Cookbook Reviews

Here you'll find the most complete collection of freezer cooking and make ahead cookbook reviews on the web.

Freezer Cooking Recipe Collection Cookbooks
Bulk Cooking or Doubling Up at Dinnertime
Once A Month Cooking
Once A Week Cooking
Storing the Harvest
Healthy Eating, Lifestyle and Wellness

Freezer Cooking Recipe Collection Cookbooks

• You've Got It Made: Deliciously Easy Meals to Make Now and Bake Later by Diane Phillips is more of a gourmet spin on freezer cooking recipes.
• Holly Clegg’s Trim and Terrific Freezer Friendly Meals by Holly Clegg is a great resource for a ton of recipes and lots of seafood dishes.
• The Best Freezer Cookbook is a collection of freezable recipes, some from author Jan Main and some from other cookbooks.

• Prevention's Freezer Cookbook: Quick Dishes for and from the Freezer by Sharon Sanders is a collection of 'for the freezer' and 'from the freezer recipes,' so not all of them can be frozen but those that can't are made from previously frozen foods.
• Reader's Digest Cook Now Serve Later is a collection of make ahead recipes, only some are suitable for freezing.

Frozen Assets Reader's Favorites by Deborah Taylor-Hough is a one stop shop for beginners and full of new ideas for the experienced freezer cook to get some more variety.

Bulk Cooking or Doubling Up at Dinnertime

• Dream Dinners: Turn Dinnertime into Family Time with 100 Assemble-and-Freeze Meals by Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna is a freezer cooking recipe book ideal for tripling up dinner meals and getting two meals in the freezer.
• Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead by Susie Martinez, Bonnie Garcia and Vanda Howell is a collection freezer recipes, techniques and tips for beginners and pros alike.

• Don't Panic-More Dinner's in the Freezer: A Second Helping of Tasty Meals You Can Make Ahead by Susie Martinez, Bonnie Garcia and Vanda Howell has more great recipes to get your freezer stocked.

• The Big Cook is a collection of main dish recipes for meat lovers. The recipes include measurements to make 1, 4, 6 or 8 meals at once.
• Big Food by Elissa Altman is not a freezer recipe cookbook, it's a method of using the freezer to help store bulk foods from club stores.
• Fix Freeze Feast by Kati Neville and Lindsay Tkacsik is great for making one for dinner and two for the freezer from bulk food clubs large packages of meat.
• The Freezer Cookbook by Charlotte Erickson is an old book with tons of cooking tips and recipes for single or bulk servings.

Once A Month Cooking

• The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet by Tara Wohlenhaus and Naci Slage teaches you to organize your own once a month cooking day, shopping list and prep work. The book also includes some recipes to get you started.
• Once a Month Cooking by Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg has two week and four week meal plans with shopping list, recipes and ingredients.
• Dinner's in the Freezer! More Mary Less Martha by Jill Bond illustrates how freezer cooking can be part of your home management system from a Christian perspective.

• Frozen Assets by Deborah Taylor-Hough is filled with types on saving money with freezer cooking and includes meal plans with shopping lists.

Once A Week Cooking

• Frozen Assets Lite and Easy by Deborah Taylor-Hough is a healthier version of the original focusing on combining mini-sessions with common ingredients into once a month cooking.

• Cook Once Eat for a Week by Jyl Steinback is a large collection of make ahead recipe with a 2 week mix and match menu.
• Cook Once a Week: Eat Well Everyday by Theresa Albert-Ratchford has menus, recipes and shopping lists for weekly cooking.

Storing the Harvest

• Home Freezing For All by Mary Norwak is a great reference guide on all sorts of foods and includes freezer recipes as well.
• The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food by Janet Bachand Chadwick is a complete guide to freezing, drying, canning and root cellaring fruits, veggies and herbs.
• Seasonal Freezer Cookbook by Jeni Wright, Caroline Ellwood, Clare Ferguson, Carole Handslip is the best resource I'd seen on freezing fruits and vegetables. It also includes some meal plans and recipes but the recipes are in metric (UK) measurements.

Healthy Eating, Lifestyle and Wellness

• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan talks about the health effects and politics behind our food.
• The 100 Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon is the story of a young couple who vow to only eat local food for a year.
• Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourself by Marla Cilley and Leanne Ely is about losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Cookbook Reviews by Cooking Method

• Fix It and Forget It by Dawn J Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good is a collection of reader submitted crock pot recipes.

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