Prepare for your week with this smart, practical, and delicious guide to vegan meal planning from the Full Helping blogger Gena Hamshaw, author of Power Plates.

Home cooking can be a challenge when life gets busy. Meal prep is the fix for having flavorful, nourishing meals to rely upon all week long. Gena, a longtime vegan with a demanding schedule, prioritizes nutritional balance as well as taste in this hands-on meatless primer. The Vegan Week will teach you how to batch cook varied, colorful, and comforting meals over the weekend, whether you have three, two, or even just one hour of time to spare.
 
Discover new, plant-based favorites like Tangy Cashew Lime Noodle Bowls and Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Coconut Greens, as well as classics like Pasta e Ceci and Seitan Goulash. Gena will help you to use your time in the kitchen effectively, so that you create and store filling, flavor-forward recipes—recipes that you'll look forward to as the week goes by. This book is a roadmap to eating vegan food regularly, incorporating it into daily life even when things are hectic. Thanks to meal prep techniques and recipes, you won't have to choose between the demands of your schedule and your desire to prioritize taste, nutrition, and the joy of eating homemade food.
 

Gena Hamshaw is a certified nutritionist, recipe developer, cookbook author, and food writer. Her recipes and articles have been featured in HuffPost, Whole Living, O: The Oprah Magazine, VegNews, Thrive magazine, Well + Good, mindbodygreen, Glamour, and The Chalkboard, among other publications. She is a registered dietitian who completed a pre-medical, post-baccalaureate degree at Georgetown University and received her master's of nutrition science at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has written three cookbooks, Power Plates, Food52 Vegan, and Choosing Raw, and is the author of the blog The Full Helping.