Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep: 100+ Make-Ahead Recipes and Quick-Assembly Meals: A Gluten-Free Cookbook Hardcover – December 6, 2022

I own a LOT of cookbooks. And I order way more and send a lot back because I’m picky. I almost never write reviews. But I love this cookbook. It’s truly healthy (the food, the recipe combinations and. Even the advice on which containers to use to store). It’s practical (long gone are the days I get an uninterrupted hour to cook). Many of the recipes allow me to prep quickly in advance when I’m free and then assemble or reheat right after picking my kid up from daycare. The flavors are excellent and she doesn’t demonize anything. Need a bit of maple syrup to make oats appealing? It’s in the recipe. Want less sugar, reduce it. There are pictures for everything and they look very appetizing. And even better, when I make the recipes, my food looks the same which is rare given the age of instagram focused food belongs. Simply perfection!

This book is a staple. The meals are delicious, healthy and approachable to make. The meal storage information is also incredibly helpful. My husband loves the recipes too.

This book is changing my life. I have struggled with SIBO, and recently tested negative. It’s been a crazy couple of years with stomach issues and recovering from having a baby. I was getting into a rut being “too busy” for healthy foods. This book, and her approach is everything! I’m eating tons of veggies and it’s so simple. It’s actually simplifying my life so much. My kids are even trying, and liking some of her recipes! Some of them look really healthy, and I always wonder if I’ll have to gag it down. Everything I’ve tried is delicious! My one and only concern is not all of the foods have a good protein content. Maybe I’ll just start doctoring them up. I’ll try to keep adding photos. So far I only have the chickpea curry, which is so yummy.

This is one of the most organized, helpful, well thought out meal prep cookbooks with stunning photos! I literally want to make every single recipe in this book, and it makes me happy that all of the recipes use every day ingredients. I also find it funny that a few reviewers have said it's not really a meal prep cookbook because there's straight recipes. Umm, that's literally what big-batch cooking is! It's meal prepping a single recipe to enjoy several times throughout the week. I'm constantly doing that with Lisa's recipe for chili or lentil soup. Single ingredient meal prep where you mix-and-match things (which the other reviewers seem to be alluding to) is only ONE way to meal prep. Big batch cooking and reheating leftovers is another way to meal prep. Lisa actually explains this on page 13-14 of the book (it seems many didn't actually read the intro). I have several meal prep cookbooks, including Skinnytaste Meal Prep, and that book only does straight recipes. Lisa did so much more! She breaks down individual ingredients and how to prep and store them, then tells you how to mix-and-match individual ingredients (or prepped ingredients along with some recipes) as she shows in her YouTube videos, and finally how to make big-batch recipes to enjoy for several meals. I personally love to have meals like these in my freezer! If ever there was a meal prep cookbook that *finally* knocked it out of the park with recipes that are healthy, delicious, and exciting, it's this one! Happy to buy more copies for Christmas gifts now.

I just Love Lisa Bryan, her cookbooks are so awesome. Her recipes are quick and delicious. I’ve learned to meal prep for the week. Not a lot of time in the kitchen. I’ve enjoyed making her recipes for a long time. If you want simple but delicious nutritional food. This is the book for you. Enjoy cooking good healthy foods.

I have been watching Downshiftology on YouTube for a few years, and the cookbook is a welcome continuation of that. The recipes are gluten-free and emphasize whole foods, rather than processed foods. Lisa is a proponent of meal prepping in batches and then combining the prepped components into different combinations throughout the week to keep it interesting. She includes information about how to select the best food from the grocery store (what to look for), different ways to prep and cook it, and different ways to use it in different dishes, as well as storage tips, so she offers a lot of versatility, in addition to traditional recipes.Although the recipes are gluten-free, they are not low carb. For example, rice, potatoes, and legumes are all naturally gluten-free but high in carbs. I follow a low-carb diet, so I simply use substitutions like riced cauliflower instead of actual rice or zucchini instead of potatoes. The recipes are all simple and easy to customize to your liking. She’s a proponent of prepping from whole foods (e.g., spiralizing her own zucchini noodles or making her own hummus), but I don’t have the time, equipment, or energy for that, and that’s Okay too. You can buy pre-spiralized zucchini noodles at many grocery stores, for example. It’s more important to remove any potential barriers to healthy eating than to try to follow everything verbatim.The pictures are beautiful and inspiring. My husband was really struck by the cover picture of a shrimp dish, so I bought the ingredients and he made it that night, which has never happened before from a cookbook. Something random is that many of the pictures have the food on a white marble counter, and I kept mistaking the spots in the marble for stains on the pages of the book, but that’s not really a critique, just something I noticed.Whether you are a beginner or an experienced cook, I think you’ll like this cookbook. Give it a try, and see how much better you feel when you eat healthy, delicious food.

I really like this book. Lots of information on meal prep. Recipes are creative yet simple to make. Many beautiful pictures on every page. Information on how to store. Many tips scattered throughout the book.My only criticism is I fine the index difficult to use. Things are not where you'd expect them to be. And there are't any double listings like you find in other cookbooks. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in fresh, healthy food.