Good Housekeeping Easy Meal Prep: The Ultimate Playbook for Make-Ahead Meals

by Good Housekeeping (Editor), Jane Francisco (Foreword by)

Overview

Meal prep is as easy as 1, 2, 3! Good Housekeeping’s 100+ make-ahead recipes are quick, healthy, and delicious and will transform your weeknight meals.
 
Want to sit down to incredibly tasty, nutritious, homecooked meals every single day? Who doesn’t! But who has the time? Now you do, with this meal-planning guide and cookbook that will help you get yummy dishes on the table in minutes. Whatever your goal—eat better, spend (and waste!) less, get out of a dinner rut—some simple meal prep can make it reality. From batch cooking and freeze-ahead meals to ready-to-serve dinners and grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches, Good Housekeeping Easy Meal Prep includes:
 
• Over 100 easy recipes like Crispy Caprese Cakes, Citrusy Shredded Pork, and Mustard-Crusted Mini Meatloaves, all developed and approved by the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen.
• Meal plans that give you 4 weeks’ worth of ideas; they’re customizable to suit your family’s size and tastes.
• At-a-glance cooking charts for whipping-up staples to use all week.
• Recipe ideas that allow you to cook once, eat twice (and halve your time spent cooking).
 
Packed with cooking and storage tips and brimming with delicious recipes, Good Housekeeping Easy Meal Prep makes weeknight dinners nearly effortless.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950785223
Publisher:	Hearst Home Books
Publication date:	03/02/2021
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	162,247
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Good Housekeeping is a leading lifestyle media brand inspiring a monthly audience of 58+ million readers—including more than six million followers on social media. The Good Housekeeping Institute's state-of-the-art labs combined with Good Housekeeping's seasoned editorial talent and renowned test kitchen is unparalleled. In addition to its US flagship, Good Housekeeping publishes five editions around the world.

Jane Francisco is the editor in chief of Good Housekeeping and the Editorial Director of the Hearst Lifestyle Group where she oversees and develops content that caters to the modern women across multiple platforms for Good Housekeeping, Women's Day, Dr. Oz The Goodlife and Prevention. Jane lives with her husband and son in New Jersey.

Editorial Reviews

02/01/2021

Francisco, editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping, shares the secrets of making meal prep easy and offers more than 100 recipes for delicious meals in this savvy cookbook. Meal prep, she argues, shouldn’t be a stressful endeavor, and to that end, she shares her three favorite tips for doing so: cooking in large batches, splitting dishes into individual portions for grab and go meals, and chopping, peeling, and slicing ingredients early in the week so that weeknight meals come together quickly. Tasty dishes like minestrone (“This produce-packed soup lasts up to five days in the fridge”), pork ragu rigatoni (the ragu can be frozen for three months), and a make-ahead egg and cheese sandwich (“assemble as many sandwiches as you will eat in a month—they’ll keep in the freezer for up to 30 days”) are on offer. Francisco’s writing is breezy (“ ‘What’s for dinner?’ Do these three words strike dread in your heart?”) and she peppers the recipes with fun facts, such as that frozen fruit is often fresher than off-the-shelf, since it’s picked, frozen, and packaged at peak ripeness. She also includes a useful weekly meal planning chart and a list of substitutions for those wanting to experiment with flavors. This is great for anyone looking to take the stress out of getting food on the table. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Who couldn’t use a cookbook that helps get delicious, healthy meals on the table quickly and easily? Good Housekeeping Easy Meal Prep offers terrific tips and strategies, which make both meal planning and cooking a breeze! I can’t wait to try recipes like Roasted Squash and Couscous Salad, Lentil Bolognese, and charred Shrimp and Avocado Salad.” 
—Tracy Pollan, New York Times best-selling author of Mostly Plants and The Pollan Family Table

“Good Housekeeping Easy Meal Prep is the ultimate guide for quick and healthy meals! This book is filled with tips and tricks straight from the Test Kitchen. I like that this book even offers creative recipes to transform tonight’s leftovers into tomorrow’s lunch, demonstrating that truly every meal can be easy and delicious.” 
—Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN, national nutrition expert with a private practice in Brooklyn, NY

“Getting into the meal prep game can help you eat more nutritiously by avoiding last-minute convenience and takeout foods that derail your efforts. Enter Good Housekeeping’s Easy Meal Prep. It takes the guesswork out of meal prep with cheat sheets and tips along with numerous recipes that will make your life easier and healthier and your meals tastier.”  
—Samantha Cassetty, MS, RD, national nutrition and wellness expert and co-author of Sugar Shock

“Who doesn’t want to make meal time easier and less stressful? As a working mom of 3, this book has so many recipes that I know will become go-tos for me, like the Make-Ahead Egg and Cheese Sandwich and the Mini Meatballs with Garlicky Tomatoes. I love all the step-by-step instructions—they are so helpful and encouraging. This book is a must for time-strapped parents!”
—Frances Largeman-Roth, RDN, nutrition expert and author of Smoothies & Juices: Prevention Healing Kitchen

“...great for anyone looking to take the stress out of getting food on the table.”
—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

02/19/2021

The latest book by Good Housekeeping, with a foreword by editor-in-chief Jane Francisco, is focused on making family meals easier to put together and keeping stress to a minimum. In a nod to meal prep techniques, the book includes a chapter on freezing both meals and ingredients, big batch cooking (although one should note most of the recipes make between four and six servings), and using the same ingredients in different dishes. Most of the book is devoted to the 100-plus recipes that should satisfy most members of the family, including vegetarians, with recipes that range from breakfast burritos to spring minestrone. Similar to other Good Housekeeping titles, this one also features lavish photographs that will help guide readers along as they replicate dishes such as sheet-pan chickpea chicken. The writing is uncluttered, and each meal features easy-to-find ingredients with clear instructions. Recipes are augmented by tips for cooking and techniques offered throughout. VERDICT Complete with meal plans, this is a practical resource offering advice and suggestions for mealtime variety. An ideal complement to Good Housekeeping Cookbook: 1,200 Triple-Tested Recipes by Susan Westmoreland.—Ginny Wolter, Toledo Lucas Cty. P.L.

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