Customer Reviews
Good simple and tasty - By: Globe Trotter, 14 Jul 2008 
I have made lots of the recipes in this book (in fact its one of my most used recipe books)- they are always tasty, & filling, & generallly fairly cheap & quick & easy to make. Unlike alot of recipe books, it tends to use mainly ingredients you would have in your cupboard, with means less trips to the shops & less money spent (and you dont end up with a cupboard full of stuff you bought for a recipe & will never use again!)
Its also fairly unsahamed about using tinned stuff or ready made sauces if it makes the recipe quicker of easier, which is a plus, & often pute in alternatives things you can use if you dont have a particular ingredient, or suggests alternative ways of cooking something to make it easier.
I'm not vegetarian, but I do like vegetarian, & didnt find that I felt like any of the recipes I made were missing meat.
Only one minor quibble - they often recommend using vegetarian alternatives to ingredients, for example vegetarian parmesan, vegetraian pesto, vegetarian feta, & I found these pretty hard (or impossible). If you are a meat eater like me, & can use normal parmesan/pesto etc, then this book is fine. If you are Vegetarian & know where to get necessary veggie alternatives, also fine. If you are a meat eater looking for something to cook for vegetarian friends, be prepared to change your recipes if you cant find the right ingredients.
not what I expected - By: smcl, 28 Mar 2008 
I have a few of these little goodfood books & they have been brilliant. After deciding to cut right back on the amount of meat we eat in our house i opted for this book but was a little surprised. Many of the recepies contain quite a lot of cheese (which my husband & son will not eat)meaning that it probably wont be thumbed through like the rest of my books. The dairy free chapter & the casseroles chapter did have some reallly good ideas but i have been a little put off with the calories & cheese content in the other chapters.
High calories alert!!! - By: K. Donnelly, 22 Jan 2008 
Yes the recipies do look delicious, but the calories are so high!!
On average most of the recipies contain over 300 - 400 calories per serving & some into the high 500s! Even the salads are 350-450 calories!
I'm sending it back.
good but indeed cheesy - By: Abi k, 16 Dec 2007 i have used this book alot but do agree with another reviewer that there is a fair lot of recipes that have cheese in them.
My most-used cook book - By: Esora, 20 Sep 2007 
This book is excellent, there's loads of variety but alll the recipes are quick & there are no strange ingredients that you can't find. I've gone out & brought copies for friends.
