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Vegan Lunch Box: 130 Amazing, Animal-free Lunches Kids and Grown-ups Will Love!
If you think vegan lunchtime means peanut butter and jelly day after day, think again! Based on the wildly popular blog of the same name, Vegan Lunch Box offers an amazing array of meat-free, egg-free, and dairy-free meals and snacks. All the recipes are organized into menus to help parents pack quick, nutritious, and irresistible vegan lunches. Ideal for everyday and spec...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
August 5th 2008
by Da Capo Press
(first published January 1st 2006)
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May 13, 2007
Lisa Vegan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
vegans, especially those with children and those who bring lunches to work
I loved this book mostly because it is fun to read. I especially enjoyed the little stories the author (a vegan mother) told about her family & life. The photos of the lunches she's made for her son to take to school are also fun to look at; I wish that there were more photos. In my opinion, most of the lunch menus are more varied/labor intensive than most people would be willing to follow daily for their child's school lunches or their lunches to take to work or other on the go meals. But t...more
Jun 16, 2013
Lauren
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Vegan Non Creatives... or the bored.
Shelves:
library-borrows
I really did not need a recipe for a nut butter and jam sandwich, nor for vegan deli meats and soy cheese slices sandwiches, nor veggie sticks with dip, nor... Well, you get the idea. There were a lot of ideas that are common-place now (cookie cutter sandwiches, hiding leafy greens in pasta sauces, etc.) though still standards for a reason. She also relied heavily on processed products (I guess kids do want chick'n nuggets and pseudo-fish sticks to be like the other kids, but the other kids' par...more
This is one of the best vegan cookbooks I've read recently. The recipes in this book are inventive and flavorful and early on I started flagging recipes and then I realized it would be easier if I owned my own copy of this book because there were so many great recipes I wanted to try. The book has a few color photos in the middle but I'm not a fan of this. If you're going to have color photos, put them with the recipes or leave them out. Also, I would have given this great cookbook five stars bu...more
Same disclaimer as before: I am not vegan. Or vegetarian. Just an eater looking for inspiration :)
This book was excellent for idea-finding and I now have a list of quick, easy, tasty lunch options for my family. In fact, I sat down tonight and planned this week's lunches and everyone will be enjoying hot packed lunches with proteins, fruits, veggies, grains and dairy! It was easy to convert the recipes to accommodate our food choices (although I'm sure that it wasn't Jennifer McCann's intention...more
This book was excellent for idea-finding and I now have a list of quick, easy, tasty lunch options for my family. In fact, I sat down tonight and planned this week's lunches and everyone will be enjoying hot packed lunches with proteins, fruits, veggies, grains and dairy! It was easy to convert the recipes to accommodate our food choices (although I'm sure that it wasn't Jennifer McCann's intention...more
Some great ideas here (and wonderful visuals - I need a bento box!) and I love the author's blog! However, I agree with other reviewers that Ms. McCann places too much emphasis on processed fake meat and soy cheese products. It may be easy for me to say (since I'm not actually vegan), but I didn't expect to see quite so many store-bought items.
It looks like her next book, Vegan Lunch Box: Around the World, may address these concerns and move the emphasis back to home cooked legumes, and other l...more
It looks like her next book, Vegan Lunch Box: Around the World, may address these concerns and move the emphasis back to home cooked legumes, and other l...more
This is the BEST cookbook that I have ever read, and, of course, the BEST vegan cookbook that I have ever tried. It's perfect for me--I try to eat vegan, but I am not an especially skilled cook, nor do I enjoy lengthy, complicated recipes. It turns out that a cookbook for busy parents who want to create simple lunch box meals is PERFECT for me. Every recipe that I've tried has worked, and everything has been delicious. I love the cherry chip brownies, I love the injera bread, I love the sauteed...more
I really wanted to like this book far more than I did. Unfortunately, McCann relies so heavily on faux-meat substitutes that I found very few of the recipes relevant to me as an adult or to any children I may have. For all her talk about health, highly processed soy meat is hardly any better than the chicken nuggets other children bring to school. Recipes relying on whole foods, however, were more interesting, and her suggestions for creating meals around a theme were fun and novel. I especially...more
It was okay, I didn't like that at least half if not more of her recipes seemed to be store bought, packaged vegan alternatives to meat (like vegan lunch "meat" or soy "cheese") - I wanted ideas for recipes I could make, not just a list of foods to buy for lunch that are ridiculously expensive, highly processed & packaged soy based meat substitutes.
And if going vegetarian/vegan is about getting away from animal products then why purchase foods designed to taste & look like meat or cheese...more
And if going vegetarian/vegan is about getting away from animal products then why purchase foods designed to taste & look like meat or cheese...more
The first part of this book is menu plans, with page numbers for easily finding the recipes, the back half of the book is the actual recipes. Of the recipes I tried the instructions were easy to follow and the ingredients easy to find. Everything tasted fine, although I did omit the extra salt in many of the recipes. I found it strange to add extra salt to recipes that already had soy sauce. Like many of the other reviewers have said I too don't like the amount of processed fake meat and cheese....more
I don't have kids, but I checked this out from the library in hopes of finding a few recipes that my non-vegan husband would enjoy. I found several that I liked and even a few that he would eat. One of our favorites is Sneaky Momma's Pasta Sauce. My husband didn't know there was kale in it until I told him. So, I consider that a sucess!
I sometimes feel that Jennifer McCann compromises health for veganism, and is a little too reliant on soy products, and this kind of commitment is not necessarily an option for working mothers (McCann was a full-time stay-at-home mom when she wrote this)... but her work is very creative, and I think she's doing a great thing in trying to improve kids' health.
so. its a great little book with lots of great ideas for fabulous little lunch menus. there were a handful of recipes that we are trying over the holiday break (and perfecting) for inclusion in next semester's school lunches. gave three stars, because as a cookbook it wasn't all that exciting. the recipes are okay. the format so-so.
could see how it would be ENORMOUS help for the huge set of lunch-makers that gets stuck in PB&J mode.
could see how it would be ENORMOUS help for the huge set of lunch-makers that gets stuck in PB&J mode.
This book was full of easy, simple recipes -- the kind that kids aren't likely to turn their nose up, but more importantly, neither are adults.
If you're looking for an introduction to vegan eating from the practical standpoint of someone who really doesn't spend a ton of time cooking, this book will deliver.
If you're looking for an introduction to vegan eating from the practical standpoint of someone who really doesn't spend a ton of time cooking, this book will deliver.
A Great source book for anyone who wants more from their lunch boxes, great inspirational recipes, ideas and fun ways to introduce healthy food to anyone. Everyday life gives you vegan food that is healthy fun and you make recipes you never thought you would.
I found some really great recipes and recipe ideas that even my family ate! I just wish some ingredients were more readily available or substitutions were mentioned. I've checked this one out of the library several times and may just have to buy it one day.
Recipes rely too heavily on "faux-meat/dairy" foods for my taste. I think this is better for kid than adult lunches. I understand giving kids fake meats/cheeses, so that they can fit in with their non-vegan friends. In general, I'll probably continue to bring leftovers, but I did get some good ideas for "snacky" type foods to bring to work.
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I recently started working full-time, and despaired over the fact that I had no idea what to bring with me for lunch. I ate a pb&j sandwich every single day between first and fifth grades, and I didn't want to go there again. So I picked up Vegan Lunchbox, and found a lot of helpful ideas and concepts for kids and confused adults alike. My only problems with the book were the fact that many recipes seemed overly long and involved for a book about lunches. There were also many anecdotes about...more
This is definitely not just for kids. It includes many tasty ideas that are helping to lift me out of the lunch doldrums and away from being lazy and buying lunch when I'm out.
This book gave me some great ideas for lunches, for me (I'm a vegan) and my son (who isn't a vegan, but a vegetarian). However, I knocked a couple stars off because most of the recipes call for fake meat or cheese products, and I like to use those sparingly. Also, some of the ingredients are very hard to find,and I am blessed with 4 natural grocery stores within a half hour of my house. I would still recommend this book to any parent searching for lunch ideas, though.
Mar 08, 2013
Kathleen Lynn
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Transported me to another time, another place. Story of what happened to Europe's gypsies through the life a one woman.
I used to follow the Vegan Lunch Box blog, so when I saw the book, I had to check it out. The menus weren't really ones I would follow, but the recipes are a great resource. I'll definitely be trying quite a few of them.
I love ideas and recipes for the kids in here! Great book to have on hand for those lunch ideas
I really loved this book and thought it had good ideas for my sack lunches until I lost it!
Jun 02, 2009
AJ
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
veg*ns with children.
I wasn't expecting this book to be terribly relevant to my cooking or life-style, and indeed this book met my expectations. I'm sure people who feel pressed for time or who have young children that they're trying to raise vegan would get a lot from this book. However, I found that it relies too heavily on pre-packaged food products that I don't use. I mainly cook from scratch and most of these recipes are focused on quick, easy and fun. That said, there are one or two recipes in here that I will...more
Some interesting ideas, like how she offers menus in the first section of the book
We're not vegan, so a lot of the recipes didn't appeal to me at first glance. But there are some wonderful veggie recipes in here (roasted chickpeas!), great ideas for fun lunches, and excellent information about how to keep your kids interested in healthy food when their friends are all eating cafeteria pizza most days.
Gave me a lot of healthy and creative meal ideas.
Simple, easy to make, and fun :)
Only a few pictures which is too bad since it would have been great through out the book to see how it looked when the lunches were prepared.
Cute ideas even if you aren't vegan.
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Jennifer McCann is the creator of the award-winning Vegan Lunch Box blog. She lives in Kennewick, Washington.
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