Power Food: Original Recipes by Rens Kroes for Happy Healthy Living

Simple and delicious recipes for us "at-home cooks." The salmon and pasta dish on page 70 is already part of our regular dinner rotation, and it's the first dish we tried. Rens is also quite entertaining- for those who don't know her, check out some of her short videos on Instagram (@renskroes)

Rens is amazingly cheerful on each recipe, healthy, practical and yummie. I enjoi the taste of each creation since reading. I was looking for this, such as I like to eat. Great book!!

This young Dutch author was raised in a family of organic farmers and said she ate very healthy all her life, she shares. She currently works in the medical field with obese patients and says she wants people to be helped by learning to cook her recipes at home.I want to address that at first I was turned off by two things about this cookbook. Number one is she is a young woman who has made this cookbook not just about recipes and food but it is about her--- she has a whole bunch of flirty and sexy photos including a handful of her in her panties. The photos remind me of selfies and to be honest I don't really care about the author or her looks, I use cookbooks for learning new recipes. I mean to say I value the wisdom and knowledge shared by women (and men) more than I care what they look like or how thin they are and I really don't want to see anybody in their underwear, anywhere, let alone in a cookbook!! I wish that women could be valued for their smarts and knowledge base and not have to sell a nonfiction book or a cookbook with sex. The little notes about her enjoying a meal with a boyfriend or Her nephew really don't add any value either. These things make the cookbook seem self indulgent. A cookbook should be about the food and a healthy cookbook should be about health and wellness, not about the author's personsl life.After ignoring this cookbook for a month because of what I just explained in the last paragraph, I dove into the book and I do like the revipes in the book so I am rating this 4 stars, I like it. The cookbook defies pure classifications so I will try and explain. There are some common meat dishes which she uses vegetables instead however this is not a vegetarian only cookbook. I don't see any recipes with wheat in them. I thought this might also be a gluten-free cookbook but I did find a recipe that uses rye which has gluten. Many time she looks for substitutes to Cow milk and uses a range from Allmond milk to coconut milk to goat milk and also spelt cream. So you can see that her choices of milks are not only vegetarian / vegan either. This is not a grain free cookbook, she does use whole oats as well as a bunch of other grains. She also uses quite a bit of soy despite it being a known highly allergenic food and despite its problems with being a phyto estrogen and a controversial GMO food crop in USA.She also uses some very trendy expensive food items such as dried mulberries, hemp protein, Chia seed, and lacuma powder. One criticism as she doesn't really explain what makes one thing better than another and I don't know myself if something she used is worth paying 10 times the price of other similar nutritional value foods on the market. Lacuma powder is so expensive!Some of the ingredients she uses are not easy to find in the USA even in cities where natural foods are readily available at multiple different large chain stores. I have never seen spelt milk, spelt cream, laos powder spice, or goat cream.One last criticism is I'm rather surprised that she uses bouillon cubes to make her soup, even meat bouillon. These are the worst quality and I'm surprised she doesn't recommend using factory made organic stock instead, although a homemade all natural meat, organic, homemade bone broth would be the absolute ideal preference if we're talking about health benefits. (Go research bone broth if you are unaware.)I'm still going to rate this four stars I like it despite my few criticisms because overall this is healthy food even though some of the ingredients here are not fitting with the anti-inflammation diet or a grain free diet, it is certainly much much better than the standard American diet. Those of us with food intolerances and allergies will just have to do substitutes as were already used to doing...no problem.

Great book. Love the recipes and illustrations

Overall, unimpressed. Expensive ingredients. Also, I was irritated the author felt if was necessary to have pictures of herself in her underwear. Distasteful. It’s a cookbook, not a LOOK AT MY BODY book.

Too freaking healthy! You need 20 000 ingredients. Looks good but I lost courage reading through it.

I've been looking through the recipes of this "Power Food" original recipes by Rens Kroes book. It's definitely an adjustment for me/us as we don't eat this way. My husband is all about the meat as most husband's are. But perhaps we should eat more like this book outlines. Except beets or hummus is not going in my mouth! Yuck! No way! Everything I've read seems to be healthy. However, no white pasta for our house either (my husband is diabetic). I think the mini pizza's and the sweet potato fries will definitely be on my menu! Yum! And I really like the salad and oatmeal recipes. Definitely going to give them a try. And I have my own guacamole recipe but Rens recipe adds a clove of garlic and olive oil. I'll have to check that out too. And the Kroes' Family Cupcake recipe sounds delish! Yum yum! It's a new way of cooking healthier. All the processed foods we American's eat are really depriving us of proper nutrition. So might want to check-out this book. I believe it's a keeper.

Great recipes!!!

Really nice book. Nicely done, with great pictures and of course great recipes!I recommend to add it on your shelve!

I just love this book, from the first to the last page, photos, ideas, recipes! Totally recommend.

Un libro completo con recetas saludables perfectas para principiantes, preciosa edición y acabados de calidad. Un libro básico en la cocina de los que quieren cuidarse.

A fabulous book, full of yummy recipes.

Pas mal! Les recettes sont simples, facile à faire et bien expliqué. C'est un livre de recettes de tous les jours. Super recette de mayonnaise! J'ai enfin réussi à faire ma propre mayo!