The Bodybuilder's Meal Prep Cookbook: 64 Make-Ahead Recipes and 8 Macro-Friendly Meal Plans (The Bodybuilder's Kitchen)

This book is worth the purchase! It gives you different plans based on goals. At the beginning of each plan it gives you a shopping list AND tells you all the equipment you’ll need. Then the “recipe” portion tells you how to prep it all at once not just one thing at a time. Really good recipes too. Especially then Greek yogurt bagels with cottage cheese eggs. You can add in veggies to the eggs and seasonings of your choice to the bagels and they’re so good.

I am a formerly competitive bodybuilder and personal trainer. However, life is busy right now, and I needed someone to hand me a list of what to buy and make with the macros already calculated. Thank you, thank you, Erin, for creating this book! There are plenty of options for yummy and healthy foods, with weekly grocery lists. Today, I took a few minutes to review the grocery list, added what I needed to our list, and was off to the store. I have never had anyone else make meal prepping so simple! I am excited about the meals because they are variations of some of my favorite lean-bulking meals. If you are a busy person, especially busy woman, and devoting time at the gym to build your physique, you owe it to yourself to buy this book!

Love: 1) shopping lists; 2) easy to follow cook-all-the-stuff-at-once meal prep instructions; 3) easy recipes. I bring the book with me to the grocery store for shopping. It's easy to follow! I wish there were more pictures of Erin in the book (big fan!). So glad I bought this book. It's my go-to recipe book for 2024!

So this is a lovely book with beautiful pictures. Its well written and very clear and concise. I am using it for the first time today and these are my issues so far: I bought all the ingredients online and had them delivered to save myself time. I have made the energy balls, the taco bake, the Greek style turkey burgers, and the peach chia yogurts....and I will say that this is a TON of work and I'm still not finished! I will have to finish the final prep tomorrow. Now I cook all the time; every day actually, but making this much food at one time is taking literally my entire day. I'm sure having my kids home doesn't help but still. Now and this is a BIG one: You have to be careful what brands you buy. The yougurt I bought had less protien than what the recipe said it would for the amount and somehow when I plugged the recipe into My Fitness Pal the calories and macros in general were not what was stated in the book. So you really need to be careful and check the brands you're buying and enter them into a fitness app yourself to get accurate macros. Please do not rely solely on the recipes given because you don't know what brands she is using. You need to count your calories and macros based on what YOU are using! If you do not do this then you could very easily go over your calories for the day by hundreds of calories! So after all this work you will wonder why you aren't losing wieght and what a shame that would be. So just be aware of these things. It's an entire day of prep, not just a few hours...unless you work very quickly and have no distractions at all. So with all this in mind, I would still recommend this book and I'm sure it gets easier as you keep doing it as with all things :)

My daughter asked me to help her with her diet and exercise , the first person I thought of was Erin Stern. I own all of her books and all of them are great , this one is no exception. I’ve cooked 4 recipes so far and all of them are HOME RUNS!! The whole family loves them , the recipes are quick , delicious and ( obviously) macro friendly. I would recommend this book to anybody.

I wish I had this book years ago!! This is the best meal prep book I’ve read and I’ve read a lot! It has so many good recipes with all macros broken down. Which you would expect from a meal prep book. However, Erin has also gone into DETAIL how to put each recipe together to reach your specific goals with instructions on how to prep her recipes for the whole week. Making your meal prep simple and easy to follow! Love this book.

This book is a great way to start meal prepping but for someone who is starting out meal prepping for the first time, it’s a good way to start. However, the reason I gave it 3 stars is because there was a lot of missing information here. There are so many questions that need to be answered. It’s not enough information to start meal prepping. The recipes are good. The problem is that I’m still lost. There are so many questions that I have like when do I know when to bulk, cut, or maintain? How do I measure my food? Raw or cooked? What’s the easiest way to track calories and macros? Can our macros change everyday or do we need to follow the same one for a few weeks? how do I measure a pot full of food? How do I measure cooked meals if the raw weight is not present? Do I have to eat the same calories everyday or can I eat low calories one day and high on another? How do I cook a full meal to reach my macros and calories? how do I get flexible with my diet? How do I plan a cheat meal and how do I take a cheat meal? If I make one meal and the rest is left overs, how do I know how many calories are in those left overs? How do I measure those left overs? how do we know how much grams are in that meal? How many fats proteins and carbs? If I plan a meal for tomorrow, how do I know how many calories and macros will be in that meal? How do I incorporate low carb high carb high fat low carb, etc. will it be different everyday? There are so many questions that need to be answered. I’m not saying the book is bad but if I want to learn how to meal prep, there has to be more information on how to start. We may never know how much we are eating unless we know how to measure the food. It doesn’t show you how to use the food scale. It doesn’t tell you if the measurements should be cooked or raw. It doesn’t teach you how to gather up all the ingredients and add them all up. How can we create a meal that fits our macros and calories? We can’t just guess and say “okay this is 300 calories”, when you know it’s not the correct measurement. I think there should be a book created only for how to diet like a bodybuilder or for athletes. Or even for people who want to stay fit, lean, ripped, year round. There should be a book dedicated to all the information we need in order to reach or nutrition goals. It should be called something like “how to diet like a bodybuilder” or “how to eat to look strong and lean year round”. Or even a book called “the complete guide to eating like a bodybuilder”. Something like that. In conclusion, this book is still worth keeping but just need to know more about eating, dieting, meal prepping, counting calories and macros, and eating well to stay strong and lean year round.

If you only buy one cookbook, buy this one. I thought probably eight cookbooks over the last few years for nutrition. Or more. I’ve paid probably $3000 for two different personal training programs to each other their own cookbook. The recipes in here are reliably very delicious. Great macros. Winners! Easy ingredients, fairly simple, lots of pictures, not too hard to make.

Awesome book, tried the tofu stir-fry and was actually impressed

J'adore ce livre de recettes d'Erin Stern. Il est très bien fait : chaque plan alimentaire contient un calendrier de 5 jours, avec les macros et calories totales quotidiennes. Il contient une liste d'épicerie et une méthode pour accélérer la préparation des repas, ainsi que des suggestions de mets pour interchanger. Chaque recette est bien expliquée et détaille les macros ainsi que les calories du plat. Parfait pour une personne comme moi qui se prépare à une compétition de bodybuilding. D'utiliser un plan et s'y tenir semaine après semaine permet de gagner du temps et d'économiser sur les aliments. J'au oublié de dire que les recettes sont savoureuses 😋

This book has been incredible in helping me to transform the way my whole house eats to aid training and healthy living . I have teens in my house who are all exercising regularly and I work out a lot . We are now in week 4 of firstly trialing all the recipes to see what everybody likes and dislikes and I am then going to use the ones that we like to save on wastage. It’s has been amazing , the shopping is easy and the food prep once into the swing of things frees up so much time in the long run, creating more time on certain evenings to read or listen to podcasts as well as busy Mum life . I have recommended this book to many of my friends and followers as I find it so easy to use. The photos are just a snippet of the meals I have created so far. I put them into glass containers and the kids and adults can grab and warm up as and when they need.

Very good

Sehr praktisch, dank der Einkaufsliste und des Wochenplans. Allerdings sind die Rezepte für unseren Geschmack etwas zu einfach (Weil hier unter Tiefkühlprodukte genutzt werden). Für Leute, die wirklich schnell und simpel kochen wollen, ist es denke ich gut geeignet