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The Ultimate Make-Ahead Cookbook

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Make-ahead cookbook meals just got freezer friendly—now even more convenient.

Make-ahead cookbook meals let you spend more time with your family and less time cooking. The Ultimate Make-Ahead Cookbook gives you delicious recipes for amazing meals that freeze well, so you can make them when you have time and eat them when you don’t.

Just an hour or two with this make-ahead cookbook is all you need to prepare an entire week’s worth of fresh, homemade meals that your family will love. Two different techniques show you how to save time and money by creating several meals all at once. The batch cooking method takes just an extra 15 minutes to make four meals instead of one, while the prep now/cook later method is a super simple way to get a whole week’s worth of meals into the freezer.

This make-ahead cookbook includes:

  • Ready fast—You’ll always be just a few minutes away from a delicious meal with 125 tasty recipes like Chicken Enchilada Casserole and Sweet Thai Chili Sausages.
  • Planned ahead—Complete meal plans give you step-by-step instructions to prepare mouthwatering meals for a weekend with company or big family feasts.
  • Cook for everyone—Color-coded labels make it a snap to choose recipes for dietary restrictions, and easy-to-read nutritional info means you know exactly what you’re preparing.

Start prepping today and have a freezer full of ready-to-go meals whenever you want them with this make-ahead cookbook.

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101 Things To Do With A Bundt Pan

Posted on by Reluctant Retiree

We like big Bundts and we cannot lie! Discover fun one-pan dishes including cakes—and much, much more.
101 Things To Do With A Bundt® Pan offers a wide variety of not only cake and bread recipes, but sweet and savory sides, appetizers, brunch ideas, and dinner options.

Packed with delish recipe ideas cooked in everyone’s favorite iconic pan, 101 Things To Do With A Bundt® Pan will help the home cook serve up quick and easy one-pan dishes from breakfasts to main dishes, including comfort foods like meat loaf, lasagna, mac and cheese, and even roast chicken. Also included are helpful hints for getting the best results from your Bundt! Try:

· Bacony Jalapeno Poppers

· Hawaiian Monkey Bread

· Cranberry and Orange Bread

· Cinnamon Pan Breakfast

· General Tso’s Chicken

· Zucchini Lasagna

· Sweet Potato Casserole

· Berry-Filled Bundt Cake· Peach Cobbler, and much more

Annette L.
5.0 out of 5 stars 
Just the cookbook I was looking for--Lots of savory recipes!
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2021
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This is a very small cookbook, only 5.5"x 7.5". It has a shiny, wipeable cover and a spiral binding so that it lays flat. BUT, don't let the small size fool you! It is PACKED with 101 yummy-looking recipes. It even has a "helpful hints" section near the front. I'm rather picky about new recipes. What I like most about this little book is that there are many savory recipes included. That is exactly what I was looking for. It even has an appetizer section, and drinks (with or without alcohol) as well. I highly recommend this thorough little book if you love your Bundt pans and don't like to see them collecting dust anymore. Happy cooking!


Linda K. Buck

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfectly universal recipes highly instructive

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021

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Love everything all very USEFUL and practical even offers substitutes!!! Crystal clear instructions but the beauty is the SPIRAL BINDING! ALL cookbooks NEED SPIRALS PERIOD!!! I must have over 30 cookbooks, this one is up there with my go to Better Homes and Gardens from the 50’S lmao!!! Love love LOVE it!!! Perfect for beginners too!!!🔥🔥🔥

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Quick and Easy Cool Whip Desserts

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When you need a cool, creamy dessert ASAP, check your freezer for a tub of Cool Whip. You’ll find the recipe details for the sweets in this graphic. Want more cool ideas? Check out our best no-bake desserts.

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72 Quick and Healthy Weeknight Dinners

Posted on by Reluctant Retiree

Though we’re always the first to shout from the rooftops about wildly impressive recipes that are sure to wow guests or loved ones, making it seem like all we do is have constant elaborate dinner parties or romantic date nights, in reality… not so much. Really, most weeknights we turn to easy, healthy dinners that come together quickly and for low effort. If they don’t cost an arm and a leg, even better! We firmly believe saving money doesn’t have to mean giving up flavor or convenience. Check out our list of 72 quick and healthy meals that won’t break the bank for easy weeknight dinner inspiration.

When it comes to healthier meals, we LOVE a veggie for pasta ingredient swap. Cauliflower and zucchini are forever faves, but we’re branching out into other veggies too, like spaghetti squash and butternut squash. We swear, you’ll barely miss the pasta (and can enjoy multiple servings, no problem).

We’re a big fan of the ease of Mexican-inspired tacos, quesadillas, and tostadas for simple weeknight meals. You can fill them with pretty much anything—like we did in our fish taco bowls, our black bean tostadas, or our taco salads—and every member of your household can add as few or as many toppings as they like.

Another great option? Grain bowls and bakes. All you need is a great sauce, like our herby green goddess, our salsa verde, or our tahini sauce; some rice (brown, white, or cauliflower all work), quinoa, or even noodles; some protein; and any combination of vegetables. Add some crunchy nuts or seeds and you’ll have a solid, satisfying dinner. Bonus: They’re GREAT for cleaning leftover ingredients out of your fridge. Check out our warm tahini ramen noodles, our goddess bowls, our cheesy salsa chicken & cauliflower rice skillet, or our one-pan chicken & quinoa for variations, then get creative and make them your own.

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Top Healthy Meal Prep Ideas for Easy Weeknight Dinners

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By: Kristie Collado
Kristie has been the digital programming manager at Food Network for over six years. She’s a trained pastry chef who has been creating food content for more than fifteen years.

Healthy Meal Prep Ideas

Even though there are so many reasons to meal prep (save time, save money, eat better — the list goes on and on) we know that the thought of planning and cooking so much food all at once can be overwhelming. The good news? It’s so worth it. And, there are plenty of ways to make it easier! Learn a handful of pro meal prep tips, master a couple of shortcuts that make prep easier and gather up the right recipes and, before you know it, you’ll be settled into a routine that allows you to turn one simple ingredient into a myriad of delicious dishes. (Don’t believe us? Just check out our ideas for prepping chicken!) Whether you take a structured approach and plan out concrete meals or lean towards an ingredient-prep strategy that allows you some flexibility throughout the week, we’re confident you’ll be glad you took the time to plan ahead. All of the recipes in this roundup will come in handy but start with this versatile sesame chicken. You can just as easily toss it into a salad for lunch as you can a stir-fry for dinner.

Meal Prep Steamed Vegetables

When it comes to prepping for the week ahead, we love cooking off lots of veggies so we can reach for them instead of something less healthy in the scramble of making a weeknight meal. Blanching a vegetable in boiling water and then plunging it in an ice bath is great when you’re making just one kind. But for a large-scale production, our go-to method is steaming. You can use the same water for multiple batches, steaming one vegetable after the next. The result: a rainbow of perfectly cooked vegetables at the ready for grain bowls, pastas, salads, frittatas and more.

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