The recipes were easy to follow and enjoyed by my whole family. A perfect addition to our healthy living meal prep. ( )

I received a copy of the Vegan Snack Cookbook from the author. This book is packed with snack recipes that anyone could easily prepare. The list of ingredients makes accommodating substitutions of ingredients to suit diverse dietary needs, allergies or personal tastes easy. The recipes are all in full colour in beautifully photographed plates and the instructions are clear and easy to make using common ingredients found in most kitchens. For those who are looking for a beginner vegan snack cookbook, as well as those who are experienced vegans, this is the book to purchase. For those non vegans who are wondering where to start in preparing a vegan pantry, or what cooking utensils/cookware are best for a vegan kitchen, this book provides a comprehensive section on stocking the pantry. Lots of useful nutritional information and it even includes a section on maximizing your mental health during stressful times. An added bonus is a link at the back of the book to download a free copy of Vegan Cooking for Singles which is packed with many more recipes which include the snack recipes as well as lots of delicious full meal preparations.

Highly recommended. ( )

The book has a nice introduction and then provides a series of recipes by categories. The recipes look great and I look forward to trying them. The pictures of the food are helpful to know what to expect. The ingredients are healthy. I have been eating vegan for the past few years and this will be helpful. As mentioned healthy food is not cheap and it takes some time and effort to make. ( )

This book is rather strange. There is a copyright notice that does not name the copyright holder(s). In the paragraph after the notice, it proclaims the author and publisher to be the copyright holders. Note: Author is singular. The following prohibition appears in the next paragraph: “You cannot amend, distribute, sell, use, quote, or paraphrase any part, or the content within this book, without the consent of the author or publisher.” Not being able to quote or paraphrase any part or content of the book makes it hard to review. Not being able to use the content makes it hard to follow the recipes. Furthermore, the last section listed in the table of contents begins on page 123. But the book goes on after that section, for twenty-two more pages, to include biographical information as well as a section on mental health by a different author.

As for the content, the first thirty or so pages are about veganism, leftovers, and other common knowledge. This material might be helpful to someone who’s never had to cook for themselves. The six-page list of food items called “essentials” seems to be a waste of space. If one were to buy all of these “essentials” we would soon have a refrigerator full of rotting vegetable matter. Clearly, some items are more essential than others. I would suggest moving the much shorter lists of staples from the end to the beginning of the essentials list.

A lot of these recipes look and sound delicious. However, if the book is for an audience that needs to know how to store leftovers, that same audience will need more guidance and explanation when it comes to following the recipes. For an example selected at random, the recipe for almond flour muffins (p. 42) calls for one “flax egg” in the list of ingredients. But the first step of the recipe calls for 1 tbsp of flax meal and three tbsp of water. In other words, the first step is to make one of the ingredients. The new cook needs to know this. For another example, the Mediterranean Pinwheel (p. 53) calls for 1 tsp nigella seeds. Since this is not a common ingredient and it’s not listed as an “essential,” some explanation would help immensely. In the same recipe, one ingredient is thick pizza sauce. The instructions tell us to put it in a colander and press with a spoon to remove the excess liquid. I think if one were to do that, there would be no pizza sauce at all. And the photograph seems to confirm this, since there is not a trace of red in the final product. On page 89, why is the preparation time for the falafel 105 minutes, when all we do is dump the ingredients into a processor (or coffee grinder?? yech)?

In short, I would say that (1) the assortment of snacks and snack ideas look great. (2) The photographs explain much better than the text does. (3) The recipes are probably an excellent starting point for an experienced cook, but the beginner will need much more help than the author provides. (4) There is far too much useless information before and after the recipe collection, and not enough information where it is needed. (5) Many of these snacks take as long to prepare as a full meal. ( )

Sadly, I found this book very disappointing. It read as if it was just thrown together with sections from other efforts. It needed a serious editor. There were typos everywhere, most jarringly within the recipes themselves making the recipes—the whole point of a cookbook—confusing. Some of the recipes were pointless: Who needs a recipe to put peanut butter and raisins on a celery stick? And many recipes contained ingredients that wouldn't make them a convenient snack. The table of contents doesn't show up until almost half way through the book. Then there was the back info with author after author whose names aren't on the cover. But I might have forgiven the rest of the book's strangeness if the recipes were great, but they weren't, and they were full of errors. ( )