I didn't waste my time on the book like I did my money on the platinum plan. I'm sure the book may have good recipe's but probably not worth nothing. With my short time in phase 1 I quickly seen there isn't enough meals and snakes included so come to find out some are diy well not sure why I paid a lot of money to then buy my own meals to prepare too. Also no structure in how when or what to eat. Fells like I paid to do what I've always been doing only different thing is the meals they send are very small of course you will lose weight if you don't eat but that's not healthy I think I'm no Dr. This south beach diet is trash don't waste your money on it