365 Quick, Easy & Inexpensive Dinner Menus
by Penny E Stone
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Author: Penny E StoneEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-12-25
ISBN: 1891400339
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Champion Press (WI)
Book Reviews of 365 Quick, Easy & Inexpensive Dinner Menus
Book Review: Doesn't use ingredients in season
Summary: 3 Stars
I really like the design of this cookbook, it's very innovative to have different meal suggestions for each day of the year. It provides many ideas since the average family makes the same 14 meals over and over. However, this cookbook has no pictures and many of the recipes as mentioned in other reviews use quite a bit of processed foods. There are no fat, calorie or other such nutritional information either.
Having said that Stove Top, Campbell's soup, and cheez wiz are billion dollar businesses so people are eating that stuff whether its used in these cookbook or not.
The real problem I had with the cookbook is that it didn't consistently use fruits and vegetables that would be in season when it was suggested for the meal. My example is many of the recipes had fresh tomatoes in the middle of December and zucchini in the spring. It's just not possible to afford or even find many of these food suggestions. I try to control my food budget by buying foods when they're in season and not when they're not.
Overall the cookbook is nice for a new mother or someone who needs suggestions out of their cooking rut. A dinner suggestion was to have popcorn shrimp. It was just using already breaded bagged frozen popcorn shrimp and cooking for dinner. I don't know that I need a cookbook to give me that "recipe". Another dinner was to have grilled cheese...another dinner was dried beef gravy over toast. No vegetables, no fruits, very little fiber. When I was in the army we called that SOS. Not sure I want to have that ever again.
The cheeseburger biscuits dinner involved laying out canned biscuits layering with a chili seasoned ground beef, and then covering with another layer of canned biscuits. That's the complete dinner, no vegetables, no fruits, again very little fiber. If you used this as a basis for the main course and on your own added a side salad or added some fibersure to the mixture it might make it more healthy.
What I did like were the kitchen tips. There were several suggestions about pre-prepping foods (that is chopping more than needed and freezing the extra for another night), multi-tasking ideas, keep track of your spices, etc. Overall for $5.00 I'd invest in the cookbook and just realize it is what it is.
If you have dietary concerns, any food allergies, or just want a truly healthful diet then this cookbook is not for you. If you are trying to keep from eating out and start cooking in then this cookbook is perfect.
HTH.
Summary of 365 Quick, Easy & Inexpensive Dinner Menus
365 Quick, Easy and Inexpensive Dinner Menus meets all the needs of every home cook. This book tastefully combines nutrition, ease of preparation and cost-efficiency while offering not just single dish recipes but full meal menus-one for every day of the year! With homespun charm, warm wit and playful trivia, home-cooks are provided with a ready-made plan for entire meals that are fun, cheap and quick. 365 Quick, Easy and Inexpensive Dinner Menus is a cookbook for the entire family and its innovative menus have been approved by kids nationwide. The book is multi-indexed: by food category and by preparation time.General Books
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