Review: Plenty of recipes --- needs storage info
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2012
While the Healthy Ziplock Snacks cookbook contains many delicious sounding recipes, and there is a good selection ranging from typical snacks to sandwiches, the recipes lack a key piece of information:  How to store your perishable snacks.Here are several recipes, lacking needed storage information, that are most likely perishable:Stuffed MushroomsRoasted Red Grapes with Honey and ThymeSpinach and Strawberry SaladHam, Cream Cheese and Veggie StacksThe stuffed mushrooms recipe contains, minced garlic, cream cheese and Parmesan cheese. This recipe should have directions on how to store them such as freezing and eating later or keeping the snack stored in ice packs. The ice pack method is the one I would choose as mushrooms tend to get mushy after being frozen and defrosted.The roasted grapes recipe would probably best stored in a food storage bag between ice packs. Grapes are tossed with a seasoned honey mixture before being roasted.The strawberry salad:  You might be OK to store this at room temperature but the salad would taste better if kept cold. Once again there no storage directions given in therecip.The Ham and Cream Cheese Veggie Snacks use a cream cheese and vegetable spread on Lavash crackers. This snack is stored in a food storage bag without any recommendations of keeping the snack cold.Other recipes you find in this cookbook include:Terrific Trail MixTropical Trail MixCinnamon Apple PopcornThe directions are clearly written, and there is an active table of contents making navigation easy.Recommend with caveats given.