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Shop efficiently and cook wisely using these 200 recipes and 7-day meal planners from Britain's best-selling cookery magazine
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The Good Food Family Meal Planner will help you to save time and money and reduce waste - three of our biggest and most timely concerns.
Most cookbooks are arranged around type of dish or ingredient, but this book is structured around 5 types of meal which will give you 7 days' worth of dishes. The first chapter covers batch meals, which will provide you with enough food for another day. Chapter 2 is full of speedy weekday supper recipes - quick-and-easy meals that can be made in under 20 minutes, but also include a significant leftover ingredient that will form the basis of the next day's meal.
Budget suppers use a smaller number of ingredients, while storecupboard and freezer meals are based on ingredients that you should have handy - meals you can create on short notice. Weekend feasts are more leisurely recipes, including ideas for entertaining, while the final chapter will offer over 25 seven-day meal plans based on the recipes in this book. And even if you don't follow a meal planner in its entirety, you can choose which meal is most appropriate for your needs.
Also included within each chapter are handy features on freezing and defrosting, creating a storecupboard of essential ingredients, making the most of seasonal flavours and recipes for breads, stocks and sauces.
This is the cookbook that every family needs, one that you will turn to week after week.
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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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Having worn myself out (and emptied my purse) with great cooking ambitions by pouring over and trying to follow the ideas in the Gastronomy Economy book, I now realise that The Family Meal Planner is the real deal if you really want to want to plan meals, keep to a budget, make good use of your freezer, use your store cupboard and use up leftovers - but not unnecessarily over-complicate things. These recipes are cheap to make, using in the main wholesome ingredients. As with all the BBC Good Food books I have never had a failure, and I think this might be some way due to the fact that each recipe is triple tested.
There are six chapters:
Batch meals and instant dinners - gives you the option of cooking double and freezing the leftovers to eat when you are short of time. There are loads of one pot recipes. There is a lovely recipe for homemade frozen pea and potato soup, but my favorite was pan fried chicken in a creamy mushroom sauce.
Weekday suppers and leftover ideas - a really well thought out chapter, all the recipes take less than 30 minutes to cook and give you a leftover idea. These leftover ideas use either surplus raw ingredients or extra cooked rice, potatoes etc to cook the next meal.
Budget family dinners - this chapter really concentrates on inexpensive ingredients, hence I use this chapter the most. My favourite recipes are bacon and broccoli pasta and spiced carrot and lentil soup.
Freezer and storecupboard meals - a great chapter for ideas for reducing your fresh food bills. The hummus recipe is back to basics, and is so simple to make. Nothing chefy about it. I also really enjoyed the broad bean pilaf using frozen broad beans. The author isn't snobby about ingredients, there is even a recipe for tuna frozen potato wedges, because she realises that in the real world you sometimes can't plan ahead and need to feed your family as soon as possible with the minimum effort.
Weekend feasts
Recipes for times when you have more time to cook - my favourite recipe is chocolate pecan fondants using 50% cocoa solid chocolate. Not only is it delicious, it can be made a day ahead.
The last section has a comprehensive planner, you don't have to follow it but it does give you loads of ideas.
All the recipes are clearly indicated if they are suitable for freezing or not. I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone - it is easy to double or half each recipe.
There are six chapters:
Batch meals and instant dinners - gives you the option of cooking double and freezing the leftovers to eat when you are short of time. There are loads of one pot recipes. There is a lovely recipe for homemade frozen pea and potato soup, but my favorite was pan fried chicken in a creamy mushroom sauce.
Weekday suppers and leftover ideas - a really well thought out chapter, all the recipes take less than 30 minutes to cook and give you a leftover idea. These leftover ideas use either surplus raw ingredients or extra cooked rice, potatoes etc to cook the next meal.
Budget family dinners - this chapter really concentrates on inexpensive ingredients, hence I use this chapter the most. My favourite recipes are bacon and broccoli pasta and spiced carrot and lentil soup.
Freezer and storecupboard meals - a great chapter for ideas for reducing your fresh food bills. The hummus recipe is back to basics, and is so simple to make. Nothing chefy about it. I also really enjoyed the broad bean pilaf using frozen broad beans. The author isn't snobby about ingredients, there is even a recipe for tuna frozen potato wedges, because she realises that in the real world you sometimes can't plan ahead and need to feed your family as soon as possible with the minimum effort.
Weekend feasts
Recipes for times when you have more time to cook - my favourite recipe is chocolate pecan fondants using 50% cocoa solid chocolate. Not only is it delicious, it can be made a day ahead.
The last section has a comprehensive planner, you don't have to follow it but it does give you loads of ideas.
All the recipes are clearly indicated if they are suitable for freezing or not. I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone - it is easy to double or half each recipe.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like many mothers, I work and have a young child. I want him to have a healthy diet and to eat home made meals, but with limited time in the evening this can be difficult. That was until I bought this book. Not only does this book have many meal ideas which are quick, healthy and use everyday ingredients but they also have meal planners at the back helping you with your shopping budget, for example if you need half a cabbage in a recipe, they put another recipe in for that week which will use the rest of the cabbage up, no waste. They also have meals which will create leftovers for a packed lunch for the next day or another meal for the next day. I certainly recommend this book, it has changed the way we eat.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The recipes: use normal ingredients, are easy to follow, and delicious. I've really enjoyed learning lots of new recipes that I can whip up quickly and with consistently great results. Even my husband has taken a keen interest - as we are following the meal plans, he knows what the recipe of the day is - and has turned into somewhat of a brilliant chef.
The meal plans: are fantastic and definitely well thought-through. We hardly ever (if ever) throw food away anymore because just the right amount is bought and used each week. There's a good combination of quick, "instant" meals for busy weekdays, and something different for the weekend that can also be made in batch for later in the week. I am eating a healthier, more varied diet and wasting less food, money and time.
This is the best - and most used - recipe book I know. Fantastic!!
The meal plans: are fantastic and definitely well thought-through. We hardly ever (if ever) throw food away anymore because just the right amount is bought and used each week. There's a good combination of quick, "instant" meals for busy weekdays, and something different for the weekend that can also be made in batch for later in the week. I am eating a healthier, more varied diet and wasting less food, money and time.
This is the best - and most used - recipe book I know. Fantastic!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Fantastic book
A great book and has given me some great ideas on how to make healthy meals without breaking the bank x
Published 7 months ago by Lizdips
Great ideas
We have a lot of cookbooks but this is a valued addition to the collection, good ideas for meals and can definitely help save a bit of money - always worth doing but even more... Read more
Published 8 months ago by AMcK
Greaf value, easy meals in one book!
This is an brilliant book that contains so much useful information and recipes that it will quickly become your kitchen bible. Read more
Published 16 months ago by cutie711
OK.
I have bought quite a few bbc 101 series cooking books. This one is bigger size but quite a few receipes got no pictures. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mrs. X. Li
Take the strain off meal planning
Excellent book, loads of really clever, good meal ideas. Each one that we've tried so far has exceeded our expectations.
Published 18 months ago by longfeller
fabulous idea
as a working mother short on time, this product has been invaluable to me. the recipes are easy to follow and you can play around with the meal plans to ensure leftovers are not... Read more
Published 24 months ago by S. Alma
Lost of recipes for spicy dishes
Bought this book hoping for great meal planners as I really don't like cooking dinners - give me baking any day! Read more
Published on 9 May 2010 by Roz123
Fantastic brain-saving idea!
This book is great - not only does it save you the headache of thinking what to cook and buy in advance, it provides nutritional information so you can plan calorie consumption as... Read more
Published on 27 April 2010 by Mrs. Rebecca J. Ramsden
My new cookery bible
Fed up of eating Pasta Pesto most evenings, I decided I needed to get a practical everyday cook book. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2010 by Melitta Campbell
Good Food Meal Planner
This book is great. I have most of the Good Food 101 books and this is probably the best one so far.
Published on 22 May 2009 by Birdy
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