Busy People's Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat [Spiral-bound]

Dawn Hall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 13, 2004

You want to give your family nutritious, home-cooked meals, but who has time to cook? You do, if you cook the Busy People's™ way. What is a Busy People's™ recipe? It's one with seven ingredients or less that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less. A dream-come-true for busy cooks everywhere.

Each recipe in Busy People's™ Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat includes nutritional information, preparation time, and cooking time for each recipe, as well as menu ideas. This cookbook also contains instructions on how to maintain an ideal body weight and tips on saving time and money in the kitchen.

Praise for Busy People's Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat

"Great for the working family and those on the go." -Lori L. Scovel, Manchester Press
"I love the cookbook because it's so user-friendly." -Betsy Bethel, Wheeling, WV

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 240 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (February 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401601049
• ISBN-13: 978-1401601041
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #654,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Our family's personal story of triumph over tragedy is used to give God all the praise and glory with the hope that readers will feel encouraged, inspired, refreshed; and that they too can overcome the unthinkable.

Points:
1) God can do far greater things through you than you have ever thought of, dreamed of, or imagined if you allow God and His will to be #1 in your life;
2) Thankfulness is an attitude you choose to have;
3) God still does miracles;
4) All things are possible - even what appears to be the impossible is possible;
5) Keep your eyes totally focused on God lest you become overwhelmed and depressed.

Sit back, laugh and relax while reading this amazing and true story behind the success of award winning author and inspirational speaker, Dawn Hall. With humor, energy and insight she shares her most intimate and personal details of how she triumphed over such tragedies as her husband's brain cancer, two house fires, financial bondage, depression, fighting the government, and the loss of her loving 38 year old husband. "I am an ordinary woman whom God has done extraordinary things through, far greater than I have ever hoped of, dreamed of or imagined! If God can do it through me, He can do it through you, too!"

Without knowing how to type, use a computer or anything about publishing Dawn Hall sold over 650,000 of her self-published cookbooks and won three national awards including 1996, 1998 Best Cookbooks of the Year award by North American Book Dealers exchange, 2000 Pinnacle award. Her amazing story of triumphing over tragedies such as cancer, financial bondage, two house fires and her young husband's death is proof that God is still doing miracles. Her faith, and persistence not to give up trying, is a source of hope, strength and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt down, discouraged, in financial bondage or has been fighting cancer and struggling in life.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hate the kitchen, February 22, 2004

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This review is from: Busy People's Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat (Spiral-bound)

Wow! With this book I can really cook. I'm not into the fancy stuff. This book lets you take normal everyday food and make it into a meal. This might not appeal to a gormet chef but for someone who hates to cook but has to, this is the ticket. It saves you so much time in the kitchen. I already have my favorites marked and my husband is always asking me when am I going to make that dish again.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, easy cooking, February 4, 2006

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Jot and Tittle (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Busy People's Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat (Spiral-bound)

I own two cookbooks in the "Busy People" series, and both of them are well-thumbed and often-used. I'm a bachelor with limited cooking skills (and with even less patience when it comes to kitchen chores), but this book offers simple, easy recipes that can be quickly prepared with very few ingredients. The directions are concise, and each recipe is printed on a separate page with a graphic that clearly gives preparation and cooking time. Nutritional information for each dish is also listed. The recipes are generally low in fat, but they don't have the long-as-your-arm list of exotic ingredients and spices that I find in many low-fat cookbooks.

Of course some of the recipes are better than others, but almost everything I've tried has been very good. There's nothing fancy here: if you want to impress someone with a virtuoso kitchen performance, there may be better collections. For plain ol' weeknight cooking that's healthy, fast, and inexpensive, this book is a worthy standby.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just keeping it simple., August 3, 2005

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S. Lewis (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Busy People's Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat (Spiral-bound)

When I'm on a diet, I like to try new recipes, but that doesn't mean that I like to make a bunch of floofy, fancy stuff with names that I can't pronounce. It seems like any cookbook I see anymore has to make things look decorative and difficult. This book keeps it simple (and sometimes a little silly), but very good. They look like the recipes that I already make for myself, just this gives you so many more ideas. If you're planning on cooking for more than just your family or yourself, this may not be the book for you, but if you want something very easy, very simple, and tasty too--then here you go.