How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher...
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Customer Reviews:
Not so good when you've been cooking a while
I have been married almost 5 years now, and I picked up all my cooking skills in this time, this book would have been very useful when I first got married and started off cooking, but now buying this book - mainly for the meal plans - I feel was a waste of money, as there was nothing new in it! Like a lot of the other reviews have pointed out, most of us know to reuse a roast chicken the next night in a casserole, it wasn't ground breaking stuff to read this, and although there are a couple of soup recipes I'd not seen before, I will not be making 'Stinging Nettle Soup' no matter how cheap or free it is.
My main reason for buying the book was the pre made meal plans, but I have come to realise that only I can make meal plans for our family as I know that we wouldn't like Lamb's Liver on the menu!! And I find that the recipes in the book are actually a lot simpler than the meals I already make my family presently. So unfortunately the book has got put in a cupboard ununsed, I was thinking of passing it on but I can't think who could make use of it!! Unless my brother when he leaves home.
There is not many recipes in the book considering the thickness of it, a lot is chapters of writing.
It would definitely be a good book to anyone starting out on their own, newly married couples and students, but for me I find not so good for a family.
Brilliant way to save money 
I was bought this as a present for Christmas and already we have saved money in following the recipe plans at the back of the book. Straight forward, healthy food that are easy to prepare and very tasty. Nice to find a non-American book of this type.
Disappointing 
I was really excited to be given this book, having a new baby and trying to work out how to feed him healthily - it was really disappointing to find nothing new, except factual inaccuracies and misleading information.
raised my hackles!
I was really excited when I opened this book but like some others, found it lacked content. I also found it opinionated and judgemental - get off your high horse!
Also - the comment about looking for the 'red tractor' to for proof that chicken (or any meat) is free range is just plain WRONG - it means it is farmed to agreed standards - not necessarily free range, and not necessarily British.
BTW, what is a potato purl?
The book Jamies Ministry of Food wishes it was!
I bought this book when the credit crunch kicked into our family shopping budget and was amazed at how much money I saved each week! The recipes are amazingly simple to follow and the ingredients is very cheap (I bought Jamie's Ministry of Food at the same time and by comparison I found his recipes to be complicated and more importantly, the ingredients he uses are actually very expensive!)
My kids are very fussy eaters and at first I was sure they would turn their noses up. Instead I found clean plates and requests for seconds!
If you cant cook - this book is for you. If you find it difficult keeping to a food shopping budget - this book is for you. If you want to give your family a healthy balanced diet without force feeding them spinach - this book is for you. If you want a book with pretty pictures in it of celebrity chefs and chums with about one recipe that you'll actually use - this book isn't for you.
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