
A practical week-by-week guide for quitting sugar - and getting you clean, clear and lighter! Sarah Wilson is a high-profile Australian TV and magazine journalist, as well as a health coach, and her 8-week program draws on her personal journey (through hypoglycemia and auto-immune disease) as well as tips and research from the best experts around the world. I Quit Sugar includes recipes, shopping lists and clever tricks for ditching the sweet stuff - for good.
List Price: $ 6.95
Price: $ 6.95
First book on healthy eating that has taken root for me,
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e-book waste of money, go to website instead,
the price wasn’t worth it for the e-book, it was too short of a book and like some of the other reviews say it was very broad.
I’m sure the recipes are good but the e-book just links to Sarah’s website rather than actually having them in the book which I why it would be best just to go to her website.
a small contradiction in one of the chapters/weeks where it says avoid fruit but there is a green smoothie recipe that has an apple in it
there some good notes in the book but again you could probably get them from the website
If this book was something like $3, I would not be giving this review but this book does not have enough value to warrant the $10.56 price tag
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I love the first two I Quit Sugar books,
That said, not everyone will be pleased with I Quit Sugar Healthy Family Meals. Of the recipes included are a full page for vegetable stock and another full page for beef stock, another full page on how to cook quinoa and several other items well known to most home cooks. The few actual dinner recipes are surely healthy, but maybe a little odd to American tastes. There are a lot of recipes for “mash,” a concept that seems self-explanatory but may yet cause some confusion. We eat a lot of mash potatoes in the U.S., but mashed peas? It’s an idea harried home cooks here should embrace, but it needs a bit more presentation, I think, before it becomes a roaring success in the states.
Another problem with the book that most of Sarah Wilson’s cookbooks suffer from is the use of lamb as an economical meat. Lamb is likely a reasonable meat in Australia, one of the top sheep producers in the world, but not in the U.S.! Here it is a pricey, luxury meat. No way you could serve even “mince” (read “ground”) lamb here for cheap!
I was a bit surprised recently to read that Sarah Wilson had lived in California for a while to attend college. It makes me wonder why, with her book I Quit Sugar hitting the U.S. market in a big way, more effort hasn’t been made to make her other books more translatable to Americans. Now, part of the charm of her books for me is that they have a little (for me) exotic Aussie flavor, but not sure how well that goes over with your average home cook trying to make economical, healthy family meals. Perhaps part of the issue is that it looks like the I Quit Sugar books are written by other people than Sarah. The more recent books have had less of Sarah’s personal mark and felt more generic.
I’ll still buy any I Quit Sugar book that comes out, but I already have a good idea what to expect.
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