I love the recipes and the practical advice easy to understand and to implement into everyday life I enjoy books like these I find them interesting and educational

Plant Power states that it is not a diet book. It is a lifestyle change book. However, it does include the typical diet books’ four-week eating plan, recipes and food limits. But no photographs or nutritional information is included.

Eating more plants and less meat is a laudable goal both for your health and the environment’s. But I’m not sure that such a strict regimen is necessary or desirable to achieve that goal. I’m also not sure if I could eat five servings of fruit in one meal. Or the same servings of vegetables in another meal either.

Another issue is that the meal plan doesn’t seem very well-planned. Some meals include very specific portion sizes like four slices of turkey on a sandwich. A few pages later the meal just says a ham sandwich. Should it also have exactly four slices too? It seems rather haphazard.

Worst of all, I didn’t feel the usual “let’s go” motivation after reading Plant Power. I’ve read several other books by this author, and this was the least motivating of them all. For those reasons, I don’t recommend this book. 2 stars.

Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed the clarity and easily understood explanations in Dr. Smith's Plant Power. The information on the need to eat more whole foods is so fascinating, but can be daunting when first starting out. Plant Power does a great job clearly explanation why people should make the switch to eating more plant based foods with tools and menus to make the planning process easy.

If you are someone who would like to incorporate more plants into your diet and need guidance to do so, this is a good start. It offers a 4 week plan with meal ideas for every meal, and the recipes in the back. It starts with some information on adding more plants to your diet and all the good reasons why. What I liked best was that it gave you the 4 week plan with every meal included, to take the pressure off trying to figure out what to eat. So if that's something that would benefit you, I recommend this book.

I've read other books by this author that helped me with diet. Now that I've been reading of all the benefits of a more plant-based way to eat, Ian Smith seemed like a good choice to turn to for advice when I saw that he came out with this book.

I really appreciate that he took the time to help readers transition in a way that will feel more comfortable then just leaping in completely giving up meats. He included meal plans and recipes in this book. The goal is to come to a place where your diet is 70% plants and 30% meats.

This book is more of a weight loss/diet book than what I expected. I was hoping for more recipes (although there were some at the end) than a meal plan . It appears that the meal plan would be relatively easy to understand, but personally I don't like the rigidity of those kinds of approaches to weight loss. There is a great deal of educational material in this book, focusing on the benefits of increasing the amount of plant based foods in your diet, and also some of the reasons it is a good idea to decrease the amount of animal based foods in your diet also. Overall, if you are looking for a weight loss plan that is going to be more plant than animal based, this would be a good book for you. Thank you @netgalley and Dr. Ian K. Smith for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I came down with a rare neuropathy this year and turned to a plant based diet for help and healing. This book gives you an easy road map I to delving I to a more plant based lifestyle. It includes research and wonderful weekly meal plans. A wonderful resource cookbook!