Simply Vegan: Quick Vegetarian Meals

by Reed Mangels, Reed Mangels

Simply Vegan is more than a cookbook. It is a guide to a non-violent, environmentally sound, humane-lifestyle. Debra Wasserman and Reed Mangels make vegan living easy with 160 quick vegetarian recipes, an easy-to-understand and complete vegan nutrition section, meal plans, and a guide to vegan shopping. Also valuable is a list of the top 15 recipes for calcium, vitamin C, and iron, plus an up-to-date chapter on pregnancy, infants, and vegan children.

Genres: Cookbooks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1991

Reviews

[George · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is hands down one of the best cookbooks i own. none of this chocolate cake hipster cookie garbage (even though i love cookies). i don't like to cook that much outside of rice, but this book has tons of hearty easy to cook meals that are really amazing. the lemon rice soup is one of the best things ever. for real! get it! get it! get it!

[Ivy · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you own only one vegan cookbook, this should probably be it. It doesn't have fancy layout or images and it does feel somewhat old school but the recipes are easy and straightforward offering lots of varied, practical and delicious dishes to make full meals that aren't trying to merely represent/recreate something not vegan. Then, the book is packed with smart, thorough nutritional information. This book really helped me in my first two years as a vegan to understand my nutrition and feel sure of my food choices.

This is also a good cookbook for non-vegans who just want some ideas on how to make veggie dishes that don't rely on cheese and butter, or cut some dairy from their diet. I especially love the simplest recipes in this book, such as Red Hot Zucchini.

[Tarn · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is Simply vegan. This will get you some good ideas for vegan meal creations if you are starved of creativity or knowledge about what might meld together in vegan cuisine. A good starter, but blase. A useful note: the author is a doctor of nutrition and the third edition also includes some nutritional charts if that's your sort of thing... perhaps my attention span is too low to appreciate that, though. FOOD NOW.

[Christine · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book includes both nutritional information and recipes. The nutritional information seemed decent. However, I made two recipes from this book and did not like either. All of the recipes in this book appear to be very fast and easy but maybe not tasty. What I found most interesting was a list of various vegan foods with some information about them including their origins.

[Rick the bass player · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bullshit granola lady passing out bad advice. 2 stars for the effort. However no one should eat tofu with every meal. Look at the adverse effects of tofu before you write a book lady.https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...#

[kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

very basic & practical. a non-frills cookbook.

[Cara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad little book, but the recipes seemed almost TOO simple. Almost half the book is about vegan nutrition rather than recipes.

[Pythagorean · Rating 2 out of 5]

there are one or two recipes in this book that i have used for years and years, but for the most part it's "simply bland and disgusting"

[Elyse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information about nutrition, but some of the recipes are very boring and bland.

[butterbook · Rating 2 out of 5]

This cookbook is completely useless.