Welcome to "Kitchen Hacks for Beginners: Save Time, Money & Sanity", a book designed to transform your kitchen experience. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the prospect of cooking, constantly found yourself puzzled by complex recipes, or simply wished you could make the process more enjoyable, you’re in the right place. Our journey together begins here, as we explore the art of efficient cooking. But first, let's set the stage by understanding why efficiency in the kitchen is not just a nice-to-have, but a necessity
Welcome to "Kitchen Hacks for Beginners: Save Time, Money & Sanity", a book designed to transform your kitchen experience. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the prospect of cooking, constantly found yourself puzzled by complex recipes, or simply wished you could make the process more enjoyable, you’re in the right place. Our journey together begins here, as we explore the art of efficient cooking. But first, let's set the stage by understanding why efficiency in the kitchen is not just a nice-to-have, but a necessity.
In a hurry? Make dinner as easy as a boxed meal but with the nutrition your family needs. Check out the section on nonrecipe meals to get you fueled and on your way in a flash! Not sure how to put it all together? See the sample seven-day menu, complete with ingredient list. Among other things, learn how to make clever use of your leftovers and shop with more savvy! Here are some of the amazing recipes in this book: South of the Border Fish Tacos Chicken Cordon Bleu White Lasagna Lemon Pesto Chicken with Asparagus and Tomatoes Teriyaki Flank Steak Cafe Rio Sweet Pulled Pork Slow Cooker Hot Fudge Cake Homemade Cocoa Mix Much more than just a cookbook, Beyond the Box is full of kitchen tips, efficient tool suggestions, and plenty of reference charts that will give you at-a-glance aids to elevate your kitchen experience. Drawn from the knowledge of experienced cooks and dietitian professionals, it has a wealth of information just for you! Get started today on your road to kitchen mastery with Beyond the Box!
An organized kitchen is the salvation every busy cook needs! You'll save yourself time, money, and stress—all while whipping up delicious, healthy meals your family and friends will love. From aprons to zesters, this book provides an A-Z of simple shortcuts that will make all the difference, including: Shelf and storage strategies Five-minute kitchen feng shui When to clean what—with what The right tools for the right tasks The truth about freezing food Meal plans that really work Ten foolproof, must-know recipes—with endless variations The good-enough stocked pantry Leftovers you'll really want to eat With tips and tricks from master chefs (think Julia Child's pegboard) and real-life home chefs (think Grandma's ingenious pasta pots), this is the only kitchen/food/life organizer you need to streamline your kitchen—once and for all! The Organized Kitchen: Because you can minimize cooking time and maximize good taste!
Become a faster, healthier cook with secrets from Weelicious founder and meal prep genius Catherine McCord With celebrated cookbook author and Weelicious founder Catherine McCord's step-by-step process, your kitchen will be beautifully organized and fast, healthy family meals will be at your fingertips—starting with 100 of her favorite recipes. McCord believes that success in the kitchen comes down to two things—organization and meal prep—and she’ll show you how to master both in Meal Prep Magic. One step beyond the ideological approach of Marie Kondo and The Home Edit, McCord brings you a practical guide to organizing the most important space in your home and using it. If you’ve ever lost leftovers to the back of the fridge, failed to find a spice that you know you bought, or faced a cabinet full of mismatched Tupperware, her advice will forever change your relationship to your kitchen. After showing how to maximize your space for efficiency, McCord offers up her favorite family recipes. Including tried-and-tested secrets for saving time, these recipes are easy to prep ahead, make entirely ahead, contain basic ingredients that are always in your pantry, and/or strategically employ your freezer, air-fryer, Instant Pot, slow cooker, and more. Think grab-and-go breakfasts like Raspberry Creamy Chia Puddings, creative packed lunches including easy-to-assemble Salad Jars, healthy snacks like air-fryer crispy artichokes, and irresistible dinners that are even better leftover, such as lemony chicken thighs with lots of herbs. By following McCord's simple strategies for meal prepping, you’ll always have food on-hand to enjoy throughout your busy week, limiting your trips to the grocery store and time spent in the kitchen. Eat healthy meals you love, while saving time, money, and your sanity. Never again stress out about what to make for dinner! Meal Prep Magic is a lifesaver for any and all home cooks, busy parents, and fans of Weelicious and McCord's popular book Smoothie Project.
Have a light-bulb moment every day when you open Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks. 100 hints, tips and hacks plus 100 recipes that put those hacks in action are all contained in Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks. With Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks you’ll learn how to chop six hardboiled eggs at once, cool pans of cookies quicker than ever before, hull strawberries without sticky fingers and slice a dozen cherry tomatoes instantly. Take advantage of these timesaving hacks, then cook up the recipes that go with them. That’s right! You’ll find 100 recipes that take advantage of the mind-blowing tricks, tips and hacks in his unique kitchen helper. Step-by-step photos, new uses for old kitchen gadgets, simple ingredient substitutions and even kitchen-cleaning secrets make Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks one sensational guide you can’t do without.
Meal prep without burnout! Transform leftovers from each meal into a fresh new dish and put a home-cooked dinner on the table every night with 100-plus recipes and 15 easy weekly menus, in this first cookbook by Cyndi “Hyacinth” Kane, often seen on Ree Drummond’s hit Food Network show and blog, The Pioneer Woman. Foreword by Ree Drummond Whether you enjoy cooking or not, it can be exhausting to cook a new meal from scratch every single night—especially if you have a family to feed. Batch cooking is a way around this but means that half your meals will be reheated leftovers, which gets unappetizing after a few days. Instead, Cyndi Kane uses her “Save-It-Forward” method to cut down on cooking time and food waste and still feed her family something new every night. She reserves components of each meal she cooks to play a part in her meal the next night, reimagining her leftovers without rehashing them. In this beautiful, practical book, she provides 15 weekly menus for getting dinner on the table 5 to 6 days a week with as little fuss as possible, and her quirky, chatty tone makes meal prep fun, too. Each week is themed for the sort of week you expect to have, such as No Time to Spare, Mad Skills, and Simple Meats and Veggies. She follows four principles for each meal she puts in front of her family. Each dinner needs to meet the following criteria: delicious (of course!) kid-friendly but not boring relatively healthy budget-friendly Each recipe is accompanied by beautiful watercolor illustrations showing the finished dishes and visual menus showing the Save-It-Forward connections between each meal. Some of the recipes (and transformations) included are: Italian Sunday Gravy and Pasta (and Lentil Soup with Simple, Cheesy Spaghetti Squash) Skillet Smoked Sausage, Cabbage, and Potatoes (and Breakfast-for-Dinner Burritos) Stuffed Peppers over Pasta (and Italian Frittata) Shrimp Packet Dinner (and Cajun Chowder) Italian Beef Tips (and Mexican Beef Stew) Readers will feel like dinnertime superheroes with these low-stress, super-practical, time-saving meals!
Cook Once, Eat All Week is a revolutionary way to get a delicious, healthy, and affordable dinner on the table FAST. Author Cassy Joy Garcia will walk you through this tried-and-true method and show you how batch-cooking a few basic components can give you an entire week’s worth of dinners with minimal time and effort. Have you ever tried a meal prep plan before and gotten so excited about having your cooking for the week done ahead of time, only to find yourself totally exhausted after a full day in the kitchen, shocked by your grocery bill, and tired of the same leftovers by Tuesday? Cassy Joy Garcia had been there, too. As a mom, business owner, and Nutrition Consultant, she needed to get a healthy, affordable, and tasty dinner on the table fast every night, and she knew there had to be a better way to do it. She finally cracked the code when she discovered that by batch-cooking a protein, starch, and vegetable each week she could easily assemble three fresh, diverse meals in minimal time. After years of her readers asking her for better meal prep strategies and easy recipes, she released 4 weeks of recipes on her blog, Fed and Fit. Since then, tens of thousands of people have made and raved about the series and begged for more! In this book, you’ll find 26 weeks of affordable, healthy, delicious meals that your family will love eating, and a chapter full of bonus 20-minute meals. Optional Instant Pot and slow cooker instructions are included to get you even more time back in your week. With a Real Food foundation, the weeks in this book aim to support dietary approaches that cover gluten-free, dairy-free, Paleo, low-carb, egg-free, kid-friendly, and more. Three simple ingredients like shredded pork, potatoes, and cabbage are turned into these three easy-to-assemble meals: Honey Mustard Pork Sheet Pan Dinner, Enchiladas Verde Casserole, and Sloppy Joe Stuffed Potatoes. This book is a must-have for anyone looking for a REAL solution to help them eat healthfully while also saving time and money and loving what they are eating.
To survive the tumultuous first years with kids, smart parents learn to do things faster, cheaper, and easier. Wouldn't it be great if their hard-won shortcuts were collected into one handy reference? Here's a book that does just that. Featuring 400 of the best tips and tricks from veteran moms and dads, Mama's Big Book of Little Lifesavers gets straight to the point with modern solutions to age-old parenting dilemmas such as getting baby to sleep, potty training, saving cash on baby gear, streamlining bedtime, and much more. Easy to dip in and out of, this book helps parents get through each day with a few spare minutes, a few extra dollars, and their sanity intact!
Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You regularly handle the filthiest object in your home -- the kitchen sponge -- and put the same chemicals on your face that are used in brake fluid and antifreeze. The cleaning agents and personal care products commonly marketed to and used in American homes contain not only some very dangerous, toxic chemicals, but they also create an "overly clean," chemically bombed-out house that compromises immune systems. And with more than fifty million Americans suffering from allergies and other autoimmune diseases -- not to mention the developing and fragile immune systems of children and seniors -- large numbers of people are actually being made sicker and sicker by their homes. Learn to live a clean, healthy, more economical way with Ellen Sandbeck, the nontoxic avenger. In this must-have book for the twenty-first- century home, this passionate, witty advocate of all things organic will teach you how to maintain every part of the home -- from living room to septic tank, kitchen floor to bathroom sink -- using safe, simple cleansers and quick preventative measures as well as the most effective organic products on the market to get the job done. Learn time-saving, preventative housekeeping, such as taking thirty seconds to clean the shower while you shower. Take care of bathroom stains with baking soda and vinegar rather than commercial, toxic bathroom "bombs" peddled to you with such force by manufacturers. Need whiter whites? There is no bleaching power on earth stronger than the sun. Snow clean your fine rugs. Choose fruits and vegetables from the relatively pesticide residue-free list. Clean felt-tipped pen stains with vodka. Make furniture shine with olive oil and lemon. Your house will also smell as great as it looks.
