Completely Animal-Free Recipes - 200 Ultra-Convenient

So delicious
I have made several recipes out of this book and served them to carnivores who claim to like them even better than the meat-containing varieties. The stroganoff and pozole recipes are my favorites. The slow cooker makes them easy and time efficient. Yum.

Fantastic cookbook. I've been vegan for almost 4 years and have bought many vegan cookbooks. This one is by far the most used one. We have yet to try a recipe in this book that we don't like (Even our 5 children have liked them all). And they are all pretty easy to make. I highly recommend this book.

This was my first cookbook for our slow cooker, and everything has been great. There is a trail mix recipe in here that is to DIE FOR. I would highly recommend for anyone who wants yummy food and is busy.

This book has easy instructions and great tips on getting the best meals out of your crockpot. There are several international cuisines as well which I love!
The book uses a wide variety of vegetables and easy to find ingredients. I have already made several dishes from this book and they turned out great!

I've been buying vegan / raw food cookbooks since 1999 when I started my vegan journey and from 1,000 Vegan Recipes to Vegan on the Cheap to 30-Minute Meals and now this gorgeous slow cooker book, I can honestly say that Robin gets it! She understands the challenges busy vegan cooks face with time and money and has been able to craft scores of delicious dishes that fit the bill - no matter what your cooking challenge is. She has made it so that I have ZERO EXCUSES not to eat a healthy vegan diet. That is not to say that every single one of the recipes is my all-time personal favorite, (that is to be expected) but there is more than enough to keep me cooking and eating for a long time to come! Her cookbooks generally embody everything I look for in a vegan cookbook:

1) Fresh and Healthy - Tons of fresh veggies, minimal to no processed foods, overall easy on the oil and sugar.
2) Cheap Eats - Easy to find, affordable ingredients.
3) Foolproof - Simple to prepare without complicated steps.
4) Quick - Minimal time spent in the kitchen.
5) Filling - good portion sizes, hearty ingredients.

I'm ordering this book today and when I try the new recipes in this book, will report on my new favorites.

P.S. Don't be swayed by negative reviews - seriously. Try it for yourself, you'll see what I'm talking about.

I own nearly 100 cookbooks (mostly vegan, all vegetarian). The problem I have with most of them is that I don't have the money or time to make a special shopping trip when trying a new recipe, and often do not have one or more ingredients in my kitchen for the recipe I want to prepare. Inevitable, I come up with some substitution, the recipe doesn't come out quite as desired, and I don't really know if it was my 'tweaking' that caused the less than ideal results. Then I am left with the question: do I go out and buy the missing ingredient just to be sure? But since I rarely feel motivated to put out the time, energy and money required, I tend to give up on the recipe and, consequently, on the cookbook in general.

Robin Robertson is obviously psychic because her cookbook "Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker" not only offers ingredient and preparation options whenever possible, but uses ingredients that are familiar enough to me, so that I can successfully substitute even where she has not delineated an option. This is key for me, and it is so refreshing to come across a cookbook that works that way.

My first recipe was the Chili Mac. I substituted soaked, cooked soybeans (cooked with sauteed grilled onion & garlic) for the tvp granules, smoked paprika for the chili powder, fresh roasted tomatoes for the salsa and tomato sauce, and celery seed for the black pepper. The result tasted like I was eating at my favorite restaurant. That was a first! To some, this may sound like the success of the recipe was random. But I can tell you that recipes don't work like that. It is the way Robin uses flavor that allows for the substitutions I made to translate well. THANK YOU ROBIN!