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| How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... | 
 enlarge | Author: Gill Holcombe
Publisher: Spring Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (28 reviews)
Sales Rank: 35
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1905862156
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781905862153
ASIN: 1905862156
Publication Date: October 12, 2007
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 She must think we were all born yesterday! January 6, 2009
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Oh my word what a useless book.
The 'author' has simply collected recipes and tips that almost all of us have learned elsewhere.
For those who haven't learned, all the recipes can be found for free either online or in a good old fashioned cookery book - probably one sitting on your own shelf!!
I found it insulting and threw it in my recycling box, one less copy of this book is a good thing. Hopefully it'll be recycled into a decent book or toilet tissue.
 Not so good when you've been cooking a while January 6, 2009
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been married almost 5 years now, and I picked up all my cooking skills in this time, this book would have been very useful when I first got married and started off cooking, but now buying this book - mainly for the meal plans - I feel was a waste of money, as there was nothing new in it! Like a lot of the other reviews have pointed out, most of us know to reuse a roast chicken the next night in a casserole, it wasn't ground breaking stuff to read this, and although there are a couple of soup recipes I'd not seen before, I will not be making 'Stinging Nettle Soup' no matter how cheap or free it is.
My main reason for buying the book was the pre made meal plans, but I have come to realise that only I can make meal plans for our family as I know that we wouldn't like Lamb's Liver on the menu!! And I find that the recipes in the book are actually a lot simpler than the meals I already make my family presently. So unfortunately the book has got put in a cupboard ununsed, I was thinking of passing it on but I can't think who could make use of it!! Unless my brother when he leaves home.
There is not many recipes in the book considering the thickness of it, a lot is chapters of writing.
It would definitely be a good book to anyone starting out on their own, newly married couples and students, but for me I find not so good for a family.
 Brilliant way to save money January 5, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was bought this as a present for Christmas and already we have saved money in following the recipe plans at the back of the book. Straight forward, healthy food that are easy to prepare and very tasty. Nice to find a non-American book of this type.
Disappointing January 5, 2009
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was really excited to be given this book, having a new baby and trying to work out how to feed him healthily - it was really disappointing to find nothing new, except factual inaccuracies and misleading information.
raised my hackles! January 4, 2009
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was really excited when I opened this book but like some others, found it lacked content. I also found it opinionated and judgemental - get off your high horse!
Also - the comment about looking for the 'red tractor' to for proof that chicken (or any meat) is free range is just plain WRONG - it means it is farmed to agreed standards - not necessarily free range, and not necessarily British.
BTW, what is a potato purl?
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