The Smoothie Recipe Book for Beginners: Essential Smoothies to Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Feel Great

The recipes are easy to follow and have ingredients that most people already have.

SMOOTHIE RECIPE BOOK FOR BEGINNERS By Merlene Bishop I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in getting more nutrion into their daily diet. In today's world, many busy people choose processed, pre-packaged food for convenience reasons. The problem with this is that we give up vital nutrion for convenience. This problematic situation begs for an answer, and that answer, I believe is smoothies; Smoothies are drinks prepared at home with raw, all natural ingredients and a blender. This book has all the info one needs to create optimum nutrional levels, increase energy levels and to eliminate toxins from our processed food diet. A closer look at this would start with "why drink smoothies ?". Most people want to eat healthy, but many don't know where to start. Including smoothies in your diet is not complicated. A blender does the work, and we choose the ingredients from the recipes included in the book. Smoothies have no unwanted additives, are better than juices, have more fiber and whole raw fruits and vegetables. Sugar is absorbed at a slow even pace when we eat adequate fiber; smoothies promote a feeling of fullness and prevent overeating. They are ideal as a meal replacement and nuts, herbs, dairy and soy milk can be added. Smoothies use whole fruits and vegetables and any excess amount over what is consumed at a meal can be refrigerated. The health benefits of smoothies are endless and include better digestion, reduced risks from diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. As a diabetic I think smoothies can be a very vital component in lowering blood sugar. Their use can help manage diabetes by providing a healthy sweet snack or dessert. All of this information is included in the book. Now lets consider the tools needed to prepare smoothies: a good quality blender and several sharp knives, a colander, salad spinner and measuring cups. Additionally, smoothies are beneficial in weight loss since they lower our caloric intake. Overall, smoothies can benefit anyone and you can use them for occasional dietary supplement or incorporate them into daily meals. Smoothie preparation can be simple and inexpensive or involve an extensive financial investment in acquiring all the ingredients mentioned in some of the recipes. Smoothies ~ Bon Appetit !

This small book on smoothies packs a big punch. It covers absolutely everything from the tools you need, why you should drink them, advice on finding the best and freshest ingredients and much, much more. This is an easy, enjoyable read. They have made the process of making smoothies simple and easy. The recipes start with breakfast smoothies and include ones for health, weight loss, energy boosters and even desert smoothies. They also cover detox and cleanse recipes. We can all benefit from the smoothies especially with or fast paced lives and the way we eat on the run. Just reading the recipes makes me want to try them right away, not only to enjoy them but to reap all the health benefits, which they cover as well.

This book claims that the regular consumption of smoothies improves health by making it easy to incorporate more fresh fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods into your diet. Because smoothies are simple to make and portable, they can be an easy option to meet this goal. The book lists several reasons that the ingredients in its smoothie recipes increase health, and cites mostly other smoothie recipe books as references. It also explains why smoothies are more healthful than juicing. The book provides explanations for making smoothies, tools needed, and shopping tips. Recipes are arranged according to the reader’s goal (cleanse, weight loss) or by meal categories. Calorie counts are provided, but no other nutrition information is given for the recipes.

The Smoothie Recipe Book for Beginners is so much more than a recipe book! It includes a wealth of information about not only smoothies, but their main ingredients - fruits and vegetables and why they are so good for us. By reading this book, you will learn the whys behind a plant-based diet as well as how to select the right blender, how to shop for ingredients and how to incorporate super foods into your smoothies as well as how to do 3 and 7 day cleanses, a detox and using smoothies as part of your weight loss plan. It also gives some fantastic tips about how to simplify the smoothie making process - I had never thought of measuring all the ingredients for a particular smoothie and freezing them together in a plastic bag and then taking them out and popping them in the blender! Also included is a very detailed chapter on super foods, many of which I had never heard of. The best explanation I've seen for the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen which helps you decipher the overload of information we receive about eating organically grown foods. Did I mention the dozens of great recipes?! This book inspired me to incorporate smoothies into my family's lifestyle and I highly recommend it!

I have only recently started making smoothies as I wanted to increase the amount of fruit I eat each day and this seemed like an easy way to accomplish that. This book provided a wide range of straight forward recipes suitable for a beginner like myself. Once you know the basic recipe you can simply adapt it for whatever fruit you choose. I love berries so I am inclined to use a range of raspberries, strawberries, blueberries plus a banana and I add coconut milk and yogurt. This book gets you started and you can then do your own thing!

For a free smoothie recipe book, it’s alright.

As someone that finds eating fruit a faff and wanting to eat healthier I can recommend this book. It gives lots of advise on the process of making smoothies with health benefits explained. The recipes are great (note think the book is American as measures are in cups). I have a set of cup measures so finally get to use them. The recipe is detailed.. no photos but I don't think that matters. I have eaten more fruit and veg in last week than ever. I am loving it

Great book with simple to follow instructions! My 10 year old loves this and uses it to make everyone breakfast. Couple of less good points 1. Written for American market - all measures are in cups, and some ingredients use the American term 2. Definitely NO PICTURES Otherwise a great buy with some really tasty options!

not what i though it was. all i wanted was a easy recipes 1 on each page.