I bring in a packed lunch everyday and often run out of inspiration/ideas to keep things from not getting too same-y! I had been waiting for a book like this to come out for a long time. I really feel this author understands meal prep and how some foods will taste a few days after cooking and even the practicalities of transporting into work.
I have already made some of the recipes and my food bill has come down also! I would highly recommend this book for lunch ideas in particularly!

This book is thorough with lots of tips in reagards of meal prep. It has a somewhat healthy approach, so I think it's more suitable for those who enjoy healthy living rather than "the rest of us". I would also have liked to see more variety in regards of the recipes.

Overall, a decent primer on food prep. However, the book suffers from trying too hard to be inclusive of many diets and reads more long a series of blog posts than a kitchen resource. I would recommend this to anyone seeking to try out food prep for the first time. The photos were gorgeous, but I wouldn't exactly call this a "visual guide".

Thank you to Erin Romeo, Quarto Publishing Group - Race Point Publishing, and NetGalley for allowing me access to a digital copy of this book in advance of its release. As always, all opinions are my own.

Great book with healthy and time saving meals! Loved the included shopping lists. This is basically a step by step guide on meal prepping, and it is fantastic!

Brilliant!
The Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep delivers - it manages to make something people usually consider to be a chore, easy and straightforward. I used to consider the sight of prepped food quite mundane to look at, the art element of this book really brought colour and life to preparation. I recommend this book if you need a kick start into healthy, vibrant eating.

This is an easy, visually appealing book about meal prep. The author clearly describes what materials are needed and why meal prep is helpful for busy people. I liked the recipes and the way many different dietary choices were included. I would recommend this book to people looking to learn how to meal plan and meal prep or those just looking to improve their eating habits.
Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest opinion.

The visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep by Erin Romeo is an interesting take on planning your meals ahead of time. While planning ahead is not new, preparing vegetarian, gluten free and dairy free is new. The photos are beautiful and the recipes sound delicious. While I am not on a restricted diet I am going to be trying many of these recipes. The recipes and meal plans are thoughtful and well planned. Each plan even includes snacks and sweets. I was very pleased with this book, well done.

I would like to thank Quarto Publishing, the author and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a decent guide on meal prep with a great breakdown of what is needed to start successfully prep healthy meals. The recipes are interesting ranging from tropical energy balls, super food green salad, and "not your mama's meatloaf" muffins. This is a great book for someone who is just starting out in meal prep. It gives step by step directions on shopping, prep containers, cooking tips. I highly recommend this book for a novice in meal prep.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC of The Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep.

I'm no chef but I prepare and make my lunches for the work week and try to eat as healthfully as I can so this book was ideal for me.

The recipes are simple and easy to follow, nothing difficult or takes too much time to make.

The author also offers meal plans for those on low-carb diets, vegetarian, and gluten-free and dairy-free, which is awesome and anyone can incorporate into their eating routine, whether you are eating low carb or gluten-free.

I've been making and brown bagging my lunches for years so most of what I read here was nothing new but I did pick up a few tips and recipe ideas and I loved the photos. Wished there were more!

This book is great for people looking for new recipes to try or newbies who are wary of making their own lunches and think prepping and organizing meals daunting.

I look forward to trying out most of these recipes in the coming months.

This book is exactly what it says - a visual guide for meal prepping! It is so nice to see how to actually meal prep and not just read about it. I am a visual person so this was great for me. The recipes here are generally healthy too and there is something for any type of diet. Beautiful pictures!

Plans are well organized and the recipes are easy to follow. All ingredients are grocery store staples so no unknown or hard to find items are necessary. Thank goodness as meal prep is used to save time, not keep people running around for exotic foods.

I was impressed seeing specialty diets: Low-Carb, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free. Once I realized only 4 were included I was disappointed that a Diabetic and Keto plan were not included. Many people are afflicted with diabetes where meal planning is essential to their health. Plus Keto is very popular right now so this book already has a passe feeling.

The format works but has poor aesthetics.

I received a ARC from Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.

This step-by-step book is great if you are struggling with the best ways to meal prep. I often get overwhelmed when I get home from the grocery store after I have sworn I will meal prep, and instead I give up on the idea. This book helped me get organized and set up in such a way that I didn't feel overwhelmed and was able to do the cleaning/chopping/full prepping. It is important to point out that this is not a cookbook (although she does include 4 simple meal plan ideas, with cooking instructions, so that you can get a better idea of how to do the step-by-step), Each of the plans she includes cover a specific type of diet (gluten free, vegetarian, etc.). She also included a great list of ingredients to have on hand so that meal prepping is easy.

This is an amazing starter guide for those interested in meal prepping. It has information in relation to the different types of equipment and containers needed for this, as well as a starter shopping list. One of the key selling points of this book is that rather than having single recipes, it has weekly plans and the instructions contained help you to make all the items needed for that plan in one session, with all the times for the various ingredients. For those who want a bit more freedom, it also contains the individual recipes for you to follow yourself.

Things I liked:
The inclusion some vegetarian options and recipes (because I am one)
It would be fairly simple to swap in a recipe or two of your own into the plan
3 meals and 2 snacks a day and she says you’ll likely lose weight
Variations for gluten free or dairy free
Healthy
Home cooked is way better tasting than fast food
I think there is great variety in the recipes - some Mexican, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Thai, dessert, soups, wraps, beef, fish, chicken, vegetarian, pastas, salads, stir fries, snacks, dips, etc.

Things I disliked:
She says the prep time is 2-3 hours once a week, but then later she gives some instructions on doing some things the night before
To save on complicated prep, she suggests you eat the same meals twice each week. I think this will bother some people, but if time is more valuable to you than variety, you might disagree. Of course you can choose to plan different meals every day and the time required will increase accordingly.

Full disclosure: I haven’t actually tried the prep plan yet, so my review is based on an untested method.

I think this would be a delightfully easy starting point for someone who wants to try a bulk cooking/meal prep plan. Seeing how most women work these days and have very limited time for putting towards cooking, I think this could bring a lot of sanity on weeknights, especially when you have young children at home. I myself work full time and still have 1 child at home. I leave home at 6am and sometimes I’m not home until 5:30pm. That leaves me very little time for planning and cooking, and very little energy to execute any plan. I find cooking a lot more enjoyable when I’m not starving, at the end of my rope, or extremely limited on time. This plan could help solve all those problems.

If you are super picky and don’t like some of the health foods that are becoming more common, such as quinoa, whole grain pasta, cauliflower rice, lack of creamy sauces and cheeses, zucchini made into noodles, etc., you may not like these recipes. However, I think with a little planning, you could try this meal prep method with your own recipes.

There are a handful of recipes I’d like to try: Thai Bowls with Peanut Sauce, some of the Greek Yogurt dips, the Ginger Soy Chicken Thighs, Roasted Vegetables, and several others.

Meal preparation might seem like a challenge, but this book helps you prepare several meals and snacks in advance. Batch cooking made easy. A lot of lean, healthy recipes that I wouldn't have thought of on my own.

As a student who has always wanted to meal prep, I had to check out this book
Erin does an amazing job introducing the purpose and benefits of meal prepping. She goes through an in-depth and comprehensive explanation over what meal prepping is, and what it means to incorporate it into your life.
What is nice is that she goes through every step of meal prepping, from getting the right containers to buying groceries to finally prepping. Where most books and YouTube tutorials would only mention the recipe, Erin provides as much advice possible.
My favourite preps are:
Breakfast: Egg and Cheese English Muffin Sandwiches
Lunch: Pan-Fried Teriyaki Salmon
Deserts: Apple Cinnamon Walnut Muffins
The recipes that Erin provides are easy to follow. I'm really excited to give this a shot one day when I have to plan a week's worth of food.

Thank you Quarto Publishing for a copy of The Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep for review. Available August 6/19.

Lots of easy to follow information for beginners to meal prep, like me. Plenty of easy recipes as well but I really appreciated the walk through of what to prep and why meal prep works. Tips and tricks along the way will save plenty of time along the way.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Race Point Publishing for The Visual Guide to Easy Meal Prep by Erin Romeo. This is a book by the self-proclaimed Food Prep Princess who says her method for meal prep is “life changing.” This book is to help you meal prep so that you can save both time and money, as well as, eat healthier. Meal prep is all about routine, which this book provides you.

The first third of the book is full of very helpful tips and techniques, including the five steps to meal prep success, details on how to read and decipher nutrition labels and ingredient list, and lists of approved foods for healthy meal prep. The book also includes sample meal plans for: low carb, vegetarian, dairy free, and gluten free. The meal plans include which recipes to use and a step-by-step plan on how to do the meal plans. The meal plans each include recipes for four days – three meals and two snacks each day, including repeated recipes.

The book then lists lots of meal prep friendly recipes by topic. Some of my favorite recipes are:
- Breakfast
o Breakfast Burritos
o Healthy Egg Cup with several variations
o Chocolate Raspberry Breakfast Quinoa
- Mains
o Spinach Fettuccine with Turkey Bolognese
o Zucchini Noodles Caprese-Style
o Broccoli, Chicken, and Cheese Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
o “Not Your Mama’s Meatloaf” Muffins
- Snacks & Sides
o Apple Cinnamon Walnut Muffins
o Chocolate Granola
o Roasted Vegetables
- Dressings, Dips, and Sauces
o 3 Step Tomato Salsa
o Avocado Aioli
o Hummus

The book ends with a very detailed index to help you use the book. I found this book extremely helpful in beginning to meal prep. The recipes are all meal prep friendly and delicious. The sample meal plans really help to show you the process to use. This book is a great resource for meal prep in addition to a great source of meal prep friendly recipes.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for my unbiased review.

Really like the layout of the book, it's simplicity, and the recipes. I like the focus on the healthy aspect of batch cooking. I felt inspired to cook and meal plan. With that said, I would have liked a little more prep/planning assistance listed for each recipe and not so generally at the beginning of the book.

I thought that there were so many delicious sounding recipes in the book that also are healthy which is a huge plus for me. I would eat nearly all of them. I was disappointed that most of the recipes were for meals that couldn't be frozen because that is really the type of meal prep that I am looking for. I am sure that there are many people who will find a book like this useful who want to meal prep one week at a time. I am looking for more bulk cooking, so I hope the author comes out with an easy freezer meal prep in the future.