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Summary: A Great way to cook!
Review: Great recipes, helpful hints and a wonderful way to organize your life in the kitchen and the grocery store.
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Summary: Makes dinner intersting again
Review: I've had this book for a few months now and have made almost everything in the book a few times. The best part is taking the list to the store putting it away and then when dinner time rolls around going to the book to see what is for dinner and knowing everything you need is already in the house. I hate deciding what to eat and this makes the choice for me. The food is great, my husband loves it, and even our 2 1/2 year old eats it.I've given three as gifts to my other busy working mom friends!
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Summary: Highly recommended for busy people.
Review: In The Weekly Feeder, Cori Kirkpatrick offers an practical and effective meal-planning system specifically designed for busy people with limited time for planning, shopping for, and preparing evening meals for themselves and family. Kirkpatrick's time-saving system includes eight weeks of delicious dinner menus and recipes; pre-planned weekly grocery lists; pantry checklists for staple items and spices; easy instructions for adapting favorite personal recipes; helpful hints for organizing the home kitchen; nutritional information for good health; and enjoyable anecdotes emphasizing food, family, and fun. The Weekly Feeder is an invaluable guide from grocery story to kitchen to dining room table. If you are strapped for time, concerned about good meals for loved ones, and are missing the joy that comes from making and eating good meals in good company, then The Weekly Feeder was written just for you!
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Summary: Makes dinner intersting again
Review: My sister gave me this fantastic book which has done what it promised -- I'm organized (at least in one area of my life!) and spend less time and money shopping, yet I'm making wonderful dinners in shorter time. No more last-minute trips to the store or throwing out rotten food I didn't use. And I have more time to spend with my family. Not only are the recipies great, but the author outlines a step-by-step "real life" order of how to simultaneously make the rest of the dinner. Peace of mind! Confidence! Happiness! Thank you, Cori Kirkpatrick!
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Summary: This book will change your life!
Review: My wife and I bought the Weekly Feeder and now healthy, well-balanced, colorful, delicious meals have replaced microwave dinners and cereal. This book has taken the effort out of being organized! With two working parents, it's hard to have dinners together. Now we do. Family dinners bring families together. Kirkpatrick writes in a conversational, non-threatening and often humorous style that opens up her house to inspire change. If she can do it with three busy kids, anyone can. Bonus: the book is filled with wonderful parenting/family tips.
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Summary: Good layout, but 30-40-30 breakdown not suitable for us.
Review: My wife purchased the first version of this book direct from the author and liked the concept (and the recipes) so much that she bought this version too. We recommend this book for anyone who is familier with the daily mantra of making last minute decisions along the lines of "What should I buy at the store tonight?" She has used this both for weekly planning as well as the occasional one-off recipe. The weekly planner is a neat idea; just take the whole book to the store and get your whole week's worth of groceries. She was looking for a way to simplify our life yet add variety to our menu and this fit the bill. (Note: she has taken this convenience a step further and saved even more time by simply ordering her week's groceries from HomeGrocer.com -- now WebVan.) We've found the book to be straightforward in its approach to recipes. We haven't run into some of the issues that others have reported but we're sort of flexible in our approach towards cooking anyway.
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Summary: CONVENIENCE OR FRUSTRATION?
Review: The premise behind this book is ease and simplification of meal preparation, planning, and grocery buying. I bought the book, excited by the prospect of help in the kitchen and help with menu planning! However, in the 3 days since purchase, I have tried two recipes, "Cashew Chicken" and "Turkey Sausage Risotto", and both times I was left hanging! The cashew chicken mentions salt and sugar in the ingredient list, to be used in the marinade. However, in the middle of the recipe, it asks that you "sprinkle the vegetables for the stir-fry with some of the salt and sugar". ...What salt and sugar?! I already used that in the marinade! No more is mantioned in the ingredients list! The Turkey Sausage Risotto we attempted last night, and disaster struck again... After the recipe instructed me to "process in a food processor the sun-dried tomatoes and parsley til finely chopped, then set aside", it never mentions those ingredients again! (Was it just a decoration for my kitchen counter?) I had never cooked this before, and so only guessed at when I was supposed to add those ingredients, so did the recipe turn out as intended? Who knows?! I am not a chef, and so must place my complete trust in a cookbook! If I use this book again, it will be with great trepidation. The idea and intent behind this book is wonderful, but I wish more time had been put into testing the recipes before publication! I would only recommend it to experienced cooks.
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Summary: Great family cookbook for busy cooks.
Review: Where was this book when I needed it? I wish it had been available when I was juggling work and cooking for a family. This is more than a cookbook. It is a system of organizing your grocery shopping and cooking that can really save you time and energy. There are enough delicious recipes for six weeks of family dinners. Complete grocery shopping lists are given for each week. What could be simpler?
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