Nursery-school items

Usage examples of blocks.

Feel free to mix and match the Zone Food Blocks within each macronutrient group as long as they add up to your required numbers at the end of the meal.

Chinese-style organic tofu is readily available in vacuum-packed one-pound blocks in refrigerated tubs.

Also note that each recipe contains the number of Zone Food Blocks for each ingredient.

These Zone Food Blocks, which are explained in greater detail in Chapter 7, allow you to make ingredient changes without affecting the hormonal response to the meal.

You can leave beans out of recipe and replace them with a side of fruit salad containing 2 blocks of carbohydrate.

American male, who needs about 30 grams of protein per meal, the calculation of Zone Food Blocks is the same.

Zone is all about balancing the foods you eat, you can probably guess how many carbohydrate and fat blocks you need if you have three protein blocks.

If you have four protein blocks, you would have four fat blocks and four carbohydrate blocks.

Stop adding the Zone Blocks when you reach your total required number for that meal.

Commercially, tofu is pressed into blocks with various amounts of water.

Zone Protein Blocks, three Zone Carbohydrate Blocks, and three Zone Fat Blocks.

For the typical male, each Soy Zone meal consists of four Zone Protein Blocks, four Zone Carbohydrate Blocks, and four Zone Fat Blocks.

The younger boy ran his hand lovingly over the irregular roughhewn blocks of its walls.

Lesser craftsmen were confined to making routine blocks for smaller houses and paving stones for the streets.

The solid blocks gave out a bell-like sound, the defective ones a dull thud.