Quick Wins: Healthy Cooking for Busy Lives

by Ella Mills, Ella Mills (Woodward)

Delicious recipes to help you eat more plants, supercharge your health and simplify mealtimes!

Quick Wins is your guide to making healthy eating effortless - helping you cut down on ultra-processed foods, enjoy 30 or more different plants each week, and bring fresh, nourishing meals to your table without the stress.

No chasing perfection. No complicated ingredients. Just real food, full of flavour, designed to fit your life.

Inside, you'll

- 8 flexible weekly meal plans with shopping lists for six dinners and two lunches

- 75 simple, balanced recipes that make eating well feel easy

- Adaptable ideas and batch-cook tips to save time and reduce waste

Chapters One Pan, Easy Lunches, Fridge-Raid Suppers, A Little Longer, Batch Cook, Simple Snacks & Breakfasts, Meal Plans and Shopping Lists. Each section is crafted to make wholesome, satisfying cooking a natural part of your day.

With clear meal plans, practical shopping lists and flexible recipes, Quick Wins helps you find balance, confidence, and joy in the kitchen.

It's all goodness, no fuss - a fresh, achievable way to eat well every day.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

Published December 16, 2025

Reviews

[Kristel]

I am a big fan of Ella Mills and her cooking style. She has changed a lot over the years as her life and needs of cooking change. I have cooked every recipe in most of her cookbooks as a fun project to learn and see new methods of cooking. I guess you could say I've done Ella's cooking school :) This newest cookbook features lots of different ways to make plants taste great it is all about getting diversity into your diet with plant points. The goal being 30 each week. It includes meal plans to help make life that much easier. What I really like in this book that is very different is the batch cook meals into a different variation of the recipe so you aren't eating just a leftover but a new dish made with part of your leftovers...interesting! As always she gives tons of tips and swap ideas for different ways to make the recipe which really helps you learn how to use the recipe as a start and helps you learn to cook and see ingredients better for yourself. I can't wait to cook the entire thing, check back in a few years to see if I've finished it :D

[Claire]

Excellent new book by Ella , yes it's very similar to her others but I like the way one recipe then is given a new idea for eating up the new day. Plus I always find her food easy , on a day when I can't be bothered to Ottolenghi complicated with loads of washing up.

[Em dK]

Easy, plant based recipes from Ella Mills. Very few sweet treats. It's intended as a guide to help with quick, weekly meal planning. Some good recipes, though a few seem a bit repetitive. Handy meal planner and QR codes at the back so you can prep shopping lists. Her last book had a QR code linking it to the Deliciously Ella app so you could access recipes there. Unfortunately not available for this book.

[Kim Napier]

Beautiful book, clear, precise instructions and awesome meal ideas.

[Gisela Moreira]

Best cookbook of 2026 ✨

[Gail Wylde]

Some very nice dishes I can’t wait to try.

[Cherie]

I got this book from the library and promptly realized I wanted to cook too many recipes from here to not own it. So now I do! Great quick recipes.

[Emily]

3.5 stars