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Summary: WAY too gimmicky
Review: This book's recipes all focus WAY too much on the gimmick of using canned foods. A much better focus for a book aimed at the reluctant cook would be to pare down classic "guy" recipes to their simplest form, not figure out a bunch of things you can mix with Spaghetti-O's! Ugh. Most of the recipes are unappetizing at best. Maybe this would be a good gag gift. Maybe.
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Summary: Bad Recipes
Review: This is a book for college students. The recipes are simple to say the least. A bunch of processed foods mixed together makes a meal. What is really horrible is that this book acts as an ad for brand names of canned goods.
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Summary: A Man, a Can, and a Plan
Review: This is not only a great book for single men,but for busy people who don't have time to cook. Nutritional dishes can be prepared with a minimum of fuss. There is a good variety, and also little hints on easier procedures to follow. I think this book is good to give to the senior citizens in your family who do not like to go to a great deal of trouble to prepare meals.
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Summary: Better Go To McDonalds
Review: Unless you're hungry enough to eat the nice cardboard pages, this book will do little to appease your appetite. You're better off at the McDonald's drive thru. There was only one recipe my crew would even consider trying, and the ingredients were not on-the-shelf-staples.
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Summary: Good, easy recipes -- but, yes, you do have to cook them.
Review: When I first got out in the world, it amazed me how many of my friends didn't have the slightest idea how to make a real meal.Remembering my early experiences, I bought this cookbook for my two boys (12 & 13) so they could get some experience making real meals themselves. Yes, as other reviewers note, you do actually have to cook (use a range or an oven) and, yes, some of the ingredients are not in cans. (Thankfully, you can buy frozen, pre-chopped onions...) If you can get past the horror of that, the meals so far have been very tasty and easy to prepare (and more important, clean up after.) The quantities are realistically large for human males. This is, in my estimation, a great book for its purpose of giving the inexperienced some food options. The layout could be a little better -- it should make the "you also need..." ingredients more visible. But I do like the gimmick of showing pictures of the actual cans you need for a given recipe. The book will go out of date fast, but not before the user has learned what to pick off the shelf.
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Summary: hysterical, great and CAN DO
Review: when i first saw this book, over a year ago, i thought it was hysterical. now, one year later, i bought the book to help me do research. be forewarned the recipes are geared towards men, but anyone can use this cookbook. it's especially good for bachelors, bachelorettes, college students, or people who don't have a lot of groceries in their pantry and don't know what to do. i for one do not keep a lot of fresh veggies around because they simply go to waste before i can use it for dinner. therefore i have canned veggies. oh, it is cheaper to by it on amazon at $11.+ than at the bookstore. the bookstore came out to $17.+ where as amazon just came in at $15.+
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Summary: hysterical, great and CAN DO
Review: when i first saw this book, over a year ago, i thought it was hysterical. now, one year later, i bought the book to help me do research. be forewarned the recipes are geared towards men, but anyone can use this cookbook. it's especially good for bachelors, bachelorettes, college students, or people who don't have a lot of groceries in their pantry and don't know what to do. i for one do not keep a lot of fresh veggies around because they simply go to waste before i can use it for dinner. therefore i have canned veggies. oh, it is cheaper to by it on amazon at $11.+ than at the bookstore. the bookstore came out to $17.+ where as amazon just came in at $15.+
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