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Working Mom's Fast and Easy Family Cookbook: Nearly 300 Delicious Recipes That Will Have Your Whole Family Begging for More

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Making dinner during the week has been my wife's biggest complaint for years. These meals don't take long to make plus our kids liked them. Giving her this cookbook, one of those robotic vaccuums and the book Prayers for the Working Mom have turned me into my wife's new best friend!

A nice mix of types of cuisine, mainly healthy recipes, not boring or always consisting of cans of Campbells soup to give flavor. We liked the pasta and bean soup recipe. Also liked the mix of slow-cooker, make ahead and meals in less than 30 minutes.

The book is really 2 in one, it disoriented me a bit in the beginning but so far the recipes have pleased the family (i.e 4 people with 4 different tastes) which is quite an accomplishment. I like how it often gives you the full recipe and the shortcut. There are ideas for the lunchbox as well as for the slow cooker. Recipes do not have a ton of ingredients and many are listed as optional. Many cookbooks take for granted that you have a specialty store down the street, this one does not use fancy ingredients, therefore it is a pretty good source for last-minute dinner fixes.

This is the best cookbook I've ever bought. So far every recipe has been fairly easy, quick, and everyone likes it, which is a miracle considering there is a carnivore and an herbivore in the house. The Bouillabaisse recipe is excellent, as is the lasagna and everything else we've tried so far. For someone like me with limited time and not fond of cooking, this is the book for our family.

I love all the recipes in the second part of this book. The first part was a bit disappointing since most of the recipes are using store bought stuff that I don't need a recipe to figure out how to use, although it is helpful and providing ideas of quick things to make.