Eat Well for Less: Happy & Healthy: 80 simple & speedy recipes from the hit BBC series

by Jo Jones

There’s no place like home…or work? You probably don’t realise this, but every working day you replay and re-enact conflicts, dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether it’s confusing an authority figure with a parent; avoiding conflict because of past squabbles with siblings; or suffering from imposter syndrome because of the way your family responded to success, when it comes to work we are all trapped in our own upbringings and the patterns of behaviour we learned while growing up. Many of us spend eighteen formative years or more living with family and building our personality; but most of us also spend fifty years – or 90,000 hours – in the workplace. With the pull of the familial so strong, we unconsciously re-enact our personal past in our professional present – even when it holds us back. Through intimate stories, fascinating insights and provocative questions, business psychotherapist Naomi Shragai will transform how you think about yourself and your working life. Based on thirty years of expertise and practice, Shragaiwill show you that what is holding you back is within your gift to change – and the first step is to realise how you, like the rest of the people you work with, habitually confuse your professional present with your personal past.

224 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2022

About the author

Jo Jones lives in the red-rock area of southern Utah. Her roots go deep into the red soil of cattle country, tended by four generations of ranchers.

She also keeps a tight hold on the ancestral string of her Scottish heritage and keeps a piece of her heart in the Highlands.

With a lifetime love for reading, and writing, she has a soft spot for richly detailed historical novels with characters who draw their strength and purpose from the land and their environment. And of course, each other.

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not familiar with this BBC series having only recently moved back to the UK, however the cookbook is good! I like the clear instructions, layout of the receipts and the pictures.

[Cidney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yet another one of my Eat Well for Less books, this one is the latest 2022 version with the inevitable number of 80 recipes. There is also a change of presenters on the tv series and also with producing the book, gone is the brilliant Gregg Wallace and he's been replaced by Jordan Banjo, a dancer, perhaps he's a secret chef. The also brilliant Chris Bavin who runs his own fresh food import business, so he knows a lot about healthy eating and nutrition, however is still there.

There is another one of their very good introductions to the book, dealing with savvy shopping to save time and money, using cheaper cuts of meat, cutting food waste and some good suggestions on using up your left over bits and bobs. Also going through your store cupboard staples and ideas for vegans and vegetarian diets.

I've gone through the book, as I do all my cookbooks when I've read them, and made my usual list of recipes I want to cook and the page numbers, but I've noticed that this is the shortest list of all my Eat Well for Less books perhaps there's only so many of these books you can produce.