Member Reviews
Well structured. Give you grocery lists, different meal plans like vegetarian or low carb, and then provides a plethora of recipes for each.
Definitely useful for anyone looking to meal plan but who gets easily overwhelmed or doesn't know where to start.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced digital copy.
I requested this book to review because I am desperate for guidance on easy and healthy meal prep for my workday lunches. Plus, the book cover is gorgeous and appealing.
Overall, it's well organized and designed, but I do wish it had more photos for the recipes. It's at 145 pages, so perhaps may add too many pages and additional costs.
This is a great introduction to someone new to meal prep, including those who may be wondering why they should meal prep and what it is.
I like her concept of mini-preps for those of us who don't want to eat the same thing five days in a
row.
I like her food prep princess-approved food list because it makes for easy shopping.
She includes four-day plans (breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner) for high-protein, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and low-carb.
I like the cooking instructions about what to start and when.
Once the recipes are listed, there are photos, and they are great photos. Each recipe includes the yield, prep time, and cook time, all of which I appreciate. Not all of the recipes contain a photo, sadly. I like photos - they inspire me to cook.
While I haven't tried any of the recipes, they all look appealing and several are similar to some things I do now.
The table of contents include
-The Five Steps to Meal-Prep Success (this isn't broken down in the table of contents and it should be, so I'm adding them)
--get containers
--grocery shop
--clean and cut
--cook
--portion and pack
-Food Prep Princess Approved Food List
-Five Meal-Prep Plans to Get You Started
-Breakfast
-Mains
-Snacks and Sides
-Dressings, Dips and Sauces
Honestly, I had no idea that there were meal prep books. I've been trying to figure it out on my own. After all, I grew up in a time when female students took home ec, and I grew up in a home where meals were cooked from scratch.
I like the simplicity and the "you can do this" vibe of the book.
This book is great for busy singles, couples, and families. It features, simple, healthy, and appealing meal prep ideas, including quick breakfast bites and smoothies.
Thank you, NetGalley and publisher for allowing me to review this book.
Easy Meal Prep focuses on healthy recipes that can be made in advance for the week. The cookbook provides some weekly outlines you can follow along with recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. There are a good variety of recipes for people's different diet needs. The recipes are healthy and very straightforward and easy to make.
Overall, I think it's a great cookbook for someone who might be wanting to eat healthy and getting into meal prepping but less experienced in the kitchen. Personally, the cookbook isn't one I would commonly grab for when cooking.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review
A wonderful easy cookbook. I think this is particularly good for anyone setting up their first kitchen, organizing their already disorganized space, beginner cooks or those looking to spend less time in the kitchen yet still want easy delicious healthy meals with little waste. Easy to follow steps all along the way, a variety of meals, multiple food and diet types accompanied by delicious looking photos. Made a few of the recipes and easy and delicious. Nothing over the top with respect to ingredients or steps to prepare and yet delicious outcomes. This would have been perfect for me when I moved into first apartment. Enjoyable easy meals and snacks throughout the day that are tasty and easy without taking a million hours.
This book started off great with a quick guide to the idea of meal prep. I especially enjoyed the shopping list for healthy foods to get started. Then the recipes offer options to get started on a meal prep for the week. It would be nice if in the recipes it gave flexibility (offering substitutes where possible so you can see the recipe more as a plan of attack using as many as possible of the ingredients you have). I like how this is laid out and the general theory. I'm going to get some containers that I need to get started!
I didn't expect to love this book as much as I did. There are so many cookbooks out there, but this one is a time saver and also full of amazing recipes. It's just what me and my partner need. We are both creating healthy eating habits, plus he needs help getting a quick meal together, and this was perfect.
Thanks so much for sharing this gem with the world and I'll definitely be in the look out for your next book.
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Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of “Easy Meal Prep: Save Time and Eat Healthy with over 75 Recipes” by Erin Romeo. All opinions are my own.
This cookbook is really stylish and aesthetically pleasing. The meal prep ideas are great and the recipes sound good.
These recipes aren’t groundbreaking, but they are solid and are presented in a way that’s easy to follow-exactly what I’m looking for when I look for a book like this. Will definitely be trying some of these in the new year!
I meal prep in the way that I often freeze leftovers so that I don't have to reheat them that same week. That said, I found some great recipes that I want to try - the Lemony Pasta Salad with Asparagus, Chocolate Quinoa Squares, and the Greek Yogurt Dips! I'd have loved to see nutrition info on the recipes.
Thanks to Rock Point Publishing and NetGalley for the review copy!
As a busy teacher, I was hoping to find some new recipes to try, and for most, they could probably find something. As a picky eater, I didn't find one new recipe to try. I would highly suggest others read it as they will probably find more luck than me!
This is perfect! Well laid out ideas for how to plan and prep your meals. Great recipes included to get you started. I definitely needed this book to kick start my meal prep.
Easy Meal Prep has A LOT of information in it to teach how, why, and when to meal prep. Although I am past the point of needing so much detail it was nice to see that there are resources as simple as what kind of basic food groups you need and a quick run down on macronutrients.
I LOVED the entire week meal prep plans?? WOW. I will be refrencing those later.
The only thing I wish I would have seen in this book is a caloric breakdown simply because of the emphasis on healthy eating and knowing the author made these recipes I think that would have been a nice touch. Even if it was placed at the end so it was not necessarily a focus on the recipes but a good resource.
I'm exicted to try new recipes and look forward to trying some of the snack recipes especially, that is always the hardest part of my meal plan for the week is wanting snacks but never having planned any so I can get derailed with that.
The cover design doesn't really speak to me but I apprecaite its staright forwadness and I can see how this would bring in readers who are interested in the topic already. The book also has a perfect release date of reaching people who are new to meal planning for the new year or ready to save money.
This is a fantastic book for anyone learning to prep meals and wanting to do so not only to save money, but to better understand the logic behind meal prepping. The author includes a variety of menus to get readers started, including high protein, dairy free, vegetarian, gluten free, and low carb, using recipes from throughout the book. As a mostly vegan (aside from cheese and greek yogurt) eater, I found the recipes flexible where for example, in the chili recipe I could easily substitute the turkey in it for tempeh crumble, or pre-packaged vegetarian grounds. Another example are the fish tacos: if you don't eat fish you can substitute fish for vegan burgers cut into strips. Another example is the sweet potato chicken recipe where you could use jackfruit instead of chicken. The recipes in here are staple enough that you can make small tweaks to suit your needs. It's my kind of cookbook in that sense! Another highlight for me was the simplicity of the ingredients. The author talks eating clean and it's legit! You won't find complex ingredients here and I love that for readers because it makes healthy eating super accessible. Romeo's written a gem and I hope that many people read it and feel inspired to overhaul their eating habits to save money, time, and feel the gift that nourishing our bodies can be!
This was a short cookbook which really packs a punch. I have meal prepped in the past, though struggle to do so consistently. This book was a great resource from which I was able to pick up several tips, in addition to easy recipes to work into my weekly menus.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the free ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Feedback coming soon. Can’t wait to read this one! Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley.
I will start off by saying that this book is not what I expected it to be. If you are looking for a book that is mostly recipes, with some diet plans, and a small intro to the method of meal prep, this book is for you. I, being a busy mom of 2, was looking for a more in depth book on meal prepping and easy to make meals without lists of 'approved foods' and diet plans. While the book does claim to reduce your prepping/cooking/cleaning time down to just 2 hours or so per week, it also means that the majority of your meals are eaten as reheated leftovers. While I appreciated the inclusion of a gluten free option, as someone who lives with Celiac Disease, it seemed much more geared to those who were eating that way by choice, rather than necessity. I did not try the recipes, or get much past the merely 4-5 pages of instructions in the introduction, as I personally found my current collection of family favourite recipes were sufficient for my needs.
Love easy meal prepping and this is a fun one! I haven’t tried every recipe yet but saved a ton to try!
Easy Meal Prep by Erin Romeo has written a well worked out recipes that can be meal prepared ahead of time for those who are single, just cooking certain meals for one due to health reasons. Erin gives a list of items required for the meal prep and recipes.
This meal prep guide is exactly what I needed right now. As a college student with so much pressure to study, cooking feels like such a hassle, but this book made it so much easier. I was really happy to see plenty of vegetarian options, and they weren’t just plain salads—these recipes actually look tasty and exciting. The best part is they’re simple and don’t require hours in the kitchen, which is perfect for busy days. I’m definitely going to make a lot of these!
If you’re looking for easy, delicious, and practical meal prep ideas, this book is a must-have for anyone juggling a hectic schedule. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.
Thank you Netgalley and Rock Point for the chance to read Easy meal prep by Erin Romeo. This is a great meal preparation and cookbook for the beginner with perfect instructions for meal prep., and easy to follow healthy recipes. As someone who doesn't spend a lot of time in the kitchen, I enjoyed the meal preparation instructions, and am looking forward to making many of the recipes.