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'Buy this, bye stress with this fantastic cookbook, full of simple and nutritious recipes for family meals - ideal for those with a busy lifestyle.' Prima 'The author is a total expert at creating delicious food from very meagre shopping lists. Her tips and brilliant, simple recipes have been compiled into this great little book. Everyone can learn from this book - it's brilliant resource, especially if you are trying to stick to a budget or are still finding your feet in the kitchen.' easylivingmagazine.co.uk 'It is an EXCELLENT book and I have recommended it to several of my friends.' Fiona W 'My daughter made the Tuna Pasta Bake from the Feed your whole family book in cookery this week and got 10 out of 10 and 2 merits for it.' Caroline P. 'A brilliant little volume in which the hearty, honest, family friendly recipes are delicious, and she means it about `very little money` the weekly meal planners at the back of the book include shopping lists with costings (for 2007) and average out at about £30 a week for a family of four (and she only uses organic meat. QED).' The Sunday Times, Style Magazine. Reviewer India Knight, author of The Thrift Book. 'Reveals the secrets of cooking on a budget.' Daily Express 'A good starter basic for an inexperienced cook looking after a family on a budget and trying to steer clear of processed food and ready meals.' --www.tribune.ie

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164 of 164 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The book Jamies Ministry of Food wishes it was!, 27 Dec 2008
By S. Begley "keyznsaz" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... (Paperback)
I bought this book when the credit crunch kicked into our family shopping budget and was amazed at how much money I saved each week! The recipes are amazingly simple to follow and the ingredients is very cheap (I bought Jamie's Ministry of Food at the same time and by comparison I found his recipes to be complicated and more importantly, the ingredients he uses are actually very expensive!)
My kids are very fussy eaters and at first I was sure they would turn their noses up. Instead I found clean plates and requests for seconds!
If you cant cook - this book is for you. If you find it difficult keeping to a food shopping budget - this book is for you. If you want to give your family a healthy balanced diet without force feeding them spinach - this book is for you. If you want a book with pretty pictures in it of celebrity chefs and chums with about one recipe that you'll actually use - this book isn't for you.
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ditch your Ramsey and Oliver shelf ornaments..., 12 Jan 2009
By J. Young "godfreylazarus" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... (Paperback)
...because this is one of only two cookbooks you need ever really buy, if indeed you are genuinely an enthusiastic cook. As opposed to most people who are either looking for glossy tomes to brighten up their bookshelves or who are simply difficult people to buy for at Christmas.

As a genuinely enthusiastic amateur cook, I'm far too busy in the kitchen to get properly wordy about this, but suffice to say that Gill Holcombe is exactly what a decent cookbook writer should be: unpretentious, honest and fearless of taking a make-do-and-mend approach in the kitchen. As a result, this book is full of "if you haven't got the herbs, it doesn't really matter" type advice. In stark contrast, then, to the absurdly humourless stuff being churned out by our Michelin-starred betters who consider any departure from their carefully-described hallowed 'jus' as an insult to their genius. (Heston Blumenthal: 'In Pursuit of Perfection'? Are you SERIOUS?)...
All the recipes I've tried from this book - and unlike ANY other cookbook in my house, ever, I had tried at least half a dozen within a week of buying it - were great, but the recipes for fish and for baking were particularly so. Some were basic, and shamelessly and entirely self-confidently so, but some were absolute gems that I raved about to friends for weeks, such as the apple cake that you can make in one bowl that looks a mangled mess when it goes in the oven and miraculously transforms itself into something quite beautiful within.

If you do nothing but cook every meal from this book for a year you will be very well fed.
And richer, to boot, because Gill isn't one to spend money where a store cupboard fall-back will do just as well.

The other book you need, by the way, which deserves its thoroughly well-thumbed position alongside this one, is Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries. Our Nige is, like Gill Holcombe, not a professional chef, but simply a greedy amateur who understands food. All his writing is good, but Kitchen Diaries is the best of the lot.

That's enough, I'm off to do a bit of baking.
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118 of 121 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite as advertised, 23 Feb 2009
By Sandra Byrne "tagetmagic" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... (Paperback)
I admit I bought the book because of the reviewers's claim that the menus 'average out at about £30 a week for a family of four' including organic meat (2007 prices). I wish.

Yes the meals I made were delicious, yes the recipes are clearly laid out and easy to follow, nor do you have to be a trained chef to follow them but when I got the book, the costings were made for evening meals only, and for only five days out of the seven.

I would still recommend the book for its recipes and costcutting tips but
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A thumbs up for the section on school lunches: some commonsense tips on what to put in the sandwich box so that it will be both edible and nutritious. On the whole a good buy
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5.0 out of 5 stars The book for when you don't know what to cook
I've had this book for a while now and it is a little different from the others on my shelf. This is no glossy TV chef book full of sexy food pictures and using hard to obtain... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mags

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical cookery book. Easy recipes to follow.
Very useful for a busy mother on a limited budget. Easy recipes to use and gives ideas and what to have for dinner that children will like.
Published 5 months ago by frances wilson

5.0 out of 5 stars healthy and economical eating
If mothers read this book and heeded its excellent ideas and economical menu ideas we would be rid of fat teletubby kids who are the future drain on the resousces of the Health... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. A. R. Carnell

5.0 out of 5 stars essential to my collection
There is a lot of useful information in this book as well as lots of recipes for really good traditional food (that I grew up on) as well as more modern recipes including curries... Read more
Published 6 months ago by K. Hague

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners
Fab book with great easy yo do recipies that use ordinary ingredients and are made without any fuss. Great for beginners and those sticking to a budget. Read more
Published 6 months ago by T. Meharry

2.0 out of 5 stars Okay!
There is no pictures in the book, therefore, if you did not cook something before, it is hard to 'create' a dish.
I found the book very plain and boring. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Yvonne

5.0 out of 5 stars A cookbook for the real world!
Buy this book!! I am so pleased with this book! Finally a simple guide that real busy families can use and its written in an amusing way that makes it a good read to! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Vixx Roxx

2.0 out of 5 stars Mostly good but ordinary
I bought this book because of the clever title! That aside it is a bit preachy, completely child obsessed and has very ordinary recipes that you would have to go shopping... Read more
Published 7 months ago by The Dalai Farmer

5.0 out of 5 stars First impressions great - found a recipe I will be doing tomorrow
I ordered this as an extra to Jamie's Ministry of Food for inspiration on different meals and first impressions are that this is the better book of the 2. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Nicola Chapman

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff!
I love this book! I bought it because I really needed some inspiration on how to make decent meals on a budget, and this has done the trick. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Grumpy Mum

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