Vegan Meal Prep: Ready-to-Go Meals and Snacks for Healthy Plant-Based Eating Kindle Edition

Pros:- Food is yummy- Shopping lists are easy to follow- None of the ingredients are complicated or difficult to find- Instant pot tips to make things even faster- Freezing, storing, and reheating instructions for everything- Kindle version is great, because you can click links to get to the recipes which are sort of far from the meal prep instructions themselvesCons:- Portion sizes are weird- Some instruction will lead new cooks to failure (Saute garlic alone on high heat for 5 minutes? What a joke!)- Not enough food for a full-grown, non-couch potato adult- Meal prep break downs and recipe break downs do not include instructions for setting yourself up for mise en place (prepping your ingredients so cooking goes smoothly) and therefore I don't think the cooking and prep times on these are accurate.- A paperback version would be difficult to use since meal prep instructions and recipes are so spread outSo far my boyfriend and I have made prep three "Go Green." It took us about 3-4 hours all said and done. Our grocery bill for this prep was about $50, so not bad at all. So far, we like all of the food - having tried the kale chips, Mediterranean greens and beans, and tofu scramble (all three in my photo). We've made the lentils and chopped salad, but haven't put it together in containers yet. I'll break down the meals we've tried below and discuss how some of the pros/cons apply.Tofu Spinach Scramble:The tofu scramble recipe called for 1 block of tofu (and FOUR bags of spinach) to make five containers. This seemed totally ridiculous to us, so we used three blocks of tofu. As you can see, I was able to fit my three blocks of tofu into my five 2-cup containers no issue. I can't imagine what the recipe would have been like with only one block of tofu. Also, the recipe didn't include nutritional yeast which seemed... wrong, so we added that. The original recipe with one block of tofu would only be 170 calories, which is NOT enough for us since we are both active. I require about 1700 cal a day. It also wanted me to add celery and carrots to this which sounded yuck. It recommends you make it in a skillet but we found it much easier to make it in baking pans in the oven.Mediterranean Greens and Beans:We messed with this recipe a little bit, too. A half a cup of lemon juice with our two bags of arugula just wasn't working out right. We drained it and then just added the arugula into the beans & tomato stew it had us make. On another note - this is the recipe that tells you to "brown" chopped garlic on high heat for five minutes. DO NOT do that - it will burn, I promise. After a couple of seconds I had to pull the pan off.Italian Lentils + Chopped Salad:This one confused me. It said that we were prepping for three meals but you make six servings of lentils. I reread and found out it's to freeze and have for later on, but I'd rather have just bought and cooked less things. Lentils are easy enough to prepare and not something I expected to have so much of! I have yet to taste this one, but making it (especially with the instant pot) was super easy. The "chopped salad" is literally just chopped romaine. No instructions or ideas for dressing, etc. That's bonkers to me. We're going to make our own dressing.Kale Chips:Nothing to say here - absolutely delicious. Maybe a weeee bit too spicy. We added garlic powder.Overall, if you're a seasoned vegan cook looking to make your meal prepping and shopping easier, this has some great ideas. I will definitely be trying more recipes, but I now know that I probably have to bulk a lot of them up or tweak them to make sure nothing seems too funky. Even if you're a beginner cook - you might like this! Just don't add garlic to a high heat pan, for the love of all things holy!

Whatever is the culinary equivalent of “dancing with two left feet” describes me. I’m a lawyer with an infant. This isn’t the time of life when I’m suddenly going to turn into Martha Stewart. I need idiot proof, fast, healthy and tasty recipes. I want cookbook with recipes that use pantry staples and doesn’t shame me for using (obv BPA free) canned products. This hits the nail on on the head.

I actually returned this book...I wanted to like it so much. I was hoping to prep meals with a plan and not have to make many separate things to create a meal. There were a few "main" meal recipes, but too many sides and items that you'd have to add to make something a complete meal. I think if I "meal prepped" from this I wouldn't have a weekly plan and that is what I was looking for. I wanted more recipes that were like the meal salad on the front cover. I think that is what raised my expectations.

First, I enjoy JL Fields and follow her work and therefore wanted to support her book. I received the book today-and I found the book to be utterly confusing! The weeks of prep are set up on 1-2 pages and directs you to go to several different pages in the book for prepping meals-so on step 1-go to page 34 and cook that until step 4 in the recipe; step 2-go to page 162 cook the next item until step 5...and so on. Recipes and information are well written and helpful but the layout and directions for prep-utterly confusing for me. And there are no pictures to help in the process. The serving sizes are strange, too. This will be sent back and I will keep on my search for a vegan prep book.

I love this book!!! I actually bought it for myself and right before it came I got it as a gift from a friend. I now own all 3 of JL Fields cookbooks and they have become my very favorites!! What I love about this one in particular is that she gives you a shopping list and then step by step directions for prepping meals. One shopping list and I was able to prep 4 different recipes, it’s perfect to help with your meal planning!

This is an awesome cookbook for those of us that like to meal prep on the weekends to have healthy options available during the week.All of the ingredients are simple and affordable with the exception of tofu, tempeh, and TVP. I usually grocery shop at discount stores / farmers markets which don’t carry those items.I don’t think I will use this book much for dinner, but tons of great ideas for breakfast, lunch, and snacks.LOVE that nutritional content is included for every recipe. Some authors don’t include this because they say it can vary too much- it is helpful to at least have an estimate, though!Only downside is that a lot of recipes do not have pictures even though there is a ton of blank space.

Great ideas that I can’t wait to try. Recipes are easy with not many ingredients.

I got this book on my kindle just for the recipes and cooking in bulk. The book has a few good recipes and it let's you click on the blue links while reading and it takes you right to the recipe.

As someone who is vegetarian and already does meal prep for lunch through out the week, I was really looking forward to stepping up my game with this guide. However, many of the recipes seem to add ingredients just to try and make food seem interesting to non vegans. Some of the ingredient combinations make no sense unless you happen to be American. Many would not be readily available in the UK or EU. Can I suggest that if you are UK or EU based you take the general principles from the book but go for Mediterranean style recipes and ingredients.

No accompanying pictures, not good if you want to cook from scratch not from the tin. But puts together smother steps for doing more than one meal at a time nicely.Could be more adventurous with the flavours.

Bought for Vegan Child at Uni. Thought it would encourage her to expand her diet beyond falafel and hummus. She said it’s good. She has tubs and jars And has told me that it will save her money. That’s good.

Awful - waste of money. Go buy deliciously Ella save yourself some money. I gave it away for free within a week of receiving it

I purchased this item a while back, but returned it as I was disappointed due to barely any pictures. I bought it to motivate me to meal prep, but without pictures, I could see myself hardly reaching for this book at all.Visuals motivate me to try things. Sorry, but that's the way it is.