Inspiralized Vegetables Healthy Creative Satisfying Reviews Summary

Variety and Creativity

Pros:

• "Ali includes a stunning amount of variety, from 'Everything bagel' breakfast buns (yum), chana masala with kohlrabi rice, Thai drunken zucchini noodles with pork (my favorite), to apple-potato buns as a gluten-free, healthier alternative to grilled cheese."
• "Really interesting combinations of tastes and textures."
• "Her book so inspires you to eat well and enjoy it at the same time."
• "I love her creativity with the recipes, like making sweet potato waffles with a spiralizer! That's genius!"
• "This book has hundreds of ideas for delicious meals."
• "The recipes are delicious, simple, but not boring."
• "This cookbook is full of creative recipes for turning vegetables into full meals."

Cons:

• "It is truly uninspiring."
• "I felt that there was a 'lot of gabble' but not much content."
• "Too many unappetizing recipes including ingredients that I don't know how to pronounce, where to find, and don't like."
• "The recipes are complicated and time consuming to prepare."
• "I didn't find most of these recipes very interesting."
• "I was really looking for a cook book that had new and innovative ideas for this innovative ingredient, and for a lot of the recipes, I just didn't feel like this book gave me that."
• "I wanted to get into spiralizing to jazz up otherwise normal meals, to add some excitement into cooking. This book doesn't give me the recipes to do that."

Health and Diet

Pros:

• "I've lost about 10 lbs since I got mine in December (yeah, two months ago) - just from cutting out pasta and rice."
• "These recipes are perfect for someone trying to eat a diet high in vegetables whether for weight-loss, dietary restrictions, or overall healthfulness."
• "It's a great way to significantly increase your vegetable intake while reducing your carb intake at the same time."
• "Meals are extremely filling, but low in calories."
• "This book is a dieter’s best friend!"
• "Whether your diet is vegan, vegetarian, grain free, whole foods, or paleo, there are many recipes in here for you."
• "Here's what they don't tell you about this cookbook and her others: it's all about low-carb."

Cons:

• "This book is not for you if you are trying to eat dairy-free, vegan, or gluten-free ... you just won't find a lot of options here."
• "As a person who has to watch carbs for health reasons I would not prepare anything in this book."
• "Lousy book. The recipes were not low cal, low sodium, which is why one would buy this book in conjunction with a spiral machine."
• "The book has interesting ideas but it's far from healthy eating when most of the recipes include beef, egg, chorizo, ribs, chicken, cheese etc."
• "So when I see the recipes having 500 plus mg of salt per serving. That is a lot."
• "I find most of the dishes to be high in Carbs and Calories."
• "Only about 20% of the recipes taste good so I am giving it 2 stars."

Usability and Instructions

Pros:

• "These recipes are easy to follow and don’t take much time to prepare or cook."
• "The recipes themselves each had full color photos, nutritional information, codes for common dietary restrictions (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, paleo) and easy to understand instructions."
• "I love the layout of her cookbook - it's easy to see at a glance how much time everything will take."
• "The recipes are very easy to follow and tasty."
• "The recipes are easy to read and accomplish; they generally do not include weird items that might be difficult to find at the market."
• "Very clear and easy to follow instructions, with ingredients that are commonly found at the grocery store. Very healthy too!"
• "This book is beautiful and so full of interesting and inspirational ideas."

Cons:

• "Very hard to operate with most vegetables."
• "This machine is very hard to navigate. No directions come with the packaging."
• "The top that is supposed to help you get the rest of the vegetable down into the spiral, does not work at all."
• "I tried using it twice and ended up not being able to get it to preform as stated."
• "Marrying up the blades on my machine to the recipes hasn't been that easy as I haven't bought her spiralizer."
• "Spirilzer doesn't stick on my counter I had to hold it while I was using this product."
• "I'm just not very confident in cooking zoodles in a doubled recipe."

Visual Appeal and Photography

Pros:

• "It has an excellent selection of recipes with step by step instructions and beautiful pictures which certainly entices me to try something."
• "Great photos to show the end result."
• "Every recipe has a picture - who wants a cook book full of words?"
• "A cookbook with lots of beautiful colorful pictures."
• "First of all, the book includes beautiful pictures of almost every recipe, which I find incredibly helpful."
• "The book has a clean layout, easy to read instructions, and lots of supplementary information, like cooking times for multiple veggies and cooking techniques and tools."
• "This book almost has a photo for every recipe."

Cons:

• "ONLY thing i wish was… was that there were more photos!"
• "It would have been nice to have a picture of each recipe."
• "I had no idea what a Baked Onion Bhaji was, but no picture was included of that."
• "It’s just recipes no pictures it’s overwhelming I was very disappointed."
• "I was disappointed having read the reviews as there were not as many photos as I had been led to believe."
• "Not all recipes have photos, but that wasn't a sticking point."
• "I wish she had more zucchini recipes."