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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BON APPÉTIT
Whether you’re looking to lose weight or just eat a little healthier, meal prepping and cooking in advance helps you stay on track with your diet, saves time on busy weeknights, and is great for your budget. Skinnytaste Meal Prep delivers more than 120 healthy, diverse recipes that turn simple, easy-to-find ingredients into flavor-packed meals and snacks you’ll have ready at your fingertips for the week ahead and beyond.
Gina utilizes a number of brilliant time-saving strategies, including recipes to prep ahead so they can go straight from the freezer (your kitchen’s secret weapon!) to the Instant Pot®, slow cooker, or oven to finish cooking, along with dishes that are completely made ahead and easily reheated. With these flexible techniques, you’ll have meals on-hand months in advance, ready whenever the need arises, with no further shopping or cooking required. Imagine stress-free mornings when you can enjoy Lemon Blueberry Sheet Pan Pancakes for breakfast and just grab a DIY Chicken Taco Kit for lunch on your way out the door—no more unhealthful drive-thru breakfast sandwiches or expensive takeout. Healthy bites like Pumpkin Hummus and “Everything” Nuts will fuel you through the afternoon. For no-prep, effortless dinners, Roasted Vegetable Lasagna, Moussaka Makeover, and Greek Chicken Pilaf Bowls will make the entire family happy and satisfied.
With Skinnytaste Meal Prep, cooking smarter and eating healthier just got a whole lot simpler.
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Alexis Wright –
As a young woman in her 30’s trying to lose post baby weight, I love this cookbook. It has tons of great recipes in it!!
V. Evans –
I understand no one cookbook can be all things to all people, but this one hit the sweet spot for me. I work from home, and do little bits in chunks of time I have throughout the day. It takes just a few minutes to mix up some sauce, or take meat out of the package and salt it, or chop up some veggies. With all that done, it’s a no-brainer to finish up dinner at dinner time. To be clear – this is how I was cooking BEFORE I got this book. So, this cookbook is fantastic for me as Gina has already done the work of dividing the recipes up into discrete steps and giving tips on how to store the parts for a few hours or days before making the meal.
I’m desperate enough to feed my family actual meals that I don’t care that much if they’re healthy, so the fact that these recipes are centered around nutritious food is just a bonus. Even better is that they’re delicious! We’ve had the ramen chicken salad (even my kids ate it!) and the food-cart style chicken and white sauce (THE BEST THING I’VE EVER MADE EVER – is probably an exaggeration, but it sure felt true while I was eating it. granted we stuffed her salad inside homemade pita bread, but the seasoning on the chicken and the tasty white sauce were the stars of the show.) I know enough about cooking to be able to read through a recipe and tell if its any good, and I’m confident we’ll be eating a lot of recipes from this book going forward.
Coralie –
Love
SunnySkies –
First, let me say I am a huge SkinnyTaste fan. I have all of Gina’s books, follow her blog and, as an avid meal prepper, looked forward to this book. For the most part, it has met expectations. As usual, it is full of creative recipes and tips, including techniques and twists on classics that I would never have dreamed up myself. Pan sheet pancakes?? Mind-blowing! Stuff jalapenos with Italian tomato sauce? Another mouth-watering keeper!
The book also contains recipes that will go into my rotation–for example, the Colombian-style cranberry beans recipe. I made these vegan (without the ham hock), and my Colombian husband went back for seconds and thirds, then wanted leftovers for breakfast. A cookbook that scores a rotation recipe (and such a ringing endorsement from my family) deserves at least four stars.
However, there were a few misses. For example, the PB+J Healthy Oatmeal Cookies were a disappointment. Also, the section on bowls had some editing issues. For example, there’s a suggestion for a bowl with air-fried tofu and tahini dressing, yet there are no recipes or preparation instructions for either. Sure I can Google recipes for these, but I would expect the cookbook to provide more guidance. Similarly, there is a recipe for a peanut-hoisin sauce, but no examples of how to use it. Again, a little more guidance would be helpful here.
In spite of these shortcomings, this is a cookbook that I will get lots of use of, and I look forward to trying several additional recipes. Next up on my list is the Black Bean and Butternut Enchilada Bake, Chicken Larb Bowls, and Roasted Vegetable Lasagna. Again, Gina has given home cooks like me who try to eat healthy but don’t want to sacrifice flavor a winner for a cookbook.
paperandi –
My 3rd ST book. Every recipe has nutritional facts, freezer/fridge duration, and reheating instructions. Finish photo of every recipe (we feast with our eyes!).
Easy to keep track of your calories.
Recipes I’ve tried (will add to list as I make my way through):
1. Breakfast fried rice. Easy. Perfect balance of flavor, but not over the top salty or oily. I definitely cut down a lot of steps, because I’m lazy. I added everything in one pan. I’d say fry up the chopped bacon first, add the eggs, then the cauliflower rice and leftover rice, & then the rest of ingredients. One pan, less mess.
2. Mini churros (see photo). Mines turn out so ugly, but they taste so darn good! Crispy and just perfect balance of flavor!
virginia barbiaux reyes –
I have all her books and love this one just as much as the others.
stylelife_ggb –
I love all of Gina Homolka’s cookbooks! I gave this one to my DIL as she and my son both work and have a little one. She meal preps on Sundays and this book was a great addition to her collection! The book is filled with creative, healthy recipes that are both flavorful and easy to prepare. The meals are family-friendly, and I love how many of the recipes are customizable! I definitely recommend!
Lindsey –
I have been making recipes out of this for a few weeks now and I love it. Everything is relatively simple, with no off-the-wall ingredients that are hard to find. I have recommendations from a dietician and the recipes in this book have made it very easy to hit her goals without feeling like I am sacrificing.
Long Time Amazon Customer –
I’ve been testing this book for a while. I pre-ordered it. It is amazing! The zucchini pupusas was an experience for the mouth. I can’t believe I’ve gone my life never having it. The freezer to Instant pot meals I make 4 batches, freeze 3 and make one for dinner. Usually it involved cutting veggies into a small ziplock bag, putting meat in, and some spices and whatever else, and putting them all into a larger freezer bag. It makes life so simple!
The taste and the options are just amazing! I have barely even touched the surface of these. I live skinny taste on general. Her website also has amazing recipes but this prep book is worth it!
It includes nutritional value and if you want the smart points value, she has them all on her website.
MadColumbo –
I have all the Skinnytaste cookbooks with the exception of the Air Fryer book. And I did not like the 2nd cookbook Gina came out with that much. I have been a fan of Gina’s for a loooong time well before her cookbooks came out! This may be one of my favorite of her cookbooks! GET IT NOW.
This has been a GAMECHANGER for me. I am a busy working Mom and during the pandemic, my meal planning REALLY slipped. Working from home, I feel like I am always available for work and always busy (but grateful to have a job nonetheless!) Anyway, I have been too tired to make dinner, disinterested in meal planning etc. resorting to last minute thrown together meals and feeling frantic! THEN…I got this book and it kind of saved the routine in my house! I now prep a few things on a Sunday and essentially keep a backlog in the freezer for nights/days when I can just pull something out. They are all pretty easy to make! Some recipes like the Greek loaf, you can make two loaves and have one for later and one for that week! This has really helped me feel less stressed out and get some nutritious food on the table for my little fam.
Coralie –
Excelente libro para anticipar tu semana
paperandi –
As a recipe book connessieur and health advocate, the book is great to spice up your recipe repetoire. I’ve made several of the recipes so far which have been well received by the family. If the family approves, then it must be a winner!