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The "I Love My Instant Pot®" Affordable Meals Recipe Book: From Cold Start Yogurt to Honey Garlic Salmon, 175 Easy, Family-Favorite Meals You Can Make for under $12
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175 recipes for quick and delicious meals in the Instant Pot—today’s hottest kitchen appliance—that the whole family will love for under $12 a meal.
Eating well doesn’t need to cost a fortune. And with the Instant Pot, it no longer requires a lot of time or effort. Now create budget-friendly meals that are fast and delicious using your favorite cooking gadget.
In the “I Love My Instant Pot®” Affordable Meals Recipe Book, Aileen Clark shows that it is possible to eat healthy, filling meals while on a budget. With 175 recipes and photos throughout, this is a must-have cookbook if you are looking for good meals that are easy on the wallet. Save money and reduce your monthly food budget with practical approaches to grocery shopping. With a cost estimate included for each recipe, you can easily stay on budget and manage your food costs ahead of time so you can be better prepared with your expenses.
Featuring an easy-to-understand overview of how to use the Instant Pot, this is the perfect guide whether you are new to the Instant Pot or an expert. With satisfying, whole-food dishes for every meal of the day, this cookbook makes using the Instant Pot easier and cheaper than ever!
175 recipes for quick and delicious meals in the Instant Pot—today’s hottest kitchen appliance—that the whole family will love for under $12 a meal.
Eating well doesn’t need to cost a fortune. And with the Instant Pot, it no longer requires a lot of time or effort. Now create budget-friendly meals that are fast and delicious using your favorite cooking gadget.
In the “I Love My Instant Pot®” Affordable Meals Recipe Book, Aileen Clark shows that it is possible to eat healthy, filling meals while on a budget. With 175 recipes and photos throughout, this is a must-have cookbook if you are looking for good meals that are easy on the wallet. Save money and reduce your monthly food budget with practical approaches to grocery shopping. With a cost estimate included for each recipe, you can easily stay on budget and manage your food costs ahead of time so you can be better prepared with your expenses.
Featuring an easy-to-understand overview of how to use the Instant Pot, this is the perfect guide whether you are new to the Instant Pot or an expert. With satisfying, whole-food dishes for every meal of the day, this cookbook makes using the Instant Pot easier and cheaper than ever!
240 pages, Paperback
First published October 8, 2019
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December 15, 2023
I’m really disappointed in this book, and I really wanted to be a fan. Too many of the “recipes” are stupid easy things like how to cook potatoes - plain potatoes - in the Instant Pot, or they don’t really utilize any of the unique features. If all I need to use is the Sauté function, it’s a lot easier to use a pan (unless your Instant Pot is your only means of cooking a meal). And why would you break out the Instant Pot just to melt something? When I pick up an Instant Pot cookbook I’m expecting recipes that are adapted for the Instant Pot, not recipes that could be found verbatim in any non-specialized cookbook.
The recipe count is also very misleading. Sure, technically there are 175 recipes, but three recipes for rice (white, brown, and wild) that differ only in the type of rice and how long you set the timer for is not what I mean by three separate recipes. At most, you’d need a short note stating what the should be set for each type of rice. The same thing for the three egg muffin recipes. The only difference in the three recipes is what’s dropped into the egg mixture before placing it in the Instant Pot. A quick note in the empty space on any of those recipes with suggestions for the other two variations would have been more efficient. Buffalo Wings and Barbecue Wings are another pair of nearly identical recipes that could have been more efficiently covered by mentioning alternative seasoning options. Everything else about these groups of recipes is identical.
Then there’s the total recipe cost included with each recipe. I realize the book is targeted to affordable recipes, but whose idea was it to include such useless information? I mean, aside from the fact that they are specific to the penny, all they tell you about how it’s calculated is that it’s based on a national food retailer. I’ve got numerous problems with this. From region to region, even the same retailer will have different prices because the supply chain is different. The exact same groceries purchased in Mesa, AZ and New York, NY will have very different totals at the cash register. From season to season, the same store will have wild variable prices depending on what’s in season. And if you’re lucky enough to have access to multiple stores, you’ll note that even the regular, non-sale prices can vary quite a bit, depending not only on the availability of store brands, but even which name brands they carry.
On top of that, I can’t find confirmation anywhere in the book whether the price is for the entire recipe or per serving, and no mention of servings (other than nutrition information per serving) is found on the recipes. I’m guessing it’s the total cost of the entire recipe as written, but I can’t be sure, and depending on the author’s local cost-of-living I could see it going either way. This was a stupid decision. More useful information would have been a grading from $ to $$$$$ (or something along those lines) on a per serving basis.
The recipe count is also very misleading. Sure, technically there are 175 recipes, but three recipes for rice (white, brown, and wild) that differ only in the type of rice and how long you set the timer for is not what I mean by three separate recipes. At most, you’d need a short note stating what the should be set for each type of rice. The same thing for the three egg muffin recipes. The only difference in the three recipes is what’s dropped into the egg mixture before placing it in the Instant Pot. A quick note in the empty space on any of those recipes with suggestions for the other two variations would have been more efficient. Buffalo Wings and Barbecue Wings are another pair of nearly identical recipes that could have been more efficiently covered by mentioning alternative seasoning options. Everything else about these groups of recipes is identical.
Then there’s the total recipe cost included with each recipe. I realize the book is targeted to affordable recipes, but whose idea was it to include such useless information? I mean, aside from the fact that they are specific to the penny, all they tell you about how it’s calculated is that it’s based on a national food retailer. I’ve got numerous problems with this. From region to region, even the same retailer will have different prices because the supply chain is different. The exact same groceries purchased in Mesa, AZ and New York, NY will have very different totals at the cash register. From season to season, the same store will have wild variable prices depending on what’s in season. And if you’re lucky enough to have access to multiple stores, you’ll note that even the regular, non-sale prices can vary quite a bit, depending not only on the availability of store brands, but even which name brands they carry.
On top of that, I can’t find confirmation anywhere in the book whether the price is for the entire recipe or per serving, and no mention of servings (other than nutrition information per serving) is found on the recipes. I’m guessing it’s the total cost of the entire recipe as written, but I can’t be sure, and depending on the author’s local cost-of-living I could see it going either way. This was a stupid decision. More useful information would have been a grading from $ to $$$$$ (or something along those lines) on a per serving basis.
January 16, 2020
wondering what to do with your instant pot? Wish you had a cheat sheet for quick meals for your family? Here you go, Aileen has demystified the quick and easy and inexpensive dinner.
August 27, 2025
Very easy to follow. I have a new version of cooker and I can still use the recipes.
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