Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep: 100+ Make-Ahead Recipes and Quick-Assembly Meals: A Gluten-Free Cookbook
About this product
#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER - PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Discover an easier, more balanced way to meal prep as you whip up 100 fresh and healthy dishes that happen to be gluten-free, from the creator of the popular blog and YouTube channel Downshiftology.
"Lisa has revolutionized meal prep to be approachable, fresh, and easy, and her cookbook has everything you need to make healthy eating a breeze."—Emily Mariko, TikTok creator
Before Lisa Bryan began meal prepping several years ago as a way to save time and money, she quickly became tired of eating boring leftovers and wasting food. At the same time, she also wanted to "downshift" the too-fast pace of her life. So she flipped the script on meal prep by focusing on individual ingredients.
By prepping a handful of healthy ingredients at the start of the week, she learned that she could enjoy a variety of meals and snacks without getting bored. And she found she could control what she ate with more clarity: It became easy to eat more vegetables and simple proteins, eliminate processed foods and gluten (to manage her celiac disease), and reduce refined sugar. Her debut cookbook is packed with 100+ simple and ingenious big-batch recipes that can either be frozen or repurposed into totally different, delicious meals.
A dinner of Coconut Chickpea Curry with rice can be enjoyed the next day as a tostada at lunch, and a side of peas and crispy prosciutto becomes breakfast when you add a jammy egg on top. The recipes are all free of refined sugar, many are naturally anti-inflammatory, and dairy is minimal and optional. Lisa's approachable method for eating well and preparing meals with ease will inspire home cooks to downshift their lives, too, by making healthy meals without a fuss. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon reviewers are strongly positive overall, with several praising the cookbook as easy to use, practical, and packed with healthy recipes that are not hard to find or expensive to make. One Amazon reviewer called it a favorite recipe book and said it changed cooking from stressful to enjoyable, while the listing shows a very high average rating from thousands of global ratings.
Third-party review pages also describe the cookbook as a solid gluten-free meal-prep option, especially for beginners and people looking for flexible weekly planning. The StoryGraph reviews are short but favorable, and other cookbook roundups highlight its clear structure and meal-prep-friendly approach.
On YouTube, the search results surfaced real videos that appear to be genuinely about this product, including a cookbook trailer and a recipe video tied to the healthy meal prep cookbook. One result is a behind-the-scenes trailer for the cookbook, and another is a recipe video explicitly described as coming from the cookbook.
- Overall sentiment: very positive, especially for simplicity, healthy ingredients, and meal-prep usefulness.
- Common praise: easy recipes, approachable instructions, gluten-free focus, and flexible customization.
- Minor limitation from the available feedback: the cookbook seems aimed more at structured healthy cooking than advanced or highly experimental recipes.
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Specifications
| Diet | Gluten Free |
Product Details
| Publisher | Clarkson Potter |
| Publication date | December 6, 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 304 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0593235576 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0593235577 |
| Item Weight | 2.8 pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.31 x 1.03 x 10.31 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,315 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in California Cooking, Food & Wine #1 in Gluten-Free Diets #1 in Food Allergies (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,579) |
