Customer Reviews
Offensive - By: Mr. C. M. Hughes, 09 May 2008 
This book doesn't tell you how to cook what so ever, you might as well go & buy ready meals. Using a can of mince in a dish has to be a sin, & I think she must have been slipped a back hander from the supermarkets for alll the product placement there is. British food has improved greatly over the last 10 years, & she is trying to take it back 20 years by using frozen or tinned ingredients, instead of fresh produce. I recommend Jamie Oliver or Nigel Slater if you want to learn how to cook.
Ingredients not available everywhere. - By: K. Barton, 07 May 2008 
Took me agessssss to get some of the ingredients to make some of these recipes, & what seemed to be such a good idea, I think it would of been less time to actuallly just get the 'hard way?' ingredients in the first place.
What I think Delia hasn't realised is, that alot of the ingredients she reals off, are items that some northern supermarkets don't stock. Such a shame I only found that out 'after' buying the book.
Awful - By: D. Cunningham, 05 May 2008 The cooking time was cut by literallly five minutes & the meals looked like they were School Dinner rejects. I had to walk around the supermarket for about an hour just to get the ingredients- as opposed to ten minutes up & down the main aisles- had to ask for help several times just to find stuff.
The whole idea has backfired on her. Awful.
"Oh what can I make for dinner tonight" and not shopping til tomorrow - By: G. Brear, 05 May 2008 
I am sure we have alll been there, the cupboard is bare & the weekly shop is 12, 24 or 48 hours away. There are tins & packets in the cupboard & "stuff" in the freezer.
Having read through the reviews for this book, I decided to buy it & have not regretted it. Having read the recipes, but sadly, not tried any yet, I am impressed with how much one can do with so little. My only adverse comment is the section on store cupboard ingredients, which are a little pricey, but then there are alternatives available.
I have offered to buy a copy for my son, who is off on his way to University this coming Autumn term, & who has very little experience of having to cook for himself, but even he said he could, & would, try several of the recipes in the book.
I would have to agree with another reviewer, that a photo of the finished meal, would definately be a help to my son for instance, to show what it should look like when finished.
Otherwise, three cheers Delia, a definate hit I think
some people don't seem to understand... - By: S. France, 02 May 2008 
Haha, this book seems to have spilt alll the reviewers in half. But people don't seem to understand, Delia & every other cook/nutritionist want you to make the healthiest possible food from scratch, but they understand that with modern day living people don't always have time. So isn't it better to 'cheat' than to buy a ready meal? If you watch the video then you'll see that delia states who this cookbook is for. Real cooks won't need this book, but real people will.
The question is how good are the recipes?
