One-Dish Dinners from the $5 Dinner Mom
I started following Erin Chase’s $5 Dinners blog when I first became a stay-at-home mom in 2008 – back when I liked to cook for my family.
I loved that her recipes were budget-friendly and {mostly} easy to throw together – two key elements for a stay-at-home-mom of two toddlers living on a meager one-income budget.
Then, when Erin introduced her One-Dish Dinners website, I was super excited, because my least favorite part of cooking is the cleanup after the meal!
Online Recipes versus Cookbooks
If you know me at all, you know that I don’t follow recipes well. I tend to use recipes as more of a springboard for creating a meal based on my family’s preferences and what we have available in our freezer/pantry/fridge.
So, while I enjoy glancing through recipes online, I rarely take the time to look at the details in the recipes.
Cookbooks, however, are my tried and true friends. If I find a recipe I like in a cookbook, I’ll mark the page and refer to it time and time again.
Can I tell you how excited I was to hear that Erin was releasing a One-Dish Dinners cookbook?!?
Several of the recipes in the One-Dish Dinners cookbook are going to be added to our monthly menu plan {I’m trying to start cooking again}!
About the One-Dish Dinners Cookbook
{taken from the back cover of the cookbook}
Erin Chase, The $5 Dinner Mom, knows that one-dish dinners are family pleasing, budget friendly, and easy to prepare. In her crusade to help families across America eat well and stay on their budgets, Erin’s back with a treasure trove of more than one hundred fifty delicious suppertime solutions that are all prepared in one skillet, baking dish, or pot. And none of them will break the weekly budget, because they all cost no more than $5 to prepare. After a long day at work or school, how about a plate of sizzling beef fajitas and warm corn tortillas? Need a midweek pick-me-up? How about turning Wednesday night’s dinner into a celebration by cooking a scrumptious creole chicken and shrimp pilaf? Chilled to the bone in snowy late January? How would you like to come home to a hot and bubbling Swiss chicken casserole?
Erin’s even include a few $5-and-under desserts such as Mango Raspberry Crumble and Pear, Apple, and Caramel Crisp to round out a meal on nights when the budget allows. With this new book, Erin Chase shows America that it’s not only possible to eat right, eat well, and stay on a budget, she also shows us how easy it can be to clean up quickly and spend more time with the family.
Enter to win the One-Dish Dinners Cookbook
{If you cannot see the entry form below, please click here to enter: One-Dish Dinner Cookbook giveaway.}
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Disclosure: I received a free copy of The $5 Dinner Mom One-Dish Dinners Cookbook in exchange for my honest review.
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