The Bodybuilding Meal Prep Cookbook: Macro-Friendly Meals to Prepare, Grab, and Go Paperback – May 21, 2019

I based this purchase on other reviews citing excellent tasty recipes.I was surprised by the level of flavor because when I think body uikding, I think tasteless and boring. This is so much more exciting.I tried to read the intro pages but the theoretical work was a bit too much detail. So I went through my pantry and then went to the store for the extra needd items for week 1 prep. that part was so easy, and I noticed a lot of vegetables came into my cart today. That's how I like it. I also felt guilty because currently I offer my kids lunch snacks that I know they will eat: cookies, chips,and Capri suns. How am I making this healthy stuff for me and not my kids?Back home and prepping, of course they declined any tastes of the food I myself couldn't wait it smelled great! And it also all tastes great!Modifications are very easy. I didn't have red wine vinegar, modify to fancy ACV. Add extra garlic, no problem. And turkey for chicken stock. Everything is what I want to eat. I don't have that, let's eat something unhealthy impulse with these meals prepped and available to me.So you will want some containers for smoothie ingredients and meals. I might consider a double batch of the kale because one barely filled a larger bento box. But a great thing about her book is you try it, it's successful, and you will try it again. It isn't so exhausting that you give up after one time. She's me talky preparing the reader in stages, and for me this works!So there's six weeks worth of meal planning, and recipes just standing alone but organized based on their meal type. It's got weekly shopping lists, an overall time management plan to cook all items efficiently and prepare most efficiently. She has freezer recipes (smoothies) and precook meals (the recipes).She starts the reader off with preparing only two meals per day, but there's tree recipes. This is so smart. Some of us try to be overachievers and then fail after a bit when life happens. So do yourself a favor, learn how to prep a few, add more, and try all the recipes at least once.The first week recipes are: smoothies, turkey meatballs, broiled mushrooms, salsa chicken, and wilted kale.I added an extra smoothie recipe and started with a plan for three meals a day. Two protein smoothies (seeds, fruit, strawberry and the second is strawbwrry- PB, like a sandwich), Turkey meatballs meal, and salsa chicken with kale. This is easy to augment my current routine, and I am excited to try the portions.Her book has small suggestions to add a bit more nutrition so ie. Doing high protein yogurt added to the smoothie, for example.This is a lovely book. I don't think there's a ton of pictures. The recipes are all spiced enough to make me happy.Excellent addition for any athlete out there, not just bodybuilders. I am really excited about trying all the recipes there, they look great.By the time you get to week six you'll make up to give meals a day! I like the graduated approach. It's pretty close to getting top notch advise from someone higher up.Also worth mebtionig is that the clean up is super light and easy. I was looking at this book and another one for "workout hard, cook fast" type of titled books, and I am so very happy I chose this one for clean eating and improving my prep work. I highly recommend this book.Would love more books by this author.

This book helps. corrective eating, we eat what mom and dad said to eat. Change is life long, never stop learning to eat veggies

I'm not sure all of these recipes were tested as written and generally doesn't align with my eating preferences but overall a good starting point for athlete meal prep. Probably the best selling point is that it provides a manageable and structured plan for adopting meal prep practices but recipes are hit and miss. Some are great and very approachable, some are a hot mess and require a lot of finesse and modification. I don't particularly like cooking but I'm pretty ok at it and knowledgeable in cooking methods and I struggled a bit to follow some recipes as written.

I have skimmed through the book and read more than a few recipes and have actually made 3 this week. I am new to exercising/strength training and I believe this book has helped me start in the correct direction nutrition wise and with EASE I might add. I would definitely suggest it for new or experienced both alike as I think it is a useful tool in anyone’s strength training and nutrition arsenal!

generally prefer pictures and visual organization. its a bit wordy and not enough pictures for my preference for a cookbook.

Me agrada que sea tan sencillo la forma en la que el autor explica y es fascinante el que tenga planes semanales y muchas recetas más para poder elegir cuando ya se tenga más control del conteo de calorías, por cierto las recetas son muy buenas y todo está riquísimo.

I'm enjoying the recipes and learning the art of meal prep. The recipes are really good tasting

We use this book often for recipes lately!