Let’s Fix Lunch! makes it easy (and fun!) to prepare meals that are good for you and good for the planet. This eco-friendly cookbook features delicious, waste-free recipes for sandwiches, salads, soups, snacks, and more. An inspiring guide for anyone who wants to do their small part to save the earth, Let’s Fix Lunch! makes it simple to create a sustainable, waste-free home. * Easy-to-make … home.
* Easy-to-make recipes for all home cooks
* Includes more than 50 simple tips for reducing food waste and plastic use
* Features a handy guide to buying in bulk, meal prepping, and food storage
This eco-conscious cookbook is written by Kat Nouri, founder of the beloved, environmentally friendly kitchen brand Stasher.
Let’s Fix Lunch! is the perfect kitchen companion for eco-conscious parents and office workers.
* Brims with bright, vivid photographs of tasty dishes and beautifully packed lunches
* Perfect for anyone who tries to live a waste-free, low plastic, and environmentally friendly lifestyle
* Packed with inspired, accessible meal-prep ideas and techniques
* You’ll love this book if you love books like The Healthy Meal Prep Cookbook: Easy and Wholesome Meals to Cook, Prep, Grab, and Go by Toby Amidor; The Just Bento Cookbook: Everyday Lunches to Go by Makiko Itoh; and The Best Homemade Kids’ Lunches on the Planet: Make Lunches Your Kids Will Love with More Than 200 Deliciously Nutritious Meal Ideas by Laura Fuentes.
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Not as Lunch or Recipe Focused as I’d Hoped
As I feel lunch is a meal that often gets overlooked, I was intrigued when I saw this book at one of my favorite book review sites. Note the little blue circle on the cover. I hadn’t realized that this book was going to be so much about reducing the use of plastics rather than just lunch recipes and tips. The part of the book before you get to recipes has a lot to do with using less or no plastics in food preparation or storage. The author also goes into some things to have on hand and make so throwing together simple lunches is more easy, like cooking rice and steaming greens beforehand. She even provides a list of items you can prep on Sunday and the recipes you can use them later in the week.
I wasn’t impressed with the recipes. Many seem so common, like spins on white hummus, chicken caesar salad, and a chicken pesto sandwich. None is particularly inspiring. For all the talk about this book being about lunch, there are only 18 lunch recipes here, including six each of soups/salads, sandwiches, and grains/pasta. The other recipes are for grab-and-go snacks like bars and what will be used as ingredients in other recipes, like balsamic caramelized onions. I just don’t feel like lunch was really the focus of this book, which is what I was hoping for.
Let’s Fix Lunch feels more like a lifestyle guide than a cookbook to me though, in saying that, I did enjoy perusing it. It just wasn’t what I was expecting. It was lighter on the recipes than I like, and heavier on the Stasher self-promotion, and advocating for eco-friendly choices, but that’s to be expected when the author of the book is also the founder of the company.
I adored all the gorgeous and colorful photos that adorned each page, showcasing the recipes beautifully. The only thing missing was the nutritional facts of each recipe. I am always disappointed when cookbooks do not include such pertinent information.
I am horrible at meal planning, and found the weekly meal prep table to be incredibly helpful. I am also empowered and inspired to become more eco-friendly than I already am. The statistics of food packaging waste that is included in the book is staggering, and opened my eyes to how much of a problem this is not only for our generation, but for future generations. I want to do my part to lessen these statistics. I also love that a portion of every Let’s Eat Lunch book sold will go to No Kid Hungry program, which is an amazing perk to purchasing a copy for yourself. Not only are you getting educated, and getting some yummy recipes, but you are helping feed others.
As far as the recipes go, many of them did not really fit the taste of my family, but I did bookmark a few recipes to try later. The Spinach-Feta Frittata Sandwich sounds delicious, as well as the Italian Tomato Bean Soup that I am planning to make once fall really kicks in. I have always wanted to make my own hummus, and am considering the White Bean Hummus recipe to be my first!
Though I was disappointed in the recipes themselves Let’s Fix Lunch is a beautiful presented lifestyle book that has little golden nuggets throughout, a few new recipes, and great tips and reminders to help the environment. I enjoyed looking through it and look forward to trying a few of the recipes.
*I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Chronicle Books through NetGalley . All views and opinions are completely honest, and my own.