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Two-Week Meal Plan

Saving money and time in the kitchen is all about having a plan. This two-week meal plan can be customized to your level of cooking expertise.

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Gourmet Meals under $25

The recipes in this section have been written for those of you who are used to dining out but have decided to cut back on your food budget. They include recipes for an entire gourmet meal, and assume that you know your way around the kitchen, have the cookware and gadgets you need and are willing to spend some extra time cooking these dinners. Our guest writers have developed these recipes with wonderfully fresh and nutritious ingredients and there is a price list at the end of the article. Bon Appetite!

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"Hate to Cook" Dinner Recipes

Does being in the kitchen given you a panic attack? Are you tired of cooking shows that teach you recipes only a chef can follow? Do you struggle each night with what to cook for dinner? These recipes are for you. As a mother of two I understand that at dinnertime, most of us just need to get food on the table. Before the downturn, our family frequented Chinese take-out and the salad-and-soup restaurant, but if you are trying to reign in your spending, it doesn’t make sense to live on take-out food.

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"Like to Cook" Dinner Recipes

Do you tear recipes from the back of your home magazine each month but find you don’t use them? Do you peruse the cookbook section of your bookstore but decide that paying $25 for a hardback cookbook is a little excessive? If I had unlimited time, I would spend more time in the kitchen, baking, inventing and trying out new recipes. Most of us, though, don’t have the leisure time to cook complicated meals on a daily basis. These recipes are for those of us who like to cook, but don’t have time to cook up Bree Hodge dinner parties on a daily basis.

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