Cookbook for Beginners

reyessam

Happy New Year!

One of my new year's resolutions is to start cooking! My goal is to cook at least one meal a week utilizing a cook book. I know I can easily just find recipes online, but I'd like to have something handy that I can just go to.

I'm not too picky. I'd like a book with a variety of recipes, but simple enough for beginners like myself.

Thanks in advance!

RaeN81

Cooking Light Complete Cookbook.

UpToAnyCool

bumpity bump.

Miss_Chievous_wechange

I have several really good cookbooks: Hungry Girl cookbooks, Flat Belly Diet Cookbooks (I don't follow the diet, but they have some really good recipes), and Jillian Michaels Master Your Metabolism Cookbook. I use all of them all the time and they are easy and family friendly.

almorrow1s

The new Weight Watchers cookbook is pretty good.

staceyb_2003

I keep a notepad of recipes i've done in the past i usually jot them down of the net and if they work out then i stick them n my notebook for easy access next time.

heathersmilez

I started making my own recipe book in 2007 and now its bloomed to almost 50 recipes! I got my recipes off the internet just google’ing around for easy ones with as few ingredients as possible, foods we normally ate and then reduced the fat/cals and calculated the WW points (this is all before I discovered MFP). I then took photos of my creations so I keep it in a binder. Family and friends are so impressed and hubby is happy too I suddenly became a cook after 9 years of dating (2007), lol!

I highly recommend you keep your money and use MFP and the internet as your resource.

Here are some of my photos;

staceyb_2003

now i'm hungry lol !!

LindaSueBakk

Betty Crocker Cookbook. So great for beginners! (Almost tells you how to boil water LOL) And also gives calories.

emmyvera

so heather, what time is dinner tonight? :laugh: not only do your foods look delicious the photos are AWESOME!!!

i agree with heather. creating your own cookbook/collection and online research is a great idea!

i love food, love cooking and have tons of cookbooks. i do use them, HOWEVER, i've found that using what i have on hand in the kitchen then pairing it with an online recipe is most economical for me. sometimes i will find a great recipe out my cookbook, be at home and then realize that i need to go back to the store and buy like 10 ingredients or something.

like tonight.... i know we have chicken and ham......... so i found a healthy recipe for chicken cordon bleu at Eating Well.com!

this is what i do with my time at work, i know - it's terrible! :bigsmile:

NicoleL83

That looks delicious. Would you mind sharing your recipe for the pancakes. My husband loves them and I trying to find a lower calorie or fat recipe! thanks

MilfShakeIt

Dang Heather! If you want to put some together and sell them I'd buy it!

That looks good!