The Feel-Good Meal Plan: A Fresh Take on Meal Prep with Over 100 Nourishing Recipes to Feed Your Family with Ease

by Lindsay Pleskot

Flexible meal planning for your busy life! With weekly meal prep done in under two hours, you’ll have flavorful, nutrition-packed meals on the table quickly every night of the week.

You lead a busy life and it can be tough to find the time and energy to make nourishing, flavorful meals every morning, afternoon, and night. Maybe you tried meal prepping and it zapped all the joy out of eating. Was it the rigidity? The repetitive meals day after day? The hours of work? Don’t give up: The Feel-Good Meal Plan has a fresh, flexible, and unfussy solution to get you ready for the week—with less than two hours of prep and meals on the table every night in 30 minutes or less.

With Registered Dietitian and mom of two Lindsay Pleskot as your guide, take the next steps on your meal-planning journey with:

A Four-Week Meal Plan: Dive into a month of lunches and dinners designed to save time, minimize food waste, and maximize taste and nutrition. Follow ready-made grocery lists and step-by-step meal prep instructions to simplify the process.

Affordable, Accessible Cooking: No fancy ingredients required— just everyday staples you likely already have on hand. These recipes and shopping tips will keep your grocery bill and food waste to a minimum.

100+ Family-Friendly Recipes: Try breakfasts like One-Pan Green Goddess Hash and Tiramisu Overnight Oats, snacks like Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Energy
Bites and Mexican Street Corn–Inspired Guacamole, and heaps of mains, like Korean- Inspired Beef and Rice Bowls with Pickled Cukes, Sheet Pan Margarita Shrimp Fajitas, Best-Ever Veggie Bolognese, and Juicy Spinach and Feta Turkey Burgers.

Healthful, Intuitive Eating: Drawing on her certification as an Intuitive Eating Counselor, Lindsay has crafted meal plans and recipes that foster a balanced and joyful relationship with food, nurturing body, mind, and soul.

Ideal for busy families looking to alleviate the daily cooking grind, The Feel-Good Meal Plan gives you the freedom to enjoy mealtimes with ease!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

296 pages, Hardcover

Published December 31, 2024

Reviews

[Allie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book wasn’t groundbreaking for me, someone who loves the weekly puzzle and creativity of meal planning and prepping. But for so many of my health coaching clients, I think this book would be a revelation.

Lindsay lays everything out in such a straightforward, pragmatic way, from her encouragement to experiment with recipes, to the reminder that food is about taste, fun, and connection as much as it is about nutrition. It’s not preachy, fussy, or finicky, and it utilizes a reasonable amount of time-saving, store-bought options alongside the abundance of fresh produce. This book to me really embodies the “everything in moderation” mindset.

And I haven’t even gotten to the recipes! They all look SO good, especially the breakfasts and the noodle dishes. I cannot wait to try them all.

Highly recommend this for anyone new to meal planning/prepping or those who just want a bit of a refresh with how they eat.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

5 stars for an easy to use well organized meal prep information. The author tells you step-by-step what to prepare, so if you are grating something in your food processor you do that once but then divide the ingredient for use in different meals. I appreciate that there are leftovers planned into the meal plan.

5 stars for great photos throughout. These meals look fantastic.

2 stars for the actual recipes. Not because they aren't good but because I felt there weren't enough dinner ideas. So many breakfast and lunch ideas but not enough family friendly simple main courses. Lots of seafood, asian flavours, and veggies throughout. It's kind of stuff I want to eat more of but I would have to ease in the family slowly with a lot these recipes. And honestly, I'm not ambitious enough to actually do this meal planning thing.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lindsay is an amazing dietician and her recipes have been family favourites in our home for years. I was so excited to hear she was writing a cookbook and let me tell you it is incredible!! It is evident that Lindsay has put her heart and soul into developing this book. If you are looking for a way to simplify your weeknight dinners while adding new flavourful meals to the mix this book is it! My kiddos now specifically ask for “Lindsay meals and snacks” because they know they’ll be delicious. Congrats on an amazing first release…of many I hope!

[Tera · Rating 4 out of 5]

A main portion is about meal prepping and the different ways to meal prep. I'm not currently keen on meal prepping, but I wanted to see the recipes because the title makes me think it will be nutrition forward. I was correct, these are nice recipes with more nutritional ingredients. I'd like to try the Coffee Shop Double Chocolate Tahini Breakfast Cookies and Jang's Famous Fried Rice. I will definitely try the Chimicurri Salmon :)

[Jess VIDAL · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really good meal prep ideas. First part was a but long as the meal prep techniques are all the craze these days (not much learned) but it definitely gave some inspiration to healthy alternatives.