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	• Saving Dinner: The Menus, Recipes, and Shopping Lists to Bring Your Family Back to the Table Leanne Ely Ballantine Books, 2003 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 254 reviews view larger image
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Love this book and everything about it. I went to go buy one for a cooking-clueless friend for her wedding and shame on me for not looking closely at the size dimensions of the book. The cheaper copy is a palm-sized paperback... What a pointless format for a cookbook! They should stop printing it in this format. The recipes are far from conveniently on a one-page glance. Save yourself return shipping and get the bigger book!! Besides this a big fan!

I LOVE this cookbook!!

This book is a major life saver! How easy to have my menu for the week all planned out for me, with the shopping list and everything. I like that things are put together in a week where similar ingredients will be used. The recipes are yummy, and easy! GREAT BUY!!

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Who knew? I really like this cookbook!

I ordered this book afer I came across it in our local library. For about 3 months, I was on this constant search for how to plan healthy, quick meals that would satisfy my family of 6 (4 kids ages 2 1/2, 5, 7 and 8). Cooking is my hobby. I must have 100 cookbooks that range in difficulty (very gourmet--to Cooking with 5 ingredients) & I am a self proclaimed, Food Network "junkie"---I could watch that channel all day long--huge fans of Barefoot COntessa, Rachael Ray and Emeril, and do find joy in using their recipes. I tried using Rachael Ray's magazine weekly pull out shopping list and menus for my family---even tried to include my older kids to help me to cook---some meals came out great, however, most were still too spicy, too "weird looking" or too time consuming (even though they are supposed to take 30 min, who really has 30 min of uninterrupted time?)Also, I found myself having to search in the grocery store for most of the ingredients---then I came across this book. I must have been drawn to SAVING DINNERS as I quickly scanned the cookbook section at the library insearch of yet another tool to help me perfect the shopping/cooking/cleaning/feeding part of my daily life as a mother. To say the least, it has been an amazing tool! The shopping lists are easy to follow (and can be downloaded from the website instead of lugging the book), include regular ingredients you most likely have on hand---they tend to repeat, too, so you are not stuck with a container o something you wont use and it goes bad. As for the recpies and how they taste---they are very basic. In my opinion, you need little cooking skill to complete them (chopping, measuring, stirring, baking, saute, some briol, etc). They are not spicy, not salty, and are generally low fat---so you might have to add a little of this and a little of that--but don't you always?. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to figure out how to "do it all" but most importantly, bring the family back to the table for dinner and relieve you of stress.

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Saving Dinner

Excellent source for menus and recipes. I have just one comment, the author seems to be in a rut with suggestions for side dishes, not much variety there.

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