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Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead

Domain Name Com's - : Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead

- 4 and a half stars overall; 5 stars for flavor!
I cook in bulk and freeze on a regular basis, keep an inventory list on top of my freezer, decide what we are eating the next day and defrost in the fridge the night before. This particular book gives a nice organization to how to purchase in bulk for cooking. The dinners are very tasty and quite simple to prepare. Most freezer cookbooks have a lot of cream of mushroom soup type ingredients and the entrees are largely casseroles. Not this book! This book has a great variety of recipes with higher quality ingredients. The recipes from this book taste fresher than many have made from other freezer cookbooks. I prefer to do prep work (chopping veggies, shredding cheese, etc the night before) and then it's easy to follow these recipes and make several recipes in one day. I spent 4 hours on Sat. and froze 23 meals for my family of 4. Though the format is generally for a family of 4, I have smaller Pyrex casserole dishes with plastic lids and freeze each recipe in half - for 2, and then I can take out more when needed. It's easy to figure out how to make healthier choices in ingredients (fat free salad dressing or less cheese). Complaints? The binding broke on first use. A spiral bound book would be so much better. Also, it would be nice if nutritional information was included. Lastly, there could more side dishes to freeze (most are "make on the day you serve") since it is a freezer cookbook and most of the meals are entrees which would almost require a side dish or two.

Rating:

- Not for the health concious
I read tons of reviews online before ordering this book to try and save on cooking time. I was very disappointed in the recipes. Many of the ingredients are unhealthy and not what I would prepare for my family. I guess each person's idea of healthy cooking is different but I would definitley look through this book in a store before deciding to order it.
The basic idea is a good one : prep dishes in bulk in advance. At a certain stage in preparation you freeze the food in batches. Then, when needed, pull out one of the batches from the freezer and pop it in the oven to finish up the final stage of cooking.
I liked the explanations of how to freeze different items and the most economical way to stock a pantry.
However, the ingredients were often things I would not buy (condensed soup, etc) and many of the dishes were high in sodium and fat. I also did not like the waste assoicated with the freezing process (zip loc bags, wax paper, etc) so that is another thing that held be back from applying the ideas in this book. If these things do not bother you then it could definitely be the book to make getting dinner on the table a lot easier!

Rating:

- Great book for families or those who entertain often
This book has some really great recipes that are not at all difficult to follow. The proportions are ideally for families of 4 or more, but I have found it relatively easy to reduce the recipes for just my husband and I plus a night of leftovers. I have also used it for dinners with friends, and have had very good results. I'm not so sure I'd ever belong to the type of co-op where the folks get together and cook up a month of meals and freeze them in huge quantities, but it is definitely full of wonderful recipes and I would recommend it to anyone who has basic cooking skills.

Two to try: Beef Chimichangas and Chicken Cacciatore

Rating:

- Where's the time savings?
Perhaps my expectations were too high. The recipes look good and they will probably be ones that my family will like. But why do I hesitate to spend a weekend making and preparing meals to freeze? Because most of them are covered with sauce and require defrosting. When I saw the title of this book I thought it would be a big timesaver--going from freezer to the oven. But my thinking is: if I have to plan time for defrosting...I might as well make it the same day and eat it right away. Why waste another day preparing (not to mention extra time bagging and/or finding containers for food)when it will only take as much time (or more) to defrost it as it did to prepare it???

Rating:

- Great Tasting but not quite a Dream
I am a huge fan of Supper Suppers. Though I do not have that book because I'd rather just get those meals locally already made, I was looking for cook book with that same concept where I could make a couple of freeze and store meals via an "assembly line" with fresh, raw ingredients and then throw them in the freezer. Though all the meals I have prepared from this book so far have tasted good, I was disappointed with this purchase for 2 reasons. First, MANY of the recipes require partial (or full) cooking before storing/freezing. This is supposed to make my life easier and now I have to cook twice? That's not so helpful. Second, a number of the recipes required processed ingredients like "canned soup." That was also not so appealing. A number of recipes were not even designed for storing, just designed to be quick meals or sides. If I wanted quick, I'd stick to any of Rachel Ray's books - which are all great - no canned soup there. On the positive side, the vast majority of ingredients were readily available and they give you several options for multiplying recipes. This is great because I hate math. Overall, this book was OK but not quite what I had expected.

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