The Super Easy Vegan Slow Cooker Cookbook: 100 Easy, Healthy Recipes That Are Ready When You Are

Really disappointed with this cook book... I've been trying to slowly bring in more veggie and vegan foods into my diet and really wanted to like this... but so far has left a lot to be desired.Yes the recipes are for the most part simple - prep ingredients (peel/chop), chuck everything in slow cooker, switch on - yep, seriously.But some of the guidance is odd, there's a recipe in the book where the blurb mentions chickpeas and the tips for the recipe suggests what to do with leftover brocolli; only neither of these ingredients feature in the recipe??Most of the recipes ask for frozen veg - why not use fresh? And there's recipes that talk of putting in cabbage with root veg and cooking for 8 hrs, well I can tell you that by doing this the cabbage will turn your dish bitter and go a grey colour, why? Because root veg & cabbage/sprouts etc have different slow cooker timings...! I know this because I tried the recipe and it was beyond disgusting and since found advice online that clarifies this.For UK buyers be aware that all measurements are US, cups & Oz. So you'll spend a fair amount of time deciphering amounts and there's quite a lot of 'branded' ingredients that I haven't been able to get my hands on in the UK.All in all, found this hugely disappointing - back to googling vegan slow cooker recipes instead.

Many of the simple recipes require you to have pre-made one of the previous simple recipes so I don't find them as quick and easy as the cover makes out! Many of the ingredients are American so difficult to get in the UK. I've used the book to get ideas but I haven't really made many of the recipes in full.

Was expecting it to have photos

There are a number of lovely recipes but the cover is a little deceiving as many of the recipes are not actually for the slow cooker (salads or dishes to serve alongside slow cooker meals form a large part of the 100 recipes in the book); additionally many of the slow cooker recipes are the same but vary by just one ingredient or so (either added or taken away).A couple of odd recipes too such as the Moroccan dish requiring Udon noodles!Just one or two images throughout the book makes it hard to visualise how the meal should turn out but this isn’t the end of the world.

A large majority of the recipes don’t include cooking times.There are also no pictures of the recipes , I think pictures in cookbooks are very important, as are timings.