Editorial Review:Product Description: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.
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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.
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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 idex for wheat-, gluten-, soy-, and nut-free recipes. Several of the recipes are ethnic. Cool ones to try:
* Mix Vegetable Wat (Spicy Ethiopian Stew)
* Tofu Fish Sticks (pictured in the book)
* Black Rice Pudding (A Traditional Thai Dessert)
Vegan Lunch Box covers the meals with: desserts, soups, salads, dressings, appetizers, snacks, dips, sides, sandwiches, main dishes, and holiday & party menus.
These recipes are designed both for children and adults, but the emphasis is on the kids. McCann offers fun-looking meal plates ideas and advice for dealing with the pick eater. She also understands the need of the vegan child to fit in at school.
The Vegan Lunch Box is 100% vegan and recipes are suitable for both vegans and vegetarians. McCann herself became a vegetarian at the age of 15, and then later moved toward veganism. Her book places great value on whole grains--oats, barley, spelt, brown rice, quinoa; protein--soy products, wheat gluten (seitan), nuts, seeds, beans, legumes; a wide array of fruits and vegetables; fortified juices and nondairy milks.
Vegetarians, Vegans, and those who would like to try incorporating a healthier diet into their children's lives, should take a look at Jennifer McCann's Vegan Lunch Box. It's a winner!
4 Stars
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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 from all over the world. Japanese, ethiopian anyone?
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Great resource for mums
I was dying to get this book 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 this book is WELL worth the price and will truly be USED in a household with kids. Just give us some photos!
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Nice!
If you only own one vegan cookbook, get Veganomicon. But if you decide to get another one, this book is a great choice! I got it as a gift and I love it! All the recipes I've tried have been great and I am excited to make many more. So far I've only used it for regular, at-home meals, but I bet it would make for great lunches too.