Skinnytaste Meal Prep: Healthy Make-Ahead Meals and Freezer Recipes to Simplify Your Life: A Cookbook
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BON APPÉTIT
Whether you’re looking to lose weight or just eat a little healthier, meal prepping and cooking in advance helps you stay on track with your diet, saves time on busy weeknights, and is great for your budget. Skinnytaste Meal Prep delivers more than 120 healthy, diverse recipes that turn simple, easy-to-find ingredients into flavor-packed meals and snacks you'll have ready at your fingertips for the week ahead and beyond.
Gina utilizes a number of brilliant time-saving strategies, including recipes to prep ahead so they can go straight from the freezer (your kitchen’s secret weapon!) to the Instant Pot®, slow cooker, or oven to finish cooking, along with dishes that are completely made ahead and easily reheated. With these flexible techniques, you'll have meals on-hand months in advance, ready whenever the need arises, with no further shopping or cooking required. Imagine stress-free mornings when you can enjoy Lemon Blueberry Sheet Pan Pancakes for breakfast and just grab a DIY Chicken Taco Kit for lunch on your way out the door—no more unhealthful drive-thru breakfast sandwiches or expensive takeout. Healthy bites like Pumpkin Hummus and “Everything” Nuts will fuel you through the afternoon. For no-prep, effortless dinners, Roasted Vegetable Lasagna, Moussaka Makeover, and Greek Chicken Pilaf Bowls will make the entire family happy and satisfied.
With Skinnytaste Meal Prep, cooking smarter and eating healthier just got a whole lot simpler.
Reviews (203)
This was mostly useless
I bought this book because I've usually found her books good and used them frequently. This was a real disappointment. If you want to save money on food, get a food saver and some Souper saver silicon forms. I use them all the time. Every time I make a dish I let it cool down overnight, then put it into Souper Saver forms and freeze individual portions. Once frozen I take them out and use the Food Saver to vacuum pack to freeze them. They last for a good long time and I never waste leftovers. I also buy in bulk with chicken breasts and meats and sea food and vacuum pack them in recipe portions and freeze them untilI'm ready to cook with them. And that is a much better and simpler way to prep healthy make ahead meals and freezer recipes. Most Skinny Taste books are worth the money. This wasn't. Alas.
WOW!!! Absolutely love it
It’s my birthday and guess what I just received? Gina’s new cookbook!! Never before have a paged through a cookbook and wanted to make EVERY. SINGLE. RECIPE. Outstanding!! There is also a beautiful color picture of every recipe which is so important to me! There is a very comprehensive section at the beginning of the book called “Meal Prep Basics” that I find particularly useful, along with sections on “Freezer cooking and storage 101” and “Skinnytaste Meal Plans.” The meal plans include 4 weeks of meals referencing recipes and their pages. These sections are followed by the recipes which are just amazing. No outrageous ingredients. There is even a list in the beginning for stocking your fridge, freezer and pantry. I love it thank you Gina, this is just what I needed to make my life easier and to save time for the important things in life.
Very disappointed
I’m really disappointed in this book and I was so excited for it. It lacks creativity and feels a bit like a cash grab.
Disappointed
Normally I love Gina's books. I own them all. This one was quite disappointing. Not more than a handful of recipes that I'm interested in. If you're vegetarian or vegan you may like this but if. you're not into chickpeas, quinoa and zucchini, go by the bookstore to take a look thru the book before you buy.
Everything I needed in a cookbook.
I have been using Gina Homolka recipes and cookbooks for several years now. I have always been a meal prepper for my work weeks (yes, I am one of the people that still has to leave my house for work) and have been modifying and breaking down recipes to accommodate for this. This new cookbook has everything that I have been adding in notes to the others, including how long something will stay fresh in the fridge or freezer after assembly. I am very excited to work my way through this cookbook without needing to adapt.
The Cookbook Inspiration I Needed for the Pandemic and Virtual Schooling
First, I love this author - her food blog is my single, favorite source for new recipe inspiration because I know that her recipes always turn out delicious, are fresh, flavorful and healthy. But I feel in a rut lately with the pandemic and cooking ALL the time. And I also have two little kids doing virtual schooling which severely limits my time to make fresh recipes and also kills my desire to do so by the end of the day. So this cookbook feels like a godsend right now. I needed inspiration and I needed quick, make ahead options to keep me from reaching for the junk food options. This cookbook is it. I love her ideas - her section on grain bowls is genius, and feels perfect for fall, and she has a lot of meatless options in here which I am always looking to incorporate. I have put tags on almost every page of this book, and feel reinvigorated for tackling healthy eating for the fall and winter. Thanks Gina as always!!
Delicious food you didn’t even know was healthy!
Gina is my go to for dinner recipes, especially since they are easy to follow, taste delicious, and so many different options! This book is no different. After having a baby, some nights I find it hard to figure out dinner, let alone what to make for lunch or breakfast. This book has so many recipes to help with that! Tons of freezer friendly, slow cooker, instant pot, quick and simple recipes that taste amazing and can help me throughout the week to feed my family, and my husband and 1 year old always loves the Skinnytaste recipes I make. Her recipes has also helped me in the past lose 50lbs on WW, which she lists all the updated points on her site, so I write them all in and it’s super simple for me to figure out my points for the day. Now I’m trying to lose that baby weight and I know this new cookbook of Gina’s will help me, along with her other ones that I still use daily! Thanks Gina for all of the delicious and healthy recipes!
Great book!
This book is perfect! It’s a great combo of prepping/storing information with great recipes. Each recipe has how long it should be kept in the fridge or freezer as well. I think some people leaving negative reviews are missing the purpose of the book. It’s delicious recipes in combination with how to store and prep ahead. Not just what products she uses that someone else may not. I own all of her books and am ready to start trying some of these delicious recipes and stocking my freezer for busy nights!
Good Buy for Meal Prep
I meal prep often and I have several meal prep cookbooks. There’s a clear macros breakdown at the bottom of each recipe, instructions seem to be pretty straightforward and not fussy, each recipe has a high quality picture, and it’s all regular pantry items. Looking forward to cooking through this cookbook
Another Fabulous Cookbook
It's another hit! This is probably my second favorite cookbook, after One and Done. I started marking the pages with all the recipes I want to try, but gave up because I was marking nearly every page. Each recipe has tips on how to meal prep that recipe as well as a section on how to meal prep at the start of the cookbook. A great resource for busy people that want great, healthy food.
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