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The Busy Mum's Cookbook
Provide food for breakfast, fill the children's lunchboxes, stock the fridge with after-school snacks, cook everyone's supper day in, day out… every week. Weekends mean more shopping, cooking, baking - and there are always teenagers, hungry partners and friends who might want a snack. Ready-meals, takeaways and fast food are fine on the odd occasion, but especially in these purse-stretched times families need tasty and healthy meals. In this practical cookbook, Mary Gwynn shows the working mum what foods to buy that will last the week and how to have delicious, easy-to-make andnutritious meals ready in a trice with no wastage.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published August 18, 2011
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February 8, 2016I'm not a mum so I'm going to opt out of putting my (low) rating of this book. I'm writing this from a busy person's perspective.
The author says at the beginning that she has tons of experience as a caterer and instructor so she would advise to increase the estimated of preparation if you are a relative newbie (or out of practice).
If you increase the preparation time of some of the recipes (around 25-30 minutes and I think you'd have to go at a fair clip with a few of them), then I'm unclear as to why they were chosen to be part of book for busy mum's in particular.
I don't understand the organisation of the book at all, the recipes seem to be grouped based on the author's preferences, lifestyle and what her kids like.
I personally would have found it helpful if the recipes were grouped by preparation time, overall time (including cook time), how much tending is required (for instance some things have a long cook time but the pot is in sitting unsupervised in an low oven for 3 hours so it means that I can take care of other jobs uninterrupted and therefore it qualifies as convenient for me. Whereas some recipes require checking in/stirring about every 15 minutes so while the actual active time is fairly low, it doesn't fully allow me to get on with other things.
The author says at the beginning that she has tons of experience as a caterer and instructor so she would advise to increase the estimated of preparation if you are a relative newbie (or out of practice).
If you increase the preparation time of some of the recipes (around 25-30 minutes and I think you'd have to go at a fair clip with a few of them), then I'm unclear as to why they were chosen to be part of book for busy mum's in particular.
I don't understand the organisation of the book at all, the recipes seem to be grouped based on the author's preferences, lifestyle and what her kids like.
I personally would have found it helpful if the recipes were grouped by preparation time, overall time (including cook time), how much tending is required (for instance some things have a long cook time but the pot is in sitting unsupervised in an low oven for 3 hours so it means that I can take care of other jobs uninterrupted and therefore it qualifies as convenient for me. Whereas some recipes require checking in/stirring about every 15 minutes so while the actual active time is fairly low, it doesn't fully allow me to get on with other things.
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