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A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life
A baby + a toddler + a full-time job = total meltdown
When Juanita Phillips stumbled on an old pressure cooker in an op shop, it changed her life. As a frantically busy working mother, she was desperate for solutions to that modern dilemma: how to juggle kids, career, housework and marriage. The pressure cooker helped her solve one of the biggest problems - preparing daily healthy meals - but that was just the beginning. She and her husband decided to transform their chaotic life in other ways too, and where it led them was surprising.
This candid confession of a failed supermum offers practical tips for anyone searching for a calmer, simpler, healthier life.
Includes:
The Amazing 7-Minute Risotto and other pressure cooker recipes
How to find more than 24 hours in a day
Role reversal: the pros and cons of house-husbandry
The guilt-free guide to cutting housework
When Juanita Phillips stumbled on an old pressure cooker in an op shop, it changed her life. As a frantically busy working mother, she was desperate for solutions to that modern dilemma: how to juggle kids, career, housework and marriage. The pressure cooker helped her solve one of the biggest problems - preparing daily healthy meals - but that was just the beginning. She and her husband decided to transform their chaotic life in other ways too, and where it led them was surprising.
This candid confession of a failed supermum offers practical tips for anyone searching for a calmer, simpler, healthier life.
Includes:
The Amazing 7-Minute Risotto and other pressure cooker recipes
How to find more than 24 hours in a day
Role reversal: the pros and cons of house-husbandry
The guilt-free guide to cutting housework
- GenresNonfiction
258 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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September 7, 2011This book by ABC news reader, Juanita Phillips, provides tips on how to get the household chores done while managing a career and family. It is also full of easy, time-saving pressure cooker recipes. I photocopied a number of them but, as yet, have not prepared any of them; I will update this review once I have.
February 22, 2016
An interesting insight into the daily juggle of working and parenting. It resonated with me quite a lot. I even thought about buying a pressure cooker for about 5 minutes. Interestingly, Juanita and her husband have since parted ways which takes some of the sparkle off the story. Nevertheless it was a good read.
November 14, 2014
An interesting read about one woman's struggle to balance work and family, and some interesting insights into trends in parenting roles and private experiences with the stay-at-home dad thing. the recipes didn't appeal much, maybe because I'm vegetarian and there weren't many of them.
April 13, 2010
A realistic look at modern family life and how to make it more manageable.
January 10, 2013
An easy read, and a very honest account of how parenthood changes your life more than you can imagine.
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