The Mason Jar Cookbook: 80 Healthy and Portable Meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner

by Amy Fazio

Our readers say it "great ideas for on the go breakfast and lunch. Easy to follow, simple recipes, with ingredients you probably have". "If you are struggling, as I was, to get more fruits and veggies into your diet, this makes it so simple"Amy Fazio’s second book, The Mason Jar Cookbook, shows the versatility and convenience of creating dishes in the mason jar. No longer just for jellies and jam, mason jars are now being filled in the most creative and often super healthy ways, such as salads and casseroles. The easy-to-follow recipes in this book will show you how to prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner in a mason jar. Oh, and dessert! Can’t forget dessert.Some of the recipes included in the book • Pumpkin Pie Overnight Oats• Creamy Polenta with Bacon and Eggs• Spicy Watermelon and Cotija Salad• Roasted Butternut Squash and Kale Salad with Pepitas• Mexican Caesar Salad with greek yogurt dressing• Lazy Lasagna• Campers Sangria• Pie in a JarThe Mason Jar Cookbook will feature, in beautiful full-color photos, over 100 ways to create, carry, and consume food in the mason jar. Many of the recipes will include tips on serving and storage. Several will also include notes on substituting ingredients to include seasonal fruits and vegetables.Beautiful, convenient, easy, versatile and just plain cool. Just some of the many reasons why everyone should have mason jars in their life. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Nonfiction, Food

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 19, 2016

Reviews

[Vern Henley · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was more about making big batches of food, splitting it up into mason jars and dumping it into a bowl to eat later. Some good ideas for salad dressings though. The authors real talent was stretching a limited amount of ideas into a whole book.

[Jessica Parker · Rating 3 out of 5]

I happened to stumble on this book by accident. It had some good ideas for quick grab and go lunches for work. My mother is trying to eat better, so I am going to make the overnight oats and the oatmeal jars for her and see how she likes them for work snacks.

There is a particular salad I have made (using a recipe from a different book) that I am going to try to convert to using a mason jar for so it is easier to bring to work without it getting soggy from the dressing. This book just happened to give me the idea.

It would have been nice to see some recipes that could be turned into "salad shakers." While some of the recipes can be eaten right out of the jar, most of the salad recipes require pouring the salad into a bowl which dirties another dish. With limited lunch box space, the jars would have been a nice way to save room. I may try to adapt some recipes to make them more like salad shakers, but it will be trial and error getting proportions right.

[Ros · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disclaimer: bought as a bookbub deal, and even then I'm annoyed at having spent pennies on this.

As a cookbook, it's profoundly mediocre. A 1-page summary of making mason jar salads (dressing, then grains or legumes that will hold up to the dressing, followed by meat/fruit/vegetables/lettuce) summarizes about 1/2 of the book, assuming you have basic imagination with salad combinations. And the rest... like. Yes. I can put drinks in a mason jar and transport them. OBV. But that doesn't make them worth a chapter.

I was hoping to find easily portable meal inspiration for lunches, and this is... well. There are some salad combinations that look vaguely inspiring, but the entire affair could have been summed up in a 3-page article.

[Sarah Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is what I was looking for in a Mason Jar Cookbook! It has lots of great ideas, from how to place salad ingredients in the right order to other meals you can eat from the jar as well. Some things are to be eaten cold, and some nuked in the microwave for 2 minutes or less. It covers all meals, and some drinks which I don't mind since it is not 1/4-3/4 of the books like some jar cookbooks. This has given me a lot of great ideas to get started, and will help me to be creative on my own!

[Naomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this cookbook. This was such a unique cookbook. There was not one recipe I wouldn't try and I can't wait to get going with it. Recipes ranged from simple salads to desserts/snacks and all sizes of mason jars.

Just a really unique cookbook. I love when I can get these on sale and I was able to grab the kindle version for a fraction of the cost!

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh, the good old days when women would barely able to read, and were spending days making preserves to compensate for the lack of proper refrigerated storage. I hope those days are gone. The book is probably okay, although Fazio has a very limited understanding beyond cooking. Like healthy which is just a buzzword, devoid of meaning.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interesting and wonderful idea. Sorry to say there just was not much that I found that I liked. I liked the Idea of the oats in a jar, but I am more of an overnight kind of girl. There was maybe one or two more items that I might like. As a whole good idea, execution not so good.

[Guylou (Two Dogs and a Book) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am always very intrigued when I see someone with their full lunch in a Mason Jar. It always looked so pretty and healthy. This book by Amy Fazio is filled with awesome recipes for portable meals. The recipes are easy, healthy and yummy.

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like this cookbook; but the portion sizes are enormous. And as another reviewer pointed out, you could make the recipes in other containers. The mason jars however, have the advantage of making salads look very inviting.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

The best part of this book was in the ideas that could be easily adapted to what I have in my own kitchen. Heathier and quicker "ramen", premade cocktails in individual portions for parties, and a ton of homemade salad dressing recipes.

[Yvonne Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ideas for take to work meals

There are a lot of great ideas for on the go breakfast and lunch. Easy to follow, simple recipes, with ingredients you probably have.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice recipes that can be made with or without the jars.

[Rachelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excited about the cocktail and dessert recipes.

[Kit Feral · Rating 2 out of 5]

I kind of feel like I already saw all this on pinterest. Pretty book but nothing new to me.

[Deborah S Adkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great idea! I plan to start packing my lunch in Mason Jars. Pack on Sunday for the week and pull one out each day so I can eat healthier. Looking for Mason jars. :)

[A.]

This book felt ridiculous. Putting all the food into jars just to take them out again to eat it? Just because? I do not have time for this nonsense.

[Mary Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great plan ahead meals. Lots of new salad ideas to use.

[Ericka Thompson]

This cookbook gave me some great inspiration for future endeavors for my lunches. Since I am home for lunch, everyday, I need something healthy for lunch that will keep me out of the pantry!! I know this fad was soo last year, but let's be honest, the Mason jar is a gem in so many ways!