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Kick-start the Mediterranean diet in 7 days.
The Mediterranean diet is renowned for its health and lifestyle benefits—but where do you start? The Mediterranean Diet for Beginners is your go-to guide to get started with the Mediterranean diet and live a more nourishing life.
Dive in with a 7-day meal plan that takes the stress out of what, how much, and when to eat. With 40 fresh and satisfying meals to choose from—wake up with a Mediterranean Omelet or dine on Dilly Salmon. You’ll discover how to eat well in order to live well.
The Mediterranean Diet for Beginners includes:
An Intro to the Mediterranean Diet—Learn the basic principles and benefits of the Mediterranean diet.
The 7-Day Diet Meal Plan—Start and stay on track with an all-day plan for total well-being.
40 Classic Recipes—Eat wholesome, nutrient-rich foods for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even dessert.
Turn a day-by-day diet into a lifetime habit—The Mediterranean Diet for Beginners shows you where to start.
From the Publisher
It’s not just a diet. It’s a lifestyle.
The Mediterranean Diet for Beginners takes you step-by-step through this transformative, heart-healthy way of eating and living.
Dig into a day with the Mediterranean Diet for Beginners meal plan:
Start your day
Choose a breakfast of fresh fruit, hearty oatmeal, or a scrumptious Mediterranean Omelet.
Let’s do lunch
Keep your energy up with Greek Chicken Salad, Savory Avocado Spread, or Cheesy Stuffed Tomatoes.
Don’t-miss dinners
Select a savory dish: Flank Steak Spinach Salad, Oven-Poached Cod, or Mussels with White Wine.
Tasty desserts
End your day with a healthy treat: Roasted Honey-Cinnamon Apples, Grilled Pineapple and Melon, or Red Grapefruit Granita.
Publisher : Callisto; 3.6.2013 edition (April 5, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 80 pages
ISBN-10 : 1623151252
ISBN-13 : 978-1623151256
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.19 x 9.25 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book simple and easy to use. It provides an overview of the Mediterranean diet with a seven-day meal plan. They appreciate the flavorful recipes and familiar foods. The advice, suggestions, and menus are helpful for first-timers. However, opinions differ on the value for money.
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DB –
Great for a Beginner
I have learned a lot about the Mediterranean Diet. I am eating healthier. Menus are easy to follow. The book is very detailed. It teaches you what to eat, when to eat it, why and how your body is affected by eating this diet. Very informative. The foods on menus is affordable.
Amazon Customer –
Ease of use
Need to lose weight & Mediterranen diet recommended. I like fresh veggies & its recommended alot in the book. I’m also trying to avoid sugar/carbs & every so often doing whole weight bread w/avocado for breakfast. Recipes are easy for me to incorporate into my every day.
Kalendra Dee –
Short, sweet and to the point!
I don’t normally submit reviews but I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It’s short, around 70 pages so I was wondering how good it would actually be. Well, it’s great! It’s clearly written and gives anyone just starting on trying to live the Mediterranean Diet way a vision of what living on this eating plan will look like. The first sections give the history of this way of eating and then subsequent sections really break down the individual components into short paragraphs. I liked the fact, for example, that I didn’t need to read 2-3 pages of filler text to find out that for seafood, I’d need to have at least 3-4 servings of a recommended list of types of seafood. Like I said, it’s clear, short and gives you the facts for each compoenent of the Mediterranean Diet. There’s also a 7 day sample meal plan and then a short section of recipes, and the recipes are composed of food that I think most people would eat. I’m a Collection Development Librarian at a public libray so I look at a lot of reviews and select a lot of material, and I really think this is a good addition to home libraries of people starting off on this helathful food journey.
MovieGuy –
Eat Rabbit Food And Be Healthy
I think this book can be summed up as: “Eat Rabbit Food And Be Healthy”. The diet is to eat mostly vegetables and fruits, some nuts, beans, and olive oil. And to a lesser degree whole grains, fish, and poultry. There, that’s the diet. So now that I’ve summed up the 70 page book in one sentence, is there any point in buying the book? Maybe.
The book contains one week worth of suggested breakfasts, lunches, afternoon snacks, dinners, and deserts. I did find those somewhat useful, but maybe a tad unrealistic (for me anyway). For example: Monday Lunch: Garden Salad with whole grain roll. Ok, nobody would deny that this is pretty healthy (although I guess it contains no protein), but is that something that you think you could realistically have as a recurring meal at lunch, and have enough fuel to finish off the day and feel fulfilled? If so, then you probably don’t need this book, and if not you’ll probably find this book frustrating.
One good thing is that while some meals don’t really require any “cooking” as such (like the above), for the ones that do, there are recipes. Things like penne with roasted vegetables, spicy-sweet roasted walnuts, pesto cucumber boats etc. I’m not any kind of super-motivated cook in any way, but the recipes are (for the most part) simple and quick enough that I could see myself preparing many of them.
Also the book devotes 10 pages or so to discuss the diet as a whole, it’s goals, the science behind it an such.
So do I recommend the book? Meh, sure, it’s got some useful stuff in it, and I do believe in the science behind it (my dietician gave me a pretty heavy-duty scientific study writeup on it which was pretty compelling). But this book in particular is pretty over-priced for what it is, and while I think it is cool to get a feel for what some Mediterranean diet-compliant meals might look like, I don’t think the particular meals that they present here are particularly compelling, nor are there enough of them.
Kindle Customer –
Mediterranean diet
Diet seems to be workable
terrie maynard –
Great recipes!!
Bought this as a gift for a family member! They absolutely love it!
Clarees Nichols –
I wanted to change my diet
Easy to follow but ingredients were a lot
odonroberts –
Not just recipes but a lifestyle
“The Mediterranean Diet for Beginners” explains where the diet originated, how it was discovered and made public to the world, what it is, and its health benefits. It then provides a seven day sample meal plan, followed by a selection of recipes for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner and dessert.
The heart of the diet is fresh vegetables and fruit, seafood instead of meat, whole grains, nuts, olive oil and red wine. But this is not a “fad” diet or a diet simply to lose weight; this is a lifestyle change. This intended lifestyle emulates the way of life of those who lived on the Mediterranean coasts and whose daily exercise and moderate healthful eating produced longer and healthier lives. It includes joyously lingering over your meal with friends and family.
This lifestyle change from the standard American diet– that is high in unhealthy fats and processed food and is ordered and eaten rapidly and usually alone– is radical. This is a life change such as cutting up your credit card and paying only in cash, or selling your car so you will go everywhere by bicycle and public transportation. The book carefully guides you through this transition and you must be prepared to purge your kitchen of every food that is unhealthy and would be a stumbling block to your new resolve, your new life.
The book does not mention that in the last decades fast food, pizza, ice cream and soda machines have infiltrated some of the Mediterranean coasts where the healthiest people had lived. The result? Pediatricians notice in their young charges a striking tendency to diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol as the changing diet is producing an epidemic of obesity and related maladies. Do you need any more incentive to trying what’s suggested in this book?
irene donovan –
Love the whole book .. explaining the way of eating then ideas for meals each day and lovely simple recipes
Kindle Customer –
Start slowly and gradually get rid of unhealthy food Time to try new recipes and live a healthier lifestyle Looking forward to change
SWedel –
Before I purchased this book, I did some research for the best mediterranean diet books available. This is the best if you are just starting and have tried every possible diet out there. I have been searching for the perfect balance lifestyle, that is quick and easy for the fast paced days we have seemed to have acquired. No time to cook and if it takes longer than 20 minutes to prepare we opt for pre packaged quick and easy processed foods. This book has very quick, easy to prepare meals that uses everything I already have in my pantry. I have tried the paleo in which I did lose weight and with no grains I had lots of energy, but I found it very hard to stick to. I have been to Greece and I fell in love, i would move there in a heartbeat. The country is gorgeous, the food was amazing, always fresh, colorful and simple. The Souvlakis were amazing, i never got enough greek salad with the big chunk of goats mllk feta nestled on top. I want my family to follow me on this way of eating and with so many choices and easy prep, I think they will welcome the change. I recommend this book highly for a great start to a new beginning for a healthier way of living.
Brenda –
As an introduction to Mediterranean eating this booklet has a lot of information. For me thereâs not enough meal variety recipes but I will take some to use.
Gwendolyn –
Nice simple recipes but all data. More fun to see colourful dishes you can make.