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The perfect recipe book for slow cooking

Advantages: Easy and delicious recipes that are created with ease
Disadvantages: None for me

Slow Cooker Cookbook Following a purchase of my first slow cooker approximately four years ago, which was intended for providing quick and easy meals I needed to find a recipe book that would enable me to achieve this. At that particular time my k ...

Alyson29 26.10.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Slow Cooker Cookbook - Catherine Atkinson

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A cook book for slow cooks!

Advantages: tasty, graet pictures
Disadvantages: lots of prep

The slow cooker We bought a slow cooker as had heard some brilliant reviews on them and Mrs B was desperate to try anything which made healthy, home-cooking easier and less time-consuming since Baby B came along. At first we were both dubious a ...

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Inspiring recipes

Advantages: Loads of recipes to choose from
Disadvantages: order of recipes confusing

I got this book out of the library a few years ago and have since bought it to have in the house. I do not use it regularly but probably about a couple of times a month to get ideas on what to cook. There are some good ideas and I like how simple and stra ...

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Review of Slim to Win: Diet and Cookbook - Rosemary Conley

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Feeding Prejudice

Advantages: Clearly written, interesting, frightening expose of supermarket practice.
Disadvantages: You might be too scared to go shopping again!

"Buy Joanna Blythman's new book, Shopped," said my friend Sue, "it'll feed all your prejudices, and then some." She knows me too well! Blythman's book is the result of two year's research on supermarkets. It makes for scary reading. During the 197 ...

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Review of Shopped - Joanna Blythman

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A Nation of Shopkeepers? Or just 4?

Advantages: Straightforward style
Disadvantages: accusations of bias

Shopped is a new publication by Joanna Blythman, and a factual and insightful one into an industry; a publication which took her two years two research and write, including very short spells working in the supermarket chains. Essentially the book provides ...

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Review of Shopped - Joanna Blythman

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