The Diet Rebels Cookbook: Eating Clean and Green

by Jillayne Clements, Michelle Stewart

The Diet Rebel s Cookbook reveals the benefits of eating whole, natural foods as a regular part of your diet and includes traditional recipes and time-tested preparation tips that will help your body get the most out of what you eat. Learn how to use whole grains, natural sweeteners, fresh produce, and healthy meats on a daily basis, and you will impress your friends and family with recipes that are both delicious and healthy.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Health

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2010

Reviews

[Tom Ricks · Rating 5 out of 5]

At first glance, I thought "oh great, another book to tell me I can eat whatever I want and never gain an inch because of blah blah blah". However, this clever, witty and all-around fabulous cook book is so much more! I have always wanted to find that perfect book to teach me how to eat healthy and the added benefits of doing so without turning me into a rabbit or a tofu-only-girl.
The Diet Rebel's Cookbook gives you facts, tried and true techniques and the research made user-friendly. The recipes are good for a student/intern like me with a limited budget (not limited imagination) who wants to make something incredible and not just hit up Taco-Bell every night. While in all honesty, the lack of pictures is disappointing for a visual learner like me, the content more than makes up for it! So far, I adore this book and get excited to look for organic products and start feeling even more fantastic.

So, if you are wanting to get back on track soul, body and diet or are just looking for some added elements to make your already healthy life-style a little more exciting, this is the perfect book for you.

[K. · Rating 3 out of 5]

JoDean let me borrow this in preparation to teach a RS class on healthy eating. It is really a super little primer--think Nourishing Traditions hugely simplified and made easy (well, easiER).

Found the information about water/meat/dairy/grains/fats etc. to be simplified but correct (to my understanding and tastes anyway).

Got me all excited about soaking/sprouting grains. Made the flourless (sprouted whole spelt & kamut & wheat) garlic-herb biscuits and the English muffis on Sat. Biscuits turned out super yum. Muffins okay, but didn't rise at all--either it was to be expected or I did something wrone--but they still are okay if a little flavorless. I would really rathter soak/sprout/dehydrate and grind--hoping to get a little more lift out of the end product (I think:). Got some in the dehydrator now, let you know how it goes.

Anyway, tons of really, really great looking recipes I'm excited to try out.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

So I had the opportunity to teach a class about sprouting in relief society. If only this book had come out a little earlier. Everything I researched and learned is all in here. Also, many more ways to utilize those sprouts. The Traditional Almonds are to die for. My dehydrator has been in overdrive trying to keep enough around for a family of seven! If my house were on fire and I could only choose one of my over 400 cookbooks, this would be the one I would grab!

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're a fan of the book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, you're going to love this book. The whole "Nourishing" style diet simplified and with recipes that look absolutely yummy AND doable! This is a great book for anyone interested in eating a traditional diet AND on the plus size it contains recipes that children are much more likely to eat, which was hard for me using just Nourishing Traditions. Highly recommend this one!

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this informational cookbook. I have been making yummy recipes from it that are really delicious and good for you. I agree with the author's ideas on what foods are the best for our bodies. In my opinion, a must have!

[Claudia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm pretty excited about this book - don't really care for the title of it - but I'm excited to have all these healthy recipes on hand. One day we'll all be eating like this again...

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the recipes in this book, I just wish some of them were a little more detailed in how to execute them better. This has been one of my "go-to" cookbooks for the last 7-8 years. Nice that you can have healthy and delicious together :)

[Cara · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is some great information in here. A few things I feel like are a bit outdated (ie: have been proven to be less than healthy, such as too many green smoothies), but overall some pretty good health advice.

[Carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was recommended by Carol Tuttle. I found it to be
Lacking substance and disappointing.

[Erica · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book. It started with the authors' back story. This book is about whole foods and gives some great recipes. One of the authors put a list in here of a one year food storage for a family of four on, real, whole foods and all I can say is... WOW! It is amazing and totally overwhelming. A lot of the dessert recipes use dehydrated cane juice, which is better than refined sugar, but is still not the greatest from what I've learned. I'm willing to try it for those times when I really want the white stuff!! Most all the recipes use sprouted grains, which is really healthy and beneficial and something I want to start doing, but since Trader Joe's sells sprouted bread, not sure how soon I'm going to jump on that wagon. :) All in all, this was a pretty good book--more of a recipe book. Good information in here.

[Peachy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book about the foods one eats, not about weight loss. It starts out with the authors' stories, but the main focus is on the foods we eat and re-envisioning the way we prepare them.

Sprouting is covered as one element of the work, and I have successfully made one the recipes which were we enjoyed. The rolls looked much heavier than they were, which goes along with what the authors said, but it still took me by surprise. Usually when bread looks like that- it's barely edible.

You might enjoy this if you've enjoyed "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle", or "The Omnivore's Dilemma", etc.

[AP Call · Rating 1 out of 5]

A terrible book, unless you like churning your own butter and think the government is one big conspiracy. Not sure how these ladies' political views got sprinkled into a cookbook, but it made the terrible looking food look even worse.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the Co-Author of this book, I think it has a special place in my cookbook collection. It is used every single day by me and I truly am so glad it exists!! Love it! :)

[Ari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always love to learn something new. This book was really good! I'm glad my sister wrote about how to make good and healthy food. :)

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the informative information at the beginning. Not sure about some of the recipes yet.