The Menopause Diet Mini Meal Cookbook

The Menopause Diet Mini Meal Cookbook includes a unique chapter explaining the medical benefits of including certain foods and spices in your diet and explains why women may be digging their graves with their teeth when they eat a high-glycemic carbohydrate, low protein diet. With more than 5000 women entering menopause daily, Larrian's books offer a lifestyle that improves your chances of living to 100 without the disability brought on by heart disease,diabetes and high blood pressure- all by making food your home pharmacy.

I found Dr. Gillespie's recipes to be wonderful. As an accomplishd chef herself, Dr. Gillespie isn't going to live on a diet of ricecakes and lettuce and she doesn't expect us to either! Dr. Gillespie offers delicious and wonderful ideas that offer lots of creative ways to make healthy mini-meals!

Her book, and the resulting menus, are based on something we know but no one except Gillespie admits -- women MUST eat differently from men if they want to lose weight and keep it off! Finally, someone has the guts to say this!

"The Menopause Diet" is an easy-to-follow way to eat for life, and the accompanying cookbook makes losing weight even easier.

I highly recommend this cookbook to any woman who wants to lose weight and stay healthy sensibly -- for life.


Wonderful Recipes and a diet that WORKS!   March 8, 2002
Vicki S. Wadlow
20 out of 20 found this review helpful

The Menopause Diet Mini-Meal Cookbook is the companion book to The Menopause Diet. While Dr. Gillespie sets forth the "whys" of mid-life belly fat in The Menopause Diet and gives the reader guidelines for a diet that will take off weight, the Mini-Meal Cookbook gives sample daily menus and GREAT recipes. Dr. Gillespie shows her extensive cooking background in these recipes, which use no convenience products and lots of fresh, interesting ingredients. The Menopause Diet is a lifestyle diet, not a quick fix. In giving readers a diet plan that works and giving recipes that are healthy, flavorful and satisfying to boot, Dr. Gillespie is giving us the tools to conquer mid-life spread. The lemon-tarragon Chicken, The Bahian Black Bean Chili, the Tu Tu Tun Lodge Grilled Salmon, and all the omelets are great--tonight I am making the Zucchini Noodles! Who needs pasta??


Cooking with the Goddesses   May 10, 2000
Corinne Appleton (Washington, DC)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful

I'm no cooking Goddess, but these recipes make dinner guests sing my praises! I've had 2 recent dinner parties and served several recipes from this book. Both meals got rave reviews from all - especially the MEN! The cookbook supports the excellent food plan, yet can stand alone for anyone who wants to try eating healthy-low carbohydrate. My husband is following the Atkins plan, yet prefers these recipes to stay within his diet. The recipes are easy to follow with most requiring only one or 2 steps to a complete entree. I've served the salmon, thyme chicken, and grilled asparagus to guests and made the chicken salad for myself for lunch. I especially like Gillian Anderson's apple snack idea - there's no X-File about any of this!