Review: Cooking in Today's Economy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2013
http://www.amazon.com/review/create-review/ref=cm_cr_pr_wr_but_top?ie=UTF8&asin;=B007WOPUHU&channel;=reviews-product&nodeID;=#As usual, my husband and I are standing at the checkout stand arguing on the subject of how much is too much to spend on groceries, and if we spend that little we'll have to stop eating. I was the oldest of seven children, and I expect to eat a lot of rice and beans. My husband was the eldest of one child, and he does not expect to eat rice and beans at all. He thinks beans stink. I think beans smell good. He expects whatever he wants to eat to be in the freezer when he wants it. I expect whatever I want to eat to be in a plastic tub ready to be cooked, so that I can have, as a complete protein, rice and beans. He does not believe that rice and beans are a complete protein.This kind of quarrel is unnecessary. Husband and wife both have to give a little, in order to continue to eat and to eat nutritious food. It is NOT true that rice and beans are all starch; the fact is that the combination of rice and beans, or any other grain plus beans, make a complete protein. They do have more starch than we would prefer, but they have more protein than you would get out of a steak dinner, and a lot less oil than that steak dinner would have.This is just one example. Study this book, and its successors, carefully, and you will learn how to eat nutritiously on far less money than you thought you could get by with. And you will learn how not to quarrel at the checkout counter.Normally I review books that are given to me by the publisher for review. However, in this case I bought the book for review.