2024 the best vegan meals review

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Prepare for your week with this smart, practical, and delicious guide to vegan meal planning from the Full Helping blogger Gena Hamshaw, author of Power Plates.
 
“Gena Hamshaw takes the perfection out of meal-planning, making fresh, cozy, plant-based meals accessible—no matter what your week might look like.”—Kristen Miglore, author of Food52 Genius Recipes

Home cooking can be a challenge when life gets busy. Meal prep is the fix for having flavorful, nourishing meals to rely upon all week long. Gena, a longtime vegan with a demanding schedule, prioritizes nutritional balance as well as taste in this hands-on meatless primer. The Vegan Week will teach you how to batch cook varied, colorful, and comforting meals over the weekend, whether you have three, two, or even just one hour of time to spare.
 
Discover new, plant-based favorites like Tangy Cashew Lime Noodle Bowls and Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Coconut Greens, as well as classics like Pasta e Ceci and Seitan Goulash. Gena will help you to use your time in the kitchen effectively, so that you create and store filling, flavor-forward recipes—recipes that you'll look forward to as the week goes by. This book is a roadmap to eating vegan food regularly, incorporating it into daily life even when things are hectic. Thanks to meal prep techniques and recipes, you won't have to choose between the demands of your schedule and your desire to prioritize taste, nutrition, and the joy of eating homemade food.

From the Publisher

Chickpea Walnut Taco Meat

Peanut Tempeh Bowls

Crispy Ranch Chickpeas

Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Fudgy Brownies

Simple Eggy Scramble

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press (December 27, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 198485948X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984859488
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.66 x 0.97 x 9.42 inches
Reviewer: Starlight
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome cookbook!
Review: I bought this wanting a new simple vegan cookbook, and this one delivered! I've already made two recipes out of this book and they taste amazing! I can't wait to make more, what's also great is you can make these to just enjoy or meal plan for the week as they are all simple to make and will be stable in the fridge for days. I'm so glad I bought this, if your looking for a simple vegan cookbook with no hard or expensive ingredients, that can also double for meal prep this is your book!And I will add it has deverse recipes, whether it's corn bread or goulash, or Mediterranean.

Reviewer: Sarah
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My New Favorite Cookbook
Review: This book is amazing. It’s loaded with helpful meal planning advice and overall cooking tips that make life as so much easier for people like me who are terrible at planning and need as much help in the kitchen as possible. I’ve only made a few recipes so far, but the ones I’ve made have been fantastic. I made the Fig Bars (which are slightly more involved but not hard and incredibly delicious), the Green Onion & Potato Frittata (which had a new tofu technique to me that made a world of difference for frittata texture), and the Turmeric Chickpea Yogurt Dip using her Tangy Cashew Cream (and was the prefect hat for a purple potato). I’ve followed Gena for years and she puts a lot if work into creating perfectly seasoned dishes and these don’t disappoint. But most of the recipes also give an idea for a base recipe and how to construct a similar type of dish adjusting for personal taste or sensitivities. All the recipes look to be fairly simple and don’t contain any wacky ingredients, yet are flavorful and balanced. I’ll be using this book quite regularly for sure and can’t wait to try everything!Update 1/4/23: I’ve continued to make more recipes and everything just keeps getting better! I made the Edamame Hummus with cilantro, the Pumpkin Waffles and the Caesar Smashed White Beans - which scarily taste like tuna! Everything has been amazing!

Reviewer: Jazzbrat
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This book makes Vegan eating so easy!
Review: I can not say enough good things about this book! I have made several recipes and all have been so, so good! Our favorite so far, is the Pasta e Ceci, but the Edamame hummus, Caesar Smashed Beans, Simple Eggy Squares, Garlicky Braised Kale, Green Onion and Potato Frittata and Creamy Quinoa and Artichoke Casserole were also really good! The only (very, very small) criticism I would say is that there is a section called "Ad-Libbing: Fast Meals for Weeks without Prep". But I think editorially speaking, it should be "Improvising", not "Ad-Libbing", which seems to be a common mistake many people make these days. It was just surprising to see it in print. If you're curious about going vegan or even just cutting down on animal products, do yourself a favor and get this book!! The recipes are easy and just as nutritious as they are delicious!!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Vegan cookbook that tells you meal prep is good, without actually giving you a plan.
Review: Pros: delicious vegan recipes; 6 servings recipes which is what I want; guidance on each recipe for how long to store in refrigerator or freezer.Con: it doesn’t really tell you how to prep. You have to go through the cookbook and choose your recipes, make your grocery list and figure out what order to prep things in. I’ve belonged to subscription menu planning services that give menu plans complete with suggestions for side dishes, recipes, shopping list for the week, and the order to chop/prep ahead or batch cook for efficient timing. This book doesn’t do that. It provides recipes and tells you why meal prep is a good idea.Another con: in the hardback, the print is very small. Some of the recipes are also on colored backgrounds with low contrast print, making it even harder to see. I shouldn’t have to buy a magnifying glass to use a cookbook.

Reviewer: Robert W Higgins III
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Week Ever
Review: Every recipe in this book is amazing. I haven’t had a dud yet. Explanations are clear and easy to understand. There are no rare or exotic ingredients to find either. I highly recommend this book if you are starting out on a vegan diet.

Reviewer: CC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful, balanced, delicious
Review: I've been a huge fan of Gena for years now. Power Plates is one of the best done cookbooks in the past decade imo. As a dietician, food blogger and eating disorder survivor, Gena brings her knowledge and experience to the table to create hearty, wholesome meals. In addition to her recipes, I enjoy her sincere, down-to-earth tone and willingness to share her struggles to help others.The Vegan Week is another beautiful work. The beginning has a flowchart to help you get organized. There is a whole chapter on basic vegan proteins and each one lists sample recipes at the bottom that you can use them in. There are also snack and dessert chapters, something that wasn't included in Power Plates, but I know from Food52 Vegan that Gena does amazingly well.Pros:- every recipe tells you how long it keeps in the fridge and freezer and almost all can be made in advance and frozen!- stunning photography and a pic for every recipe- balanced meals that we know Gena does better than anyone (carbs, protein, veg and/or fruit, mostly healthy fats)- no store-bought analog cheese or meat needed (is occasionally optional but she also gives homemade options)- doesn't require odd ingredients for a well-stacked vegan kitchen (the only pantry staple I didn't have were soy curls)- metric mass and volume measurements given!!! And they are correct (worked perfectly in the cornbread)- has both mix and match options and whole meals built on them- she gives ingredient options so you can use what you like or have on hand: eg tamari or Bragg's, yogurt or homemade cashew cream- gives estimates for salt and doesn't just say "to taste," which can be difficult for beginning cooks- as mentioned, also includes snacks and desserts- I've made about 20 recipes so far and have loved most of them. I'm not a fan of most meat/cheese/egg substitutes, so some of those have been the only ones I didn't care for (tofu egg, tofu feta, tempeh chorizo, tofu scramble). That being said, my husband enjoyed them all and we both loved the lentil "sausage" and shiitake bacon.- i could drink the sunflower cilantro dressing it's so goodRelative cons (definitely not deal breakers):- this book uses more vegan butter than Power Plates and probably fewer whole grains, though you could easily substitute them in many cases- it'd be nice if every recipe explained how to reheat, if you need to thaw first or heat straight from frozen and included instructions for reheating in the microwave (many do include this, but not all)- many recipes are somewhat time-consuming (though worth it)Though I'm talking about her like we are besties, I don't know Gena, I just think she is extremely talented and hard-working. Highly recommend buying this book for you and a friend!

Reviewer: Joannie M.-D.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I've always been a fan of Gena's blog, but had never purchased one of her cookbooks. I figured this would be a nice start as her recipes are always a hit with my (absolutely not vegan) family. The book has great tips for meal prepping and a ton of ideas. It makes the whole thing approachable, which I can't say for all meal prep literature! I've tried around fifteen recipes so far and most of them were still a hit. My favorite so far is the lentil sage apple patties, I can't get enough of those. My only complaint would be that some recipes use hard-to-find and/or expensive products, such as soy curls, but they're the exception. Highly recommend!

Reviewer: Brooke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I bought this book on a whim, having done no research about the author or her blog. I love it! I have made a few things from each section. The recipes are tailored to a “cook once eat multiple times” and meal prep approach, which is how I like to prepare for my week. The artichoke and quinoa casserole was absolutely divine, as were the red lentils over sweet potatoes with coconut greens, and the easy baked oat bars have become a staple (such a good pre workout or mid morning/afternoon snack!). I am really looking forward to trying more and building these recipes into our regular rotation.

Reviewer: genevieve
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I love Gena Hamshaw's recipes! She's the only recipe author that I will buy any book from, no questions asked. The sauce and protein recipes in this book are especially amazing.