COOKING & FOOD

The Happy Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook: 75+ Colorful Recipes To Nourish Your Whole Body, Feed Your Family, and Have Fun Along the Way

HarperOne. Jan. 2025. 272p. ISBN 9780063271173. $34.99. COOKING
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With a title that will remind readers of Kathy Patalsky’s Healthy, Happy Vegan Kitchen and family photos that evoke the wholesome, veggie-forward, kid-friendly approach taken in Ilene Godofsky Moreno’s The Colorful Kitchen and Dreena Burton’s Plant-Powered Families, this new book will attract parents interested in all things wellness. The authors take a slightly more movement- and lifestyle-centered approach than some family cookbooks, using a framework focused on how to live purposefully by eating, moving, and resting with purpose. The book’s focus on foundational habits is rooted in their own health journeys and draws on lessons they’ve learned about the improvements that come from intentional choices, especially when it comes to taking moments of mindfulness throughout the day. The 30-day plan laid out here includes meal plans, mindfulness-based activities, exercises with variations for degrees of fitness and experience, and prompts for reading, writing, connecting, and reflecting. They’ve used a structure that focuses first on nutrition, then movement, and finally mindfulness so that readers can habit-stack in sustainable ways. Even parents who can’t imagine adding spirulina to lemonade to make it into “mermaid juice” will find playful, colorful takes on healthy foods that will meet nutritional needs while satisfying kids’ taste preferences.
VERDICT While lifestyle tips make this a rare holistic family-focused wellness book, the recipes are the proverbial icing on the vegan carrot cake or the caramel-apple cheesecake bites.
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