I am literally rubbish at thinking of lunch items and end up eating the same meals time and time again. Whilst there are plenty of recipes online, its always a struggle to think of where to start when searching for ideas, so it was lovely to see a fair few brought together here. From the components that make up the lunch such as dressings, to whole meals, this has so many different ideas and lots of advise. The pictures are bright and colourful and made me pretty hungry for dinner! Lots of tips on how to make your home a more eco friendly space too. All in all, this would be a great purchase for any busy household that are stuck in a bit of a lunch rut.

Kat Nouri put together a great cookbook with so many useful ideas along with recipes that make you want to start cooking as soon as you read them! The premises of building around easy prep meals as well as working towards plastic-free lifestyle changes and litter-free lunches all work well together. I had a difficult time deciding which chapters had the most foods I wanted to try first!! The accompanying photographs and back stories to the food and better practices add to the importance of a cookbook of this type in these times of dangers to our environment and ecosystems. Thank you to NetGalley and Chronical Books for the ARC in return for an honest review, which this has been. #NetGalley #LetsFixLunch

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read this advance copy.

I always have a problem with trying to figure out what to make for lunch and this book offers some great, healthy and perhaps most importantly, environmentally friendly ideas. I will defiantly recommend that my library purchase a copy.

As a working mom, I’m always seeking new ideas to help streamline meals during the busy workaday week, also provide an assortment of fresh, healthy options for school lunch and family meals. Let’s Fix Lunch is geared for my demographic—an attractive, practical book with excellent, delectable, doable recipes that build on staples, e.g. cooked legumes, grains, eggs, seeds, roast chicken, and how you can use those basic staples for different meal offerings throughout the week. Nouri also provides some smart ideas for reducing packaging waste using Stasher reusable products and jars, also tips for living a more sustainable, green lifestyle via recycling and repurposing.

Let’s Fix Lunch has some vegetarian options for snacks, salads, and sides. Many of these could be made vegan. The main dishes are meat heavy. It’s full of beautiful pictures and lots of tips on how to be more ecological with cooking and packaging food.

** I received an electronic ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review of this book.

The advice is sound but feels never-ending until you finally! get to the recipes. They are decent but not especially ‘lunch’ feeling unless you eat at home. Of course, with Coved, that’s more likely. I’m making the savory cheddar biscuits as I write- the dough seems quite salty so we’ll see. I quite like the idea of the recipe. While none of the recipes are ground-breakers, there is a nice mix of homey and more elevated; things a kid would like and meals that are more adult. My fave is the act2 fried rice but several of the chicken dishes also look great. If you are a big meat eater, or like seafood other than tuna, this may not be the book for you. The recipes are straightforward, in simple English and easily understood for all levels. This is a good book for non-cooks as well as seasoned cooks looking for something they may have not thought of for a while. And, because of the many tips on how to save the planet and food as well, you learn a lot more than just recipes.

Let’s Fix Lunch by Kat Nouri is a bright, attractive, environmentally aware cookbook that is a good addition to the Stasher bag brand, although I never heard of Stasher bags before I read this book. Instead, I requested this from NetGalley on the basis of the bright, attractive cover art and brief description. Planet-friendly recipes sounded good to me, and the book made them look good too.

There’s a lot to like about Let’s Fix Lunch, even for me, who found almost none of the recipes met my combined taste and dietary restrictions. But as I mentioned, the food photography is a delight. The recipes involve a lot of building blocks, of precooked or assembled ingredients, like homemade pickles, carmelized onions, homemade pesto, and even directions on cooking basic ingredients like rice or hard-boiled eggs, etc. So the author walks you through how to make the building blocks, and then in following chapters through how those blocks can be used to assemble quick, simple, yet healthy and satisfying lunches throughout the week. Before each recipe is an “eco tip”, usually related to the recipe, on how to consume more mindfully and with a lighter environmental footprint (buy grains and nuts in bulk using your own refillable containers, eat nuts instead of seeds when possible, use stale bread to make croutons or thicken soups, eat lots of beans, which enrich the soil and use less water than other protein sources, don’t forget to compost, etc.). And at the end of the book are several pages of suggestions and resources for being more eco friendly in various contexts, as well as a handful of non profits the author endorses for these issues.

The downside to both the tips and the cookbook in general is that this book has a very “Whole Foods” vibe to it. Which is to say, it requires a certain economic bracket and presumes access to certain resources. The Stasher bags themselves, for instance, sound like a terrific idea, and a worthwhile investment for those who can afford them–but a starter kit on their website, with a mere 7 reusable bags, costs more than $80 US. That’s as much money as some people’s weekly grocery budget. Using Stasher bags (or other reusable containers) is mentioned in almost every, if not every single recipe, and throughout the informational sections as well. I understand that this is good branding and the reusable nature of Stasher bags are central to the mission of the company, which this cookbook only serves to amplify. But because of the assumption of income level and access to resources, I would only recommend this book to those in higher economic brackets, and probably not to anyone who is already very involved in environmental issues, as many of the suggested eco tips are not new concepts to a dedicated environmentalist.

So, overall, Let’s Fix Lunch! is a bright, cheerful, well-intentioned cookbook full of good if mostly basic eco friendly recommendations and omniverous recipes. Will I eventually save up for a Stasher bag or two of my own? Probably. Will I try any of these recipes? Probably not. Recommended for Whole Foods yoga moms, for financially comfortable denizens of places like the Bay area, where the author apparently lives, for those without dietary restrictions. Fine for its niche audience. Less helpful for those outside its range.

Thank you to #NetGalley and Chronicle Books for letting me read a temporary digital advanced copy of #LetsFixLunch for free. This review is my honest opinion.

Let's Fix Lunch is devoted to eliminating single-use plastic starting with lunch, given that lunch is typically eaten away from home. Part of the sale of the book goes to No Kid Hungry, which is pretty cool! It's - focused on healthy lunch meals for the entire family that can be packed in reusable containers to reduce waste. There’s a number of delightful sounding recipes I can’t wait to try from this cookbook including Apple Streusel Bars, Chicken Caesar Salad with Parmesan Croutons, and Spinach-Feta Frittata Sandwiches.

This is a fun, beautiful cookbook filled with easy recipes you can use for simple, healthy lunches. It is not only focused on being healthy but also being sustainable. I wasn't aware at first that the author is also the founder of Stasher, but I liked that there wasn't a blatant push for you to go out and buy those products or anything like that.

My only negative is that no nutritional information was provided. Since this is being promoted as a healthy cookbook, I would have thought providing this information would be a given.

Overall, it is an easy and health focused cookbook that many can enjoy!

Disclosure: I received a complimentary eARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes. I'd like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for providing me this opportunity!

Nat Nouri is the inventor of ‘Stasher’ a reusable silicone bag for lunches and food storage. Her recipe book, as the title implies, focuses on recipes to make for lunch. Combined with the recipes is the author’s effort to reduce waste and eat healthy food. The book itself promotes the author’s reusable products to reduce waste. Nouri has divided up the recipes into the following chapters: On-the-Go Snacks, Sauces and Condiments, Soups and Salads, Sandwiches, and Grains and Pastas. Recipes are also labeled with a symbol for vegetarian, freezable, school-lunch friendly, make ahead ideas along with rice and pasta bases that are paired with earlier recipes for sauces.

The recipes were mostly the usual found in recipes books, Cobb salad, Caesar salad, Frittatas, and soups. Sadly there was no nutrition information and the recipes were just for two. I was a bit put out by the author thinking that earth friendly packaging for lunch is new. Most people who enjoy making food usually are careful about waste in general. Unfortunately this book came up short on many fronts.

I would like to thank Chronicle books and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A nice book with some pretty basic recipes for sauces, dips and other condiments. It has some nice lunch recipes and ideas for going litter-free.

Let's Fix Lunch! is a fun, beautifully photographed cookbook by the founders of Stasher. I love the focus on healthy, simple lunches (something often ignored in the world of cookbooks) as well as it's emphasis on sustainability. The book is easy to navigate and provides great tips for meal prepping and planning - perfect for busy families! As a food blogger, I was absolutely in love with the bright and sunny photographs. The recipes are simple in the best way. I loved the Sesame Coconut Granola and the delicious Pesto Chicken Sandwich. I have bookmarked so many more recipes to try and I can't wait to dive in!

This is such a fun cookbook.
The photos are absolutely beautiful and eye-catching.
You can tell that a lot of love want into making both the recipes and this book as a whole.
I love how intentional this cookbook is. The pictures are mouth-watering and it is more than just a cookbook - there are so many tips and tricks to have a litter free lunch. This is a cookbook with a conscious!
The recipes look delicious and I can't wait to try a few of them out and put these litter free tips into practice.

I'm a a beginner cook and an in need of dire help in the kitchen! I flipped through the recipes and thought they seemed manageable and interesting from my POV. Excited to try them out!

This is a very sweet cookbook filled with bright, delicious-looking photos and easy-to-understand recipes. However, for most people, all of the make-ahead cooking makes this book not as helpful as it could be. When many people are looking for lunch to bring to the office, to eat at home, or to pack for school lunches, they want something super fast to throw together. These recipes take so much forethought that they create so more work and use more energy than grabbing an apple and making a quick PB&J. It doesn't so much fix lunch, as make lunch a more complicated process.

As someone who loves to reuse, recycle and overall reduce waste as much as I can, I really appreciate this book and all of the tips Kat Nouri provides! We truly can prevent so much waste by shopping for food the smart way and from the kitchen alone. The recipes look delicious (I definitely will be trying a lot more of these in the next few weeks) and the pictures are simply stunning. Love this book.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!

Excellent reminders in this book about preparing lunch in a sustainable and plastic-free way. From food wraps to storage bag solutions. Useful for someone new to these concepts and looking for inspiration. Photography is beautiful and the recipes are delicious!! I am terrible at coming up with lunch ideas so its nice to see some healthy and tasty ideas in here.

Writtten by the founder of Stasher. The recipes seem okay and reader gets a meal plan for the week. The reader gets some other on the go tips.

What I loved about these recipes is that they are simple and made with easy-to-find ingredients for all kinds of diets. The recipes have a simple format and almost all include a photograph. Each recipe also includes a small eco tip that is great for cutting down on food waste. Most of the ingredients used throughout the book are common and readily available at the grocery store. However, the recipes are rather ordinary and nothing stood out for me.

First of all, mad props to Stasher for donating proceeds from this book to No Kid Hungry. Leading with that knowledge made the whole rest of the reading experience all the more enjoyable.

Also, love the bright and colorful photography in this book that makes meal prep feel far less gloomy and utilitarian than the norm.

Despite the vested interest of the book’s author, the product placement never felt overbearing - and they offered alternatives to their products in many instances, too. Some of these reuse tips sure seem counterintuitive in the age of COVID, though... will be interesting to see how that all plays out and what’s acceptable again in the healthier future.