Matthew Kadey

In Rocket Fuel, award-winning dietitian Matt Kadey offers up delicious, creative, and convenient real-food recipes to power your everyday exercise and weekend adventures.

Kadey's ingenious Rocket Fuel foods--like easy-to-make muffins, bars, pies, bites, gels, smoothies, balls, wraps, and cookies--will inspire how you fuel for your favorite sports. Since studies show that real food works just as well as processed sports food products, you'll enjoy a huge variety of flavors and a healthier, more nutritious performance fuel that's free of artificial stuff and high price tags. Kadey's DIY performance foods include dozens of new flavors and innovative forms that ensure you'll always look forward to your next exercise snack.

Rocket Fuel is more than a cookbook of easy, healthy recipes. Kadey simplifies the rocket science of sports nutrition into easy-to-follow guidelines that will work for anyone in any sport or activity. Rocket Fuel foods are grouped into Before, During, and After Exercise so your body will get exactly what it needs at exactly the right times. For those with special dietary restrictions, each recipe is flagged as dairy-free, freezer-friendly, gluten-free, paleo-friendly, and vegetarian or vegan-friendly.

Rocket Fuel offers:

• 126 recipe ideas for power-packed foods, snacks, and light meals including bowls, puddings, wraps, sandwiches, bites, balls, squares, bars, drinks, patties, cakes, stacks, drinks, smoothies, shakes, soups, muffins, sliders, pies, rolls, DIY energy shots, and all-natural sports drinks.
• 33 Before, 43 During, and 50 After Exercise recipes
• 79 dairy free, 85 gluten free, 76 vegetarian, and 33 paleo-friendly recipes
• Smart-yet-simple sports nutrition guideliness for before, during, and after exercise
• Complete nutrition facts for every recipe

What you eat for energy can make the difference between an epic day or a disappointment. Rocket Fuel makes it easy to power up for workouts, recharge during halftime, or stay energized on the trail.

Matt Kadey is a James Beard Award-winning food journalist, registered dietitian, and recipe developer. He has written for top health/fitness and sports magazines. Kadey holds a masters degree in sports nutrition and is the author of Muffin Tin Chef and The No-Cook, No-Bake Cookbook.

Every recipe will have an easy-to-follow icon system to identify key recipe attributes (i.e., recoveryfriendly; low-calorie; quick and easy), along with a nutrition guide that will offer readers tips on how to make the healthiest choices regarding that particular category of food. Divided by categories (Salads/ Soups/Stews, Sandwiches/Wraps/Burgers, Pizza/Pasta, etc.), these recipes are presented by types of dishes runner can look to for satisfying performance needs in appetizing ways.

- Baked Eggs in Prosciutto Cups
- Peach-Stuffed French Toast Bowls
- Spinach Dip Bowls
- Jalapeno Cheese Rolls
- Butternut Squash Souffles
- Chicken Italiano Pizza Bites
- Lasagna Rolls
- Crab Cakes with Corn-Tomato Relish
- No-Bake Cheesecakes with Raspberry Sauce

The muffin tin is not just for desserts anymore In the same way it transforms a single cake into a dozen cute cupcakes, your muffin tin is the secret to making tasty, fun-to-eat mini versions of all your favorite foods. Filled with full-color photos and easy-to-follow recipes, this handy cookbook shows how to whip up popin- your-mouth, perfectly portioned dishes.

Who says you need to turn on the oven to cook a delicious meal? When temperatures rise and dinnertime looms, don't grab the take-out menu--reach for this guide to the best no-cook meals Filled with full-color photos and easy-to-follow recipes, this handy cookbook shows how to whip up tasty, healthy and filling breakfast, lunch or dinner recipes without heating up the kitchen.