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Title: Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day
ISBN: 0312366256
Author:
Mary-Beth Lagerborg
Mimi Wilson
Publicate Date: 2007-02-20
Publish: 2007-02-20
List Price: $12.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Wonderful
This book was a great help in organizing my month. It helped make family meals a time to enjoy rather than pulling my hair out. Thanks!
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2: Disappointing and unhealthy
I had been looking forward to using this book to save time in cooking but was really disappointed with the recipes. Most of the book has meat recipes and hardly any vegetarian recipes which makes for a very unhealthy and unbalanced diet. Also, the ingredients on the whole were not natural and unhealthy.
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3: Decent cookbook, but so many typos!
This is a good cookbook that helps you organize yourself for a monumental cooking task. But you have to check and double check each list and recipe because there are SO MANY typos in this cookbook. I don't think there was an editor.
In addition, almost every single recipe calls for meat, making it great if you "cannot" live without meat, but not so great if you are a vegetarian or aspiring to reduce your meat consumption.
On the plus side, the majority of the recipes are really easy, and it's quite nice to have a full freezer and know exactly what's for dinner tonight.
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4: Wonderful, but buddy-up the first time!!
My husband and I used to do this together before we had our son and we were both working. Later I found that a two-week version was easier by myself. You'll save lots of $$ by not eating out, but don't forget to get things out in time to thaw for the day you want to eat it. RE: the updated version - on a radio program the author said one of the main differences was leaving more uncooked until the day the meal was needed, then dumping it in a crock pot so the wonderful cooking smells could be enjoyed the day it is eaten. Some things, however, would still need to be cooked on cooking day, but this would make cooking day easier, too, I would think!
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5: LOVE IT
The first plan I tried was one month plan D. I was concerned about portion sizes and flavor of the recipes. We are alomost finished with the first month's food. Everything was delicious, you never know with recipes, there were some dishes that I made notes to (add more chicken, needs more gravy) but other than that, they were all great dishes. We have a family of 6 and some of the meals are only for 4, that was not a problem at my house, we added a bread or extra fruit or vegatable and we ALWAYS had leftovers (usually only one portion). Finally I feel like my family is eating appropriate portion sizes. This really has saved me a huge amount of time and money. I figured with the one month plan each dinner cost my family about $2.23 per person. Well rounded healthy food. We have purchased the ziploc steam n bags and in 4 minutes we have fresh steamed vegetables to go with our entre. My husband has had no problems jumping in and preparing the dinner for the evening, since all you are really doing is putting it in pan and reheating. I love this book, I have been telling everyone about how great it is. If you dont have an extra freezer there are two week plans, that I can say will fit in your regular freezer (I took the last two weeks out of the deep freeze and moved them inside, just to see). Also, if a someone has a baby or a friend needs a helping hand, you have a meal all ready for them in the freezer.
A nice feature...at the end of the book, there are family dinner discussion topics for the communication to get rolling at the table. No more "what did you do today?" more like "talk about one thing you started today and one thing you finished"
My only complaint, the book is soft back with paper pages, this makes it hard to keep clean when you are doing cooking day since you are flipping back and forth. I put mine is a binder with sheet protectors, a small investment, but all the pages turn easy and wipe clean.
I did not notice recipe issues, I noticed shopping list errors (I had stuff leftover after the food had been made) I was confused at one point at which chicken to use where, boiled or boneless breast chunks but really not a big deal to me...chicken is chicken.
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