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Plant-Powered Families: Over 100 Kid-Tested, Whole-Foods Vegan Recipes
Dreena’s fifth cookbook Plant Powered Families is a great addition to the collection after the fabulous Let them Eat vegan, Eat drink and be vegan books.Â
Chapters include Breakfast which has cereals, pancakes, French toast and omelets, to smoothies and milks, muffins, healthy snacks. Lunches have salads, sandwiches, savory bites, dips and spreads. Salad dressings, sauces and toppers. Dinnertime has soups, stews, pizza, pasta , burgers, casseroles and one dish wonders and a big chapter on Sweet treats with puddings, cookies, bars, frozen treats, cakes and frostings. And finally plant powered challenges and support chapter with tips and plans. There is also a guide to parties both hosting and attending.
Dreena is giving away a copy of her book on this post. To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on the post about your favorite vegan family meal, by July 25. Â (Open to US and Canada)
The book has 100 amazing recipes including Motsa Dip which tastes like mozzarella!, Cinnamon French Toast, Sneaky chickpea burgers, Sunflower artichoke burgers, Home-Style Gravy, Pumpkin Pie Smoothie, Vanilla Bean Chocolate Chip Cookies (yum!), nicer Krispy squares,  Creamy Fettucine, Apple Pie Chia Pudding, No-Bake Granola Bars, White Bean Guacamole, Chickpea nibbles, Red Lentil Hummus! , teriyaki stir fry, Lentil Sniffle soup, Best Banana bread and more.
I whipped up the Sneaky chickpea burgers within minutes. Burgers from the book below with a healthy helping of basil. Hubbs has been devouring these as snacks with his evening tea, while he preps for his weekend hike.Â
The cashew ginger sauce was obviously going to be a hit because you know, anything nutty and ginger sauce! I added some bean sprouts and carrots and healthy garnish of pepper flakes to round it off as a meal.Â
This book is for healthy vegan comfort food for families with kids. Hence, you will find a lot of simple and easy everyday recipes that are kid approved. There are also tips for meal planning, batch cooking, packing school lunches. The book does not have adventurous or exotic food or complex recipes. Its a great guide for vegan families that are starting out or a great addition for tips, easy meals, tackling situations for the experienced. Thank you for writing this wonderful book Dreena. Some of those tips and suggestions for parties, travel, packed lunched are universally helpful with or without kids :).Â
Some recipes from the book..
- Sunflower Artichoke Burgers
- Saucy BBQ Chickpeas and green beans
- Ultimate Teriyaki stir fryÂ
- Polenta Pizza Crust
Gorgeous and filling Sneaky chickpea burger patties below.Â
The publishers and Dreena are giving away a copy of the book to a blog reader. Leave a comment on the post about your favorite vegan family meal, by July 25.  (Open to US and Canada)! Or get your copy of Plant-Powered Families here
My family loves vegan taco night. We make sure to have all the toppings and everyone bulls their own!
I eat vegan everyday so picking one fav meal is hard… perhaps cauliflower buffalo wings with a tempeh hash. and something cool and chocolate for dessert!
Oh my! Just when I thought I’d seen every vegan burger recipe here comes one with artichokes! These look fabulous. I would love to try the Cashew Ginger sauce but can’t find the recipe….Maybe I need to have this cookbook….??
My daughters and my favorite vegan meal is fresh avocado & tomatoes over chickpeas (we could eat them every day, so I’m excited to make the Sneaky Chickpea Burgers), with brown rice, nutritional yeast and a splash of lemon. Simple, delicious. Thank you!
We love any kind of brunch meal – scrambles, waffles, pancakes etc.
Baked pastas or vegetable pies were always a big hit with my stepdaughters when they were growing up. It was tough because they weren’t raised as vegetarian or vegan, but they were pretty good about eating when they came to our house, and I always tried to cook food that would feel somewhat familiar. Proud to say both are now vegetarian, of their own choice. 🙂
Just starting a plant based diet. This looks like a great book.
I’m pretty fond of the vegetarian chili my best friend makes. :-9 A little cornbread on the side and it’s divine!
Our go-to family meal is usually a coconut and red curry dish with any variety of ingredients, depending on what I find in the fridge. I just add coconut milk and red curry paste to the veggies on hand and some rice and you’ve got a good meal. Don’t forget the lime! We eat it at least once a week. I’d love to win this book – Dreena’s recipes are so good (I just made her chocolate chip cookies tonight)!
some form of lentils – maybe in soup of on top of a salad.