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The Easy 5 Ingredient Meal Prep Cookbook: Meal Plans and Recipes to Save Time
Meal prep for minimal ingredients, maximum ease
Meal prepping can save time and money, improve eating habits, and decrease food waste. The Easy 5-ingredient Meal Prep Cookbook is your step-by-step guide to meal prepping with a 12-week plan featuring quick, easy recipes to cook now and enjoy later.
With detailed shopping lists and straightforward meal prep plans for your big cooking day, you’ll be on your way to enjoying delicious, home-cooked meals throughout the week. All of the recipes require only five ingredients and can be prepared and portioned quickly. Grab and go, or come home to a meal that only needs to be heated up—either way, you’ll eat well without the stress.
The Easy 5-ingredient Meal Prep Cookbook
5 by 5—Each of the 12 plans includes five tasty recipes, each with five ingredients per recipe. Time savers—Weekly plans are organized for efficiency, with strategic reuse of ingredients to save time and money. Food storage 101—Learn how to cool, store, and reheat your meals safely.
There’s always time for eating well with The Easy 5-ingredient Meal Prep Cookbook.
Meal prepping can save time and money, improve eating habits, and decrease food waste. The Easy 5-ingredient Meal Prep Cookbook is your step-by-step guide to meal prepping with a 12-week plan featuring quick, easy recipes to cook now and enjoy later.
With detailed shopping lists and straightforward meal prep plans for your big cooking day, you’ll be on your way to enjoying delicious, home-cooked meals throughout the week. All of the recipes require only five ingredients and can be prepared and portioned quickly. Grab and go, or come home to a meal that only needs to be heated up—either way, you’ll eat well without the stress.
The Easy 5-ingredient Meal Prep Cookbook
5 by 5—Each of the 12 plans includes five tasty recipes, each with five ingredients per recipe. Time savers—Weekly plans are organized for efficiency, with strategic reuse of ingredients to save time and money. Food storage 101—Learn how to cool, store, and reheat your meals safely.
There’s always time for eating well with The Easy 5-ingredient Meal Prep Cookbook.
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October 17, 2020
Though I certainly wouldn't dare to call myself a professional quality chef, I've been a reasonably accomplished home chef for a number of years. What I have not been particularly good at, though, is weekly meal prep. My usual cooking involves scouring farmers' markets and ethnic grocers for exotic ingredients and then preparing a large feast. When I need to have quick meals ready to go when I'm busy with other commitments, the restaurants are typically my go-to solution.
That's not the approach presented in this book. The structure of the plan presented here is to spend one day per week cooking multiple servings of five dishes and storing them to eat throughout the week. The book contains 12 weeks' worth of complete plans, including shopping lists, a complete description of how to prepare and store each dish (including an overall guide for the week, to help you multitask and prepare all five dishes at once), and an example calendar of which dishes you might have for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack on each day.
This approach is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Because everything is completely planned out for you, you know in advance that you'll be able to get everything done and that the results will complement each other reasonably well (in fact, I commend the author for her attention to varying flavors between dishes within each week's plan). On the other hand, I don't think I've ever followed a recipe in my life without changing some things around, so those of you who like to put your own creative spin on your dishes will need to be extra careful to make sure you're not throwing off the entire week's plan.
Admittedly, calling these five-ingredient recipes is a bit of a stretch. In fact, few of the recipes actually use only five ingredients. It is true, however, that they use only five ingredients in addition to what the author calls "the 5-ingredient pantry," consisting of staple ingredients that you're assumed to always have on hand in your kitchen. With that in mind, and recognizing that the ingredients needed for each week are all easy to source at any supermarket or grocery store, it's easy enough to justify saying the recipes are "five-ish" ingredient recipes. However, you should be aware that this doesn't mean you'll only have to buy five items to complete the meal prep. While each individual recipe uses only five ingredients (plus the staple ingredients), the weekly meal plan as a whole uses considerably more. There is some planned overlap in ingredients within each week and the flavors do pair well together, but if you think you need to only buy five ingredients and then use those in varying combinations for all of the week's recipes, you have been misled.
Personally, though, while I recognize that the title might be somewhat confusing, I'm actually grateful that each week in the plan isn't limited to only five ingredients. These recipes might be quicker and easier than the ones I usually prepare when I'm making one of my feasts, but they're actually good, fully-formed recipes that you'll be happy to eat, and I'm not convinced that you'd get to that point with further limitations on ingredients. Certainly, you'd at least have to sacrifice a lot of the variety that the author has built in to each week's plan.
Indeed, since you're already going to be planning to eat each dish multiple times (some as many as five times throughout the week), repetition may be a cause for concern for some readers. If you like more variety in your meals, you'll be less likely to follow the plans exactly as written. That having been said, you can still benefit from some of the recipes.
Perhaps the biggest advantage in this book is that it truly spells out everything you need to know. Right at the beginning, it tells you what cookware and tools you'll need. It tells you what storage containers you'll need. It even provides some useful charts concerning which ingredients can be refrigerated or frozen, and for how long. Each week's plan is accompanied by a complete shopping list. The author has gone to great lengths to make things as easy as possible, making this perhaps a perfect guide for either the beginning chef or even the experienced chef who's trying to save some time.
Note: I received a free copy of this book for purposes of review. My opinions remain my own.
That's not the approach presented in this book. The structure of the plan presented here is to spend one day per week cooking multiple servings of five dishes and storing them to eat throughout the week. The book contains 12 weeks' worth of complete plans, including shopping lists, a complete description of how to prepare and store each dish (including an overall guide for the week, to help you multitask and prepare all five dishes at once), and an example calendar of which dishes you might have for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack on each day.
This approach is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Because everything is completely planned out for you, you know in advance that you'll be able to get everything done and that the results will complement each other reasonably well (in fact, I commend the author for her attention to varying flavors between dishes within each week's plan). On the other hand, I don't think I've ever followed a recipe in my life without changing some things around, so those of you who like to put your own creative spin on your dishes will need to be extra careful to make sure you're not throwing off the entire week's plan.
Admittedly, calling these five-ingredient recipes is a bit of a stretch. In fact, few of the recipes actually use only five ingredients. It is true, however, that they use only five ingredients in addition to what the author calls "the 5-ingredient pantry," consisting of staple ingredients that you're assumed to always have on hand in your kitchen. With that in mind, and recognizing that the ingredients needed for each week are all easy to source at any supermarket or grocery store, it's easy enough to justify saying the recipes are "five-ish" ingredient recipes. However, you should be aware that this doesn't mean you'll only have to buy five items to complete the meal prep. While each individual recipe uses only five ingredients (plus the staple ingredients), the weekly meal plan as a whole uses considerably more. There is some planned overlap in ingredients within each week and the flavors do pair well together, but if you think you need to only buy five ingredients and then use those in varying combinations for all of the week's recipes, you have been misled.
Personally, though, while I recognize that the title might be somewhat confusing, I'm actually grateful that each week in the plan isn't limited to only five ingredients. These recipes might be quicker and easier than the ones I usually prepare when I'm making one of my feasts, but they're actually good, fully-formed recipes that you'll be happy to eat, and I'm not convinced that you'd get to that point with further limitations on ingredients. Certainly, you'd at least have to sacrifice a lot of the variety that the author has built in to each week's plan.
Indeed, since you're already going to be planning to eat each dish multiple times (some as many as five times throughout the week), repetition may be a cause for concern for some readers. If you like more variety in your meals, you'll be less likely to follow the plans exactly as written. That having been said, you can still benefit from some of the recipes.
Perhaps the biggest advantage in this book is that it truly spells out everything you need to know. Right at the beginning, it tells you what cookware and tools you'll need. It tells you what storage containers you'll need. It even provides some useful charts concerning which ingredients can be refrigerated or frozen, and for how long. Each week's plan is accompanied by a complete shopping list. The author has gone to great lengths to make things as easy as possible, making this perhaps a perfect guide for either the beginning chef or even the experienced chef who's trying to save some time.
Note: I received a free copy of this book for purposes of review. My opinions remain my own.
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