You don’t have to skip breakfast or buy lunch every day because you didn’t have time to make a meal before work. Alea Milham?founder of the blog Premeditated Leftovers and author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scratch?makes breakfast exciting and healthy with homemade meals such as Pizza Egg Bowls, Garlic and Rosemary Sweet Potato Pancakes, Chipotle Breakfast Sandwiches and Strawberry Rhubarb Baked Oatmeal. Avoid falling into bought lunch ruts with recipes like Bourbon Beef and Quinoa Bowl, Chimichurri Steak Salad and Chicken Marsala Pockets. Alea even has recipes to make your own snacks and desserts. From Egg Dishes and Breakfast Breads to One-Bowl Wonders and Salads on the Go, these prep-ahead meals will make you look forward to work mornings and lunch breaks.

Easy, make-ahead meals your family will love using a mix and match system where you make batches of ingredients and then easily and quickly combine them into the meals you want when you want them.Prep-Ahead Meals From Scratch will save readers time and money by teaching them how to prepare large batches of different staples to quickly combine into a variety of meals in no time. The book offers batch cooking for beef, chicken, pork, beans and rice. Plus you can batch cook however you like, whether that's on the stovetop, in the oven, in the slow cooker or in the broiler. Each cooking technique comes with incredible recipes such as Mongolian Beef Lettuce Wraps, Chicken Alfredo Skillet with Spring Vegetables, Pulled Pork Stuffed Sweet Potatoes and Artichoke and Spinach Rice Bake. By batch cooking, readers can prepare multiple family-friendly meals at once, ultimately saving time and money. Prep-Ahead Meals From Scratch sets out to redefine "fast food," offer speedy food prep techniques, share money saving shopping strategies and food storage tips and help readers pull it all together by learning to develop meal plans. Preparing meals ahead of time means you don't have to spend precious hours of everyday working in the kitchen-a big feat for those of us cooking for our families.

For families who are feeling pressed for time but still want to serve a filling and healthy homemade meal at breakfast or lunch, The Weekday Lunches & Breakfasts Cookbook provides helpful solutions in 80 recipes. Mary's huge online following and the success of her first book with Page Street, The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook, prove that readers are hungry for her recipes, and this book gives them even more options to enjoy throughout the day. Mary's recipes are winners because they are always nutritious, easy to prepare, and, most importantly, a big hit with the entire family--even picky kids! As in the first book, the recipes are divided by time needed to prepare them, making planning easy and convenient.Sample recipes in the book include 15-Minute White Chicken Chili, Baked Herb Chicken Parmesan as a salad or sandwich and Teriyaki Shrimp for lunch; and "Grab a Fork" Chicken Biscuit Sandwiches, Maple Crusted French Toast and Black Forest Yogurt Parfaits for breakfast. Also included are a sprinkling of go-to snack options such as Sweet and Salty Nut and Honey Cereal Bars and Better-Than-Store-Bought Ranch Dip with Vegetables. With so many quick and dependable recipes, readers will love how easy this book makes it to turn out nourishing meals all day long. This book has 80 recipes and 80 color photos.

You don't have to skip breakfast or buy lunch every day because you didn't have time to make a meal before work. Alea Milham--founder of the blog Premeditated Leftovers with a combined following of nearly 210,000--makes breakfast exciting and healthy with homemade meals such as Fajita Egg Puffs, Garlic and Rosemary Sweet Potato Pancakes, Philly Cheese Steak Breakfast Casserole and Strawberry Rhubarb Baked Oatmeal. Avoid falling into bought lunch ruts with recipes like Bourbon Beef and Quinoa Bowl, Chimichurri Steak Salad and Vegetable Alfredo Calzone. Alea even has recipes to make your own sides and condiments. From Breakfast Breads and Smoothies to One-Bowl Wonders and Salads on the Go, these prep-ahead meals will make you look forward to work mornings and lunch breaks. This book will include 75 recipes and 75 full-color photographs.

Find inspiration and learn to prepare simple, tasty meals with this satisfying cookbook by the author of the Damn Delicious blog. It's 6:00 pm, and you have nothing planned for dinner–again. Let's be honest, this happens to the best of us–probably more often than we care to admit. Wanting to take control of her habits, blogger and author Chungah Rhee turned to meal prep–the secret weapon that keeps everyone from celebrities and athletes to busy parents on-track and eating well. . Inside are Chungah's go-to recipes-including some favorites from the blog, including: •Blueberry Oatmeal Yogurt Pancakes •Mason Jar Lasagna •Thai Peanut Chicken Wraps •Roasted Pumpkin Soup By taking the time to plan your meals, prep ingredients, and do some cooking ahead of time, it's easy to have perfectly portioned healthy options at your fingertips for any time of the day–all while saving money. This indispensable cookbook is sure to help you live a healthier (and more delicious) life.

Our mothers—and grandmothers—put up food in the freezer to economize on time and money. In a recessionary environment and in a world of dual-job families, there’s even more reason to do so today. But we don’t have the same tastes as our moms. We eat a wider range of foods, drawing on a variety of ethnic and global cuisines, we include more produce and grains in our diets, and we use fewer processed and fatty foods. Jessica Fisher’s Not Your Mother’s Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook is the perfect guide for economical home cooks with any or all of these new tastes in foods that take well to freezing. Competing books on freezing sell strongly and steadily. Typically, they are based on a very specific plan—cooking for a family of four for a month ahead in an afternoon of work in the kitchen, for example. They offer orderly plans with decent, if largely unimaginative, food. Not Your Mother’s Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook offers two advantages over these books. First, Fisher lays out lots of easy-to-follow guidelines for diverse families with varying needs and desires, taking into account how long you want to spend in the kitchen—there are 2-hour, 4-hour, and daylong plans—as well as how far out ahead you want to cook for, the size of your household, the size of your freezer, your budget, and even your taste for one-dish meals versus multi-course meals. The emphasis is on facilitating flexibility without sacrificing clarity and ease-of-use. Second, Fisher’s 200 recipes deliver flavorful and healthy food in abundance. She takes readers beyond mom’s beef-pork-chicken triumvirate, with lots of ideas for lamb, fish, shellfish, and vegetarian main courses. There are homey and family-friendly dishes, like Cheddar Cheese Soup with Zucchini, Broccoli, and Carrots, or Crumb-Topped Cod Fillets, fancy dishes for company, like Seasoned Steak with Gorgonzola Herb Butter, and lots of globally inspired creations like Salsa Verde Beef, Red Lentil Dahl, and Hoisin-Glazed Salmon. While the emphasis is on dinner, there are breakfast and brunch recipes, too, and plenty of ideas for breads, quick breads, and desserts that freeze well. Ample sidebars address such matters as finding good freezer bags and containers, labeling frozen food, whether to invest in a new freezer, and how to thaw safely. The author’s story—cooking for a family of eight, including six home-schooled children under ten, and serving as the creator and writer of the popular blogs Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats—fits the topic and the book perfectly. Fisher is a woman who knows all about budgeting time and money efficiently, at the same time serving up delicious food with warmth, love, and an appreciation for the pleasures of the table.

Stick to Your Health Goals with Easy, Wholesome Meals Lacey Baier, founder of the clean-eating blog A Sweet Pea Chef, brings you a wide variety of fun, satisfying breakfasts and lunches to help you eat clean—and stay healthy—all day long. By ditching refined sugars and harmful additives and adding in natural sweeteners and low-carb, high-protein foods, you never have to give up the meals you love to eat. Every one of these fuss-free, nutrient-packed dishes comes together quickly, and most can be prepped the night before. Never skip breakfast again with filling grab-and-go options like Bananas Foster Overnight Oats or the Blackberry Cobbler Greek Yogurt Bowl. Say goodbye to expensive, unhealthy deli sandwiches and reach for preservative-free lunches that are anything but boring like the Chickpea Meatballs Sub and Rainbow Detox Salad with Sesame-Ginger Peanut Dressing. Lacey shares smart tips and provides support for making healthy choices, because she’s been there! Her delicious recipes make the clean-eating lifestyle easy, convenient and enjoyable.