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Conveniently Vegan: Turn Packaged Foods into Delicious Vegetarian Dishes

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Admittedly, this cookbook amounts to little more than an extended vegan pamphlet (or 'zine for those of you indie-pub types). Having said that, however, I will tell you what this book does well, something precious few vegan cookbooks bother with. It makes vegan eating possible for poor students, working stiffs, and others with little time to cook and limited access to farmer's markets, co-ops, or overpriced yuppie organic health food stores.

Now, not all vegan cookbooks are complicated and not all vegan recipes require exotic foods. However, very few authors ever suggest using the kinds of convenience ingredients found in this book. Typically, and for good reasons, they advocate using only the freshest of the fresh organic, happy hippie food products from the aforementioned stores. Moreover, this book is not overloaded with the whys and how-tos of vegan eating, something I find pretentious, militant, and redundant.

You do not have to flip through this book to find one or two time-saving, inexpensive, short ingredient list recipes; all of these recipes are such. The end results are not bland, but they are also not the wacky-far-out flavors that some associate with any kind of alternative eating, be it ethnic or ethical, making it an excellent starter book for those looking to try a strict vegetarian diet who don't want to be overwhelmed by the exoticism and aggressive politics of even some of the best vegan books.

This is a wonderful cookbook, very easy recipes with ingredients you can find at most any store. I have made 5 or 6 in the last few weeks....our favorites are mexican noodle casserole, and the quinoa and sweet potato patties. I highly recommend this book.

This book is wonderful for the working family. Although a few of the recipes are uninteresting, the majority are simple and delicious. This book is a great reference for new and veteran vegans.

I really like this cookbook as it contains a great variety of vegan convenience food recipes. All are therefore low-fat or no-fat, 100% cholesterol- free, and kind to animals! (Not to mention really fast!!) I highly recommend this book to anyone, regardless of your particular persuasion! GET IT--TODAY!!

I received this book 2 days ago and I have found it to be exactly what I am looking for. I am often too busy to cook and shop in many places trying to find ingredients. This book has recipes that are very quick to prepare and contain ingredients that you can find in just about any grocery store. An added bonus is the nutritional content of each recipe (although I wish it gave info on sugar). I usually use only 5-10% of the recipes in my other vegetarian cookbooks, but with this one I see lots of recipes I like and can quickly prepare after a long day of work when time is limited. So far this is my favorite.

This book is for fast vegan food that is not full of fat. There are many cookbooks that have wonderful fatty vegan foods. The food in this book is quick and filling. Everything I have made is good. A few are ok. But, all I have made is filling. I am not left hungry. The Spicy Mandarin Chickpeas recipe I make weekly. The only change I made was to sub blackberry jam for strawberry jam. Other recipes you can just add more spices. I find it helpful to have a heathy quick vegan cookbook.

I was excited when I bought this book a long time ago. When the first recipe I tried tasted miserably awful & very bland, I looked over the ingredients again. What was missing to make it taste so bad? I don't know, but I sure have not tried anything else from the book. I think I've even given it away since I bought it!! No loss to me. Some people must like bland, tasteless food.

I found exactly four recipes in the cookbook appealing. All of the other look bland. Very bland. It was a nice try though, and very animal friendly.

Perhaps Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock would be a better pick. That book has tasty, innovative vegan recipes.

Vegetable Love: A Book for Cooks is also another favorite vegetable book you could try.

Good luck!

Not the worst book I've ever read, but there are many books about veganism which are far superior. I prefer Joanne Stepaniak's the Vegan Sourcebook, because it's far more comprehensive.