As the author Jo Pratt aptly describes her cookbook is the Swiss Army of cookbooks as many of her recipes options making it easier for the family to eat together. The author says her recipes cut down on the use of sugar while emphasizing the use of good fats. She also wrote there are some "naughty" recipes too rounding her selection of recipes.

Some of the recipes you'll find include:

Raspberry and Mango Smoothie
Loaded Breakfast Burriots
Simple Pho
Quick Pan Pizza
Creamy Salad Dressing or Dip
Rainbow Fries
Chocolate Meringue Mousse Cake

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.

Recipes are separated into chapters on Breakfast and Brunch, Soups and Broths, Snacks and Small Plates, Main Meals, Sides and Accompaniments, and Baking and Desserts. I loved that all the recipes included nice full color photographs. They also include a "flexible" section, with info on how to modify for special dietary needs. A Dietary Index also lists the recipes applicable under headings for special diet types, which is very useful. There is a lot of variety in the book in terms of flavors and types of dishes.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Jo Pratt tells us this is the Swiss Army knife of cookbooks, a multi-tool to provide practical recipe solutions for the demands of modern family life. Speaking as a mother of two, one of which is a pescatarian, I am always in the market for a cookbook which inspires me and allows me to cook one meal for all tastes.

Having studied it cover to cover, my conclusion is that you won't find many new innovative recipes, but in this book your family favourites are all in one place! Many of these combinations are ideas that I have torn out of magazines or highlighted in existing books I own. Where this book comes into its own is in the 'flexible' paragraphs at the bottom of each page. Here you can substitute ingredients or get ahead. You can even 'upgrade' or flavour swap.

The photography is very attractive and I do like an aspirational photo with each recipe when I cook something new. Photography was by Malou Burger - what a great name!

Recipes that jump out at me? Crispy halloumi and bacon, substituting chestnut mushrooms for the picky daughter. Tortellini minestrone. Popcorn cauliflower bites. Mexican baked chicken and rice. Tikka traybake. Sticky lemon and orange cake. Good solid recipes with limited amount of ingredients and simple directions. Four stars from me.

This book is just fabulous, I want to buy a copy right now, please!

It is beautifully presented, with well-written instructions and explanations, and the photography is superb.

This, however, isn't the main reason I really need a copy. I have a white cell condition called Mast Cell Activation Disorder, as does my daughter. My son has a genetic medical condition which has resulted in him eating a reduced diet, my sister has cancer and now has to eat diary, wheat and sugar-free, my niece is a vegan - my darling husband eats everything!

We are a family who loves to cook and bake (I collect vintage recipe books and my daughter and I cook and bake from these and have Instagram, Twitter and Facebook pages devoted to this). Having all these restrictions. both medical and ethical in our family can mean that we have to adjust and adapt to accommodate everyone because we all want to enjoy eating as a family. This is our 'normal' - whatever normal really is, and the perception is that we must cook several different dishes each evening. We don't, we just add or take away ingredients to enable us to all eat together, that socical side of a family meal is very important to all of us.

What Jo Pratt has achieved in this book, is exactly this. She's done an outstanding job of enabling families such as ours to cook and bake for everyone, and with this not being a nightmare or at a huge cost.
Jo - you're amazing, I have been extremely fortunate in that I have had the opportunity to review this book prior to publication.

I read the book through in one go, and we're cooking supper from it tonight. It's just what we needed. I'll be buying a copy for my sister, my niece and my daughter. I really cannot thank you enough.

I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine

Absolutely loved this
So many recipes I am going to try - I loved the fact that all the recipes are so doable and the photography is wonderful.

Its one of those few recipe books where all the recipes are so accessible - Its one I shall come back to time and again

A kitchen must-have !!!

This is a cookbook that belongs in every kitchen and I am glad I got to try it out. I loved it so much because they were pictures and easy to follow steps. I am a firm believer that if a cookbook has instructions it's easier to digest and follow. Could have used a few fun facts in the movie so that it could be way more interesting. I do recommend this cookbook ♥️Huge thanks to the publisher for my copy .

**I received and voluntarily read an e-ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.**

The pancakes on the cover caught my attention and made me want to try this book out. I wanted to like this cookbook, but I just can't get into it.

Some of the recipes are flexible, for PICKY eaters, but not so much for sensitive eaters. Just saying "replace this with this" doesn't do the trick. Most people who already cook for special diets know to do this. Teach me something new!

Some okay looking recipes, but nothing I'd drive to the store to buy ingredients for. In general, there's nothing really special about this cookbook that I couldn't get from others. It gets 2/5 because the variety would would make it a cookbook good for someone who doesn't have a lot of cookbooks already.

What a useful book! Beautifully and clearly presented, this is the perfect recipe book for anyone catering for a range of dietary needs. The 'flexible' aspect, from the title, refers to an addition to each recipe which offers suggestions to slightly alter the recipes to cater for nut-free, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, pescatarian and meat lovers. Seven chapters of delicious and varied recipes. The index is also made more accessible by being organised by dietary need. Thank you to Jo Pratt, Net Galley and Francis Lincoln Publishing, Quarto Group for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Great recipe book! Easy to follow instructions and great ideas for family dinners. I like to cook but I'm new to the kitchen. I'm still in the learning process and this book has been a great aid, especially for those days that I have nothing in mind to cook. The recipes are delicious and user friendly.

This cookbook gave a collection of beautiful recipes. The photography was spot on for each and they all looked completely delicious. I look forward to trying some of these recipes!

This book is simple and easy to follow. The pictures are of a good quality and look like the actual product rather than a photograph that looks nothing like the recipe that you have used.
The ingredients are all common and easy to buy, you probably will have some of them already.
I really enjoyed the avocado, bacon and halloumi breakfast recipe. These are ingredients that I regularly eat, but I would not have thought about adding the halloumi.
I found the recipes were similar in the ingredients that I used, but in combinations that I have not thought about. Just enough change to make something new and interesting that I knew that my family would enjoy.
Each recipe had suggestions of different flavours or ingredients that you could swap. I enjoyed making some of these recipes. As someone who usually cooks from scratch this book offered me new recipes, but it didn't challenge me like other cook books do.

Jo Pratt understands how families need flexibility when serving meals – one member may be gluten free, another can’t handle dairy, and another may be a vegetarian. In her excellent cookbook, The Flexible Family Cookbook: 75 quick and easy recipes with over 200 options to keep the whole family happy, she presents recipes that people will actually want to cook and eat, along with suggestions on making them fit with dietary guidelines for individual family members. The recipes are excellent and mouthwatering, and there are beautiful photographs of many of the dishes. Although most want pictures of every dish and this book doesn’t go quite that far, there are enough photos to make the book interesting and show just what many of the finished results should look like.

As is Jo Pratt’s style (she has previously authored several excellent cookbooks), the recipes are written in a succinct and easy-to-understand manner, so anyone – from beginner to experienced – can make these recipes. There is a good variety, too, including Mexican, Indian, American, Middle Eastern, and European influences to make it fun and to introduce new flavors. Most of the recipes are fairly easy, and won’t keep busy cooks in the kitchen too long. So far, every dish has turned out picture perfect and it’s easy to trust the recipes. The “to make” queue gets longer at every reading.

While a few recipes call for ingredients that aren’t readily available at larger grocery stores, most of us have good ethnic stores in our cities; alternately, some of the more exotic ingredients can be found online.

Once again, Jo Pratt has done an excellent job; this cookbook is highly recommended.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

This is cookbook which is well organized and has plenty of inspiration and variety. I guess the latter part is partially due to the flexible aspect of it, which I found neat.

Those cheesy cornbread muffins are a work of art! I am typing amongst a sea of corn bread crumbs.

This cook book is a stand out for me, not simply because it is packed with great family friendly meals but because there are ways to make them all Gluten free, dairy free or even upgrade them to create a whole new dish.

My family have gone crazy for the Sweet and Sour pork meatball tray bake and the chocolate chip cookies. There is so much jam packed into this book. Some of the recipes have become firm favourites in the house over the last week.

The pictures are great also, they are not over styled and unachievable.

I received this cook book from Netgalley in return for my honest opinions.

Thanks to netgalley i received an ARC of this cookbook. As a working mother with a toddler I was really excited to get some new culinary ideas for mealtimes. Unfortunately only a few recipes really stood out for me.

I had high hopes for this cookbook since I cook from scratch for a variety of dietary needs and frequently have to adapt recipes to make them vegetarian, gluten free or dairy free. Sadly, it wasn't as good a fit as I hoped.

This is an okay family cookbook but it seems a little disingenuous to market it as flexible for every dietary need. In most cases, that just means that a blurb at the end says something like "use gluten free self raising flour to make it gluten free" or "substitute a chia egg to make it vegan." Anybody who is already cooking for people with special dietary needs knows to do this, plus it often doesn't work well to flat-out substitute GF flour for flour (you often need additional moisture, rising agents and binders for best results even if the flour markets itself as one-for-one) and just saying "substitute for this" doesn't offer a lot.

Not all of the recipes are adaptable for all diets. Many can be converted to vegetarian but not vegan. Many cannot be made gluten free. Others say you can make them gluten free by substituting products like "gluten free puff pastry dough." In what magical universe can I purchase gluten free puff pastry dough??? Certainly not anywhere near my rural Minnesota home or in any larger city I've been to.

Measurements are in weights (like 300 grams of whole wheat flour), which will please some readers and annoy others. It is a UK cookbook, so the tastes and products are best suited for the UK. While the recipes tend towards healthy, they use a fair amount of purchased pre-made ingredients like tortellini and filo dough and more deep frying than I expected.

I did notice one case where the recipe appears to be gluten free but is not (Danish crackers, made with rye flour), which could cause harm if the cook didn't realize that wheat free is not the same as gluten free. The recipe calls them "wheat free" but rye flour contains gluten so they are not safe for people allergic to gluten. There are no gluten free adaptations given, which further gives the impression that it's already a gluten free recipe.

Example recipes are oatmeal (porridge) with a variety of toppings, chocolate granola, smoothies, pancakes, shrimp and corn soup, chocolate chip cookies (the recipe here is free of eggs and dairy so it's automatically vegan, and she says you can substitute GF flour -- I may try that one today and will report back if I do), pho, bao buns, spiced chickpea fritters, spring rolls (oddly made with filo pastry instead of rice paper), pan pizza, vietnamese chickpea pancakes, sweet and sour pork meatballs, slow cooked asian beef, mango and coconut chicken, cottage pie, moroccan baked fish in a bag, saffron rice, brownies, doughnut balls and a jamaican banana and caramel pudding.

Many of the recipes are international in flavor. Many are "traybakes." Some are exceptionally healthy, others not so much.

There are color photos for all of the recipes, I believe. No nutritional information is provided. There were a few recipes that I might try, but I was a bit disappointed in many of them and hoped for better variations for vegetarian/vegan and gluten free.

I read a self destructing digital ARC of this book for review.

This was a very good cookbook with lots a yummy recipes that I am excited to try!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with an ARC for an honest review.

Beautiful book and well organized! All the recipes have photos and they are mouthwatering! There are recipes for breakfast, soups, snacks, main meals, sides and desserts. I like that every recipe has a flexible way to do it depending on how you want it. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

Love, love, love the cover. Seriously you had me at the pancakes. Flexible cookbook gives you similar family fun recipes with a flexible ingredient. It’s an interesting concept for families with a picky or sensitive eater, and some delicious renditions on familiar recipes.

What did I like? Tons of families have an eater or two with some sensitivity’s so this is a unique kind of cookbook with a flair for different ingredients. Anything in this cookbook can be made with several different renditions. I’m a dairy free person, so this was a fun way to get the same recipe but in different forms in case I make something for myself or others. Gluten free, meat lovers, pescatarian, vegan, are just some of the different forms.

Would I recommend or buy? Flexible family cookbook is an interesting take on recipes, and I would love a copy. I recommend it to families that have food sensitivities, since this only changes a couple of ingredients to make it versatile. A charming book to have on hand when you need it.

I received a complimentary copy to read. Five stars! Great cookbook!

This cookbook has some great recipes with lots of variations for different allergens/sensitivities/preferences. I appreciate that these variations were built right into the recipe, instead of finding a recipe and then having to figure out how to adapt it for your own personal needs/preferences.
I also loved how many pictures there were of the recipes! I think there was a picture for every single recipe which was great.