Plantifully Lean: 125+ Simple and Satisfying Plant-Based Recipes for Health and Weight Loss: A Cookbook

I’ve made some of these simple recipes several times. They are easy and flavorful. You really can be lean and eat flavorful and filling healthy food! Now I want all of her cookbooks.

I'm going back to a plant based diet & selected this to add to my collection of cookbooks because the recipes are whole food, plant based, FULL OF VIBRANT NUTRITION & the author, Kiki, tells her personal story & how she transformed herself to becoming fit & energized! Fantastic photos too!! Easy to follow!

My book came this afternoon as promised. The book is thick and has weight to it with 261 pages. It’s loaded with recipes and every recipe has a color photo. At a glance I can tell Kiki stays true to Calorie Density as well as the HCLF principles without being boring.The recipes in this book LOOK so appetizing and delicious. This is important to me as I do cook for others a lot. And I personally eat with my eyes first! 😂 My husband took one look at a few recipes, and now is totally on board and looking forward to our new meals.Page 36 tells you how to use the recipes. And I love how Kiki mentioned she eats simply during the week but gets fancy on the weekends. (That’s generally how our family eats.) And every recipe is still great for weight loss!Page 39 Gives you simple Prep Day tips to make the week easier.Pages 43-47 The 28 day meal plan will be a huge help. I often feel overwhelmed when trying to create a menu for my family. I doubt I will use it to the letter as it has so much variety but its a GREAT “cheat sheet” to help me figure out our meals From week to week without being too repetitive.I am also glad to see that the recipes are designed for the entire family’s enjoyment. Even though I have teenagers, I am still concerned about their health. Low fat plant-based diets are supposed to be good for acne issues! I can even imagine having guests over and making these dishes without feeling like I have to change a lot in order for my guest to enjoy the food.I really like The Mechanics Of Weight Loss section. Simple but thorough. So we can be in unity my husband is making the time to read this section TODAY! 👏Finally this book encourages me that HCLF is completely sustainable. It’s not just for weight loss but a life style that can be maintained.I do highly recommend you buy this book. I am personally thinking about creating gift baskets for Christmas with this book as a centerpiece.❤️

Simple, delicious recipes that help me stay on track with plant based. Beautiful pictures and thoughtful captions. You will love it. Check her out on YouTube and Instagram too!

I love this book for many reasons: 1) the beautiful photos 2) the simplicity of the recipes 3) the way it sparks my own food ideas.Don’t allow the negative reviews to prevent you from buying it.Some of the reviewers are saying this book is too expensive. Maybe they don’t realize that self-published books cost more! Also, when there’s so many color photos, it does increase the cost of a book. For the price of a dinner date though, look at how you get a beautiful cookbook, which also is basically Kiki’s blueprint for how she lost 70 pounds. Kiki gives away all of her secrets. It costs about $100 for one session with a health coach or dietitian. Look at how you get so much value, for 1/3 of the price of that. You are given the keys to unlock your health!Some are trying to say Kiki copied McDougall. There’s many versions or takes on his concepts and starch solution diet. It’s called creativity! For example, there’s authors like Chef AJ who have their take on a starch-based whole food vegan diet. Are they really “copying” McDougall? I don’t think so. There’s not just one type of yoga, for example. Different people need different teachers who resonate with them.I myself love to see an item like a biscuit dough turned into various recipes. For beginner cooks, it’s helpful to have the recipes using that dough separately. You see, to me, it’s clear just with this that Kiki wrote her book to actually help others. She is trying to give you ideas for your every day life. Not everyone has time or energy to cook an involved recipe every day for every meal.Also, some are complaining about some of the frozen fruit items on the book not being true “recipes.” Some have complained that the recipes are too basic in general in this book. If you’re working on being healthy and/or losing weight, you don’t need “recipes,” you need ideas or examples for your daily life on what or how to eat. Not everyone has the bandwidth to make Instagram worthy meals every day.Also, some of her stuff in the book is online in places like YouTube, but some of us prefer to have them in a book form. I like having the information in all one place. Plus, buying this book felt good to me, since I could support Kiki for sharing beneficial free content online that’s helped my life for years.But…It’s not fair to say Kiki made this book to only make money. She gives away a ton of value and free content online! Are recipes just supposed to be free? Oh wait, you probably are the type who expects all music to be free. Creators have a right to sell products and earn an actual living. Even a “simple” recipe you see in a book took hours total…hours to conceptualize it, create it, test it, photograph it, and put it into a video or book.I recommend this book to my friends and family who are new to eating the whole food vegan diet and feel overwhelmed. It’s also one of the most sustainable ways to lose weight and keep it off. There are fancier starch-based whole food vegan diet books. Sure. But, give this book a chance! It has a lot of heart and creativity.I also want to say that some of the reviews for this book are super unfair. If you desire to lose weight in a healthy way and optimize your health, keep the weight off, and not feel deprived eating, get this book. Don’t allow the mean girls’ reviews on it to stop you from feeling your best and for less than $30, you get knowledge from a mentor that you can use the rest of your life. You will want to share it with others, to pay it forward, just like Kiki has done here.

I love the recipes, they are the most palatable I have ever had. Loved so much I bought your Plentiful Simple. Just one negative, the index section is listed by ingredients. It's difficult to find a recipe when I'm not sure what ingredient is used. The index in Plentiful Simple was perfect and included page# of where to find recipes. Wish in was the same in this book.

Most recipes are easy to prepare in a relatively short period of time using easy to find ingredients in my local stores and farm markets.Good variety to choose from.Tasty with healthy, nutritional benefits.

After trying the author’s vegan ranch and cheese sauce I wanted to try some other recipes. I knocked off so many stars because I think something went wrong at the publishing level rather than with Amazon since the package was in perfect condition but when I opened it the book had smears inside and weird goop on the page edges. If it had been a problem with Amazon I think I would have given this 4 or 5 stars because I’ve loved the recipes but others might receive the book like this as well.

Love this recipe book. Everything is healthy, tasty and not too complicated to cook. My favourites so far are the vegan cheese sauce, lemon greek potatoes and chocolate lava cake. It's American so everything is measured in cups rather than the measurements we're more used to in the UK, so I got myself some measuring cups and it's actually a much simpler way of doing things.

I love this book. It actually helps me lose weight! It's deceptively simple, and since Kiki is very humble, unpretentious and straight in her writing, people might think there's not much to it. She explains the weight loss approach perfectly in the introduction. Some say "she got it from McDougall". All very well but a) she does modify it a bit b) McDougall for some reason needs to write a whole book where Kiki needs about 36 pages. It's all illustrated beautifully and a real pleasure to look at and get inspired. Yes, you might find most of the recipes online but if you like to have a book to go through when planning your weekly menus, you might find this easier.Now for the recipes: her focus is to make things EASY. She does not like to bother too much, so it's rather simple (most of it, at least). Some people again complain that those recipes are basic. Well, guess what. If you're into fancy gourmet vegan food, there really is no shortage of books out there! You can buy any of those and start three-hour-long cooking marathons, no one is stopping you. What is REALLY DIFFICULT, however, is finding simple, fast recipes that are still good enough. Personally, I love to cook fancy stuff and have been doing that for 10 years. But when you have small kids and a job and feel stressed out, it gets overwhelming and you might want some faster options when pressed for time. Kiki to the rescue!I love her breakfast ideas, and I love how she has many savory options, too. Most vegan (or American, for that matter) cookbooks only feature sweet stuff, and it's always the same - oatmeal, oatmeal, overnight oats, smoothies. I dislike all of them. I love Kiki's many options, particularly the breakfast burrito, the Southern potatoes with mushroom gravy, and her omelette. There is enough variety for you not to get bored. If you're into sweet stuff, she's got you covered as well. Lunch/dinner recipes are good, too. Some are not overly exciting but in general good enough. Some are delicious. Also very good: no super fancy ingredients you wouldn't find in a German supermarket (as opposed to spirulina, goji berries etc pp). I truly love her craving/indulgent snacks chapter - such great ideas, I love them all, and they actually hit the spot! Any weight-loss focused plant-based eater knows that cravings just are the worst part. Like when you crave chips, onion rings, and people tell you to have some crackers or raw carrots. Terrible!!! Her solutions are so delicious, this is a delight!There are about 125 recipes in this book, so you have a lot to choose from. Many made me think of new combinations, giving me ideas how to meal-prep and what else to make that wouldn't be a bother.In short: if you're committed to plant-based eating and need to lose some weight, there will be no easier option then this book, serving you the theory behind it all while also offering the suitable recipes. All while not making you stand in the kitchen longer than 30 minutes, often just 15. Thank you, Kiki, you have given me so much hope!

A beautiful cookbook with simple recipes. Kiki takes the time to explain the why behind her recipes. As a busy Mum, I appreciate the simplicity without compromising on flavour. I've lost 17 kg (37 pounds) so far eating this way and still have another 32 kg (70 pounds) to go. I've done this even with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. This way of eating is definitely sustainable with these recipes. It feels like comfort food without the consequences.