Just what I was looking for: healthy recipe ideas for packed lunches and light evening meals that don't require too many fancy ingredients or time to put together (the pitta pocket fillers are handy).
I'm not really a dessert person, but the quick, tasty recipes have made me realise I don't have to be baking pastry and doing fiddly toppings for hours.
If you love spending time in the kitchen this book is NOT for you!
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I have a few recipe books by Rose Elliot (some from years ago, but more recently The Bean Book and Veggie Chic). I like her ideas, although at times they can become predictable. However, this is a good book and has some excellent quick meal ideas. Great for anyone in a hurry who needs to avoid yet another boring sarnie.
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I'm not a vegetarian, but a vegetarian friend showed me her copy of this book, and I just had to buy it. Every recipe I've tried works fantastically well, and whenever I use the recipes to entertain, they are extremely well received. A number of my friends have now bought the book too. I'm definitely going to buy more of Rose Elliot's books.
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I first came across rose Elliott's Bean Book when I was at University and I literally taught myself to cook from it and survived on a very slender budget by cooking all her wonderful, cheap and tasty bean recipes.
My original copy was falling to pieces so I've just bought this new edition -- and i still love it! The warmth and friendliness of the book are very encouraging and the recipes are lovely.
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Rose Elliott is a really fantastic vegetarian Chef & writer, I really wish she had a tv show as well as her great past catalogue of books.
Shes practical & straightforward & her recipies are great fo veggies & non vegetarians alike. Buy the book & be led by the hand by a true talent in the world of Vegetarian food.
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This is a great diet and a great book.
I've been on it for 5 weeks and have lost a stone.
Follow the recipes and don't cheat and so will you.
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The good points of this book are loads of info on nutrition, simple to follow recipes, easy to find ingredients, and it doesn't rely much on fake meats either, unlike many other vegan cookbooks. However, being a bit more experienced at cooking, I felt it wasn't really aimed at me.
While it's certainly more of a book for beginners and is therefore ideal for any new vegan, there are still admittedly few things, though not that many, that might appeal to a more experienced cook.
I have only given it 4 out of 5, because there really should be a subtitle stating that it is a book for beginners.
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My feelings exactly the same as the previous reviewer - I have been a fan of Rose Elliot for many years and eagerly awaited this book, only to discover that it is identical to Veggie Chic which I already own, and nowhere in the Amazon description or on the photos of the cover is there any warning that you are buying exactly the same product just in a different cover. I completely understand reprinting books and giving them new covers and so on, but I feel cheated that the author has allowed to sell this book as something new by actually changing the title and misleading people into thinking that this is a new collection of recipes without any warning to those that have her previous book already. Very disappointing really.
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My feelings exactly the same as the previous reviewer - I have been a fan of Rose Elliot for many years and eagerly awaited this book, only to discover that it is identical to Veggie Chic which I already own, and nowhere in the Amazon description or on the photos of the cover is there any warning that you are buying exactly the same product just in a different cover. I completely understand reprinting books and giving them new covers and so on, but I feel cheated that the author has allowed to sell this book as something new by actually changing the title and misleading people into thinking that this is a new collection of recipes without any warning to those that have her previous book already. Very disappointing really.
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I often cater for people with certain dietary needs. One of them is vegetarian, on a low-carb diet and has a wheat allergy.
The veggie bit I'm used to, but the other stuff is tricky until you get this book.
It may not say it on the cover, but this is just as useful for somebody on a wheat-free diet (though not necessarily a gluten-free one) as somebody on a low-carb diet. Since recipes containing wheat are nearly always high carb, they're not in here.
It seems like a bit of a niche product, this recipe book, but the food you make from it is just great food, like anything you'd expect from an experienced food writer like Rose Elliot. It introduces you to a few ideas you wouldn't try otherwise perhaps, but that can only be a good thing.
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