The Bodybuilder's Kitchen: 100 Muscle-Building, Fat Burning Recipes, with Meal Plans to Chisel Your Physique

I was only expecting some great recipes and definitely got that, but Erin explains difference in proteins and carbs and fats, let’s you know when and what to eat for how you are training. I’m a total novice, and really bought the book for recipes and I am soooo happy with all the extra helpful info included!! Very happy with this purchase and highly recommend it!!

Erin Stern's "Body Builder's Kitchen" is full of quick, easy, and FLAVORFUL recipes! All of them are broken down into their macros so you know just what you're getting. The book even tells you how to turn the recipes into Keto-friendly versions too. If you're looking to improve your eating habits but still want to enjoy a lot of flavor, then look no further than this cookbook. These recipes even make veggies taste good and still be healthy! I recommend it to all my friends at the gym who are looking to improve their eating habits.

I am impressed with this cookbook! I know my way around the gym with no problem, but knowing the right, healthy foods to eat without it being boring has been my struggle. I've tried multiple recipes out of this cookbook over the past two weeks and love each one! They're not super complicated and call for seasonings I already have. It's a great cookbook for those looking for direction in nutrition and cooking healthy meals. Other reviews have mentioned more detail in how to calculate a calorie deficit, but for me, I having been searching for a cookbook without all that and just recipes with the calorie count and macros included. This has that. I'm pleasantly pleased! Erin Stern has answered what I've been looking for!

This has been one of my favorite cookbooks for meal prepping. I usually double the recipes so that I can spread them out throughout the week since I don’t have time to cook everyday. The breakfast hash is my absolute favorite and I actually really like eating it almost everyday! It’s that good to the point I don’t get sick of it! There’s a great overview of macros and various ways to achieve goals in the beginning of the book and even a couple meal plans to follow based on your goals. So many great meal options and it’s definitely been my go to over the last few months!!

Fantastic breakfast, entree, salads/sides, snacks/power bars, & shakes/desserts recipes that are filling, delicious and easy to make with simple ingredients found in any grocery store or already in your fridge. Each recipe includes the macro (% protein, fat, carb) and calorie breakdowns and how to store the portions for meal prep. The book offers several eating plans for adding muscle: bulking/cutting, keto, calorie cycling & carb cycling so you can tweak & experiment with what works best for you. I loved the texmex fajitas, Elvis shake & banana oat bars. Excited to try more recipes.

I love Erin Stern so I thought I would try this. I am so picky and often don’t like cookbooks, as I am so picky. Especially recipes that are good for you. You have to say this book is great, and I love all the recipes. Definitely a great book

I started reading the book and studying the different ways these diets work, and now it makes total sense! I've been trying to lose weight and gain muscle, and the optimum way to do that is explained so well! I can't wait to try these recipes and get some good eats going!

Great book. Explains a lot about the different diets for different goals in body building. The recipes are great. Great Book!!! There aren't many out there that explain how to cut, maintain, and bulk with recipes included. Awesome!

This is how the story goes: I discovered Erin Stern on BB.com, liked what she does, found out she wrote books, came on Amazon and found this one. I have a passion for cooking and the "Look Inside" feature gave me confidence that this book is money well spent. And it is!A brief intro by Erin tells you what this book is all about, and why she wrote it. This is followed by a chapter called “The Essentials,” which deals with macros (protein, carbs, fats) and different nutritional approaches for strength athletes. Not comprehensive. But enough to give you a solid foundation knowledge.And then... you're taken straight to the recipes. Some of these are keto or can be made that; however, a majority of them make high-protein "add-your-carbs-as-sides" dishes. Many are done in 30 or 45 minutes start to finish, some in as little as 20 and only a few take a little longer.What really surprised me is these dishes keep for ages in the fridge - 5, 6, 7 days in airtight containers (exception: fishy stuff is 2 days), without losing flavor or yielding in texture. Yes, I did keep them this long to verify the claims and ate the last portion on the last day – no complaints from me! Follow the storage instructions and you won’t need to remember to defrost or clean up your kitchen on weekdays. Just bag them as needed.THE KIND OF DISHES YOU GET:Erin's breakfasts are not your usual run-of-the-mill cereal affairs, although oats are used in some of the recipes. Others are perfect for using up leftover cooked carbs, especially rice and sweet potatoes. The entrees are as diverse as they can get: Italian, Asian, American, Mexican, oven-baked, pan-"fried," grilled outdoors, steamed (in baking parchment) and using chicken, beef, pork, fish, and shellfish. Sides are made using a light touch which leaves the veggies to shine: lightly seasoned and grilled, baked and made into salads (no added oils!), using a variety of different herbs and spices.Snacks & Power Bars features mostly home-made protein bars plus a number of sweet-and-savory or just savory snacks. You'll find plenty of gourmet-flavor shakes in the Shakes & Desserts chapter which build on the standard chocolate and vanilla flavor whey: Carrot Cake, Key Lime, Blueberry Cheesecake, Chocolate Coconut Almond and more, although dessert lovers will feel a little short-changed; the only dedicated dessert in this book is an avocado-chocolate mousse. Makes sense, right? Sorry, desserts are not healthy. (Will you cut me some slack? I don’t have much of a sweet tooth.)Do the recipes work? Oh yeah! You can follow Erin’s instructions to the letter and will end up with a dish that is salted just right, well-balanced and cooked to perfection. I haven’t cooked all the dishes I bookmarked to cook yet, but here’s what I’ve cooked so far:• Apple Sage Turkey Breakfast Sausage• Pumpkin Pie Bowls• Crustless Quiche• Canadian Bacon and Egg Cups• Chile Lime Salmon Pouches• Sriracha Curry Coconut Chicken• Chicken Hobo Dinner• Tex-Mex Fajitas• Chicken Cacciatore (Okay, you’re a bit at the mercy of your mushrooms here as in how much water they exude. The first time I made this I ended up having to reduce the sauce, so if unsure leave the broth out and season with a stock cube which is what I did 2nd time around.)• Muscle-Building Meatloaves• Spicy Black Beans and QuinoaA FEW ISSUES (mostly kindle-related):- Some bookmarks give you the wrong recipe name; e.g. I bookmarked the Hasselback Sweet Potatoes but the bookmark appears as Coconut Cayenne Smashed Sweet Potatoes (the preceding recipe so I have two bookmarks with the same name)- The sub-text on the chapter cover page uses a tiny font, which is hard to read on Kindle Paperwhite- Tables are not scalable, therefore completely unreadable on Kindle Paperwhite- A very few times only, the nutritional information is a bit out, at least when compared with the USDA values that my cooking software uses- The book is a bit scarce in food photography (but where there is a picture there is a good picture).Some ingredients may not be available at every street corner in this country. I am lucky enough to be able to buy liquid egg whites in two supermarkets in my town, but things like liquid aminos, sugar-free puffed rice cereal, or coconut oil cooking spray I would have to order online. (To me this is not an issue with the book but rather with the supply and demand in my area.)SUMMARY:This book is put together well and visually appealing. I don’t know if Erin developed or adapted these recipes all by herself or with some assistance from her nutritionist, but she did an amazing job by sharing them. I love this book, it made my life so much easier. I warmly recommend it.

A friend suggested I buy this book. So I did 1 for myself and 1 for my mom. 2 books.Wow, massive inconsistencies, descrepancies, errors. 1 being the grocery lists are NOT accurate, so you had better triple check every single recipe and then look at the grocery list that's setup because you will miss a bunch of ingredients. I've just been focused on the CUTTING 7 day week plan and it's been a royal pain in my arse.Another is for instance every single meal setout for your 7 Day Cutting week all recipes are provided. Great... Love that. Sadly the macros, cals don't add up that's setout for each day.When you look at the "ZESTY ZOODLES" Pic for instance, on the LEFT it shows you the macro breakdown, plus cals. At the top of the recipe how much the entire batch makes and to the right how much 1 serving is, which is 1 cup of zoodles. Because I cook different meals for my Hubby and I have entered it ALL as ONE SERVING in my app I use to log my daily food/macro/cal intake.So this week I'm currently on Day 5 of the cutting week. I've entered every single meal/recipe as the ONE SERVING calls for in correspondence to what the cutting weeks says to eat and the daily macro/cals break down.So, today I entered Day 7 meals in advance. I followed and entered exact. Ignore the sugars, Fibre, Sodium etc. In pic added because Erin's book does not provide this. ONLY fats, carbs, protein, cals. So that's a ball park for those.How can I entered the exact recipe ONE SERVING macros/cals exact and the protein in Day 7 be literally 34.4 protein grams off? Seriously?Day 7 saysCals: 1336Fat: 30.8 gCarbs: 118.1 gProtein: 117.8 gWhen I followed the day 7 recipes given and ONE SERVING break down for them this is what it worked out to be.Cals: 1359Fat: 32.7 gCarbs: 119.2 gProtein: 152.2 g (whhhaatttt???)So unless I am completely brain dead and a complete moron who is partial blind... This is a SERIOUS descrepancy ppl!Honestly they just keep coming and I've wasted SO MUCH TIME with trying to figure things out, fix things, try to compensate for missed ingredients not purchased because I SHOULD be able to trust the grocery list.This is not about getting 60 bucks back.... Nothing erks me more than errors and when someone PAYS for something like this it's meant to save time and a lot of headaches of figuring things out. Instead it's been a constant battle all week to quadruple check EVERTHING!PLEASE, GET THIS BOOK FIXED! I understand there will be slight differences. But that much protein? Thosee many ingredients left out of the weekly grocery list? Smh...This post has nothing to do with if the recipes are good. Of course... I've enjoyed many things. I can get recipes anywhere on the internet. I don't need a book. The purpose why I bought it was less hassle. Now I have to sit there and explain it all to my Mom, who does not need this stress in her life and now won't follow the book because it's just not accurate.

Great information and awesome recipes. The only reason I gave 4 stars is b/c it seems that many of her baked recipes are not of the correct temperatures and/or times. So just keep your eyes open when baking. Otherwise everything else was fantastic.

well written, clear instructions and ingredients that are easy to find

Great choice of books would recommend