Dinner is Ready - 30 Meals in One Day Paperback – February 15, 2007

i am disabled and cooking for my elderly parents. i followed this book to the tee: utilized all her suggestions and cooked 10 meals in one day on my first trial run!this food-prep method has freed me from the kitchen!! simple recipe's, easy instructions, everything delicious. i also loved her companion books to this method.

I have at least a 100 cookbooks. This is the best I have seen in respect to ease and cost of the recipes. The time saving techniques were outstanding. I have already tried the suggestions and can say unequivocally that they work! If you are a working woman, and if you like simple, hearty, main dishes that are not only easy to make but delicious, and within the cost of a fixed income, then this is your book. A mother of 13 children (no kidding) recommended this book to me. It is even better for us empty nesters because the recipes go even further. The old saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" is definitely not true in this case. I'm an old dog, and I LOVE this book!

If you've never cooked multiple meals in a day and you need 15 meat loaf recipes then this book is for you.

I am a teacher and mother of an infant son. When I come home from school, all I want to do is maximize the limited time I have with my son. Cooking dinner is a strain most nights. I borrowed this cookbook from a fellow teacher who swears by it, then ended up buying it myself to have my own copy. I didn't have the software so planning my menu and list took a little bit of prep wok, but I didn't mind because I figured one big grocery haul and I will be set for over a month! I chose 2 crock pot meals, 2 oven meals, 2 stove top meals like it suggested. My only substitution is that instead of the 9 assemble meals it calls for, I did 14. I figured if I was going to go big, go BIG! I did my prep work (chopping veggies boiling chicken and cutting it up) the night before as suggested. HUGE time saver. The day of cooking I was in the kitchen for 8 hours- from beginning til the end with a spotless kitchen and all dishes washed and put away. I ended up with 40 meals. I did not double recipes- I just made them as is but portioned them into 2 containers or baggies each. Each meal looks like it has at minimum 3 good portions (if not more!). What I liked is that I spent $250 on groceries for 40 meals...That means dinner is costing only $6.25 a night (for me and my husband plus leftovers most nights!)The only reason I am giving 4 instead of 5 stars is because I do worry about the health factor of these recipes...very cream of mushroom/cream of chicken based and lots of cheese. But I did buy reduced fat of these items so hopefully that will make some difference. Hope this review helped- so excited to look into my stocked freezer and looking forward to many nights of dinner being all but ready!

I have never loved to cook. This book makes it so easy to plan and prepare a number of meals at once so you only cook once every couple of weeks or every couple of months...you choose.It's well organized, well written, easy to read and understand. Simple to follow and full of great tips. I recommend it highly to anyone who doesn't love to cook or who doesn't have the time to cook every day.

I was skeptical about just using the CD of recipes so I ordered this book. I probably could have not ordered it - but there was some basic information that was helpful to me regarding how to go about the whole cooking process. I found the book to be informative and I could check out the recipes when I was away from my computer. A winner in our house!

Excellent ideas for how to cook and plan ahead to make meals easier and nutritious for a family. Nice recipes to help. It is difficult for working families to get home at night and what a great way to save time getting meals on the table. A little time spent makes a difference later.

Love the concept and the way the recipes are arranged by cooking style. Every recipe includes instructions of how to freeze and reheat the dish. Have not found a recipe in it yet that I haven't liked, and I've used it a lot.