The $7 a Meal Slow Cooker Cookbook: 301 Delicious, Nutritious Recipes the Whole Family Will Love! Review

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(More customer reviews)This cookbook comes at the nick of time.With the current state of the economy, saving money on food is more important than ever.Is anyone else out there shocked every time they go to the grocery store??Some of my family's favorites:
- Spicy Peanut Chicken (you can omit the jalapenos for the kiddies)
- Chicken Marsala -- yum!
- Fork Tender Pot Roast
- Texas BBQ Beef Sandwiches
- Broccoli Cheese Soup
Those of you who use slow cookers know how wonderful it feels to get dinner prepared in the morning, go about your day, and come home to that heavenly smell knowing that your work is 99% done!I highly, highly recommend this cookbook for anyone who wants to get organized, save money and eat well!

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Gone are the days of TV trays and microwaveable meals as more and more families choose to return to the dinner table. Yet as food costs continue to rise, and parents are always strapped for time, they need new ways to cook easy and affordable meals for their kids - and fast.With this cookbook, families will find 301 great recipes that almost cook themselves, including: Spicy Turkey Meatballs; Hearty Root Vegetable Soup; Pizza Fondue; Crock-Pot Fajitas; Black Bean Lasagna; and more. This comprehensive, all-purpose cookbook is packed with simple instructions, nutritional information, and the amount of money needed for each recipe and makes preparing delicious, healthy, and cheap meals easier than ever before.

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Cooking for the Week : Leisurely Weekend Cooking for Easy WeekDAY Meals Review

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(More customer reviews)Cooking for the Week : Leisurely Weekend Cooking for Easy WeekDAY Meals by Diane Morgan, et al
This is one of the better cookbooks I have seen.The book is well written, the recipes are clear and easy to follow, not tomention delicious.
I recommend this book to anyone who has askedthemselves what to do with leftovers or said that there is nothing in thehouse to eat.
This book will get you thinking in a new, better, way aboutmenu planning.

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Smart cooks know that leftovers are a good thing. Anempty refrigerator dooms the cook to a tiresome trip to the store, theagony of starting from scratch for each meal, or worse: night afternight of soulless, expensive take-out. But with a little planningahead, a hearty weekend meal can provide several delicious mealsthroughout the week. In Cooking for the Week, weekend dinners aredesigned to provide plenty of leftovers, which are then used in cleverweekday recipes. And these weekday meals are no dried-out rehash:leftovers are creatively transformed into stir-fries, salads, soups,pastas, fajitas, sandwiches, and other delectable reincarnations. Eachweekend menu is tied to three or four weekday dishes, so planning aweek's worth of family meals is easier than anyone everimagined. Cooking for the Week gives you a plan that makes it possibleto eat well, feed the family, and spend weekday evenings relaxinginstead of running around. Now that's a great idea!

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Frozen Assets, 2E: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month Review

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(More customer reviews)I just wanted to say that this is a great book!I have read a couple other "once-a-month" cookbooks, and have found them to be too complex for the stage of life I am in.This book was simple to understand and the ideas were easy to do!The recipes are very family-friendly.They were very easy for me to adjust for my youngest son's food allergies, and both of my children love the food I've made from this book. So far it has been cost-effective, and doing one big shopping trip this month has allowed me to keep my kids out of the grocery store during flu season, which I'm very thankful for.I worked very hard the first two days of cooking, and spent a large portion of my "grocery money" in one shopping trip, but it has been so worth it.No more running to the store every few days (and tracking all those receipts!), no more spending a couple hours each day on top of my other work preparing dinner and cleaning up, no more wondering what to make for dinner tonight...that time is now being spent on more important things.Having enough food in the house and meals prepared in my freezer for a whole month has taken a huge amount of stress off my shoulders. Thanks Deborah!!

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The best-selling freezer-based cookbook, with more than 22,000copies sold.This breakthrough cookbook delivers a program for readers tocook a week or month's worth of meals in just one day by using easy andaffordable recipes to create a customized meal plan. Deborah Taylor-Hough, whosaved $24,000 on her family's total grocery bill during a five-year period,offers up kid-tested and family-approved recipes in Frozen Assets, plusbulk-cooking tips for singles, shopping lists, recipes for two-week and 30-daymeal plans, and a ten-day plan to eliminate cooking over the holidays.Cooking for the freezer allows you to plan ahead, purchaseitems in bulk, cut down on waste, and stop those all-too-frequent trips to thedrive-thru. The hands-down authority on once-a-month cooking, Frozen Assetsgives you a step-by-step plan to simplify and revolutionize the way you cook."Finally, a realistic way to combine the cost-effectivenessof cooking from scratch with the convenience of quick and easy meals!" -MaryHunt, author of The Financially Confident Woman"Belongs in every family's kitchen! One of the best time - andmoney - savers a busy family can have." -The Dollar Stretcher"Offers relief to those tired of eating restaurant fare orexpensive, over-packaged convenience foods at the end of a hard day." -LibraryJournal

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Cook Once a Week, Eat Well Every Day: Make-Ahead Meals that Transform Your Suppertime Circus into Relaxing Family Time Review

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(More customer reviews)It does contain many very healthy recipes (which, I know some others do not, so this may be just what you're looking for), however, they're simply NOT things I could get my family to eat.

Spaghetti sauce with mashed winter squash and flaxseed? Besides, I already know how to freeze spaghetti sauce. Then nachos and burritos made from the same spaghetti sauce? Mexican and Italian foods have *very* different flavors in this household, there's no sneaking that past my pre-schooler.

A recipe for a veggie platter "to munch on all week?" I already know how to cut up veggies and offer them as snacks. And, how this is *so* different from the crudites 'recipe' elsewhere as to justify it's own 'recipe' I don't know.

Quinoa and Carrots? Sesame Fish Cakes with Baby Bok Choy? Lentil Quesadillas with Smoked Almond Apple Salad? They don't save me any time if my family has no interest in eating them.

Lots of menu charts and a good work schedule, as well as shopping lists - IF all the recipes pre-choosen for that week work for you. I suppose if you're *really* time crunched (and eat *very* healthfully!) this could be helpful. Since there are few recipes I can pick and choose from in this one, they really don't help me out at all.

It was the Lemony Baked Shrimp recipe that 'lured' me in, and while I still think it sounds great, I wouldn't have bought the book just for that.

I have found Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer to be FAR more family (read: child!) friendly, with MANY more options that appeal to all of us.

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Cook Once a Week, Eat Well Every Day is the ultimate cookbook for today's busy parents. Instead of facing a suppertime circus, it allows moms and dads to prepare meals in advance so they can hurry home to more important things. Author Theresa Albert is a home-cooking efficiency expert who shares her culinary knowledge and organizational expertise-she offers more than three months worth of delicious, nutritious, family-friendly dinners, with plans on how to shop for, prepare, and cook each meal. Since the planning and preparation of each weeknight meal is done in three hours or less on a weekend afternoon, all parents need to do each weeknight is heat things up and get everyone to the table.
The thirteen weekly plans feature delicious and affordable recipes for a variety of tastes, such as Chicken Cacciatore, Meatloaf Florentine, Lemony Baked Shrimp, Baked Mashed Potatoes and Potato Skins, Sesame Broccoli Salad, Easy Minestrone, Oatmeal Cookies, and more. With nutritional analyses, itemized shopping lists, great leftover ideas, countless kitchen tips, and "quickie meals from what you've got," Cook Once a Week, Eat Well Every Day offers less stress Monday through Friday, which makes spending time together as a family possible once again.

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Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead Review

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(More customer reviews)What I like about this cookbook is the recipes have you freeze the dish before cooking it. For me, what I don't like about some of the other OAMC (once a month cooking) cookbooks is they have you cook it first, then freeze and when you unthaw it it's mush. This cookbook has you assemble all the ingredients first, freeze it and then day of serving you thaw and cook. Very much the same as dream dinners.com.(without the hefty price tag). Have loved the cranberry chicken, chicken cacciatore and the buttermilk herb chicken breasts.We eat mostly chicken but there are beef, pork and even desserts recipes. Serving suggestions are offered though not as many as I'd like. Very good cookbook, worthy investment and I don't give my praise lightly.

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Hectic lifestyles and over-full schedules make traditional cooking methods nearly obsolete in many families. The results are poor nutrition and budgets strained by the high cost of fast food or commercially prepared meals. Don't Panic-Dinner's in the Freezer offers a simple and economical alternative, featuring dozens of recipes designed to be prepared and frozen for future use.With over 23,000 copies sold in its original self-published edition, this book gives practical tips for planning, organizing, and shopping for meals, as well as unique ways to freeze and reheat prepared foods. Every recipe includes measurements for cooking alone or as a joint venture with one or two friends. Families, singles, retirees-everyone who needs to eat-will find fast and easy answers to the question, "What's for dinner?"

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Make-A-Mix Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a wonderful book for those who need delicious meals in less time. With over 300 recipes, it provides a wide selection of easy-to-follow family-style meals that can be partially prepared ahead of time.
Information on equipment, procedures, & ingredients as well as greattips on lowering fat are included in the beginning. Over 50 mixes follow,each listing the recipes it can be used in. Color photos show some of thefinished dishes.
Recipes include appetizers, soups, salads, vegetables,side dishes, main dishes, breads, breakfasts, cakes, pies, & desserts.Some of my favorites are the lasagna, stroganoff,minestrone soup &white chili.
My kids & I love the many slice and bake cookies,especially the peanut butter one. They are just like the pre-package kindin the stores but are a lot cheaper. The soft pretzels, corn dogs, &cinnamon rolls are also great treats.

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Why bust the budget on pricey take-out during the week, when you can whip up fast, healthy meals at home? Make-A-Mix is perfect for working parents, two-career couples, and over-committed retirees.
Make-A-Mix is really two cookbooks in one. The cookbook begins with 67 make-ahead shortcut mixes for everything from all-purpose cake mix to meatball mix. These can be made on a weekend-or whenever there's free time-and used to speed food preparation on busy days.
The mixes are a key ingredient in one or more of the 306 recipes that follow. The kitchen-tested recipes run the gamut from breakfast dishes to after-dinner treats. They include hearty dinner entrees, like enchilada casserole, onion pot roast, and shrimp & vegetable stir-fry; international fare like green chili burritos and quick chow mein; soups and other appetizers, like New England clam chowder, and even freezer treats like fruit slush.
With the Make-A-Mix method, home cooks can control the amount of sugar, salt, and preservatives in a recipe, and save money on store-bought mixes. This cookbook is the updated and expanded version of Make-A-Mix that sold over a million copies.

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