Vegetarian Lunchbasket: Two Hundred Twenty-Five Easy, Nutritious Recipes for the Quality-Conscious Family on the Go

More & more people are shifting their eating habits toward healthy, low fat, low cholesterol foods, a trend which brings vegetarian cookbooks into the mainstream. Linda Haynes, a vegetarian homemaker, teacher & mother of three vegetarian kids, has written a new cookbook that puts the fun into healthy food. THE VEGETARIAN LUNCHBASKET is far more than the name implies; it includes a hefty chapter on main dishes in addition to traditional "lunch" items. However, even the traditional is fun & non-traditional when approached with Haynes' creativity. Instead of pigs-in-a-blanket, how about 'Asparagus in a Cast' (asparagus rolled up in a crust-less slice of bread, then oven-toasted)? This 200-page cookbook makes vegetarian cuisine natural & easy, with large type, 1-2-3 instructions & the author's wry comments. On 'Tofu Telephones,': "Whenever I put them in the children's lunchboxes, they promise to give me a call at noon." "I'm not a restaurant chef," says Haynes. "These are recipes that have come out of real life with a family of vegetarians on the run. When my children started school we were caught unprepared for packing lunchboxes. I didn't mind going to work with a baked squash under one arm, but the little ones are subject to teasing & peer pressure. Even my husband was tired of squash on or off the cuff! I began experimenting, using leftovers & more of a "dinner" mentality, & came up with some packable, tasty, easy, healthful, reasonable-looking vegetarian lunches." THE VEGETARIAN LUNCHBASKET, with its clear, easy instructions, ingredients handily li sted in the margins, & delightful illustrations, is certain to be a well-worn friend in the kitchens of vegetarians & non-vegetarians alike.Haynes, Linda is the author of 'Vegetarian Lunchbasket: Two Hundred Twenty-Five Easy, Nutritious Recipes for the Quality-Conscious Family on the Go' with ISBN 9780945934028 and ISBN 0945934025.