Product Description

You want to give your family nutritious, home-cooked meals, but who has time to cook? You do, if you cook the Busy People's™ way. What is a Busy People's™ recipe? It's one with seven ingredients or less that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less. A dream-come-true for busy cooks everywhere.

Each recipe in Busy People's™ Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat includes nutritional information, preparation time, and cooking time for each recipe, as well as menu ideas. This cookbook also contains instructions on how to maintain an ideal body weight and tips on saving time and money in the kitchen.

Praise for Busy People's Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat

Great for the working family and those on the go. –Lori L. Scovel, Manchester Press
I love the cookbook because it's so user-friendly. –Betsy Bethel, Wheeling, WV

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171096 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Hate the kitchen
Wow! With this book I can really cook. I'm not into the fancy stuff. This book lets you take normal everyday food and make it into a meal. This might not appeal to a gormet chef but for someone who hates to cook but has to, this is the ticket. It saves you so much time in the kitchen. I already have my favorites marked and my husband is always asking me when am I going to make that dish again.

Good, easy cooking
I own two cookbooks in the "Busy People" series, and both of them are well-thumbed and often-used. I'm a bachelor with limited cooking skills (and with even less patience when it comes to kitchen chores), but this book offers simple, easy recipes that can be quickly prepared with very few ingredients. The directions are concise, and each recipe is printed on a separate page with a graphic that clearly gives preparation and cooking time. Nutritional information for each dish is also listed. The recipes are generally low in fat, but they don't have the long-as-your-arm list of exotic ingredients and spices that I find in many low-fat cookbooks.

Of course some of the recipes are better than others, but almost everything I've tried has been very good. There's nothing fancy here: if you want to impress someone with a virtuoso kitchen performance, there may be better collections. For plain ol' weeknight cooking that's healthy, fast, and inexpensive, this book is a worthy standby.

Just keeping it simple.
When I'm on a diet, I like to try new recipes, but that doesn't mean that I like to make a bunch of floofy, fancy stuff with names that I can't pronounce. It seems like any cookbook I see anymore has to make things look decorative and difficult. This book keeps it simple (and sometimes a little silly), but very good. They look like the recipes that I already make for myself, just this gives you so many more ideas. If you're planning on cooking for more than just your family or yourself, this may not be the book for you, but if you want something very easy, very simple, and tasty too--then here you go.