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A Pleaseure to deal with!	Customer Rating:
I was very pleased with the condition of the book, and it came wrapped, and included a bookmarker as a gift! How thoughtful! I will certainly use this vendor again! Thanks!

Excellent Book, Fun to Read	Customer Rating:
This is a fun, entertaining, and informative book. Ms. Ely gives all the basics about how to stock and organize your kitchen -- pots, pans, dishes, food. She also includes lots of simple, tasty, quick and delicious recipes. Highly recommended.

Courage in the kitchen

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Enter the kitchen again with courage and confidence, turn ho-hum dishes into tasty, colorful, healthful meals. Be excited about supper once more! I found all this in the book, "Saving Dinner Basics: How to Cook", by Leanne Ely. I first heard of Leanne Ely from the book "Sink Reflections" by Martha Cilley, the FlyLady. I am so glad I did. Shopping is easier (everything in the cart goes to a delicious new meal), my preparation area is ready (meal prep is smoother with forethought), and clean up flows along with a sink full of soapy water for washing in between. It is learning a new routine for success and I am enjoying this success.

A Good Place to Start

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This is a great basic starting place for those who don't know how to cook. It is also quite useful for those of us who know how to cook but may not have learned all the basics of preparing a meal. I love to cook and I am pretty good at creating my own meals out of ingredients I have on hand but there were many things I never learned how to do correctly. This book helped me to fill in the gaps that were missing from my cooking repertoire. This book is great for those of us who are growing up in families that don't have time to teach us the basics of cooking. In today's convenience-driven society many lessons that were taught as a natural part of living have been forgotten. This is a great gift for someone just starting out on their own. If you cook like Martha Stewart then this isn't the book for you. If you could use some lessons in learning how to set up a kitchen efficiently and learn how to chop food quickly then this is a great resource for your kitchen!

More basic than I thought but still good

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I am actually a better informed cook than I thought. This book has shown me that. I love Leanne and the Flylady. They have really helped me get past the funk I found myself in after having children and all the extra time consuming things that come with them. Clutter and daily dinner cooking (my dh used to do the cooking before kids) really took a tole on me cause I was not trained as a kid to be a "housewife." Thank goodness! However, I am now in a self training program with these ladies and even the most basic book, such as this one, is helping me figure things out. I'm glad I own it and don't have to borrow from the library as it will be much easier to reference.