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Summary: Great Cookbook!
Review: This cookbook is great for anyone who doesn't have time or doesn't like to cook. It has simple recipes that don't require a lot of chopping, dicing, sauteing, etc. Some of the recipes are pretty high fat acutally. If you are following Weight Watchers, you will find many of the recipes have higher point values (6+).
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Summary: Real Life Cooking
Review: Forget what the cooking snobs say in some of these reviews. This cookbook has revolutionized our approach to weekday dinners. For us, after we've both been working all day, it used to be a choice between takeout, canned soup, or cereal. Not anymore, since I bought this cookbook and made my first Beef and Black Bean Chili. I haven't tried anything in the book that wasn't delicious and something we want to repeat. I have other cookbooks for the fancy meals. This one is for healthy and tasty meals in the real world of a busy household.
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Summary: Super Easy!
Review: This cookbook is great. The recipes are so easy to make and surprisingly good for you. I really like to cook but not when the recipe requires 100 ingredients and takes 2 hours to prepare. This cookbook introduces you to good food that is easy and fun to make. Just as a sidenote, Weight Watchers published this *exact* same cookbook only they list the WW points. ....
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Summary: Easy, Healthy, and Delicious!
Review: I've cooked a while, but just started cooking lighter to get fit. I've taken about 50 recipe books out of the library, and this is one of my top 3. The recipes are for real eating, not fancy parties or for snotty people. But yet they are different and wonderful. Highly recommend.
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Summary: This book is my God.
Review: Since I got this book, i've used none other. Let's face it, if it's not simple, I'm not going to do it. I even cooked a meal for my complaining boyfriend. When I told him it was done, he responded that it could not have been good as it was too quick. But, when he tasted it, he was pleasently surprised. It even has a section for slow cookers. The illustrations are beautiful. The simplicity of the ingredients have also saved me time and money at the supermarket. Two thumbs up on this book.
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Summary: Great for the beginner cook
Review: I got this book as a gift when I was in college. I didn't know much about cooking, but I found the instructions easy to follow. The pictures on every page were helpful since I usually have to see it to know how it is suppossed to look. The fact that everything was quick was a HUGE bonus for my busy college life. I wouldn't reccommend this book for more experienced cooks since mny of the ingredients are prepackaged and the recipes sometimes oversimplified. However, this is a great book for the beginner cook or busy singles (or couples).
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Summary: Only recommended for the cooking impaired
Review: I bought this book after having subscribed to Cooking Light magazine. The easy, healthy and tasty recipes they offered every month made me think that "The 5 Ingredient 15 Minute Cookbook" would be another great resource. How wrong I was! This book has proven to be nothing but a disappointment. The recipes in this book are easy and quick, but they are bland and uninspiring. Most of the "tips" for making quick, nutritious meals are really shortcuts that any competent cook could come up with (i.e. using pre-cut stir-fry meat or pre-sliced frozen vegetables). Quite honestly, these recipes *taste* like they only have 5 ingredients and only took 15 minutes to slap together. In other words, the recipes only have five ingredients because they left out the flavorful ones! My advice: DON'T buy this book. Try a subscription to Cooking Light or another of their cookbooks. This one just doesn't measure up.
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Summary: The BEST cookbook for busy families!
Review: I love this cookbook! As a mom of 2 preschoolers, who also works full-time outside the home, I have always struggled to find a variety of healthy and quick meals for my husband or me to prepare during the week. This book is the answer. Most of the recipes aren't glamorous; however, it is a vast improvement over standard weeknight fare in our house! For quick meals (the Beef and Black Bean Chili or the Sausage and Black Bean Soup are great on cold nights) or for slightly fancier dining (Honey-Mustard Pork with Wilted Spinach and Teriyaki-Ginger Pork Tenderloin have impressed our guests), this cookbook is a MUST for busy families who like to eat well. My favorite aspects of the cookbook include the "No-Stress Shopping List," menu recommendations with each main-dish recipe, and shopping lists for each meal. The only drawback to this cookbook is that some of the ingredients are difficult to find at grocery stores in smaller towns (I would have had no trouble finding sun-dried tomato polenta when I lived in St. Louis, but it cannot be found ... in Conway, Arkansas!).
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Summary: Cooking Light, 5 Ingredient 15 minute cookbook
Review: This is the best cookbook I have ever had. I love the fact that it gives compleet menu ideas, pictures and the best idea of all a short grocery list. What more could you ask for. I open a page and have all the nutritional info I need. Important to me is the fact that it gives exchanges for anyone on a diet plus per serving calories, fat, protein amounts etc.
I just open the book to a page and I have great variety, delicious food in no time at all. Buy this book and you can't go wrong. It does not matter if you have cooked for years like me or are just starting out.
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Summary: Excellent cookbook! Every house should have one!
Review: This is one excellent cookbook... every house should have one. The recipes are delicious and easy to make, and best of all... it doesn't cost too much to make a great meal, when there are only a few ingredients. I buy this cookbook for newlyweds and also for housewarming gifts.... always a hit!
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