Friday, December 9, 2022

Cookboks reviewed: Dec 9

  







Dump Recipes New Cookbook: 250+ Quick and Easy Dump Meal and Dump Dinner Recipes by Patrick Brown
TOC where recipes are listed as meals and food groups.
Intro discusses organic foods and superfoods and allergies and labels.
Each recipe starts with a title, not is English some of them are hard to understand what they really are.
Ingredients and allergies are listed brief summary of the dish.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.
Directions are given and there are NO pictures and NO nutritional information.
Some contain servings.
Don't care for some recipes that list ingredients all in one line, hard to determine what measurement goes with which product.









The Complete Slow Cooker Cookbook for Beginners: 1000 Days Flavour& Quick Recipes for Everyday Meals to Live a Healthy Life by Valerie Albertson
Book was renamed to this:
The Complete Crock Pot Cookbook for Beginners 2023: 1200 Super Easy, Delicious & Healthy Crockpot Recipes for Everyday Meals to Live a Healthy Life
Same ISBN # for both.
This bok starts with TOC where recipes are listed in categories of meals and food groups.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings, cook times.
Not every recipe starts at the top of a new page.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.
Directions are given and there is some nutrtional information per serving: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, cholesterol, sodium and potassium.
Some recipes have nutritional info for only calories, fiber, protein and carbs, not in same format as other recipes, like they are copied from a  different source.
There are NO pictures.







The Complete Instant Pot Cookbook For Beginners: 1200 -Days Delicious & Affordable Instant Pot Pressure Cooker for Healthy Homemade Meal Plan by William N. Davis
TOC where recipes are listed as meals  and food groups.
Intro discusses the instant pot  and advantages of using it.
Each recipe starts, NOT always at the top of a new page, with a title, prep and cook times. servings.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.
Some contain a LOT of items, be sure to have them all.
Directions are given and some nutritional information, not sure of serving size: calories, fat, fiber, carbs sugar and proteins.
Don't like seeing use of canned tomatoes when you can be using fresh and get rid of added sodium.
There are NO pictures.
 
 

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