I’m beyond thrilled to give you a sneak peek of my fifth cookbook, Skinnytaste Meal Prep: Healthy Make-Ahead Meals and Freezer Recipes to Simplify Your Life: A Cookbook. This book brings together practical meal planning strategies and more than 120 healthy, flavor-forward recipes designed to save time, support weight and health goals, and make weeknight dinners—and breakfasts and lunches—easier and more satisfying.
Skinnytaste Meal Prep Cookbook
The book is available for pre-order now and will ship starting September 15th. Writing, photographing, and bringing a cookbook to print in recent years has been more complex than ever, so I’m especially excited to finally share this collection. Whether you want to lose weight, eat a bit healthier, or simply reduce time spent cooking during busy weeks, meal prepping and make-ahead cooking are powerful tools. They help you stay on track with portion control and nutrition, save money by reducing food waste, and cut down evening stress with ready-to-heat meals.
Skinnytaste Meal Prep delivers recipes that use simple, easy-to-find ingredients and put flavor first. The book emphasizes practical, realistic approaches to make-ahead and freezer cooking: recipes you can fully prepare and reheat later, components you can assemble in advance, and freezer-ready dishes that move straight to the Instant Pot®, slow cooker, or oven when you’re ready to finish cooking. The collection covers everything from breakfast and snacks to lunches, dinners, and crowd-pleasing dishes for weekend entertaining.
What You Will Find In This Meal Prep Cookbook:
Inside you’ll find a wide variety of recipes and meal prep methods—breakfast ideas to jump-start your day, protein-packed lunches and bowls, vegetable-forward sides, comfort soups, and hearty mains that freeze beautifully. Each recipe is clearly labeled with helpful icons noting gluten-free or dairy-free options, and many recipes are adaptable for dietary preferences. Registered dietitian Heather K. Jones provides nutritional information for each recipe to support weight and health goals, making it easier to track calories, macros, or SmartPoints if that’s part of your plan.
The book walks you through planning and batching techniques, offers tips for freezing and reheating, and provides strategies to keep flavors bright and textures pleasing after storage. You’ll find freezer-to-heat recipes that go directly into pressure cookers or slow cookers from frozen, dishes that simply need a quick reheat in the oven or microwave, and easy assemblies that take minutes to finish at mealtime. This approach helps you spend a little time up front to save many hours during the week.
Below are some highlights from the table of contents and a sampling of recipes featured in the book—real recipes photographed for the cookbook to give you a sense of the variety and presentation:
Photo credit: Aubrie Pick. Each recipe in the book includes nutrition facts and tips from registered dietitian Heather K. Jones to help you make informed choices and move toward your personal goals. Recipes that are gluten-free or dairy-free are clearly identified with icons so you can plan menus that suit your needs. The methods stress batch-cooking, smart storage, and mixing and matching components—like roasted vegetables, grains, proteins, and sauces—to create multiple meals from a single prep session.
If you use Weight Watchers, the recipes will be listed in the Cookbook Index on the Skinnytaste website, like my previous cookbooks, with updated SmartPoints values to help with tracking.
Pre-order now from these online sellers:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- IndieBound
- Target
Pre-ordering guarantees you’ll be among the first to receive the book when it ships September 15th. Whether you’re new to meal prep or already batch-cooking, this cookbook is full of practical guidance, make-ahead recipes, freezer-friendly meals, and tips that simplify grocery shopping and weeknight cooking while keeping flavor and variety at the center of your kitchen routine.