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Energy Bites
High Protein Recipes for Increased Vitality & Wellness
Kate Turner, with Annie Nichols

DK Publishing
January 5, 2016 / ISBN 978-1-4654-5153-8
Non-Fiction / Cooking / Food

Reviewed by Laura Hinds

 

Energy Bites is a small book at only 58 pages, but it is jam-packed with super easy, delicious, and healthy recipes, and mouth-watering photographs.

The layout is colorful and appealing to the eye, and the information is presented in a clear and concise format, including pictures and descriptions of the ingredients -- several of which will likely be new to the reader -- and explaining the formula and the how-to directions, followed by 15 unique recipes. This is a book you'll want to keep handy and refer to often.

Once you've stocked your pantry and tried a recipe or two, you may find this concept and this book so addictive that you'll look forward to your no-bake energy bites preparation time. While the recipes call for a food processor, there are also instructions for making the recipes by hand, which would, naturally, be more time consuming, but it's nice that the option is provided.

The favorite in our household is the Peanut Butter and Banana Balls, also containing dates, flax seed, chia seeds, almond meal and moringa powder, as well as a coating of hulled hemp seeds. I've also found that the various recipes can be altered to suit your own taste.

The energy bites can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator or freezer, which is an added bonus. You could spend a long afternoon making all different recipes and have enough to keep you going for several weeks when stored properly.

Energy Bites is a clever and timely book that should appeal to the health-conscious as well as to those with busy schedules and an always on the go lifestyle. With the current amount of interest in super foods, high density nutrition and raw food diets, this is a book that should garner a lot of attention from the media. If it doesn't, I predict that word of mouth and Internet reviews should garner enough buzz to make Energy Bites and author Kate Turner, with Annie Nichols, into household names everywhere!

Reviewed 2016
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