The Vegan Athlete's Cookbook
Protein-rich recipes to train, recover and perform
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Exciting, healthy and tasty vegan recipes with the nutrients you need to train, recover and perform.
Whether you already live a vegan lifestyle, embrace a meat-free day each week or you simply want to try some amazing flavour combinations, The Vegan Athlete's Cookbook will help you create easy, nutrient-packed meals to support your training goals.
With a focus on performance, every recipe has been created to provide a high level of nutrients that will fuel your body. All the main meal recipes supply at least 20 g of protein per serving, the optimal amount needed for muscle recovery.
As well as delicious everyday recipes, cooking tips and photographs, the book also contains evidence-based advice on how to fuel your workouts and maximise your performance. It debunks vegan myths, demystifies sports nutrition and will help you gain the confidence to create delicious, nourishing meals that will boost your fitness.
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Bean (The Vegetarian Athlete's Cookbook), a British bodybuilding champion turned nutritionist, focuses on the power of plants in this excellent offering of vegan recipes. She begins with a debunking of myths around veganism, including the belief that vegan diets make one more prone to illness. There are instructions for building a balanced diet measured against the intensity of one's training on any given day, and first steps for those who are just starting out on the path to veganism ("Try one new food a week," she advises). The remainder of the book presents recipes intended to "fuel your workouts and promote recovery," with many of the main dishes supplying some 20 grams of protein per serving. Nutrition charts list the amount of calories, carbs, fiber, and fat for each recipe. Breakfast options run from sweet to savory, including cinnamon apple granola bars made with plant-based milk and nut butter, and a tofu scramble with a hint of paprika, while a chapter of single-pot dishes satisfies with such flavorful fare as a Sri Lankan sambar curry. Desserts, snacks, and smoothies in such flavors as strawberry cashew round things out. By pumping iron and flexing its flax, this uplifting volume is just the thing to keep athletes running.
