- Paperback: 209 pages
- Publisher: Champion Press (WI) (Jan 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1891400614
- ISBN-13: 978-1891400612
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#311,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #37 in Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Professional Cooking > Quantity
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From Amazon
Frozen Assets is small in stature, but jam-packed with meal-planning advice. It contains recipe ideas, plus detailed instructions on how to get the maximum value from your food dollar, while also slashing meal preparation times.
Deborah Taylor-Hough, mother of four, is as organized as a soldier. She shops one morning in less than an hour, chops and prepares ingredients the next night after dinner, and then spends one long day cooking. Making double and triple batches of 10 recipes, she ends up putting 30 meals for two adults and two children into the freezer, ready to heat and eat. Taylor-Hough's plan uses simple, familiar recipes. Her family eats meat loaf, baked ziti, and chicken and broccoli casserole made with canned soup. Each dish is repeated several times a month. To keep her grocery bill under $200 a month, she uses store brands and buys ground meat in bulk, and only when it's on special. As much a manual for a way of life as a cookbook, Frozen Assets tells how to create your own meal plans, cope with a small, "in refrigerator" freezer, and how to use this bulk-cooking method even if you are single. If you are into efficiency and want a guide to reorganizing your culinary life, this book is a must-have. It even offers advice on how to recover from a whole day of cooking. Taylor-Hough's recommendation: go out to dinner that night! --Dana Jacobi
From Library Journal
This book offers relief to those tired of eating restaurant fare or expensive, overpackaged convenience foods at the end of a hard day. Bulk cooking, the practice of preparing numerous meals and freezing for later consumption, was a survival strategy the author employed after the birth of her first child. After a decade of experimentation, she shares her menu ideas, recipes, and tips for shopping and preparing these thrifty, frozen treasures that can simplify the daily meal rush. Recipes are for family favorites, but the author encourages readers to adapt their own recipes to the freezer method. Suggestions appropriate for large families and singles are included along with forms to help organize the cook. With more emphasis on frugality than Mimi Wilson and Mary Bath Lagerborg's Once-a-Month Cooking (Focus on the Family Pub., 1992), this will appeal to both the thrifty and the time-conscious. Recommended for public libraries.ABonnie Poquette, Whitefish Bay, WI
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
This here book changed my life. It really did!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month (Paperback)
Love the book, love the method, love the recipes. Love it, love it, love it! Oh. You're probably wondering why I said it changed my life, aren't you? Well, one day I was staring at my checkbook, wondering where all the money went every month. It seemed to disappear faster than a cockroach when you turn on the lights. Oops. Hmm. Probably the cockroach analogy is a bit improper for a cookbook review. Sorry. So, there I was wondering how to make my money s-t-r-e-t-c-h even a tiny little wee bit further, when a friend told me about this Frozen Assets book and how it had helped her get hold of her food budget. Being the ever careful, ever cheap little skeptic that I am, I drove on down to my library and checked out a copy. I was brave, and maybe even a bit foolish that day, but I decided to give the entire 30 day plan a try. Omigosh! Can you say "tired"? How 'bout "exhausted"? My poor feet ached like they hadn't since my days waitin' tables at the truck stop. (Well, actually it wasn't a truck stop, but I thought that sounded better with my story.) So, to make a long story not much shorter, I was sure after that first night that this was the worst mistake of my entire life. But then after my poor aching feet recovered in a day or two, I took a nice little frozen lasagna outta my freezer, heated it up for the hubby and kids, tossed together a quick salad, and yow-za! We ate like kings! And it was so massively, excitingly EASY! The next night, we had the best dang meatloaf I think I'd ever eaten, with enough leftovers for a meatloaf sandwich for my lunch next day. But the best part of all, for me anyway, was that for the whole month's worth of dinner meals, I only spent about a hundred bucks. I still had to buy breakfast and lunch stuff, but then oatmeal and sandwiches are pretty cheap fare. I think my total food bill that first month was about a hundred bucks for all four of us. I'd been spending about three times that amount on food 'cause we just about lived at McD's, the local taco stand, and the bake-and-take pizza place. Well, it's been a couple years. I still cook for the freezer these days only I use my own recipes a lot more now. But whenever money's tight, or I'm too lazy to think, which happens quite a bit these days, I pull my worn out copy of Frozen Assets off the shelf (yep, I broke down and bought me a copy. Those library overdue fees were killing me!). I try to read the recipes through the spaghetti sauce stains, I make up a mess of great tasting, easy, and cheap food for me, hubby, and the kids. And we stay on budget too! Trust me, it's worth a try. And if you don't like how a recipe sounds, well, then just don't make it. You'd think by some of the reviews on this page that the author's telling you to go home and bake a Pork Rind Souffle or something. Hardly! It's just good home-cooking. Stuff your mama used to make. Stuff you'd probably make yourself if you had time. And this method gives you time. Saves money, too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
No more store-bought frozen food!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month (Paperback)
Last year I received a copy of "Frozen Assets" as a gift, and I really enjoyed it. Because of reading the book, when my mother said she didn't have time to cook any more and hated store-bought frozen food, I immediately knew what to get her for Christmas! We filled her freezer with food from "Frozen Assets" and "Frozen Assets Lite" while she was out at work. When she got home and opened her freezer door, she was shocked and amazed. She said it was the best Christmas gift ever (she also got a copy of this book).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
New Way of Cooking,
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This review is from: Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month (Paperback)
This book has changed my view of cooking and shopping! When I see a special on meats,canned goods or potatoes, I can take advantage of that and put it up immediately in a recipe from this book. Deborahs' recipes leave room for adjusting the spices to suit our tastes. This book if worth purchasing and using. The added information she provides gives you the knowledge to work with your existing recipes to make them into Frozen Assets.
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