Whole Foods Plant Based Cookbook For Beginners: A Simple Guide To The Plant Based Diet With 97 Healthy And Delicious Recipes

By Stacy Fowler

Switching to the whole food plant based diet can transform your health and wellbeing significantly. Even if you change only a few meals per week, the health changes can be quite considerable. Whether you want to lose weight, or simply want to improve your health, the plant base diet will help you to achieve your goals easily.

This book will show you how easy it is to adopt a plant based lifestyle and immediately start enjoying the benefits. Your vitality will be enhanced, your immunity will become stronger and you will get much more out of life. Apart from the 97 delicious whole foods plant based recipes, beginners will find a lot of useful information in this book.

The variation of recipes in this book will keep you going for several months. Whether you are going fully plant based or partially, the 97 recipes give you something exciting to look forward to each time you want to cook. You will not miss meaty dishes too much because care has been taken to select the most delicious meals in each category. For your convenience, the recipes are grouped into Soups - stews - chilies, Salads, Beans main dishes, Grains main dishes, Vegetable main dishes, Pasta main dishes, Casseroles, Sides & snacks and Desserts. Each recipe also has nutritional information for those who still feel the need to count calories and macros.

Even if you are not the best cook in your home, these recipes have simple step by step instructions that will make you perform culinary wonders in your kitchen. The basic knowledge required is the ability to combine ingredients and switch on a stove or other appliance. Once you start cooking these recipes, even meat lovers in your home will love to have a taste!

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rockstream Press
• Release date: Jan 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835364856

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INTRODUCTION

The whole foods plant based lifestyle is becoming increasingly popular as more people discover the tremendous benefits it provides. Apart from being good for your health, this diet is also attractive because it allows each individual a measure of flexibility. This means you can transition to eating plant based foods at your own pace without any of the usual diet induced pressures.

Cooking at home is one of the best ways to ensure that you are eating the right foods when you are on any diet. Cooking your own food at home gives you total control on the ingredients that go into every dish. You will also save money because groceries can be purchased in bulk. The Whole Foods Plant Based Cookbook For Beginners is designed to make it easier for beginners to adopt the plant based lifestyle.

The variation of recipes in this book will keep you going for several months. Whether you are going fully plant based or partially, the 97 recipes give you something exciting to look forward to each time you want to cook. You will not miss meaty dishes too much because care has been taken to select the most delicious meals in each category.

Even if you are not the best cook in your home, these recipes have simple step by step instructions that will make you perform culinary wonders in your kitchen. The basic knowledge required is the ability to combine ingredients and switch on a stove or other appliance. Once you start cooking these recipes, even meat lovers in your home will love to have a taste! Below is a guide for adopting the plant based lifestyle.

Beginners Guide To The Plant Based Diet

The plant based diet is not a diet in the real sense because the focus is not on counting calories or macros like protein, carbs and fat. It is simply a way of eating that focuses on the foods that provides the best nourishment for the body.  It emphasizes plant foods and eliminates or reduces animal foods. Dieticians and food scientists all agree that the best diets for overall wellness are those that emphasize fresh ingredients in their most natural states. Additionally, experts recommend a diet that is mainly plant based to help address chronic illnesses. This is what the whole-foods plant-based diet does. By focusing on plan foods and eliminating or reducing processed foods, it helps to maintain healthy weight and prevent a number of ailments.

The whole-foods plant-based diet gives room for a lot of flexibility based on individual preference. No restrictions are placed on you. You can determine the extent to which you will eliminate animal products from your diet. Just like there are different types of vegetarians, you can also choose to eat some animal products while pursuing a plant-based lifestyle by incrementally adding plant foods to your diet. No matter what you choose, integrating more plants into your diet will give you a lot of benefits.

Essentially, the plant-based lifestyle:

– Emphasizes whole foods with minimal processing

– Emphasizes the consumption of plant foods such as whole grains, vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts and legumes

– Eliminates or reduces animal products

– Excludes refined foods such as white flour, sugar and processed oils.

The whole food plant-based diet is the healthier version of the plant based diet. It simply means eating plant based foods that are either unprocessed or processed minimally. It takes a little from the vegan and vegetarian diets and combines it with the clean eating diet. In contrast, the basic plant based diet does not exclude processed or refined plant products. The whole food plant-based diet is basically based on whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and legumes. Eggs, dairy products, meat and refined foods are excluded. 

The plant based diet should not be confused with the vegan or vegetarian diet. They are similar but not the same. Most people become vegans because they want to reduce harm to animals by staying away from animal products like dairy, eggs, meat, fish, silk, fur and leather. Veganism is not just about what is eaten. It is a lifestyle that demands complete abstinence from any product that hurts animals.

On the other hand, the plant based diet is not really concerned with the welfare of animals but the impact of animal products on human health. You are simply making the choice to eliminate animal products as much as possible from your diet in other to become healthier. Of course, you are also reducing harm to animals by not eating them. Whole foods plant based dieters eat mostly plants but can also eat some animal products. Some people may choose to eat no animal products while others eat selected animal products.

Why Plant-Based Is better With Whole Foods

The vegan or basic plant based diet permits the eating of processed food or refined plant foods. The processing of these foods reduces their value to health and can sometimes make them harmful to our bodies in the long run. The aim of the whole food plant-based diet is to eat foods in their most natural state and eliminate or minimize processed foods as much as possible. Eating unrefined foods ensures that most of the nutrients they contain are available to our bodies. Reduction of refined products such as unhealthy oils and sugar also helps to reduce inflammation.

Benefits Of The Whole-Foods Plant-Based Lifestyle

– Weight loss and improved health

Obesity is one of the most pressing health conditions in our times. Weight loss is aided greatly when you turn away from