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114 reviews for:
The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
Alicia Silverstone
3.65 AVERAGE
114 reviews for:
The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
Alicia Silverstone
3.65 AVERAGE
I loved this book! Full of great recipes and motivation to change your diet into one that is healthier and good for the earth.
I wanted to like this book. I tried to like this book. But I couldn't. I decided to read it bc I saw a youtube clip of the author speaking about her health journey and sparked a bit of curiosity on my part. But... every meal she featured look unappetizing. Her language felt insultingly simplistic. There are other terms besides "nasty" to describe an unhealthy food or habit. She is a die hard vegan and, as if that is not restrictive enough, she doesn't eat all vegetables and spices. She does not eat nightshade vegetables (like eggplant or tomatoes) and does not believe we should season our foods very much. 1) I love tomato sauce and it makes meatless dishes a happier experience. 2) Eggplant Parmesan is one of the few restaurant options that allow me to reduce my meat consumption while still participating in whatever celebratory meal my family is participating in.
I wouldn't suggest this book to a friend or anyone contemplating veganism.
I wouldn't suggest this book to a friend or anyone contemplating veganism.
Alicia gets preachy. I picked it up to get some recipes, but most of them looked gross to me. She eats vegetables for breakfast. Ew! I'll stick to oatmeal, thanks.
Interesting read.
A lot of the same information as Skinny Bitch, but without the foul language, some positive reinforcement, and a recipe section to get started. The recipes are to be looked forward. Many are simple, but emphasize the flavor of real food. Plant-based living at its best.
A lot of the same information as Skinny Bitch, but without the foul language, some positive reinforcement, and a recipe section to get started. The recipes are to be looked forward. Many are simple, but emphasize the flavor of real food. Plant-based living at its best.
This book is about changing the way you eat and live. If you fully subscribe to the diet you will be vegan plus what she calls a superhero. Unfortunately I don't see myself following the diet. There are many logical reasons to stop eating meat, sugar, dairy, etc. but at this point in my life I don't want to. I do eat vegetarian a lot of the time. I gave up beef for a few years when it starting making me sick but then last fall I craved burgers and ate almost one a day for a week and now I eat beef again, though not very often. There are ideas and recipes in this book I will use. I like the healthy dessert recipes and a lot of the other recipes sound good enough to try. It gives me more healthy recipes to add to my life and that's not a bad thing.
I bought The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone because it contains several recipes I want to try. I didn't plan to read Silverstone's story of her journey to becoming vegan. I've been vegetarian for a while and have dabbled with becoming vegan for a while, so I didn't need convinced. I was pleasantly surprised with her story. She lines out her reasons and supports her decisions with both fact and emotion. I even learned a few things I didn't know about being vegan. The Kind Diet is engaging and interesting. Silverstone leaves no doubt how important she considers her mission to encourage the world to both become vegan and to treat animals with kindness in The Kind Diet. Now, I just need to try some of her recipes and hope they're as good as they sound...
I thought this book had a lot of potential but in the end I was very disappointed.
I think that Alicia makes a lot of suggestions some are good and some are just a little too extreme for me.
I wish that she provided a lot more support for the more extreme items as that may have been more effective in changing people's behaviors.
I will say that I am buying a few new products and trying a few new recipes as a result of the book, however, I don't see a superhero diet that limits fruit, potatoes, sugar and microwaves in my near future.
I think that Alicia makes a lot of suggestions some are good and some are just a little too extreme for me.
I wish that she provided a lot more support for the more extreme items as that may have been more effective in changing people's behaviors.
I will say that I am buying a few new products and trying a few new recipes as a result of the book, however, I don't see a superhero diet that limits fruit, potatoes, sugar and microwaves in my near future.
I actually enjoyed the first hundred instructional pages of this book more than the recipes part. It's refreshing to see a person who managed to live through the craziness of Hollywood life and emerge stronger and more principled for it. Lindsey Lohan please take note.
The more I read about the vegan lifestyle, the more I think I need to follow this path, both for my moral standards and my health. One of the most interesting things I've have learned after reading a number of vegan/vegetarian cookbooks from start to finish now is how differently each person interprets the vegan diet. Alicia used a lot of obscure veggies and other ingredients that I've never heard of...other cookbooks use completely different standard ingredients. There was no mention of Bragg's Liquid Aminos or Nutritional Yeast (two of the worst named products I've ever encountered. Vegans need better marketing.) That's not a problem, just interesting. Her cooking focus was slightly Asian, and didn't really try to re-create non-vegan dishes. There were no recipes that I thought: I just *have* to try this, but they all sounded pretty decent.
The more I read about the vegan lifestyle, the more I think I need to follow this path, both for my moral standards and my health. One of the most interesting things I've have learned after reading a number of vegan/vegetarian cookbooks from start to finish now is how differently each person interprets the vegan diet. Alicia used a lot of obscure veggies and other ingredients that I've never heard of...other cookbooks use completely different standard ingredients. There was no mention of Bragg's Liquid Aminos or Nutritional Yeast (two of the worst named products I've ever encountered. Vegans need better marketing.) That's not a problem, just interesting. Her cooking focus was slightly Asian, and didn't really try to re-create non-vegan dishes. There were no recipes that I thought: I just *have* to try this, but they all sounded pretty decent.
My guilt about eating animals is getting out of control... this book gave me serious motivation to try cutting out meat.