A plant-based life Your complete guide to great food, radiant health, boundless energy, and a better body

Micaela Cook Karlsen

Book - 2016

Filled with the latest nutritional research to guide you each step of the way as you replace animal products and processed food with healthier choices that replenish your energy and boost well-being.

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Subjects
Genres
Cookbooks
Published
New York : Amacom, Americal Management Association [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Micaela Cook Karlsen (author)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
xviii, 332 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
ISBN
9780814437070
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • How to Use This Book
  • Part 1. Five Steps to Great Food and Radiant Health: making a plant-based diet easy and sustainable
  • Step 1. Find Your Motivating Force: gathering food for the mind
  • The Motivation Equation
  • The Health Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
  • Constant Contact Keeps Motivation Alive
  • Your Path Going Forward
  • Step 2. Add Plant-Based Foods to Your Diet: welcoming new friends
  • What Is Plant-Based Eating?
  • Planning Plant-Based Meals
  • Shopping Makes Cooking Possible
  • Preparing Plant-Based Meals
  • Involving Your Children in Cooking Healthy Foods
  • Eating Out and Traveling
  • Your Path Going Forward
  • Step 3. Choose Health Over Habit: letting go of the foods that no longer serve you
  • What Your Body Is Telling You... and How You Can Choose to Respond
  • The Addictive Allure of Hyperpalatable Foods
  • Reading Labels to Avoid Added Fat, Sugar, and Salt
  • Defining a "Natural" Diet
  • Foods to Include, Avoid, or Eliminate in Your Diet
  • Un-Training Your Palate
  • Creating Habits of Health
  • Deciding What to Do with the Food You No Longer Want to Eat
  • The Bottom Line
  • Your Path Going Forward
  • Step 4. Make Your Food Environment Match Your Biology: creating the context that guarantees success
  • More Challenges to Eating a Healthy Diet
  • Identifying Your Diet and Eating Choices
  • The Dominant Motivations in Your Eating Decisions
  • Reshaping Your Food Environment
  • Your Path Going Forward
  • Step 5. Cultivate Connection For the Long Haul: making your diet socially sustainable
  • The Benefits of Social Support for Your Dietary Choices
  • Creating a New Normal
  • Your Path Going Forward
  • Part 2. Ongoing Success: keeping up the momentum
  • Recipes For Everyone
  • Breakfast/Brunch
  • Everyday Oats
  • Morning Glorious
  • Breakfast-and-Beyond Smoothie
  • Apple-Lemon Breakfast
  • Almond-Cinnamon Granola
  • Green Colada
  • Savory Tofu Scramble
  • Sweet Potato Hash
  • The Best Waffle You'll Ever Have
  • Breakfast Sunshine Salad
  • Breakfast Rice Pudding
  • Florentine Frittata
  • Snacks
  • Speedy Spinach-Artichoke Dip with Snack Stick Buffet
  • Teatime Cornmeal Muffins
  • Oatmeal Bars
  • Carrot Cake Smoothie
  • Unlimited Baked Corn Chips
  • Pumpkin-Oatmeal-Raisin-Carrot Cookies (aka PORCCs)
  • Fresh Fruit Snacks
  • Appetizers
  • Oyster Mushroom Ceviche and Bitter Orange-Lime Sauce
  • Cape Cod Delights
  • Tasty Corn Cakes
  • Summer Rolls with Red Chili-Pineapple Dipping Sauce
  • Cowboy Caviar
  • Jacked-Up Fruity Appetizers
  • Almond-Crusted Tempeh Fingers
  • Collard Wraps
  • Pesto-Stuffed Mushrooms
  • Sweet Blintzes
  • Soups
  • Corn Chowder
  • Simple Split Pea Comfort Soup
  • Classic Borscht
  • Dr. Lederman's Black Bean Soup
  • Potato-Leek Soup
  • Gingery Carrot Soup
  • Lemon-Rice-Kale Soup
  • Farmshare Miso Soup
  • Romantic Vegetable Stew
  • The Best Bean Chili
  • Italian Vegetable Lentil Soup
  • Salads and Sides
  • Blackberry Mango Tango
  • Colorful Yams and Greens
  • Potato Salad with Pine Nuts, Olives, and Dill
  • Summer Strawberry Salad
  • Tu-no Salad
  • Zesty Three-Bean Salad
  • Basket of Jewels with Walnut Sauce
  • Colorful Crudités
  • Salade Niçoise
  • Skinny Red Smashed Potatoes
  • Flexible Fennel Salad
  • Arame, Red Onion, and Pine Nuts
  • Guacamole Salad
  • Sauces, Spreads, and Dressings
  • Mushroom Gravy
  • Homemade Ketchup
  • Quick Sun-Dried Tomato Marinara
  • Cashew Cream
  • Del's Basic Mayonnaise
  • Favorite Sandwich Spread
  • Walnut-Mushroom Pâté
  • Surefire Pesto
  • Use-Me-All-The-Time Hummus
  • Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing
  • Peanut-Lime Dressing
  • Classic Italian Dressing
  • Sweet Mustard Dressing
  • Thousand Island Dressing
  • Quick Bites
  • Emergency Mini Burritos
  • Curried Chickpea Salad Sandwich
  • Rescue Quinoa
  • Fresh Fruit Tart
  • Sprouty Squash Delight
  • Five Ways to Sushi
  • Main Meals
  • The Esselstyns' Stacked High Black Beans and Rice
  • Interstellar Lasagna
  • Mac and Cheeze Casserole
  • Portobello Steaks
  • Leftover Cobbler
  • Tofu Quiche with Millet Crust
  • Best Basic Southwestern Burgers
  • Cauliflower au Cratin
  • Carrot-Rice Casserole
  • Super Easy Pizza
  • Pesto Kasha Varnishkes
  • Ginger Roasted Vegetables and Tempe
  • West African-Inspired Sweet Potatoes and Kale
  • Hearty Lentil Loaf
  • Chilled Peanut Noodles
  • Treats
  • Rich and Creamy Chocolate Mousse
  • Carrot Cake
  • Strawberry Shortcakes
  • Coconut Dream Whipped Cream
  • Pioneer Gingerbread
  • Mom and Me's Apple Thing
  • Sweet Ending Baked Pears
  • Two-Layer Vanilla-Vanilla Birthday Cake
  • Banana Ice Cream
  • Buckwheat Crepes with Chocolate
  • Apple Crisp with Almond Whip
  • Plum Carpaccio with Vanilla-Agave Syrup and Ginger Cream
  • Ongoing Support Resources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Recipe Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Karlsen, a public health and nutrition expert, here advocates what she calls a whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle for optimal health. Her practical approach offers equal amounts of motivational coaching and uncomplicated nutritional advice. Her three-part plan is simple: increase the amount of WFPB foods you eat, decrease the amount of animal-based and processed foods, and create an environment to support your success. To that end, the book prescribes not only what to eat and what to avoid, but how to sustain this lifestyle. By addressing common questions and concerns, dispelling myths, and taking on naysayers, she clearly explains how to make beneficial changes. Part One outlines five steps: making the commitment, becoming educated, abandoning unhealthy habits, matching environment to diet, and "making your diet socially sustainable." Part Two is centered on maintaining the momentum and features 100 recipes from other contributors along with a three-week meal plan and a list of resources including websites, social media, and books to consult. Despite major competition from perennial and vegan lifestyle cookbooks, the strategies in this book will appeal to many readers. Agent: Linda Konner, Linda Konner Agency. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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