Fix-it and Forget-it 5-Ingredient Favorites: Comforting Slow Cooker Recipes

I am placing two ratings for this slow cooker cookbook. 1. I ordered two of these slow cooker cookbooks from two different vendors and both arrived about a week early. Wow what can I say other than I would give them both 10 stars. 2. I have just glanced over a copy of this cookbook and find just what I like and needed. I like the way the recipes are placed and so far they sound pretty good -- I just received the cookbook yesterday - - and I wish that a lot of cookbooks would place the recipes like this. Some people who reviewed this cookbook complain that the same recipes with minor changes were placed here and there in the book but I have not found that yet but it would make no difference to me. This is my first Phyllis Good cookbook and I have now picked out several others that I want. I am buying two at a time, one for me and one for my son and his wife who have never used a slow cooker before. I am thinking of getting a third for my 93 year old mother who has never used a slow cooker until I got her one for Christmas and then I had to show her how to use it. I see the layout of this book is like I like and the print is fairly decent and large and black. Did you hear me I said the print is black. Some of the new cookbooks the printing is small and light blue or tan and or light green and they are very hard to read. Apparently they are not taking into consideration the generation is getting older and that includes me, I am 73 and finding reading is sadly becoming more difficult. I give this book 10 stars. Thank you. Dottie.

Best cookbook ever. If you like crockpot cooking, this is a must have.

I can't tell you how many times I checked this out of the library before finally deciding to buy it. I love using my slow cooker and having delicious recipes with few ingredients is a bonus. This cookbook has so many great recipes and would be a great gift for someone just starting out on their own, or for a newly married couple.

For those of us who don't want to spend a lot of time cooking a meal every night, the crock pot can be a wonderful thing. I also like to make a big meal in the crock pot and package up portions to eat during the week for either lunch or dinner. I bought the Fix It and Forget It Cookbook hoping to get some inspiration for a wide variety of meals. This book definitely gave me that. It has several hundred recipes, divided into chicken, beef, ham, etc. There is a recipe for everyone in this book. Quite a few do call for ingredients such as Velveeta cheese or one of the cream soups (cream of chicken, cream of celery, etc.), but fortunately, I happen to like those things and think they go a long way toward adding flavor to a meal. The other ingredients are generally inexpensive as well, and I like that all of them have just five ingredients. This book is a good way to either get more meal inspiration or to save time in the kitchen. I highly recommend it!

Since I have been married I have fallen in love with my Crock-Pot! We both work and it is just the most wonderful thing to come home in the evening and already have dinner ready to go. Sometimes it just doesn't seem worth the effort to cook for just the two of us, but the Crock Pot always makes it just SO easy. Using my Crock-Pot has saved us SO much money by not eating out, and the ingredients that this book calls for are very inexpensive for the most part. It is also much healthier than eating out several nights a week. The best part of this book is that you can always find a recipe that sounds great and you have all the stuff that you need for it in the house. Really, all it takes is five minutes in the morning to throw it all in the Crock-Pot and then you have a great dinner! I almost always just put the meat in there straight from the freezer and just add an hour or so of cooking time. This would be a great gift for a shower or housewarming. Overall, it is a very simple book that always produces tasty and healthy dinners.

This book had good reviews and I was hoping that the quality of the pages would have been nicer and there would have been better pictures. Bought this is a gift for a beginner cook who needed nice pictures to reference. Recipes look okay but I wish the format would have been better.

I have really enjoy this cook book. As a busy mother of three children I am always looking for fast yet healthy meals for my family. I like that the recipes call for five ingredients since I am on a tight budget. Before bed I prepare all of the ingredients that I will toss in the crock pot in the morning. Actually, with most recipes I can wait until morning to do this. I just throw everything together in my crock pot and go about my day. Once we are ready to eat dinner is already cooked perfectly and waiting for us. This also helps with getting all of the homework done, taking my daughter to driver's education and my boys to basketball practice. The perfect recipe book for busy families.I paid full price for this product. There were no discounts or anything given complimentary. My review is truthful,unbiased and of my own opinion.

My wife and I are retired, and have been living in a 30' motorhome for a couple of years now, and with space at a premium, you have to run a pretty efficient galley. (RV's are like ships, everything is nautical). When we bought our first motorhome and were preparing to hit the road, a friend said "don't forget to take your crock pot!"Over the years, I've thumbed through several cookbooks, but pretty-much gave up on them, it seemed that every recipe that looked good took about 19 ingredients, most of which I didn't have. That is, until I found the "Fix it and Forget it 5 Ingredient" book. What a valuable find, now I'm using the slow cooker several times a week, and have ventured from roasts cooked in a can of beer, to chicken, meatballs, ribs, pork chops, stews, almost anything you can think of can be cooked this way with 5 ingredients or less.I just ordered another copy for my daughter. We're parked in our motorhome in her driveway, on our way to somewhere interesting, and yesterday I noticed the crockpot stashed in her kitchen hasn't moved since I gave it to her a couple of years ago. I'll be cooking a big pork roast in a can of beer in it this weekend.

Great book! Easy recipes, basic ingredients. Great for anyone with a busy life! (Or anyone who can't cook) I recommend it to everyone.

Dieses Buch bekommt von mir nur einen Stern, weil die Rezepte zumeist mit Fertigprodukten hergestellt werden, in etwa so: 5 Würstchen, eine Packung Fertigsoße und die und die Fertigkklöße zusammen in den Slowcooker schmeißen. Drei Stunden warten. Dafür brauche ich kein Kochbuch. Dann kann ich die Sachen auch schnell so erhitzen, oder aber, was ich eigentlich wollte, aus frischen Zutaten ein gesundes Essen langsam garen. Sorry, aber das ging zurück.

I particularly like this cookbook because all the recipes call for only five ingredients. The recipes are simple and fast. That's great.