The Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep by Erin Romeo
Published by Racepoint Publishing on August 2019Pages: 176
Format: eBook
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Conquer your healthy eating plan while saving time and money! In A Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep, nutrition coach and meal prep master Erin Romeo, founder of Food Prep Princess (foodprepprincess on Instagram), shows you how to prep your food in five easy steps, with photos clarifying every detail.
Meal prep is the key component to any diet—whether you're low carb, vegetarian, dairy free, gluten free, or just trying to eat healthy! If you don't plan to eat, then you plan to fail! With A Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep: Strategies and Recipes to Get Organized, Save Time, and Eat Healthier, you'll learn shortcuts to prep to reduce your time in the kitchen, budget-friendly meal prep ideas, and how to pack your food. Learn how to shop, how to prep and cut your food, and the best containers to maximize your food prep pantry.
In this highly visual guide, you'll also get more than 75 recipe ideas for healthy meal prep, complete with photos to make your prep work quick and easy. So skip the unhealthy take-out food and save money and time with the shortcuts in this essential healthy living companion, with tips and tricks for all of your food planning needs.
You'll find meal prep for:
Weight loss
Specific diets: low carb, vegetarian, dairy-free, and gluten-free
Preventing disease
Quick and easy healthy eating
A flat belly
And much more!
You'll never be at a loss for a healthy meal again with this easy and complete guide to meal prep.
I’m having some mixed thoughts about this book. One one hand, the pictures are pretty and the recipes look good. I didn’t have a chance to try any of them yet but I do like how they are divided into Vegetarian, Non Dairy and Low Carb and Gluten Free parts.
That said, there’s nothing super earth shattering about this book. Romeo starts off explaining what meal prep is and why we should do it. We go through container sorting to shopping and prep for the prep.
But honestly, I was hoping for more. I wanted tips like – what meal is good to make and freeze? These veggies aren’t in season, what about substitutes? What are the easiest ways or containers or items that help transport these meal prep foods? Are some better than others for waiting 4 days? Let’s face it, the reason I’m reading this book is because I have a picky toddler and I’m trying to figure out new and creative ways to save time and still get her to eat healthy foods that doesn’t involve chicken fingers and pizza. But there isn’t really a section for that.
The book tries to be two different things – meal prep and cook book and sadly that didn’t work for me. I wanted more at the beginning where some of my questions were answered.
Also, what is so visual about it? The pictures? I wanted something more like rainbow food pictures, colorful graphs on well balanced meals that can be prepped early, etc.
It is a nicely laid out book and I think people who are unfamiliar to meal prep will benefit on the general overview of the topic as well as the recipes. I think I will try some of the recipes but as far as meal prep goes, I was not enlightened.
Kimberly majored in Songwriting and currently works full time in the music industry. When she's not listening to music, knitting or writing, you can find her outside reading her favorite genres: Young Adult, Adult Fiction, Mystery, and Romance.
