Zilli Light - healthy diet cook book first look...
Posted: 14/12/2009 at 10:04pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
At Fat Free Fitness, there are two things we like to encourage people to do. We like to think that we give you the knowledge and support to eat healthily whilst still allowing yourself treats, and we like to think that we encourage you to keep active. With both of these aspects in balance, you will achieve your weight loss goals.
But what happens when you start getting bored of the same healthy meals, day in, day out? Do you revert to eating quick and easy microwave meals, or pick up ‘on-the-go’ foods such as sandwiches or pastries? Chances are, if you do, you’ll soon find yourself the maybe not-so-proud owner of a few new pounds. So, where do you go if your meal plan is more boring than a night in watching football?
To the realms of new inspiration, that’s where.
The internet is literally awash with healthy meal options and ideas you may not have tried before, and all it costs is your time to find them. If you’re like me though and prefer to have something next to you as you cook whilst your laptop is charging, or your printer is out of order, look no further.
We’ve been test-running a new cook book by Italian celebrity chef Aldo Zilli, who lost an impressive 2 and a half stone on the third series of Celebrity Fit Club, and have been hugely impressed.
As well as holding the world record for the most times a pancake is flipped in 1 minute (117, in case you were wondering), Zilli is a fantastic chef who has worked with Thomson Airways and Kraft Foods to provide new and creative meal options, whilst managing a chain of restaurants in London.
His new book, Zilli Light shows us how to dine ‘deliciously, while getting the weight off – and keeping it off’ (his words, but to be honest, we couldn’t have said it better).
Aldo runs us through the expected salads and dressings, detailing 15 fantastic looking and brilliantly healthy options, which as he states, can be used as snack choices if prepared beforehand.
The rest of the book then guides us through starters and light meals, pasta and pizza (he is after all Italian!), rice, beans and grains, fish and shellfish, meat, game and poultry, and the all important desserts and treats!
A large number of the recipes have delicious looking accompanying images, and each meal is as simple as cooking gets (without a microwave), clearly listing the ingredients and bullet pointing the method behind the nutrition.
If you buy one cook book to accompany your New Year’s Resolutions, get this one. Aldo Zilli has been there, lost it, committed to healthy living and now we can benefit as a result from his fantastic range of healthy, nutritious but best of all tasty meals! Forget our recently returned Transatlantic journeyman Jamie, and ignore the furrowed brow of everybody’s favourite foul-mouth – Aldo Zilli shows you how it’s done, proves that healthiness is a lifestyle and not achievable via shortcuts and, perhaps most importantly, walks us through something that for many of us seems all too difficult. I guarantee you, half an hour cooking with Zilli will make a believer out of you, and will have you casting off the tired claims that cooking healthily is just too hard/expensive/boring/bland (delete as appropriate).
The book is available from the 7th of January 2010 (we can’t believe it’s gone so quickly either) and is available to pre-order from Amazon right now, from just £17.00, delivered free.
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