Dinner Is In The Jar: Quick and Easy Dinner Mixes in Mason Jars or Mylar Bags (bw) [Paperback]

Kathy Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2, 2010

Create a 90 day supply of easily prepared dinner mixes your family will love using food storage ingredients in mason jars or mylar bags for emergencies and convenience on busy days. Wouldn't it be nice if your pantry was filled with premixed dinners that you could put together with little effort and have healthy homemade meals that your family would love? Not only would you have a supply of easy dinners, but you could also give them away as gifts that anybody would absolutely love to receive. Dinner Is In The Jar is filled with meal mix recipes that can be easily stored in mason jars or mylar bags. Dinner Is In The Jar has a dinner mix jar recipe for every day of the month, including comfort meals such as Chicken Pot Pie, Biscuits and Gravy, Enchiladas, Pizza, Spaghetti and Meatballs in Mushroom Parmesan Tomato Sauce, Italian Cheese & Sausage Calzone and many more. Dinner Is In The Jar also features planning charts making it easy to prepare a 90 day supply of dinner mix jar recipes, step by step photographs of how to create mylar bags for the mixes and where to easily get the ingredients. These are recipes your family will be begging you to make again and again, and with how quick and easy they are to make, you will gladly make them a regular feature on your dinner table. Create a 90 day supply of easily prepared dinners your family will love using food storage ingredients in mason jars or mylar bags for emergencies & convenience on busy days with Dinner Is In The Jar.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kathy Clark is a devoted wife and full time mother of two wonderful children. She enjoys learning to use food storage and has created these recipes as a way to have a supply of easily prepared meals for busy days while simultaneously using and rotating her food storage. Many friends and family continually asked for her recipes, and so she compiled them into this book to share with all who wanted quick and easy premixed dinners using food storage for use and gifts. She earned a law degree at Loyola Law School of California, and practiced family law in Beverly Hills, California. She has retired to raise her family and now lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

Product Details

• Paperback: 76 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1450550924
• ISBN-13: 978-1450550925
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #99 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Quick & Easy

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

125 of 129 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Cookbook February 21, 2010

By D. Kent

Format:Paperback

I have over forty cookbooks, most supposedly geared for using long term food storage. Unfortunately, most use many fresh ingredients which may not be available. That leaves a couple of options, convert the fresh ingredients into dried ones or don't use the recipe. The great thing about this book is that it uses all long term food storage items. In addition to that the instructions are easy to follow and the food tastes great. I made up a couple of the dishes and shared them with a group of 50 people. They all loved them. This book embraces a whole new way of meal planning. Thank you! I can't wait to share this with my friends and family.

87 of 89 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Recipes are delicious! April 2, 2010

By Robert Parker

Format:Paperback

I have eaten more than half of these meals prepared from the recipes listed in this book, and must say they sure make eating food storage much better than you might expect. The meals really are good when you consider it is mostly reconstituted food. In fact, I live on a sail boat and utilize the ingredients and recipes in this book quite often as we journey from across seas. We eat well and appreciate the cooking education we received from this book. Quick, easy, and good tasting from food storage products is very important for us. Hope you get a chance to read & utilize this book for yourself.

98 of 103 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars a waste of time and money April 19, 2012

By C. Corn

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I should have paid attention to the negative reviews of this book. Pay attention to them because they are all true. This is the most convoluted method of food storage I've ever heard of. This is not all the ingredients in one jar for dinner as the title suggests but ingredients in 2, or 3 jars PLUS other items from your freezer/fridge (sheesh!). There are only 30 recipes in the book and they don't even sound very good. It is mostly soup or casseroles and many of these have both rice and elbow macaroni in them which seems weird (one or the other but both???) Her chicken noodle soup recipe doesn't have "noodles" but rather (you guessed it) elbow macaroni and rice in it! There is only one recipe out of 30 that I might try. I have many food storage/pantry cookbooks and this is the WORST.

This amateurish attempt at a cookbook is NOT quick, NOT easy, and ridiculously over-priced. The positive reviews must have been written by the friends and family of the author. I hope you take this warning to heart and don't waste $15 bucks like I did. There is a blog on the internet that has (for free!) some great recipes for dry canning freeze dried ingredients and has ALL of those ingredients contained in one mason jar for a meal. Google Chef Tess Bakeresse blog and look at her 52 jar method. If you want a one jar meal that is shelf stable for 5-7 years then Chef Tess is the resource for you.