So many new ideas delicious lunches creative break from the same routine.Great ideas on what to buy what to store .Recipes lunch plans Fun ideas a great addition to my collection.#netgalley#chroniclebooks

This is a great cookbook! I love that the focus is on lunch, as I find lunch is the hardest meal to find inspiration for (and therefore also the easiest to eat while out and about), not to mention the fact that it produces the most waste. Speaking of, I loved the research that went into this book about food waste, as well as the eco-tips provided for almost every recipe and the tips for eco-living in all aspects of your life featured at the end of the book. While I do usually like recipes to include the estimated cooking time, these recipes seem fairly straight-forward and easy to make on a school night after dinner. I definitely plan to try out a few of these recipes to spice up my lunch options in the coming weeks! Finally, this cookbook is beautifully put together and I love the photos! Definitely one I plan to add to my collection when it comes out in September!

This is an good looking book. The cover is what first caught my eye. And I have to admit, covers are a big part of the appeal for me. I strongly dislike cartoon covers on books that are not about cartoons or for that age group.

Now for the content and organization. The organization is wonderful. The book starts off with a section that explains all the basics for this type of meal preparation. For younger couples dealing with the pressures of work and family, this is wonderful. There are a number of building block items that can be quickly mixed and matched to make up lunch.

I wish I had something like this when I was younger and dealing with all that. Nicely written, and well thought out!

This book was just what I needed right now! With our whole family home every single day for all our meals, lunches were getting super boring and I have been so uninspired. This book was just the breath of fresh air I needed for inspiration on new flavors for the family. I love the focus on being waste-free, as well. I have always disliked all the waste that packaged lunches so often create.
From recipes like BBQ roasted chickpeas to orzo with ham and peas, plus salads, soups and more, the variety is great to keep everyone in the family happy.
I was really pleased to discover this cookbook on netgalley, and I was provided a free ARC copy to review.

I am a key worker so one thing that concerns me is 'Who is preparing my food?' during the Covid-19 pandemic.
I personally feel that the release date for this book needs to be brought forward. In this current world climate so many people can make such wonderful use from the tips and recipes in 'Lets Fix Lunch'
Topics covered begin with bulk buying, prepping and storage.
Fabulous healthy and inspiring recipes. Along with colourful pictures. These will go along way to replacing the shop brought sandwich with all its cardboard and plastic waste.
The book concludes with handy tips on reducing food and plastic waste.
#letsfixlunch #netgalley #katnouri

This book is really pretty and I love the tips for a litter-free lunch. I think that a book that claims to be Planet-Friendly should include much less meat. Lunch especially is a time when people who do not eat vegetarian all the time could be shaping things up and including chicken, beef, and ham in so many of the recipes seems like a missed opportunity. I'm a vegetarian and based on the cover and the subtitle, I expected this book to have much more to offer me.

Author Kat Nouri, entrepreneur of the reusable bags called Stasher, has cumulated various hot and cold lunch recipes that you can savor AND save the planet. 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 (aka for the kiddos), make ahead, and building blocks (rice and pasta bases that are then gussied up for your tastebuds to enjoy) as applicable. Lastly, Nouri has included simple ways that you can reduce waste at home. For this picky eater, I found several recipes that pique my interest, but I'm even more interested in purchasing some of Nouri's Stasher bags. An unlikely purchase for libraries where green living isn't a priority.

*Thank you to the Publisher for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book makes going low waste abso freakfing lutely exciting.

Even more importantly than her simple and accessible tips on reducing food-related waste, the author appealed to me with the visually pleasing photographs full of vibrant colors and textures, both when it comes to prepared recipes and low waste utensils. Most of the recipes have a handy "eco tip" on top of the page, which are actually really surprising and useful. I will certainly be putting them into practice.

Unfortunately, however, the recipes let me down a little. First, the cover specifies that the recipes are plant-friendly, which leads me to the assumption that this is a vegan or vegetarian cookbook. It isn't, so this should be clearer from the get go. Second, many of the recipes require an oven and since I'm a student, I don't have one. Finally, there wasn't really anything that exciting that I thought I had to prepare and eat immediately. For example, there is a whole section on sandwiches, which I already eat every day anyway.

Nonetheless, I would definitely recommend this book as a present for someone who wants to / you want them to (wink, wink) go more eco.

The first thing that caught my eye with this book was the “litter-free lunches” chapter. How wonderful is that concept! The Cobb Salad with Chicken and Avocado dressing will be my lunch tomorrow. Every recipe is laid out nicely with how many portions, if it’s school friendly/freezer safe etc, and with easy to follow directions.

I aboslutely loved this combined concept for this book. Part cookbook, part environmentally concious tips for the concerned citizen, Let's Fix Lunch combines it's efforts to both help the environment, as well as provide delicious lunch recipes. The idea behind focusing on lunch recipes is that many people order take out for lunch and that causes a lot of pollution with the wrappers, and plastic cutlery and such, so making your own lunches is healthier for you and the environment. The cookbook makes it easy to want to make your own lunch with fantastic recipes. I was surprised but well pleased to even find a recipe with Persian roots in this eccletic book. At the end of the book there is also a nice little bonus section that lists a bunch of different ways you can further reduce your carbon footprint in many different ways. I recommend this book to anyone looking to take better care of the environment, or who just wants some fantastic new and different recipes for lunches.

I really enjoy this cookbook — I love the pictures and the recipes themselves are great lunch ideas. I also truly love the focus on waste free!

Great book both to get some lunch and snacks ideas and give you tips on reducing your waste and becoming a packaging-free luncher.
Recipes are easy to follow and mosty include ingredients which are easy to source. This isn't about particularly inventive or new recipes, but rather about how to put known dishes into a lunch or a lunch box, how to make some in advance, replace ingredients for more environmentally friendly ones (thinking of almonds and almond milk for example) and being more conscious in what you eat.
Most of the snack recipes are vegetarian, which is great, but when it comes to salads and sandwiches half the recipes contain meat (mostly chicken, one beef, one tuna, one salmon). And while this is not a vegan or vegetarian cookbook, a litte note with a meat-free alternative would be great for those who want to try and cut out meat entirey when looking at environmentally friendly food.

An absolutely beautiful book by the founder of Stasher bags (an alternative to plastic zipper bags).

Divided into categories such as prep/supplies/environmental concerns, soups, sandwiches, snacks, grain bowls, and salads (the best chapter). Her spreads/dressings recipes seem to be the strongest, to me, and definitely are worth trying!!

I am not sure that many of the recipes would be appealing to my family, but if you are not looking to cook for children and instead you are looking for a great way to bring an at-home meal for lunch at work, this book would work well for you!

I received a free ARC as a reviewer for NetGalley.

Let's Fix Lunch! is so much more than a recipe book. It is a book of tips, resources, and it is also a handy reference to use in the reduce, reuse, recycle trend.

There are gorgeous photographs of every dish and they all made my mouth water. You'll want to try every recipe because every dish looks so delicious.

Let's Fix Lunch! is an excellent book to have in your kitchen library. It can be used not only for lunches, but just about any meal. Rated it five stars -- I loved it!

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

Let’s Fix Lunch was part lunch ideas and part becoming more away of how to reduce waste from lunch. I was interested in reading this book as I find lunch is the hardest meal of the day for me to find ideas and make healthy. There were a lot of pictures to go with the recipes, which I always find appealing in a cookbook. There are quite a few recipes I will try and help vary up from just your normal PB&J sandwiches for lunch. The end of the book gives tips on how to live a litter free life.

I was provided with an electronic ARC through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Very clever title. I see what you did there. 

Loved the attention that was paid to reducing waste in meals as well as materials used to serve,  store, and preserve food. Personally, I have never heard of food-grade silicone stasher bags that are a substitute for single use plastic bags like sandwich bags or snack bags. <i>I am geeking-out-excited about this new food storage option.</i> It's okay, judge me, I would, too. Then go out and get these bags. ;) 
ONWARD!

The At-A-Glance icons are super helpful to understand if a recipe will meet your needs for that meal. Eco-tips are distributed throughout this book to help readers remain as litter-free and waste-free as possible. Detailed meal planning from one-day prep to recipes to sample meal plans are included. And...and.. and....ANDDDDD.... There is photography galore!! 

Most notable recipe was the Chickpea Walnut Salad on Lavash. Please, too much awesome. Mind blown. While these recipes are fairly common lunches for Americans, they are re-imagined in a new light to focus on being economical, kid-friendly, planet-friendly while still remaining TASTY AF. 

I cannot rave about this new release enough and will be purchasing in every format available.

The pluses for this book -- lovely color photos of just about every recipe and a variety of eco-friendly meals. That said, there is no nutritional information for the recipes and many of them won't work for those on special diets. They're pretty standard American fare (meat, dairy, wheat, refined carbs...). The premise is that the meals can be eaten on the go at work or whatever, but many of them seemed like they should be eaten hot and wouldn't be hot this way. I don't know that I'd want a quinoa bowl with meats and veggies that was room temperature. Shrug. It frequently read like an ad for Stasher reusable bags (the author's company). It also didn't feel that eco-friendly at times, like the suggestion to reuse disposable bags to throw away dirty diapers. If we're going to be eco-friendly, how about we use cloth diapers, or at least mention the option.

All in all, it's a pretty book but seemed geared towards a very specific upper class clientele, not necessarily the rest of us who live a sustainable lifestyle all the time without fancy silicone bags or gourmet radishes.

I love and collect cookbooks, and this one is by far one of the best I have seen and read! With beautiful photos, and helpful tips to being more environmentally conscience with handy Eco Tips with every recipe, this book had me taking a mental note of what I already have in my pantry and refrigerator, so that I could begin my meal planning. This cookbook is easy to read, and you probably already have many of the ingredients on hand to begin preparing these dishes immediately! Stasher's proceeds for this book go to the organization No Kid Hungry. This book is a win win all around!

A wonderful collection of lunch related recipes presented in an accessible format with accompanying photography, variations and a key of icons to mark recipes that are vegetarian, freezable etc. There are also some great recommendations, tips and encouragement provided at the beginning for readers interested in becoming more environmentally friendly with their food storage.

Photos - 5/5 stars this book contains beautiful photos for each recipe. It is helpful for picking out which recipe to make as well as a visual of the end result.
Ease of ingredients - 4/5 stars. Most ingredients could be found at an average store. There may be a few under the chapter called “The Next Level” where the reader may need an ingredient from a bigger grocery store.
Variety - 4/5 There is a nice variety in here. I wish there were a few more recipes.

This was unique - most plant based cook books don’t have recipes with meat, eggs or dairy. This one has a few recipes with these ingredients. Still all recipes are loaded with fruits, veggies and grain - they are the star of the lunches..