are variations on a few basic recipes. This is not made for someone with a little imagination. It also is full of lots of information already found in the original Abs Diet book, which is good, but repetitive if you already have that book.
Still, the recipes are quick and healthy, a great way to get organized and change your diet.
4 Stars 6 minute meals for 6 pack abs
I liked this book, but only wish it had more recipes to try. Good ideas and a good base to follow for meals. I don’t eat Salmon, but like many books, there are plenty of meals with Salmon or some type of fish. However, the author does include an assortment of meals. Would recommend for a guideline on how to start the diet.
2 Stars Not for people with jobs
I read the other reviews that said it had duplicate information as a previous book, but since I didn’t have the other book I didn’t care and bought it anyway. I was still disappointed after scanning through the meal plans.
The diet plans have a very heavy reliance on smoothies or other types of meals that are not practical for preparing or eating away from home.
This is the plan for you if you eat most of your meals at home or use a blender and major kitchen appliances in the office or at school.
I know you can make a few smoothies at home and pack them in a sack lunch for work, but in a just a few hours they will get stale, melted, separated and not look or taste any good.
3 Stars Not very many new recipes
If you buy only one of the Abs Diet books, this isn’t a bad one. It does goes into the diet for about a third of the book, so you don’t really need the other books as far as that goes. It also has some ideas for menus as well as some exercises you can do at home. I do like the conversion chart he has in the back of the book for overseas readers, as it has not only oven temps and weight conversions, but also pan size conversions. Very useful if you like to collect recipes from other countries.
Most of the recipes are easy to prepare, but a good number of them really should have been written in “basic recipe with variations” format because that’s what they are (the smoothies being but one example). Would have made for a much smaller book though, and this is only 6.5 by 6.5″ with a lot of margin space to start with.
His overall writing style is somewhat annoying, especially the recipe titles, since often they give the reader no clue as to the ingredients required. Also, why he prefers instant oatmeal to say, rolled oats, is baffling (my guess is that “instant” fit in with his Abs Diet acronym). You can pulverize rolled oats in a blender or spice grinder just as easily.
If you already have any of the other Abs Diet books, check this out of the library first to see if there’s enough new info before you buy it.
3.5 stars
2 Stars too simplistic
I found the recipes and guidance to be too simplistic in this little book. The recipes are supposed to be simple, but I almost hesitate to call them recipes. Many of them are the type of concoctions that we create when we “creatively” throw together stuff that is already in the fridge. If you are a real beginner in the kitchen or you need a little creative guidance for basic healthy meals, then this is for you. Those with cooking experience or a passion for food and flavor will probably be better served elsewhere.
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