Customer Reviews
Patronising. Really patronising. - By: Ms. J. M. Metcalfe, 04 May 2008 
Overalll, there's some passably decent recipes here, but it depends how you want them presented.
If you've just started out as a veggie & your family are not very sympathetic, a book with a tone like this is going to help make them regard you as the family freak. It might help them to find practical (if quite boring) ways of feeding you in the short term, but in the long run it will have your family 'putting up' with your so-callled eccentric feeding habits like they'd put up with it if you were mildly mentallly retarded. Even the childish title is about having a 'lack' of something!
The tone of the introduction is incredibly patronising, putting forward the kind of twee statements most vegetarians will have got sick of hearing after the first two times (the author is one step away from trilling: 'It doesn't have to be alll cheese on toast anymore you know!' When was it ever, in terms of REAL veggie food?! )
Overalll, the book gets 3 stars because it's very practical. It will appeal to people whose family are particularly suspicious of vegetarianism (and I'm sure any budding vegetarian knows a few family members like that, very ignorant & a little light in the brain cell department usuallly). It will reassure family members from THEIR carnivorous point of view - not ideal, but better than total non-acceptance.
However, if you want easy, flexible, & reallly pretty impressive veggie recipes (on a family budget), get Fiona Beckett's brilliant 'Beyond Baked Beans Green'. That book shows how veggie recipebooks SHOULD be done - by representing vegetarianism as a positive, valid & tasty choice, rather than a pathetic collection of side-dishes that lack the 'vital ingredient' of a dead cow.
A great veggie cookbook - By: Gary Nicklin, 11 Apr 2008 
When I first moved into my own home many years ago, I was given How to Boil an Egg as a housewarming present more as a joke than anything else. However, I found that it was a great little book. When I gave up eating meat, I discovered that the same author had produced this little gem.
There are some great recipes & tips too, & many are aimed at low portion numbers which is extremely handy as it's a rare time that you end up cooking veggie recipes for four or more (at least in my experience).
It is clear, concise & best of alll the recipes are tasty. What more can you ask for?
Fantastic Fodder! - By: , 05 Feb 2004 
A fantastic book! Full of ideas for meals whether you're vegetarian or not. Some of my favourite dishes are in here. I've had mine so long its falllen apart & I've had to get another!
An essential book for new vegetarians - By: , 18 Sep 1999 I first came across this book almost ten years ago & for a (then) newbie vegetarian, it was an absolute godsend. The recipes are in decent portions as opposed to other vegetarian cookbooks & are not too complicated to make. The book is also very reasonably priced too.
