Vegan Reset: The 28-Day Plan to Kickstart Your Healthy Lifestyle

I love this book. I lost 30 lbs following these recipes for ~6 months. (I am 37 male, no major health issues, went from 275 to 245) My diet before starting with this book was a lot of eating out so it was a pretty drastic change in diet that led to that weight loss. That said, the recipes in the book are yummy and satisfying enough that I wasn’t overcome with cravings to supplement with junk food for the 6 months that I used this book. I love that the book has prepared grocery lists for you for each week so you don’t have to make your own. Copying the grocery lists into a grocery shopping app was a huge help in making sure we had everything needed to do our meal prep each week. A couple of things to be aware of about this book: - There are a small handful of recipes in here that I am not crazy about. But overall the recipes are quite yummy. I’d break down my personal preference for the recipes as: 15% - omg, why have I never tried this before?? 75% - this is quite good! 10% - meh This is my personal preference obviously. Most of the ‘meh recipes’ were easy enough to modify that I could still enjoy following the plan even for those meals. (E.g. - I hate arugula, so the arugula salad wasn’t my favorite. I replaced the arugula with spinach salad and *muah*) - the recipes are for a single person. I didn’t realize this the first week I went grocery shopping and ended up not getting enough groceries to feed both of us. If you are feeding more than one person, be sure to double everything on the shopping list. - there are a lot of exotic ingredients in these recipes (coming from someone who grew up on Mac n cheese and shepherds pie), so groceries were a little bit expensive and very occasionally there were things that I couldn’t find at my local grocery store that I had to either substitute or order online (e.g. Brazil nuts). This could be either a pro or a con depending on your situation. If you are interested in trying some new foods and have some extra disposable income then you may love this. If you don’t like trying new foods or have a limited grocery budget, then keep a pen handy your first time through this book so you can document your substitutions. - it takes time to meal prep each week. Coming from eating out / door dash to preparing all of my own home cooked meals definitely required a shift in perspective. It takes at least a few hours each week to do the prep work (I am probably on the slower side of things). The trade off here is that you have a plan for every meal that week. No more staring blankly into the fridge or pantry and wondering what to make. Also, because you invest the time upfront to meal prep, most of the actual meals are pretty quick to put together. It also does a great job of applying your meal prep ingredients in different ways so that you get to have an incredibly diverse menu throughout the week. (It’s not like making a pot of soup that you eat from every day for the next 4 days). - the books could use a QA check. There are a couple of instances where the grocery list for the week is either missing an ingredient or has something extra that isn’t used in that week’s recipes. So really everyone should keep a pen handy their first go through of this book to mark down any adjustments needed.

I have to defend this very wonderful, useful guide to vegan eating. As a librarian I have had access to hundreds of vegan cookbooks, and guides. I find this book to be exceptional and one that I can follow. It does not have gourmet recipes, but recipes that use common ingredients, and ones that can easily be put together. I don’t find them tasteless. If you have favorite spices, use them. What I love about this book: A beginning chapter on buying and storing foods. A shopping list for each week that includes staples and condiments needed. Ideal for a single person or couple. The recipes are for one person, and can easily be doubled for 2. Only 2 short prep days for each week. Not every meal requires a recipe. This seemed to be a negative, and deemed dull by other reviewers. Why cook when you don’t need to. After preparing 2 Meals that day, my snack is 2 bananas and 2 TBS peanut butter. Easy, right? and also easy to replace if there’s a birthday cake at work. And I know this because all the calories are given for each meal and snack. Very few cookbooks include this information. The author gives around 2,000 calories for each day’s meals. If I need to change out a lunch or dinner, say I’m eating out, or didn’t have time to make a meal, I know what I can trade it out with. This is really important to me. With other cookbooks, I have to guess. Here I can adjust my calories easily, (by reducing a bean dish from 1 cup to 1/2 cup.) The book’s layout keeps each day on 2 pages. For each day, the left side of the page has the day’s meals and snack with the recipe and calories and, on the right side a color photograph of the day’s meals. Just lay the book open for the day. (I also purchased this on kindle so I can have on my phone.) This is a VERY colorful book. All the recipes are photographed. The second half of the book, 153 pages is given to more recipes for beverages, smoothies, fruit ice creams, entrees, desserts, infusions and even beauty products. Through out the book, the author asks you to journal your thoughts as you progress through the guide. I hope this review aids your decision. For me, this book has really solved my what do I eat problem, and gave me a plan I could use.

Common-sense, easy-to-follow, highly organized – and most importantly, delicious – approach to transitioning to a vegan lifestyle. From teens to adults, we all enjoy eating the meals created from Hansen's recipes. The book is organized into weekly meal plans and recipes (breakfasts, lunches, dinners) with shopping lists and serving/calorie info. Additional sections sketch out a holistic approach to diet, exercise and well-being, with resources for substitutions, ingredients, education and nutrients, as well as recipes to continue beyond the 28 days of the Reset. The author's approach is friendly and informative, not pedantic or dogmatic, perfect for cooks new to plant-based cooking and living.

Vegan reset is a book that inspires you to cook vegan! The pictures are beautiful and realistic. All the recipes have simple pantry items, add fresh vegetables and you have great meals. You start with a prep day on day 0, then you have enough meals for a week or more. The days are labeled 1-7 etc. so you can look at each day and see what meals go together. So simple!

This book has helped me get some structure in to my eating. The meal plans and prep days are saving me time and energy and as a result I'm taking better meals in to work for lunch and coming home to ingredients already made for teatime. Fridge space for all the boxes is a bit of a challenge! The only downside has been that the food is quite similar over several days so I've been adding other spices/ingredients to increase variety (& to make them more suitable for my fussy husband). Finding the time to prep the 2nd half of the week has also been tricky so I haven't stuck to the plan 100% but it's given me ideas of quick and tasty food to make from ingredients I always have in the cupboard. I've recommended this book to lots of new vegans as its simple, beautifully illustrated and easy to follow.

I can't recommend this book highly enough! For people who have never tried eating plant-based, vegetarians to experienced vegans, this book covers so much more than just a 28-day plan. The pictures are gorgeous and the layout from the shopping list, to the weekly meal prep, and daily menus are well designed, varied, and easy to make. Each week different types of nut butters, grains, and ingredients are added so that by the end of the 28-days one has a well-rounded, well-stocked fridge and pantry. There are ADDITIONAL recipes at the back. The author is compassionate and understanding of where people are at in their eating preferences and affordability of products. The book combines several of my favorite things: shopping lists for the week, pictures of each day's meals, and simple recipes. This is a gentle, interesting, doable plan and cookbook. I'm glad I bought it and will continue to use it for a long time. I will gift this book to friends and family who are interested in trying plant-based meals on occasion or all the time. LOVE IT!

Sehr gut

Waited weeks for this book turns out I already had it just with a different cover. Both books are identical inside, gutted

This book is absolutely beautiful, and a great way to get into the habit of eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet. It shows you how to prep food for the next 3-4 days, and finds different ways to creatively use the same foods that you prepped to keep things interesting. Everything is explained in detail, and very doable. Lots of bonus recipes included, and lots of beautiful pictures to keep you inspired. One of my all-time favorite vegan cookbooks (and I own a lot of them).