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Cooking With Trader Joe's Cookbook: Pack a Lunch!
What's for Lunch? Move over, boring sack lunch. Bye-bye greasy fast food. From the bestselling, original Cooking with Trader Joe's cookbook series comes the cure for the common lunch, using handy shortcuts from Trader Joe's.
This cookbook
* Delicious lunchbox meals for adults and kids.
* How to re-purpose leftovers, for new dishes in a snap.
* Favorite ready-made snacks from Trader Joe's.
* Finger foods for camping, picnics, and plane trips.
* Full color photos and nutritional data for every recipe.
Mouth-watering recipes include Berrylicious Fruit Smoothie, Peachy Chicken Salad, Mini Provencal Quiche, Vegetarian Club Sandwich, Pear and Brie Turnovers, Easy Jambalaya, Seaside Pasta Salad, Colorful Lemon Quinoa, Jammin' Ricotta Bites, Mahalo Fruit salad, Choco-Crispy Rice Treats, and many more.
This cookbook
* Delicious lunchbox meals for adults and kids.
* How to re-purpose leftovers, for new dishes in a snap.
* Favorite ready-made snacks from Trader Joe's.
* Finger foods for camping, picnics, and plane trips.
* Full color photos and nutritional data for every recipe.
Mouth-watering recipes include Berrylicious Fruit Smoothie, Peachy Chicken Salad, Mini Provencal Quiche, Vegetarian Club Sandwich, Pear and Brie Turnovers, Easy Jambalaya, Seaside Pasta Salad, Colorful Lemon Quinoa, Jammin' Ricotta Bites, Mahalo Fruit salad, Choco-Crispy Rice Treats, and many more.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2011
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April 24, 2012
My only gripe is that the author's French upbringing, make for heavy leaning toward French cuisine or French inspired recipes of which I'm not a huge fan.
That being said, there are plenty of great recipes to be found that will make bringing lunch to work or school a lot less boring than the standard brown bag affair. I also find the concept of bento box style meals quite fun.
More, healthier lunch options are a definite plus given the current economic situation most folks are dealing with where the cost of driving somewhere to buy lunch is less of an option - not to mention saving money by not buying lunch at all! The recipes primarily consist of salads, soups (hot & cold), sandwiches, finger foods, snacks, desserts, and smoothies made into various combinations of meals.
Since most of the recipes make 2 or more servings, they are great for mom's needing to pack multiple lunches or for options to accompany dinners several days during a week. Since most of these recipes are served cold or at room temp, there's a wealth of options for summer dinners when the weather is too hot to eat heavy meals.
All in all, another great cookbook from Trader Joe's.
That being said, there are plenty of great recipes to be found that will make bringing lunch to work or school a lot less boring than the standard brown bag affair. I also find the concept of bento box style meals quite fun.
More, healthier lunch options are a definite plus given the current economic situation most folks are dealing with where the cost of driving somewhere to buy lunch is less of an option - not to mention saving money by not buying lunch at all! The recipes primarily consist of salads, soups (hot & cold), sandwiches, finger foods, snacks, desserts, and smoothies made into various combinations of meals.
Since most of the recipes make 2 or more servings, they are great for mom's needing to pack multiple lunches or for options to accompany dinners several days during a week. Since most of these recipes are served cold or at room temp, there's a wealth of options for summer dinners when the weather is too hot to eat heavy meals.
All in all, another great cookbook from Trader Joe's.
July 16, 2012
Loved this! It made me sad that I don't live near a TJs anymore... actually, it made me horribly depressed that I don't live near a TJs anymore... BUT! Lots of tasty recipes, most that I could even make without being able to shop at TJs. The peach soup? So good. Everything I made was great, and there are so many easy, cheap, and fast lunch ideas. Awesome!
March 30, 2012
The recipes were well laid out, great photos of each recipe, easy to read, great selection. Looks like there is something for everyone!
Edit: I received this for free through Goodreads First Reads.
Edit: I received this for free through Goodreads First Reads.
April 16, 2013
Really excellent, with a ton of recipes right up my alley. You don't even have to purchase exclusively from TJ's, but they do make it easy to find the ingredients! Plus, it gives me ideas to use some random gift cards on :)
May 23, 2012
I love Trader Joe's! This book had very pretty photos but only one recipe for every two pages. I marked 12 different recipes to try and all of them looked easy to make. Haven't tried any of them but they look delicious!
October 11, 2014
Some interesting recipes from soup, to salad, to desert. Everything lookss easy to prepare. This was a free copy for review purposes. Nutritional information is given.
September 4, 2012
I highly recommend this book for anyone
FTC: I received a free copy of this book and was not reimbursed in any other way.
FTC: I received a free copy of this book and was not reimbursed in any other way.
May 1, 2017
Recipes have fairly short ingredient lists and simple cooking techniques. Only basic cooking skills are required, and since everything can be found at Trader Joe's, you don't have to run all over town trying to find a store that has some unusual ingredient, which has been my experience with other cookbooks.
I was a little disappointed that this book was by a professional cookbook author who just happened to write a cookbook using products found at Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's itself has some great recipes at their sample counter that almost never disappoint, and I wish there was a cookbook of those recipes.
I was a little disappointed that this book was by a professional cookbook author who just happened to write a cookbook using products found at Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's itself has some great recipes at their sample counter that almost never disappoint, and I wish there was a cookbook of those recipes.
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