ZonePerfect Cooking Made Easy : Quick, Delicious Meals for Your Healthy Zone Lifestyle

From the cooking expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition, daily and weekly menus that make it easy for you to stay in the Zone

Offering a proven formula for permanent fat loss, optimal health and all-round peak performance, the Zone diet has an estimated over two million followers worldwide. Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to stay in the Zone while enjoying delicious, easy-to-fix meals. It features 150 recipes from Gloria Bakst, whose work as the cooking and lifestyle expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition appears in the "Cooking with Gloria" section of ZonePerfect's well-traveled website.

Zone Perfect Cooking Made Easy shows you how to adapt the Zone's 40-30-30 (carbs-fats-protein) formula to real food and your real life and supplies daily and weekly menus along with down-to-earth explanations of the latest nutrition research findings.

Easy and Tasty Recipes for Zone Living:

• Lettuce Wraps with Thai Peanut Sauce
• Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
• Tuna and Apple Salad
• Shrimp Scampi with Sun-Dried Tomatoes
• Scallops with Orange and Sesame
• Grilled Swordfish in Lime-Cilantro Sauce
• Grilled Mahi-Mahi with Strawberries
• Chicken Taco Salad
• Open-Face Avocado-Chicken Salad Sandwich
• Turkey Apple Quesadillas
• Grilled Lemon-Basil Pork Chops
• Chili-in-the-Zone
• Zucchini Lasagna
• Spicy Eggplant Stir-Fry
• Steamed Butternut Squash with Bok Choy and Mushrooms
• Sweet Crisps with Ricotta and Berries
• Apple Crisp or Fresh Fruit Crisp

Gloria Bakst is a nutritional lifestyle consultant and the founder of Balanced Nutritional Lifestyles. Gloria spent seven years as the food expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition and wrote the popular Cooking with Gloria column on the Zone Perfect website. Her recipes have been published in Weight Watcher cookbooks, The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook and The Healing the Heart Cookbook.

Mary Goodbody is a nationally known food writer and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Taste: Pure and Simple. She recently worked with bestselling author Debra Ponzek on The Family Kitchen Mary also has collaborated on cookbooks with Williams-Sonoma and Art Smith, Oprah Winfrey's chef.

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