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- Quick and easy vegan recipes!
I love this book. As the only vegan in my household, its brilliant for me to cook meals on my own. Its helped me to discover new foods to eat, different combinations of food, and I feel healthier for it.
I don't care that there are no pictures in the book, why does there need to be? You can imagine with your mind if you know what all the ingredients look like.
The book is divided into winter and summer recipes, which is definitely a winner, as you can then see exactly which are the warming foods and which are the cooling foods. Yum.
The realy great thing is if you have someone to stay who is also vegan, you can just double the recipes up, which is so much easier than trying to reduce sizes from a family book for one person.
Rating: - Recipes that I use again and again
My opinion of this book has changed. My first impression was that the cover wasn't particulary appealing and as there are no pictures inside it wasn't very promising. Also the author's idea of organising my whole week's meals doesn't appeal. Normally, when I buy a recipe book, if I find one really great recipe I consider the book worthwhile, keep that recipe and sell the book on. I tried the recipe for pasta with creamy mushroom and walnut sauce and liked it. Then the scrambled tofu and leek, and that was good too. After a few months so many of the recipes from this book had become part of my repertoire that I'm going to keep it. It suits me that the quantities are for one person and are given in terms of tablespoons, cups and so on, as well as ounces and grams, so I can manage without a scales. The explanations are written in a clear and simple style, and the index is reliable. Most of the recipes are very healthy and by the standards of vegan cookbooks the ingredients aren't too obscure. I recommend 'Vegan Cooking for One' because I use a higher proportion of its recipes than any other recipe book.
Rating: - I think it's fab!
I recently made the transition from a vegetarian of 20 years to a vegan. I purchased 4 vegan cook books but this is the only one I've bothered with - it's so good I've not really looked at the others as they're based on cooking for 4 in most recipes. I was initially disappointed by the lack of pictures but in fact I now find that a good thing - I try the meals regardless of what they look like. It's made the transition to vegan very easy and ensures I get a good variety of foods. Living on my own, when I was veggie I'd regularly end up eating the same meal for 3 nights in a row but now there's none of that. The shopping list is very helpful and I like the way it plans for the week - although I have repeated a recipe one week as I didn't like the ingredients in the one I should have been cooking.. overall, can't recommend it highly enough.
Rating:
- The perfect book for new vegans and students.
I have just been reading through the reviews of this book. Some don't like the lack of pictures, but I think I agree with the reviewer that mentioned the plus side of this: you can't be disappointed with your un-photoshopped meal. Others commented about feeling patronised by the meal plans and shopping list; I find that feature the whole point of the book! I cook for myself as my boyfriend is not a fellow vegan. I found before that I wasted a lot of food, and that veg that I bought would spoil before I got chance to use it. We're not all master chefs, and this book really does teach a great deal on meal structuring and planning, in a very accessible way.
The meals are so quick and cheap to prepare that the book is great for todays busy people. Many veggies live on frozen rubbish and junk, and this book will show them to way to the nutritious diet they should have, and show them that these easy to follow meals can even be made quicker than heating up a quorn cottage pie! (with practice hehe)
Also, this book is fantastic for people living on a budget, especially students who live independently, as once all the staple ingredients listed at the start are stocked, a weekly shop can often be achieved for well under a tenner!
Wanting gourmet vegan banquets? Don't buy this book.
Wanting to learn to eat a nutritious vegen diet well but don't have much time to plan and prepare meals? BUY THIS BOOK NOW!
Poor students currently living on beer and golden grahams? What you waiting for?
Rating:
- Boring,,,,and no pics
This is the first vegan book I've purchased. I'm a vegetarian at the moment, but was hoping that this book would prove insightful and helpful in figuring out what i could eat, as I'm the pickiest eater in the world.
Well, the book arrived, nice cover that's about it. There are no pictures at all in the book, so it's just dull. Most of the recipes are very basic, and over half i wouldn't eat anyway. Why can't someone create a low carb, low calorie Vegan book. I don't eat rice, pasta, mushrooms (related to mould, ewwww), and dont want to get fat so out go all the cake/pudding recipes as well. That leaves me with some of the salads, but guess what, don't like salads either. The recipes included seem to me to be created by some basic cook rather than a skilled chef.
The positive things in this book are that you get UK and USA measurements against all the ingredients and that you get a shopping list at the front of the book, great for a regimented diet, but who what's a Set meal each day? are we still in school?
I was looking for some healthy bean/vegetable recipes which would be suitable for a low calorie diet, but this wasn't the book for me. I guess I'll just have to continue throwing things into the pan and seeing what happens as per usual.
- Quick and easy vegan recipes!I love this book. As the only vegan in my household, its brilliant for me to cook meals on my own. Its helped me to discover new foods to eat, different combinations of food, and I feel healthier for it.
I don't care that there are no pictures in the book, why does there need to be? You can imagine with your mind if you know what all the ingredients look like.
The book is divided into winter and summer recipes, which is definitely a winner, as you can then see exactly which are the warming foods and which are the cooling foods. Yum.
The realy great thing is if you have someone to stay who is also vegan, you can just double the recipes up, which is so much easier than trying to reduce sizes from a family book for one person.
Rating:
- Recipes that I use again and againMy opinion of this book has changed. My first impression was that the cover wasn't particulary appealing and as there are no pictures inside it wasn't very promising. Also the author's idea of organising my whole week's meals doesn't appeal. Normally, when I buy a recipe book, if I find one really great recipe I consider the book worthwhile, keep that recipe and sell the book on. I tried the recipe for pasta with creamy mushroom and walnut sauce and liked it. Then the scrambled tofu and leek, and that was good too. After a few months so many of the recipes from this book had become part of my repertoire that I'm going to keep it. It suits me that the quantities are for one person and are given in terms of tablespoons, cups and so on, as well as ounces and grams, so I can manage without a scales. The explanations are written in a clear and simple style, and the index is reliable. Most of the recipes are very healthy and by the standards of vegan cookbooks the ingredients aren't too obscure. I recommend 'Vegan Cooking for One' because I use a higher proportion of its recipes than any other recipe book.
Rating:
- I think it's fab!I recently made the transition from a vegetarian of 20 years to a vegan. I purchased 4 vegan cook books but this is the only one I've bothered with - it's so good I've not really looked at the others as they're based on cooking for 4 in most recipes. I was initially disappointed by the lack of pictures but in fact I now find that a good thing - I try the meals regardless of what they look like. It's made the transition to vegan very easy and ensures I get a good variety of foods. Living on my own, when I was veggie I'd regularly end up eating the same meal for 3 nights in a row but now there's none of that. The shopping list is very helpful and I like the way it plans for the week - although I have repeated a recipe one week as I didn't like the ingredients in the one I should have been cooking.. overall, can't recommend it highly enough.
Rating:
- The perfect book for new vegans and students.I have just been reading through the reviews of this book. Some don't like the lack of pictures, but I think I agree with the reviewer that mentioned the plus side of this: you can't be disappointed with your un-photoshopped meal. Others commented about feeling patronised by the meal plans and shopping list; I find that feature the whole point of the book! I cook for myself as my boyfriend is not a fellow vegan. I found before that I wasted a lot of food, and that veg that I bought would spoil before I got chance to use it. We're not all master chefs, and this book really does teach a great deal on meal structuring and planning, in a very accessible way.
The meals are so quick and cheap to prepare that the book is great for todays busy people. Many veggies live on frozen rubbish and junk, and this book will show them to way to the nutritious diet they should have, and show them that these easy to follow meals can even be made quicker than heating up a quorn cottage pie! (with practice hehe)
Also, this book is fantastic for people living on a budget, especially students who live independently, as once all the staple ingredients listed at the start are stocked, a weekly shop can often be achieved for well under a tenner!
Wanting gourmet vegan banquets? Don't buy this book.
Wanting to learn to eat a nutritious vegen diet well but don't have much time to plan and prepare meals? BUY THIS BOOK NOW!
Poor students currently living on beer and golden grahams? What you waiting for?
Rating:
- Boring,,,,and no picsThis is the first vegan book I've purchased. I'm a vegetarian at the moment, but was hoping that this book would prove insightful and helpful in figuring out what i could eat, as I'm the pickiest eater in the world.
Well, the book arrived, nice cover that's about it. There are no pictures at all in the book, so it's just dull. Most of the recipes are very basic, and over half i wouldn't eat anyway. Why can't someone create a low carb, low calorie Vegan book. I don't eat rice, pasta, mushrooms (related to mould, ewwww), and dont want to get fat so out go all the cake/pudding recipes as well. That leaves me with some of the salads, but guess what, don't like salads either. The recipes included seem to me to be created by some basic cook rather than a skilled chef.
The positive things in this book are that you get UK and USA measurements against all the ingredients and that you get a shopping list at the front of the book, great for a regimented diet, but who what's a Set meal each day? are we still in school?
I was looking for some healthy bean/vegetable recipes which would be suitable for a low calorie diet, but this wasn't the book for me. I guess I'll just have to continue throwing things into the pan and seeing what happens as per usual.
