Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My husband and I are not vegans. We aren't vegetarians. We aren't even flexitarians but we are trying to be. We're trying to cut calories, eat healthier, and eat LESS (not eliminate entirely) meat and eat more plants. This book is not meant for people like us. I went in full throttle and gun ho and bought the whole first weeks worth of groceries and off we went. into hell. it was the worst week of our dietary lives. the estimated cook times on all of these seem to be under the assumption that you already have all the ingredients diced, peeled, chopped, etc. every meal always took longer than the book said it would take to make. everything is made from scratch. most of it was bland/tolerable at best and inedible to us at worst. some of the smoothies tasted good, but upon double checking the ingredients, the calorie counts given were way off. almost every time. Out of an entire weeks worth of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, there were maaaaybe 2 meals we would be willing to do again and 2 smoothie recipes I'll keep. we won't be doing a week 2. for people who are already on this path this may be great. for people who are just starting off it seemed terrible.