Quick, Thrifty Cooking

by Reader's Digest Association (Editor)

Over 450 Recipes for Busy People Who Want to Serve Fast, Delicious Meals Without Spending a Lot of Money.

Time-saving and money-saving tips.
Cooking and preparation times.
Serving Suggestions.
Make-ahead dishes.
Recipe variations.
Tasty recipes for leftovers.
Calories per serving for every recipe.

Genres: Cookbooks, Reference

Spiral-bound

First published April 1, 1985

About the author

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.

The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This cookbook was a wedding gift in 1985. It contains a large number of reasonably tasty recipes which take very little skill or time to prepare. It was great help for two people who were fairly inexperienced cooks. While Libby moved on to other cook books as skills (and taste) developed, there are several recipes from this book that wa still make, though often the spices have been tweaked to make them more flavorful. Now that I am regularly cooking again, I find myself pulling this cookbook off the shelf as I rebuild my skills.

[Fran · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a yard sale find for me.... it has some good recipes in it. However, they are from the 1980's and don't "count" everything the way I've gotten used to it being accounted for but that's ok. There are some recipes I have tried in the past and forgotten about and the visit down memory lane was nice.