Review: Easy Meal Prep: Save Time and Eat Healthy with over 75 Recipes

Title: Easy Meal Prep: Save Time and Eat Healthy with over 75 Recipes
Series: Stand Alone
Author: Erin Romeo
Illustrator: N/A
Publish Date: January 14, 2025
Publisher: Rock Point
Genre: Cookbook
Age: All
Started Reading: December 13, 2024
Finished Reading: December 15, 2024
NetGalley?: Yes 

Book Summary from Goodreads:

Conquer your healthy eating plan while saving time and money!

In Easy Meal Prep, nutrition coach and meal prep expert Erin Romeo, the Food Prep Princess (@foodprepprincess on Instagram), guides you through the essentials of meal prep, a key component to any diet—whether you’re high-protein, vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, low-carb, or just trying to eat healthy. This highly accessible guide includes:

• How to prep a week’s worth of meals in a few hours
• Over 75 healthy and delicious recipes
• How to meal-prep in 5 easy steps
• 5 meal-prep plans to get you started
• Tips and tricks for food planning

So, skip the takeout and never be at a loss for a healthy meal again with this essential guide to easy meal prep.

My Two Cents:

Goodreads Rating: 3 Stars (It was ok)

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. I read this digital book through NetGalley.

To Sum Up: A healthy eating/diet book with a good selection of recipes if that’s what you’re looking for.