Product Description

Vegan Cooking for One is an essential vegan cookbook. If you are a vegan, chances are that you often have to cook for yourself. If you have problems finding interesting vegan recipes and are fed up with relying on convenience foods, this cookbook offers over 200 diverse and seasonal recipes to tempt the tastebuds. It is split into weeks with a meal planner and shopping lists followed by delicious recipes. There are also spring, summer, autumn and winter collections so that the availability and freshness of ingredients is assured. The recipes are both savoury and sweet, main meals and light snacks, and have influences and flavours from around the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8486 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Although they may be part of a large family, vegans often have to cook separate meals - this cookbook offers over 200 diverse and seasonal recipes. The book is split into weeks - and has essential shopping lists for all the ingredients for that week and recipes to follow. There is also a spring and summer collection and an autumn and winter collection so that the availability and freshness of ingredients is assured. The recipes are both savoury and sweet, main meals and light snacks, and have influences and flavours from around the world.

From the Back Cover
It is easy to get stuck in a cooking rut if you are preparing food just for yourself. If you live alone or are the only vegan in the family, help is at hand from top cookery writer Leah Leneman. In tune with the seasons, whether it is a cold winter's night or a hot summer's day, the recipes will always suit your needs. Leneman has also gone global, bringing in influences and seasonings from around the world o make this a diverse and delicious collection. With weekly shopping lists to help you plan ahead and simple recipes, Leneman takes the hard work out of cooking. Recognizing that vegans often have to cook for one, all recipe measurements are for a single portion but can easily be extended. Leah Leneman is a renowned vegan cookery writer and her books include Easy Vegan Cooking and The Tofu Cookbook, also published by Thorson's. Vegan Cooking for One is a new edition of The Single Vegan with over 70 new recipes.

Customer Reviews

I think it's fab!
I recently made the transition from a vegetarian of 20 years to a vegan. I purchased 4 vegan cook books but this is the only one I've bothered with - it's so good I've not really looked at the others as they're based on cooking for 4 in most recipes. I was initially disappointed by the lack of pictures but in fact I now find that a good thing - I try the meals regardless of what they look like. It's made the transition to vegan very easy and ensures I get a good variety of foods. Living on my own, when I was veggie I'd regularly end up eating the same meal for 3 nights in a row but now there's none of that. The shopping list is very helpful and I like the way it plans for the week - although I have repeated a recipe one week as I didn't like the ingredients in the one I should have been cooking.. overall, can't recommend it highly enough.

The perfect book for new vegans and students.
I have just been reading through the reviews of this book. Some don't like the lack of pictures, but I think I agree with the reviewer that mentioned the plus side of this: you can't be disappointed with your un-photoshopped meal. Others commented about feeling patronised by the meal plans and shopping list; I find that feature the whole point of the book! I cook for myself as my boyfriend is not a fellow vegan. I found before that I wasted a lot of food, and that veg that I bought would spoil before I got chance to use it. We're not all master chefs, and this book really does teach a great deal on meal structuring and planning, in a very accessible way.


The meals are so quick and cheap to prepare that the book is great for todays busy people. Many veggies live on frozen rubbish and junk, and this book will show them to way to the nutritious diet they should have, and show them that these easy to follow meals can even be made quicker than heating up a quorn cottage pie! (with practice hehe)

Also, this book is fantastic for people living on a budget, especially students who live independently, as once all the staple ingredients listed at the start are stocked, a weekly shop can often be achieved for well under a tenner!

Wanting gourmet vegan banquets? Don't buy this book.

Wanting to learn to eat a nutritious vegen diet well but don't have much time to plan and prepare meals? BUY THIS BOOK NOW!

Poor students currently living on beer and golden grahams? What you waiting for?

Boring,,,,and no pics
This is the first vegan book I've purchased. I'm a vegetarian at the moment, but was hoping that this book would prove insightful and helpful in figuring out what i could eat, as I'm the pickiest eater in the world.

Well, the book arrived, nice cover that's about it. There are no pictures at all in the book, so it's just dull. Most of the recipes are very basic, and over half i wouldn't eat anyway. Why can't someone create a low carb, low calorie Vegan book. I don't eat rice, pasta, mushrooms (related to mould, ewwww), and dont want to get fat so out go all the cake/pudding recipes as well. That leaves me with some of the salads, but guess what, don't like salads either. The recipes included seem to me to be created by some basic cook rather than a skilled chef.

The positive things in this book are that you get UK and USA measurements against all the ingredients and that you get a shopping list at the front of the book, great for a regimented diet, but who what's a Set meal each day? are we still in school?

I was looking for some healthy bean/vegetable recipes which would be suitable for a low calorie diet, but this wasn't the book for me. I guess I'll just have to continue throwing things into the pan and seeing what happens as per usual.