4.31 AVERAGE

mguynes's review

5.0

Great healthy recipes! I saved a bunch for later.

sundari181981's review

5.0

Beautiful cookbook. Love the concept behind meal prepping. Making individual items that work for multiple meals and snacks so you don’t get bored and food doesn’t go to waste. Can’t wait to make some of these recipes. They all look and sound delicious.
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alisarae's review


You should know going into it that the approach is prep a bunch of different stuff and then combine at meal time. You might have a prepped & cooked meat dish, salad, and another veg, and then you pull them out to make a buffet-style meal. The author says she tries to prep with categories in mind: Protein, veggies, starch, snacks, breakfast. And then you can combine whatever you have from the different categories.

This is a good way to plan the meal prep process in my opinion. Make sure you have a couple different things available in each category, and you will be good for the week! This is a similar concept to [b:The Vegan Week |61378634|The Vegan Week Meal Prep Recipes to Feed Your Future Self A Cookbook |Gena Hamshaw|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1656701401l/61378634._SX50_.jpg|96822074], where the author suggests "a grain, a green, a bean, a sauce" to help strategize meals.

Pros:
- The beginning has a list of common vegetables and different ways to prep & store them.
- The hearty salads section - not all veggies do well sitting together for a couple days and lots of meal prep influencers forget that
- Gluten and sugar free
- Good photos for every recipe
- Focus on fresh, whole ingredients

Cons:
- Lots of spiralizing and veggie-ricing
- The "Quick Assembly meals" section is so random (it has like... a chaotic energy) it should have just been left out and the recipes put into other categories
- 5/15 breakfast recipes were oat based, which may not be a con for you, but I don't eat oats so it seems kinda oat heavy.
- I think the author should have really stuck with the organizational concept of "protein, veggies, starch, snacks, breakfast." It is arranged like a traditional cookbook (3 sections of main dishes, salads, desserts, breakfast, random sides, plus a few other random sections), which doesn't align that well with seeing the bigger picture of meal prep components.

Overall I think this is a pretty useful meal prep book for me, considering it is all gluten-free. It has bright, colorful photos and plenty of new dishes to try.