Mostly Veggies: Easy Make-Ahead Meals for Healthy Living

by Brittany Mullins

Healthy doesn't have to be hard! Unlock the simplicity of veggie-forward cooking with bonus tips for planning and prepping your way to healthy, delicious eats for every meal. Plant-focused meal prep means a fridge stocked with healthy snacks ready to grab on your way out of the door; it means having an easy answer every time the question “what’s for dinner” pops into your head; and it means saving time and money while you enjoy flavorful, nutritious meals that come together in minutes. Brittany Mullins has perfected the art of flavor-filled, holistic cooking for the whole family while tacking a busy to-do list and a hectic now,  Mostly Veggies  brings you the same tools and tricks Brittany herself uses every day.
 
Mostly Veggies  focuses on wholesome ingredients and prioritizes fruits and vegetables, whole grains and plant-based proteins as the foundation of healthy, filling recipes that everyone in your family will love. Here you’ll

* Customizable Overnight Oats and Chia Puddings for grab and go breakfasts
* Red Velvet Cake Batter Protein Smoothie for busy mornings
* Big batch Butternut Squash Enchiladas to freeze and reheat all week
* A veggie-loaded Cobb Salad with Coconut Bacon
* Easy snacks from Pizza Trail Mix to Pecan Cookie Butter
* English Muffin Pizzas that even the kiddos will love
* And so much more!
 
With four weekly meal plans laid out for you based around maximizing fresh produce for each season, as well as the guidelines to create your own meal plans based off of the recipes found here,  Mostly Veggies  is your key to eating healthy all week long no matter how many things you have on your plate.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Vegetarian, Food

272 pages, Hardcover

Published April 18, 2023

Reviews

[Miss✧Pickypants ᓚᘏᗢ · Rating 4 out of 5]

While aesthetically pleasing with it's full page color photos of every dish, the plant-forward recipes are basic and geared towards less experienced cooks. The premise of the book is easy make-ahead meals and the author delivers as promised but to do so there is a good amount of repetition, not a bad thing but not very inspiring if you are looking for new recipe ideas. If you are a fan of smoothies, you will like that there is a chapter devoted to them. Overall, the book provides good information about how to plan, shop and prepare meals ahead of time while also providing recipes using whole foods, which is always a good thing! My rating is 3.5 Stars, but no can do on GR so I rounded up (come on GR, how hard is it to fix it so we can give half stars?)

[Bookworm With a B · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love all the recipes, advice, and clear instructions in this book! I haven't made any of it yet but I've already picked out a ton of recipes that I want to make!

[E · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disclaimer: I won this free cookbook as a Giveaway winner. Woohoo! Love the Giveaways!

My must have in a cookbook are:
✅ bright colorful pictures
✅ realistic (easy to find) ingredients
✅ clear instructions
✅ quick recipes (who’s got all day?)

Mostly Veggies has checked all these boxes.
The recipes provided are healthy, “veggie forward”, and tasty. So far I’ve tried:
- Apple Cinnamon mini balls- yummy! Full of protein and no added sugar. I had to use a few more dates and dried apples to get the right consistency and wet my hands before forming them.
- Crispy Peanut Butter cups- easy, no bake treat to make in the microwave. Very pretty and tasty.

Some of the recipes I’d like to try next are- Pesto and Veggie Cauliflower Gnocchi and Greek Salad Couscous. Both look delicious and have nuts or beans added in for protein.

Would recommend this cookbook to anyone looking for simple and healthy vegetarian meals and snacks that look and taste great.

[T · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bombastic side eye. Criminal offensive side eye.

I’d give this negative stars if I could.

White women need to stop writing cookbooks like this (I am a white woman, so I am calling my kind out). They need to stop gatekeeping wanting to eat right and havin g healthy recipes on hand and then go and create cookbooks where ingredient lists include items that are way too cost prohibitive and can only be found in higher end grocery stores. What about those people who live in food deserts or are food insecure? They are automatically both priced and geographically kicked out from this disaster of a cookbook.

One last thing - this author included a recipe for BROWNIE BATTER HUMMUS. Appropriation of the worst kind. Straight to jail.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Things I liked:
• Lists of ingredients in the beginning categorized by season
• Full color photos of each recipe
• Clear cooking instructions for instant eating or to store for future meal prep meals

Only reason for lower star rating is I either was already familiar with the many recipes or it wasn't something I liked. Would recommend to someone newer to meal prepping looking to incorporate more veggies into their diet.

[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent cookbook! I follow her on her website and took a chance by purchasing her new cookbook. I'm so glad I did! I've actually made 4+ recipes and they were outstanding! It has beautiful pictures and clear, concise recipes. Everything is well planned in the cookbook and I like the format. The White Bean Tuscan soup is divine! I'll be using this cookbook for years to come!

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great photography highlights a wide variety of plant-focused meals. A few specialized ingredients are perhaps familiar to experienced vegetarian or vegan cooks, but may be odd to newcomers. Each recipe includes instructions to serve immediately, divide as meal prep, or reheat later. I anticipate using this as a jumping-off point, and adapting recipes to my own tastes and pantry stock.

[Cris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the recipes seem a bit simplistic for recipes in a published cookbook--such as the Dark Chocolate overnight oats. Other recipes are clearly attempts to swap out veggies for something less ostensibly healthy. Still, the instructions for serving immediately, meal prepping and reheating are helpful.

The recipes are nicely presented--easy to follow with nice photos.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of simple dinner and breakfast ideas that you can adapt to whatever level of vegetarianism you're at whether you're vegan or just trying to add more plant-based foods to your diet. Simple instructions. Great photos. Zucchini breakfast cookies were a hit!

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an excellent veggie cookbook. I read so many cookbooks that I wasn't expecting to be impressed, but I really enjoyed her suggestions, esp the ideas for batch cooking, and freezing food. Lovely format. Am going to buy this book.

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the make ahead portions and the sauces; there's a curried tofu salad that was really good- and a couple of others that I've already forgotten but I'm being charged for the book now so I will have to explore it again another day.

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

I initially thought that this author's name was Brittany Muffins, and might have liked the book better if it were. Too many ways to use cauliflower rice and tahini. The photography is beautiful, though.

[Lugenia Lee Reddish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent recipes!

I’ve been looking for some good vegetarian recipes. This cookbook gave me some really good ideas! Definitely worth buying if you’re looking to add more plant-forward meals to your diet.

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like the recipes because they are easy to follow, delicious, and include nutrition facts.

[Rhi · Rating 4 out of 5]

oat bake, edamame spread, and date smoothie are clutch