This Christmas cookbook and planning guide features simple-yet-festive recipes, decorating tips, gift ideas, and more! Dawn Hall knows how hard it is to prepare all the Christmas goodies and entertain guests on a budget while juggling an already busy schedule. In this holiday edition of her popular Busy People’s series, Dawn adapts her seven-ingredients or less, thirty-minutes or less formula for the Christmas season. Jam-packed with creative, low-fat recipes, this comprehensive cookbook is handily organized into menus complete with grocery lists, each listed according to various holiday meals. A special section provides creative recipes for leftovers including Turkey a la King over stuffing. You’ll also find recipe plans for cookie swaps, edible and affordable teacher’s gifts, an elegant Christmas eve buffet, and so much more. Make merry with delicious recipes such as: Yuletide Pork Roast with Lemon Pepper and Rosemary, Cranberry Salsa, Busy Holiday Bruschetta, Festive Frittata, Broccoli and Tomato Trifle, Snowball Cheese Balls, Cranberry-Walnut Mini Scones

This cookbook features a full range of simple, delicious recipes for home cooks who are crunched for time—and cash! In The Busy People’s fast and Frugal Cookbook, Dawn Hall shows you how to prepare home cooked meals that are as healthy and satisfying as they are easy on your budget. Each dish includes a quick-reference grocery list and easy-to-read nutritional information. Dawn designed every recipe to require only seven ingredients or fewer, and to be prepared in thirty minutes or less. The recipes also lend themselves to easy substitutions, so you can improvise with whatever is available in your kitchen. Enjoy quick, inexpensive dishes such as: Hawaiian Sweet Potato Soup Candied Vegetables Chipped Beef on Toast Eggs with Sauerkraut Maple-Glazed Ham Steaks

Make an entire meal in minutes with more than one hundred fast, fool-proof menus that are healthy, satisfying, and delicious. There’s no better way to end a busy day than with a super-simple, low-fat, heart-smart meal that only takes thirty minutes to make. Each meal in this can’t-miss cookbook presents step-by-step instructions for the entire menu. With all the elements perfectly timed, gone are the days of letting the main course get cold while the vegetables finish cooking. In addition, each menu features a list of handy pantry items, a list of cooking pans and bowls, and a grocery list arranged by supermarket department. Also included is a nutritional analysis of each recipe.

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In this update of a beloved classic, more than 200 recipes and 125 photos showcase all the best of the Christmas season. Whether entertaining family and friends, looking for new cookies or cocktails, or bringing food to a party, there's something for every home cook in this one-stop compendium for the merriest--and busiest--holiday of the year.

Recipes, gifts, and crafts for the merriest family Christmas ever It's easy to get caught up in the planning and shopping that so often surround the busy holiday season and forget what's at the true heart of the holiday: family and friends.

Snowflakes are swirling, carolers are singing and shoppers are crowding into shops...Christmas is coming! If you're like us, you'd love to recreate the holiday magic you remember from homes growing up, but don't have all day to spend in the kitchen. I'll be Home for Christmas Cookbook is filled with simple-to-make recipes for every festive occasion. For Christmas morning breakfast, serve Christmas Sausage Soufflé and Overnight Sticky Buns. After sledding or cutting down the tree, warm everyone up with mugs of Yellow Pea Soup. An open-house buffet with Ambrosia Cheese Dip and Grandma's Cocktail Nibbles is perfect for merrymaking with friends. Busy-day dinners are a snap with Granny's Baked Macaroni & Cheese or Mom's One-Pot Chicken Supper. Make the big day special with Nonna's Christmas Eve Spaghetti, Mama's Baked Brown Sugar Ham or Tangy Glazed Chicken. Ginger-Orange Cranberries and Corn & Broccoli Casserole round out a festive menu. What we all remember most about holidays with family is the desserts, right? Try favorites like Cranberry Cream Pie and Apple Spice Cake...yum! Cookies are a must, so we've rounded up Sugar Doodle Drops and Chocolate Gingerbread Men. They're so much fun to make and eat! You'll also find sweet memories of holidays gone by, plus clever tips for sharing Christmas with your kids, grandkids and those young at heart!