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Pros & Cons
Pros
It's changed my pocketbook and my waistline. You get your grocery list, and the prep recommendations save time on weeknights. The once-a-week shopping list, with supplies from your pantry, fuels all five meals.
Each recipe has a small thumbnail colored picture of the finished dish. Have been at home since the pandemic and thought “why not up my cooking skills? Definitely do the power hour on sunday to save you time on a busy weeknight. I recommend having a l... Read More
This book is more than mise en place. It is a gem. I appreciate that black ink is used which makes the small font size of the print easier to read.
The book offers 25 weekly plans that consist of 4-5 recipes ( most seem to be 4 servings per recipe). The book plans for five meals a week, all dinners. Some of the recipes are relatively quick to prepare and some a bit more complicated but manageable... Read More
The book includes an incredible amount of tips for prepping and freezing so the quality of the ingredients are retained. There is also a list of ingredients that can be stored in the freezer for months. I also freeze fresh ginger because they tend to ... Read More
Cons
There are ways you *can* prep ahead thrown in, but the recipes aren't written and shown as if you were to actually do that. Their ideas on what constitutes pantry items vs ingredients is completely arbitrary. Not even that useful as the “pantry stuff”... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Has great weekly meal plans and suggestions for consolidating most of the meal preparation tasks, so a fresh home-cooked meal c... Read More
Love the tips they give you in the beginning for prepping ingredients in advanced and how to properly store food, etc.
The recipes don’t even double up on ingredients very much.
I buy many cookbooks and they will always be missing something, either no pictures or just black and white or they take too lon... Read More
Price
Just spilled oil on the library copy so here to order one for ourselves since we've probably already saved the cost of the book... Read More
I 1,000% think this book is worth the money.
I suspect you’ll also wind up finding it a good one to buy for yourself as well, but this way you’re not out any money if it tu... Read More
This cookbook paid for itself the first week i used it.
Shipping
We are on week 7 and each recipe has been a keeper.
Competitiveness
I bought this as an alternative to meal delivery kits.
Honestly, this book has helped me learn how to manage a kitchen so much better, in terms of thinking of a grocery list by area ... Read More
In january 2021 i decided it was okay to go back to grocery stores and i started doing emeals.
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- This product had a total of 1,110 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 8 2024.
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Before i got this book i got recipes from online blogs and instagram and i was unsatisfied with how my food was turning out
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A background about me i’m in my early 30s and i don’t like to cook
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Why i love this book the instructions are clear and easy to follow for someone like me who doesn’t have a lot of experience cooking
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And the meals are planned out for the week and there’s no waste
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My only real gripe about it is that everything is pretty meat heavy
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Ive learned about new ingredients and new methods of cooking without spending a million hours in the kitchen
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I am dreading going to the grocery store again without a tidy list after weve done all the weeks
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Positives of this cookbook 25 plans for a five day week specific weekly shopping list list of items that can be prepped in advance list of items that can be cooked in advance
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