How to Eat 30 Plants a Week: 100 recipes to boost your health and energy - THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Bought this with a friend to try new recipes and to add to our mainly plant based diet. Good factual information. Didn't realise I could count my herbs and spices as plants. Great to know I eat up to 30 different veg most days, yet alone in a week. However, I do repeat many of these across a week. So, have increased the variety I now eat. easy to do with the advice in this book and last week managed 42 different plants. The book is worth buying, just as a general recipe cook book. Absolutely brilliant if you want to know more about your diet and how to add more plants to your everyday food. Recipes are easy to follow and doesn't use expensive ingredients - just every day stuff you can buy in your local supermarket. Highly recommend.

A good collection of recipes from HF-W which focus more on increasing vegetables and going “meat light”. As many others observe, this is neither a vegan nor vegetarian recipe book, although I’d struggle to see how one might assume it would be.The main criticism is that it seems a bit unnecessary compared to Eat Better Forever by the same author, which was snuck out during the pandemic but with much more background information on why making changes to diet are helpful. There’s also a marked similarity in the recipes between both books (particularly the fermentation recipes, albeit there surely can’t be too many ways to follow that process). Of the two, this one is skinnier and has less theory, so might be less intimidating to the idle reader. If you’re keen on the reasons why to make changes to your diet, I’d recommend buying Eat Better Forever instead.

I don't really do cook books and recipes but I've done a couple from this book so far. Well written. The intro gave a good explanation of why to increase the number of plants in your diet and I find it really easy to follow the tips to do it.

Great book and quite a revelation tgat things like coffee, tea, bread and spices count as part of your 30 plant based foods per week. The checklists on the inside cover are really helpful and I decided to do a baseline on one day expecting to reach 5-10 and hound I had 31 different plant based foods in one day! I’ve been eating like this for years but didn’t know it. I’m rarely ill and people think I look younger than I am so perhaps it’s down to this approach to good. The forward by Tim Spector was really enlightening and Highs recipes are really helpful if you’re new to eating like this with tips of how to up your variety with tiny and easy touches. Would recommend it to anyone.

Great book full of easy and interesting recipes

I was so excited about getting this book as I already eat 30+ plants a week, like trying new veggies and recipes and it is very much in tune with my goals. I was hoping for some good ideas for some new veggie mains. While the book is well presented and easy to follow, I have never been so uninspired by a recipe book! I spent an hour reading through it and struggled to find one recipe I actually wanted to make or didn't find myself thinking needed some additions. There are actually quite a small number of veggie main courses (and quite a few of those feel like they're missing something and would work better as a side dish) as there are sections for breakfast, soups, meat, fish, sides, treats

I haven’t yet made any of the recipes as it only arrived today, but have had a very good look through the cookbook, including reading Tim Spector’s foreword and going through the detailed list of veggies. Looking at and reading many of the recipes I just know that this is the cookbook for me. Absolutely delicious looking dishes, with plenty of flavourful ingredients, texture, colour, etc. I’m so looking forward to cooking these meals. None of these recipes are expensive to make. Most ingredients are very easily sourced and many I already have. I have a lot of Hugh’s cookbooks and other River Cottage ones, which is the reason I know these recipes will be very good.

Very good book, good recipes

This is one of the best nutrition books I have read in a long time (and I read a lot!). The recipes are creative and easy (at least for me). He encourages the reader to eat more plants by combining plants I never would have thought of. The check off lists at the front and back are easy to copy and post on your frig for reminders. Highly recommend.

this is the bast cook book we have used for a very long time. Everything is so simple and works and tastes delicious.

I have tried 3 recipes and they all turned out good, however 2 of the recipes seemed like maybe they were missing an ingredient or 2. Like the flap jack recipe, delicious however missing a binder so it just became granola after baked. Also, the crepe/pancake says it has chickpea flour but the actual recipe does not. So i think it wasn't proofread enough.

Nice book, but no indication of fiber, carbs, fat and calories for the recipes.

I like the premise of this book as I indeed try to eat close to 30 different plant-y things per week. I was hoping for a cookbook where plants were incorporated into the meal a lot more and in larger quantities than many cookbooks. But I found most recipes not that interesting to be honest. I don't need a cookbook to throw various vegetables into a salad bowl or into a soup to be honest. Which is a shame as I really wanted to like this book. One more criticism: with a book also trying to be somewhat environmental friendly I would have expected a matte finish and not shiny paper.