Yum-Yum Bento: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches Book

As a person who cooks vegan, many omnivorous cook books aren't helpful to me. This cookbook (which pretty accurately reflects current Japanese trends in bento) uses a lot of meat and cheese. Of course, the vegan/vegetarian industry is ever growing and thus more and more meat, egg, and dairy substitutes exist. However, I'm not interested in eating those products. Yes, I *could* buy vegan deli 'meat' and follow the recipes located in this book, but I'm more interested in using the decoration and presentation ideas as jumping-off-point to create my own (more whole-food-centric) lunches. If you are interested in using this book in the same way I am (as inspiration, not COOKbook) this book is pretty good! The layout is easy on the eyes, there are a great many photos which are not only lovely, but skillfully taken so as to helpfully illustrate more complicated techniques, but it's also mostly recipes. While this book is chock-full of tips, tricks, ideas, and photos to help you to make your 'brown bags' stylish, it's still of limited usefulness to confident cooks who have a different diet than the authors.