Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636 EAN: 9781600940729 ISBN: 1600940722 Label: Da Capo Press Manufacturer: Da Capo Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: August 04, 2008 Publisher: Da Capo Press Sales Rank: 6864 Studio: Da Capo Press
If you think vegan lunchtime means peanut butter and jelly day after day, think again! Based on the wildly popular blog of the same name, Vegan Lunch Box offers an amazing array of meat-free, egg-free, and dairy-free meals and snacks. All the recipes are organized into menus to help parents pack quick, nutritious, and irresistible vegan lunches. Ideal for everyday and special occasions, Vegan Lunch Box features tips for feeding even the most finicky kids. It includes handy allergen-free indexes identifying wheat-free, gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free recipes, and product recommendations that make shopping a breeze.
What Others Say
The book is not like the blog...
I just received my copy of Vegan Lunch Box after much anticipation. I was a fan of the blog that inspired the book and for some reason expected the format of the book to be similar, which is what appealed to me. Unfortunately, the entire book is laid out in a new way.
First of all, there are virtually no pictures (save for a special insert in the middle of the book), and none to accompany the recipes. There are very few set "menus" except in sections for special occasions and a few to kick off your thinking. The recipes are divided into apps, salads, soups, sandwiches, main courses, sides, breads, desserts and beverages, which is useful, though there are a few stand-by recipes in here I think she could have skipped for most of us ... Read More
Lots of recipes
I bought this to help my son and his wife get ideas for preschool lunches. They said it gave them great ideas for vegetarian lunches for their 18 month old.
Vegan Kids Take It To School
From: www.BasilAndSpice.com
Book Review: Vegan Lunch Box (Da Capo Press, 2008) by Jennifer McCann
Vegan Lunch Box began with a stay-at-home mom, her desire to give her son vegan school lunches, and her blog. Jennifer McCann's Vegan Lunch Box blog has won PETA's Proggy Award for Blog of the Year, Veg News' Veg Webby Award, and a Bloggy Award for Best Food Blog. She's been going at it since 2005 and her Site Meter reads at over 2 million hits. That's what I like about McCann's book--I can refer to her blog and even leave a question or comment.
The Vegan Lunch Box has 16 glossy photos of McCann's artfully clever lunches, neatly divided in a special "bento" type of lunch box. The book contains 130 recipes, an ... Read More
Lovely addition to every vegetarian parent's cookbook collection
I love reading cookbooks. I'm vegetarian. And I have to fix several school lunches per day. So getting the book was a no-brainer for me. I've tried several recipes so far. Some my kids love others they don't. What became pretty clear to me is that the "5-star-rating" by Jennifer's son (the prerequisite for a lunch to get into the book) is -of course- quite subjective. And I know that food preferences in kids do change over time, so I'm hopeful.
The book is full of great ideas, some quick, some more time consuming and also some fancy lunch box stuff. I love that I can make every recipe without having to substitute meat items and it helps me to cook vegan more often (which makes so much sense ethically and environmentally). Great are the recipes ... Read More
Great resource for mums
I was dying to get Vegan Lunch Box: 130 Amazing, Animal-Free Lunches Kids and Grown-Ups Will Love! after being a fan of her blog for so long. It's got great menu plans - ones for mornings you have time to cook, ones for a rushed morning and ones for preparation the night before.
It has great recipes, a little too much fake meat and processed food for my taste - but then it's written for everyone, not just me :)
My only criticism (and that's why it lost a star) is the lack of photos. The beauty of the blog was the photo of each lunch, I was expecting this in the book too but there's just a few photos together in the middle of the book - 99% of the recipes and menus don't have photos which is sadly quite common with vegan cookbooks.
But Vegan Lunch Box: 130 Amazing, Animal-Free Lunches Kids and Grown-Ups Will Love! is WELL worth the price and will truly be USED in a household ... Read More
