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The New Year is all about making resolutions, and most of those resolutions revolve around exercising more and making smarter food choices. If you’re a runner, or any athlete, you know how important nutrition can be to help you perform at your best. What I love about this cookbook is that the recipes are easy to make and they do NOT take a lot of time to cook (a BIG plus)!
The Runner’s World Meals on the Run Cookbook is a great resource for recipes that will help fuel your workouts and recovery, all while using good, whole foods. Here’s a little more information on the cookbook:
While all runners need to eat well to fuel their performance, most don’t have the time to cook complex or labor-intensive meals to meet their unique nutritional needs. But if you’ve got 30 minutes, you can prepare fresh, delicious meals that will bolster your running and satisfy your appetite. Meals on the Run includes more than 150 healthy, energy-packed recipes that can all be prepared in small windows of time―some in 10 minutes or less!
From simple snacks and smoothies to weeknight dinners, you’ll find everything you need to get high-quality food on the table fast. If you follow a specialized diet―vegetarian, vegan, low-calorie, or gluten-free―or need your meals to match your training plan, each recipe is marked so you can easily see if a particular recipe fits your needs.
This cookbook is broken out into nine chapters: Breakfast, Smoothies and Juices, Snacks and Sweets, Salads, Soups and Stews, Pasta and Noodles, Vegetarian Mains and Sides, Seafood Mains and Meat and Poultry Mains.
What makes this cookbook stand out from other cookbooks is a section in the beginning called ‘The Fast Runner’s Kitchen’. This section provides pantry staples that every runner should have on hand to make hearty quick meals.
I received this book last year, so I’ve had a chance to try a good amount of the recipes. Here are a few of my favorites!
“Baked” Granola Apples
Granny smith apples are not only delicious, but one of my favorite fruits! What’s great about this recipe is that you cook the apples in the microwave, which gives them the “baked” texture much faster. The granola adds a little crunch and the dried tart cherries give it a slight tart taste. I’ve made these as a breakfast and also as a sweet treat!
Green Tea Smoothie
I am a huge fan of green tea. I drink it every morning (I don’t drink coffee) with my breakfast. So when I saw a green tea smoothie I was very intrigued! The green tea, combined with the kiwi, honeydew, banana and avocado makes for a very delicious smoothie. The recipe also calls for agave syrup or honey but I always skip that – I find that the fruit sweetens up the smoothie enough for my taste buds.
Instant Frozen Yogurt
This might be the easiest recipe in the entire cookbook. It’s frozen straberries, vanilla extract, sugar and greek yogurt – that’s it! You blend it all together in a food processor and it’s instant frozen yogurt! I’ve also tried this with frozen bananas and blueberries and it was just as good.
Spaghetti with Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce
I LOVE pasta, especially simple pastas, so this was perfect for me. Instead of using jarred pasta sauce, I was able to combine 8 ingredients in a food processor to make my own sauce. It was healtheir and much cheaper! Sometimes I’ll also add chicken or shrimp to this dish for extra protein.
Broccoli with Lemon-Garlic Sauce
This is such an easy eay to enjoy one of my favorite vegetables! The lemon-garlic sauce adds a little “zing” to the broccoli. This is a perfect side dish to pair with steak or chicken.
Broiled Garlicky Shrimp
Another garlic dish that I love from this cookbook! The butter, EVOO, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper had amazing flavor to the shrimp. You could eat these as an appetizer, or add the shrimp to one of the amazing salads in the cookbook for a quick and easy lunch or dinner!
Do you want to win your own copy? You’re in luck! When I was doing some “winter cleaning” over the holidays, I found an extra copy of this cookbook 🙂 Enter to win via Rafflecopter below.
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The giveaway is not affiliated with Runner’s World. Giveaway open to US residents only and ends on 1/13. GOOD LUCK!!
This looks pretty good. I have another Runner’s World cookbook that is very good.
I have the other Runner’s World Cookbook as well – Both are great!
I usually just wing it in the kitchen but love to try a new recipe from a cookbook once and awhile!
I’m the same way but sometimes when I “wing it” the results are horrible lol
I don’t use cookbooks too often, but I do really like Mark Bittman’s banana bread recipe and the book Chocolate Covered Katie.
Both of those recipes sound delicious! Good Luck in the giveaway!
I love this cookbook! So many good recipes.
I think it’s one of the best cookbooks that I own!
I have a great cookbook that features a low cal- french onion soup recipe that I make all the time!
That sounds good! Especially the low calorie part!
I don’t have a whole lot of cookbooks, I get a lot of my recipes online these days…. but this one sounds really good.
I get a few recipes online as well, but I always like the look and feel of cookbooks!
Easy and do not take a whole lot of time recipes are for me!
LoL, me too! And the less ingredients the better (less likelihood that I’ll mess it up)
I can’t say that I have a favorite cookbook recipe but I do have a thing for cookbooks. I love checking out new cookbooks from the library. I especially love reading and learning about recipes from around the world.
Totally agree! It’s nice to see recipes from other countries as well.
I love cookbooks! Do I use them all? Not really. But there are a few that I LOVE like Run Fast, Eat Slow. I made there beet smoothie and surprisingly it was pretty awesome and super filling.
I just got the Run Fast Eat Slow cookbook over the holidays and I cant wait to try some of the recipes!
I love the idea of this cookbook! My favorite cookbook is one that has all these recipes using Greek yogurt.
I love using greek yogurt in recipes!
This cookbook looks great! I used to make some recipes from the 30 minute meals in Housekeeping Magazine like pizza and taco variations with fresh ingredients!
Ohh that sounds good! I’m a little obsessed with pizza lol
I do, its actually for chocolate stout cake. Not the healthiest of recipes, but nonetheless its one my family loves as much as I do. I’m a chocoholic so it goes to reason why I love it so much.
Umm..that sounds amazing!!
Looks like lots of pretty simple recipes! I need to get out of this food rut!
Cookbooks always get me out of a food rut!
I love to make a roasted vegetable lasagna.
That sounds so good and healthy!
I don’t really have a favorite recipe that I use all the time.
My favorite recipe is a fruit cobbler made with seasonal fruit.
I don’t have a favorite recipe but a runners cookbook is definitely a good place to start looking!
I agree!
My favorite recipe is from Thug Kitchen. Love their pumpkin chili!
I have that cookbook as well but I never tried the pumpkin chili. That’s one recipe I’ll be trying in the Fall!
There is one church cookbook I have that I use recipes from all of the time.
That’s great! It’s nice when you find a cookbook that you can use for a long time – that means it’s really good!
This sounds so great! I have been using Run Fast Eat Slow for a few months now. Id love to try another cookbook for runners!
I purchased the Run Fast Eat Slow cookbook over the holidays and I can’t wait to try some recipes from it!
That green tea smoothie sounds good! I’ve put improving my nutrition in my top five goals for this year!
Nutrition is always a work in progress so it totally makes sense to make it a goal – I did too!
My favorite recipes are for Asian and Mediterranean recipes, especially ones using chicken
I totally agree. Asian inspired meals are always full of flavor.
I have plenty of favorite recipes. I’m always trying to find new healthy vegetarian meal ideas.
I’m looking to increase my veggie intake this year so I’ll be looking for vegetarian recipes as well!
I love my Run Fast. Eat Slow. cookbook…the superhero muffins are my favorite! This cookbook looks amazing…i’m kind of a disaster in the kitchen haha
I have that cookbook and I’m looking forward to making the superhero muffins!
Yes a blueberry muffin, that is made from bran mix. Very healthy for you.
That sounds really good!
I love cookbooks!! I use them