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Quick Meal Solutions: More Than 150 New, Easy, Tasty, and Nutritious Recipes for Families on the Go

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So far I've only used one recipe from this book, the Chicken Artichoke Casserole. The instructions were not good. After you brown almost a pound of chicken in ONE tablespoon of butter and remove the chicken, what are you supposed to "stir in the flour and heat it until it's bubbly" in??? There was nothing to stir the flour into! I had to add more butter FIRST, so, I'm wary of other recipes if this is the way instructions are written. It also did not need 2 cups of milk! I had to improvise the rest of the whole thing and added some alfredo sauce for some extra flavor. This is a pretty basic cook book with some good-sounding dishes, but if you're a new cook, I'd proceed with caution.

This book is written by a nutritionist! I opened this book to find that it seemed like it was written by a 1950's housewife. Why would someone who has a degree in nutrition write recipes that tell you to use instant white rice and margarine! The average joe knows that those things are terrible for you. The recipes are about what you would expect a 20 something college kid living in a dorm to give you if he was asked for his best recipes, or a housewife from the tang and wonderbread era.

I love cooking and cookbooks, and admittedly only bought this one to get to my $25 minimum for free shipping. That said, I was expecting SOMETHING better than this...

The couple of recipes I have treid are not great at all...bland, didn't come together correctly with the ingredients called for, and just are not anything special. I also hate the fact that they often use pre-packaged, processed foods (canned biscuit dough, canned soups, etc.)...ick!

Also, half the book is comprised of nutritional information and food pyramid info. Ironic, due to the abundance of processed ingredients that this book would attempt to focus so much on healthy eating.

Overall, not what I expected. The only plus was that by buying this book, I avoided paying Amazon shipping charges. It ended up being cheaper for me to to get this cookbook along with the other two I ordered, that it would have been to not buy this cookbook and just pay for shipping.

I think I will give this book to a beginning cook or someone without a lot of cooking skills. On second thought, maybe not....don't want to turn anyone off to cooking entirely.