Love & Lemons Cooking Club – April!

Join the Love & Lemons Cooking Club Challenge this month! It's easy to enter, and one lucky winner will receive a prize. Find all the details below.

Our Cooking Club is a fun way to celebrate the Love & Lemons community of readers. The concept is super simple—each month, I choose a recipe. You make it, and you leave a comment on the recipe’s blog post. At the end of the month, I randomly select one winner to receive a prize. I love the sense of community that comes from so many people cooking one recipe each month. We’re kicking off our April challenge today with our lentil salad recipe, and I hope you’ll join in the fun. Here’s how it works: The Prize: A $200 Whole…

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Love & Lemons Cooking Club – March!

Join the Love & Lemons Cooking Club Challenge this month! It's easy to enter, and one lucky winner will receive a prize. Find all the details below.

Our Cooking Club is a fun way to celebrate the Love & Lemons community of readers. The concept is super simple—each month, I choose a recipe. You make it, and you leave a comment on the recipe’s blog post. At the end of the month, I randomly select one winner to receive a prize. I love the sense of community that comes from so many people cooking one recipe each month. We’re kicking off our March challenge today with our enchiladas recipe, and I hope you’ll join in the fun. Here’s how it works: The Prize: A $200 Whole Foods…

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Get the 2024 Feel Good Meal Plan!

Sign up to receive our 2024 Feel Good Meal Plan! This 1-week plan includes a grocery list, prep guide, and recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The Feel Good Meal Plan is a downloadable 1-week meal plan. It includes a shopping list, a Sunday meal prep guide, and fresh, delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. All recipes are vegetarian and include a vegan option. If you want more meal ideas for 2024, you’re in luck! I’ll also send my most popular dinner recipes and meal prep breakfasts. Sign up here to get the Feel Good Meal Plan: By signing up, you’ll receive the Feel Good Meal Plan as well as our Love & Lemons newsletter three times a week. Of course, you can unsubscribe at…

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Favorite Recipes From Simple Feel Good Food

I love ALL the recipes in Simple Feel Good Food, but I'm spotlighting a few of my top favorites below. What are yours? Let me know in the comments!

Simple Feel Good Food has been out for almost two weeks! It’s been such a joy to see what you’ve been cooking from it. Tell me, do you have a favorite recipe so far? I want to know! Share your answer in the comments below. Speaking of favorite recipes, tons of readers have asked me what my favorite recipe is! It’s impossible to pick just one, so I’m taking today’s post to spotlight a few. #1: Creamy Cauliflower Enchiladas, p. 107 We had to test this recipe a few times to get it just right, but every tweak was worth it.…

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Another Vitamix Giveaway!

To celebrate the launch of our new cookbook Simple Feel Good Food, we're giving away an AMAZING Vitamix blender! Find all the details below.

Did you see the Vitamix giveaway we had last week? Well, if you missed it, or if you entered but didn’t win, I have good news: we’re having ANOTHER one! Our new cookbook Simple Feel Good Food has been out for almost a week(!), and we’re giving away the Vitamix A3500 Ascent Series Blender (aka the best blender ever) to celebrate. But first, if you’ve gotten a copy of Simple Feel Good Food and love the book, I would SO appreciate you leaving a 5-star review on Amazon or wherever you made your purchase. Reviews are the #1 way to get the word out about the…

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Get a Signed Bookplate!

We're sending signed bookplates to 75 readers who purchase Simple Feel Good Food. Psst...a signed cookbook would be the perfect Mother's Day gift!

The bookplate limit has been reached. Thank you for your support of Simple Feel Good Food! Thank you so much for all your kind words about our cookbook launch on Tuesday! We’re so excited that you’re starting to cook from Simple Feel Good Food, and we hope you’re enjoying whatever you’ve made so far. If you’re loving the book, I would SO appreciate you leaving a 5-star review on Amazon or wherever you made your purchase. Reviews are the #1 way to get the word out about the book, and it would mean so much if you wrote one. THANK…

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Introducing Simple Feel Good Food

My new book Simple Feel Good Food is officially out TODAY! It's packed with 125+ make-now and make-ahead recipes. Keep reading for a preview!

Today’s the day! My new cookbook Love & Lemons Simple Feel Good Food is officially out in the world, and I can’t wait for you to cook from it. My inspiration for this book came from you, the Love & Lemons readers. You’ve taught me that we all want to eat healthy, delicious food, but we have different ways of getting there. Some people like easy recipes that they can make right now. And others like to plan ahead. Simple Feel Good Food is for these two types of cooks. Half the recipes are at the ready recipes, which are simple to make…

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How I Think About Meal Planning: 3-in-1s!

Don't like eating the same thing every day? Me neither. In Simple Feel Good Food, I show you how I meal prep to keep my cooking simple, yet exciting.

Simple Feel Good Food comes out in 2 days!!! Quick reminder: if you haven’t pre-ordered yet, we have an awesome Vitamix giveaway going on AND we’re sending a free bonus e-book to those who pre-order. Head to our cookbook page to get the details and to pre-order while you still can! Ok, logistics aside, I want to tell you about a really cool feature in Simple Feel Good Food: the 3-in-1 meal plans! What is a 3-in-1? I also like to call this section “Meal Prep for People Who Don’t Like Eating The Same Thing Every Day.” Here’s how it works: In…

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The Simple Feel Good Book Tour!

Join me for a live event to celebrate the launch of my new cookbook Simple Feel Good Food! Find the full schedule of virtual and in-person events below.

My new cookbook Simple Feel Good Food comes out on April 25, and I’m going to be doing some really fun live events to celebrate! I’m sharing the full schedule with event details below. I hope you can join me for one, whether in-person or virtually. See you soon! Virtual Events Tune in from anywhere to learn about Simple Feel Good Food! Times listed in CDT. 4/25 at 7pm – Live Cook-Along with Williams Sonoma I’ll be making my White Bean Swiss Chard Burgers and answering all your cookbook-related questions on Zoom! This class costs $35, which includes a copy of the book. Get…

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The Ultimate Vitamix Giveaway

Pre-order our new cookbook Simple Feel Good Food for a chance to win a high-speed blender, food processor, and immersion blender from Vitamix!

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Amy Gingery! The countdown begins! Our new cookbook Love & Lemons Simple Feel Good Food comes out in a little over a week. To celebrate, I have the most AMAZING Vitamix giveaway! Yes, we’re giving away the best blender ever, but that’s not all… Pre-order Simple Feel Good Food by April 25th to enter to win this extra special Vitamix prize pack: A3500 Gourmet SmartPrep Kitchen System which incudes: a Vitamix A3500 Ascent Series Blender the Vitamix 12-Cup Food Processor Attachment Vitamix 4-Piece Immersion Blender Bundle To enter, just send your book…

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Don’t miss out on these exclusive recipes!

Pre-order our new cookbook to get a FREE e-book with 5 exclusive recipes. They aren't in the book or on the blog—you don't want to miss them!

Our new cookbook Simple Feel Good Food comes out in less than a month! Creating a cookbook is a long process—we’ve been working on this one for over two years. I can’t believe that it will finally be out in the world! I’m so excited to share it with you. Simple Feel Good Food will hit bookstore shelves on April 25, but today’s post is a reminder that it’s available for pre-order NOW! Why pre-order? You’ll be guaranteed a copy of the book on launch day. Get a sneak peek of what’s in it here! AND we’re offering a free e-book as a thank…

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Hello, we're Jeanine and Jack.

We love to eat, travel, cook, and eat some more! We create & photograph vegetarian recipes from our home in Chicago, while our shiba pups eat the kale stems that fall on the kitchen floor.