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Busy People's Fast & Frugal Cookbook Kindle Edition

by Dawn Hall (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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This cookbook features a full range of simple, delicious recipes for home cooks who are crunched for time—and cash!

In The Busy People’s fast and Frugal Cookbook, Dawn Hall shows you how to prepare home cooked meals that are as healthy and satisfying as they are easy on your budget. Each dish includes a quick-reference grocery list and easy-to-read nutritional information.

Dawn designed every recipe to require only seven ingredients or fewer, and to be prepared in thirty minutes or less. The recipes also lend themselves to easy substitutions, so you can improvise with whatever is available in your kitchen.

Enjoy quick, inexpensive dishes such as:

Hawaiian Sweet Potato Soup
Candied Vegetables
Chipped Beef on Toast
Eggs with Sauerkraut
Maple-Glazed Ham Steaks

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004GJVX1Q
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson (October 12, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 12, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5162 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 734 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #846,525 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #310 in Low Fat Cooking (Kindle Store)
- #348 in Low Budget Cooking
- #768 in Low Fat Cooking (Books)

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Our family's personal story of triumph over tragedy is used to give God all the praise and glory with the hope that readers will feel encouraged, inspired, refreshed; and that they too can overcome the unthinkable.

Points:

1) God can do far greater things through you than you have ever thought of, dreamed of, or imagined if you allow God and His will to be #1 in your life;

2) Thankfulness is an attitude you choose to have;

3) God still does miracles;

4) All things are possible - even what appears to be the impossible is possible;

5) Keep your eyes totally focused on God lest you become overwhelmed and depressed.

Sit back, laugh and relax while reading this amazing and true story behind the success of award winning author and inspirational speaker, Dawn Hall. With humor, energy and insight she shares her most intimate and personal details of how she triumphed over such tragedies as her husband's brain cancer, two house fires, financial bondage, depression, fighting the government, and the loss of her loving 38 year old husband. "I am an ordinary woman whom God has done extraordinary things through, far greater than I have ever hoped of, dreamed of or imagined! If God can do it through me, He can do it through you, too!"

Without knowing how to type, use a computer or anything about publishing Dawn Hall sold over 650,000 of her self-published cookbooks and won three national awards including 1996, 1998 Best Cookbooks of the Year award by North American Book Dealers exchange, 2000 Pinnacle award. Her amazing story of triumphing over tragedies such as cancer, financial bondage, two house fires and her young husband's death is proof that God is still doing miracles. Her faith, and persistence not to give up trying, is a source of hope, strength and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt down, discouraged, in financial bondage or has been fighting cancer and struggling in life.

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Mary Carol Taylor

Quick, easy and inexpensive recipes for weeknight cooking.

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018

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These recipes are just as promised - fast and frugal! The recipes lend themselves to easy substitutions to whatever is available in your kitchen.

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Suzzanna

Nice book....great recipes!

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2017

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Nice book....great recipes!

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2015

Good Recipes

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2014

love it.

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I didn't find most of these recipes to my liking...may be a bit too frugal for me with all the processed foods and going for cheap but not for flavor

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EMitchell

Not so great cookbook but perfect for the novice

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2009

Most of my friends are used to my hectic lifestyle. I have to cram 48 hours of labor into a 16 day. I have two jobs, a foster child, a small business, an active writing career and more activities than I can shake a stick at plus the normal home duties. I barely get enough time to sleep never mind spend quality time with my family. Thus I am a big fan of anything that can give me more time with my kid. Personally I love the 30 minute or less cookbooks. There are always really great recipes that are healthy (trying to get a waistline back) and easy.

This cookbook was not so much a book designed to save working people time in the kitchen but a newlywed cookbook. Most of the edible recipes in this book are common sense recipes among my friends. This book would be a great gift for a newlywed who has never been in the kitchen before but needs to feed her husband, not for a mom trying to find new ways to feed her family in less than an hour. And some of these recipes are downright ridiculous. But there are some gems in this book, recipes that my family loved and devoured and some really helpful features.
I tried a total of 15 recipes from this book, some of them successful, some of them not. Among the unsuccessful was the "Ham and Onion Cheese Rollups". No one would touch them. They tasted okay, nothing special, but the idea of eating ham and cream cheese was not delectable to either of the two vacuums living in my house. The really easy chicken soup fared much better. The "Creamy Chicken and Noodle Soup" took only 30 minutes as promised, used ingredients from my kitchen (always a plus) and was delicious. Another favorite were the crepes. I had never made crepes before but they are surprisingly easy.
This book was not much help to me. Aside from the nutritional information (check out page 2 to find out how many calories in a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich) the book is a list of recipes that most moms can cook without even thinking about . This book is not for experienced cooks.
Here is the best recipe in the book *and it only takes 15 minutes*.
Crepes
Ingredients
1/2 cup Heart Smart Bisquick reduced - fat baking mix
3/4 cup fat free skim milk
2 egg whites
Instructions
Preheat a 6- or 8- inch nonstick skillet over high heat.
Ina 4-cup measuring cup or mixing bowl, whisk together the baking mix, milk and egg whites.
When the skillet is hot, spray with nonstick cooking spray. Add the crepe batter to the skillet. Lift and tilt the skillet to spread the batter. Brown on one side. The top of the crepe will be full of bubbles. Lift the crepe from the pan with a fork and place on a plate with paper towel. Watch closely, because it only takes about a minute for the crepes to cook. Place a paper towel between crepes to keep them from sticking together.
Really simple, but when paired with the filling recipes in the book, this is a really decadent and quick dessert.

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Katy Lake

The solution to last minute takeout.

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2009

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Okay, the cuisine in this book isn't going to win any culinary awards. But the recipes are easy to whip up, it's likely you have a lot of the ingredients on hand if you have a well stocked pantry, and the stuff isn't expensive.

It's the kind of book you pull off the shelf if you want a hearty, tasty meal fast, you're tired of your own go-to staple recipes, and you don't want to do take out.

As an example, I tried the German Brautwurst with Honey Mustard Potatoes. I switched regular brats for the turkey brats the author recommended (she's got a real thing for turkey substitutes.) The other ingredients were a bag of diced frozen potatoes, canned sauerkraut, and honey mustard dressing, all of which I had. The one ingredient that was missing were jarred pimentos, and to be honest, the recipe came out fine.

Not that there was much to the recipe. It was a quick, easy fix, almost like a suggestion - trying frozen diced potatoes with brauts, something I hadn't thought of to do.

The recipe was fine; the entire family was happy and full, which when I'm in a rush and I have no time to cook or go to the store, is a godsend.

Some of the criticism of the book is a little harsh. Sure, this isn't going to satisfy you if you're a vegan, or if you're on a fat-free diet (or really, any kind of diet!), or if you don't think that pimentos are the ingredients of a well-stocked larder. Oh well, i guess the author got me on that last one!

But if you've run through your own last minute culinary bag of tricks, and you don't want to pull out of the takeout menus again, this book is a quick fix for you to think of new ways to put together easy-to-reach for ingredients.

The author does have a strange fixation on turkey substitute ingredients - my POV is that if I'm cooking stuff like this to put a fast meal on the table, without having to run to the store for stuff I don't have in the house, what I make is going to be fine. Whatever it is, it'll beat anything I'm going to pick up at a drive-thru!

The book makes it easy to see what you can make; there's a quick vertical list of ingredients you can scan (and quickly think up whatever substitutes you have on hand, cause inevitably you'll be missing something!)

Granted, a steady diet of canned soup creations and frozen potato treats isn't going to make you a beacon of health. But I wouldn't say that this book promotes unhealthy eating. In fact, it's easy enough to change a few things around to lower fat content (think turkey substitutes!) and up the nutrition quotient.

I find it to be a handy guide to getting my own creative cooking juices flowing for a good, last minute dinner fix. If you've ever done any amount of cooking that involved more than boiling water or nuking a pizza, you already have the skills you need to make this book a valuable contribution to dinner at home that tastes fresher than frozen junk or fast food crud.

I recommend it.

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