More-With-Less Cookbook

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Summary: This is the one cookbook I use!
Review: If you only buy one cookbook, this is the one to have! I have always loved cookbooks so I have read a lot of them. This is the only cookbook I use. The recipes are simple and easy to make. The ingredients can be found in a well stocked pantry. If you do not have a well stocked pantry, read this book. It gives a list of common pantry items. This cookbook is a great money saver. Most of the recipes are inexpensive to make, and if you cook continually at home you will save money. As you peruse this cookbook you will also be reminded of how our excesses affect people in other countries. This is an important life changing lesson. I encourage you to buy this cookbook or find this cookbook in your local library. Read it and try some of the recipes. More-With-Less encourages you to use what you have on hand like vegetables from your garden. The recipes can be adapted depending on what you have on hand or what is inexpensive in your area. There are also ideas for using leftovers. We have had some great meals at home since we found More-With-Less. I couldn't be happier.

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Summary: One stop cooking
Review: In addition to a collection of great recipes, there are two other major benefits to this book. First, the ingredients in this book are used over and over again, so once you have a good assortment of beans, rice, cheeses there you will be ready to make almost anything in this book. The second major benefit is that it is SPIRAL BOUND which makes it easy to use. All cook books should come spiral bound so they can lay flat on the countertop instead of in a cookbook holder or with a pot wedged in the spine.

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Summary: This is one of my favorite cookbooks.
Review: Most of the recipes in this cookbook use ingredients you are likely to already have in your pantry. If you're tired of trips to the grocery store looking for unusual ingredients, you'll like this book. The recipes stretch the food budget and use healthy ingredients - and the recipes are also very tasty! Every family should have a copy of this cookbook. It also makes a nice gift for bridal showers.

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Summary: This is the Bible of My Kitchen
Review: Nothing has affected the way I think about the world and my place in it as much as this book. I've read it front-to-back, back-to-front, randomly, and selectively, and have never left it uninspired. The first part calls for everyday actions that effect global, local, and personal change, offering hope to those of us who feel we can do little. The second part offers extrodinarily beautiful and simple recipes which help the reader to change the world through diet.These are recipes to treasure -- they create family heirlooms, foods I crave when far from home, foods I long for when alone. So far, my family has gone through five copies of this cookbook. No book is better for vegetarians on a budget or for people who want to change the world in prudent ways.

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Summary: Simple and nutritious recipes
Review: Now in a 25th anniversary edition, More With Less: A World Community Cookbook by Doris Janzen Longacre is an outstanding cookbook compilation of recipes and suggestions by Mennonites. Featuring not only delicious preparations, but ways that one can eat healthier meals that take less of the world's limited food resources (not to mention the resources of one's own pocketbook). From High-Protein Pancakes or Waffles; to Fresh Broccoli With Mock Hollandaise; to Hinkelsteins (oat sticks), these simple and nutritious recipes can be made from basic ingredients with a minimum of waste make for economical and thoroughly enjoyable dining.

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Summary: This is a life-changing book that stands the test of time.
Review: The More-with-Less Cookbook put me on the irrevocable way to healthful, conscious living when I first starting using it nearly 20 years ago. I still refer to it for simple, delicious, nutritious recipes that call for ingredients that don't deplete the earth. But this book is more than a cookbook. With its photographs, quotes, intelligent discussions and useful nutrition tables, it's an inspiration to live more simply, with a view toward focussing on other people rather than on material things.

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Summary: Simple food can sure taste good!
Review: The pages of my 22 year old edition are stained and torn. Notes are handwritten by various recipes. Yes, I've used this cookbook a lot and will continue to do so. Just tonight we had a casserole with the simplest ingredients -- a chicken breast I had in the refrigerator, bread, cheese, milk, vegetables, butter. My whole family loved it. For simple wholesome fare, I recommend this book. I'm planning on buying a copy of the book as a wedding gift for my niece, just like someone once bought this as a wedding gift for my husband and I.

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Summary: This cookbook has many many things going for it.....
Review: The recipes are generally simple to prepare, cost effective, and delicious. Many come from families with missonary experience who have become used to cooking in very frugal ways. Alot include things they learned from the countries that they visited (ie working with less expensive cuts of meat, working with grains and vegetables as a meat alternative, family tested recipes that have stood the test of time) It was really a joy to read this for the most part. I like a cookbook that I can "read" not just cook from. I like the little "blurbs" about the evolution of the recipes...as well as most of the info in the beginning of book. There are some religious references that at times put me off however the the rest of the book was such a delight that it really was not a major detraction. On the whole I enjoyed this very much!

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Summary: Simple cooking, simply great
Review: The two bad reviews of this cookbook that I've seen focus on it being too simple and "reducing" the subtlety of recipes. After growing up as a missionary kid in West Africa with a mom who relied on this cookbook and after learning how to cook out of it, I disagree. The recipes are simple so that you can modify them to suit your own tastes and what's locally available. If you're looking for a gourmet cookbook, this isn't it...but if you're looking for a superb basic cookbook that will teach you not only how to cook but also how to be more aware of the world around you, this is it. I have other cookbooks that I use frequently, but if I could only have two, I've have Joy of Cooking and this. The Oatmeal Bread, Spaghetti Sauce, Scrambled Eggs & Noodles and Chow Mein recipes are amongst my all-time favorites.

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Summary: Simple food can sure taste good!
Review: The two bad reviews of this cookbook that I've seen focus on it being too simple and "reducing" the subtlety of recipes. After growing up as a missionary kid in West Africa with a mom who relied on this cookbook and after learning how to cook out of it, I disagree. The recipes are simple so that you can modify them to suit your own tastes and what's locally available. If you're looking for a gourmet cookbook, this isn't it...but if you're looking for a superb basic cookbook that will teach you not only how to cook but also how to be more aware of the world around you, this is it. I have other cookbooks that I use frequently, but if I could only have two, I've have Joy of Cooking and this. The Oatmeal Bread, Spaghetti Sauce, Scrambled Eggs & Noodles and Chow Mein recipes are amongst my all-time favorites.