If your aim is to cook more often at home, would this potential cookbook be useful?

[Anonymous]

I'd maybe even do 3 hr of prep IF I could then spend 15 active min (not counting things like waiting for brown rice to cook) only. People who don't like to cook don't like to cook - you have to really really minimize the daily cooking part so that it doesn't seem like a chore.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for all the candid feedback everyone! Very helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like fresh 20.

NP. I was going to write the same thing.

Just got the Fresh 20 cookbook (they offered a free 3 month subscription with purchase and I wanted my SIL to try it so bought the book.)

Like the cookbook, but think the online subscription works better for me - and would LOVE it if it the menus/groceries lists/recipes were made even more mobile friendly so I could pull the shopping list up on my phone and use my iPad for the recipes.

But should be clear that the Fresh 20 has worked really, really well for our family. We don't do it every week, and the week of 5 meals often takes us longer due to eating out / breakfast for dinner / etc., but it has certainly improved the quality of food we eat while cutting down on food waste / meal planning stress.

[Anonymous]

Have you looked at the 6 o'clock scramble cookbook - or subscription service?

If not, go get the book. See how it is layed out - how would your book be any different?

[Anonymous]

21:44 back - we also moved from the 3 month Fresh 20 subscription to the year, and at love that for the archive option, so that we can really pick a menu we want to eat.

I also like how the menu/grocery list is numbered so that it is easy to take out one of the meals.

[Anonymous]

No. It's too involved. There is already a cookbook out there like that. While it sounds good in theory, it really is difficult to implement. It takes longer to shop because inevitably, the food items on your lists won't be what the ordinary cook buys on a regular basis. This adds to shopping time. The best books out there for basic and fairly quick recipes already exist: Joy of Cooking, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, et. al. Most likely people will buy the book thinking it will be useful and then never use it as intended. That won't matter to you, though, because you will still make the sales. The sequel, however, may not go over as well.

I agree with this. I would also find it limiting.

I think the time for a bound paper book like this is past. To be useful today, the same concept needs to be an app. Or at least a searchable blog.

[Anonymous]

OP are you referring to something like this?

[url]
http://www.foodonthetable.com/[/url]

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to see a sample week plan for the Fresh 20? That sounds like something that might work for us...

[Anonymous]

Pp, I think you can see a sample on the fresh 20 website..

[Anonymous]

search for it on DCUM, too. A REALLY helpful DCUMer wrote out a detailed description recently, I think in the Money forum.