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Post by girlyfied on Dec 30, 2016 8:11:04 GMT
So, I go yo my meeting today and there's 2 new items for sale: a tote bag and a booklet called Meal Planning 101. Each is $4.95. The tote is nice enough, plastic with a design about Jean Nidetch and some empowering words. The meal planning booklet looks like it should be part of our program materials. It's essentially a recipe book with a few meal planning tips. Not at all worth $4.95. Lucky for me, they are doing a promotion. For $18.50 you get a box of popped snacks, smoothies, mini bars and breakfast bars. As a bonus you get the bag and the book. I'm pretty sure the promotion is available in most corporate locations. If you use any WW food products, it's a great deal.
In the booklet I noticed WW has a branded spiralizer coming out.
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Post by lmenglish on Dec 30, 2016 13:23:10 GMT
Good to know, wonder when Oprah's cookbook is coming out. Although with the internet and pinterest, who needs cookbooks😁
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Post by ann1953 on Dec 30, 2016 13:27:12 GMT
I didn't stay for my meeting this week as I was pressed for time. The week before, our leader was talking about 'flavored gum'. Not interested in that!
I'll look for those items when I go this Thursday!
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Post by zazzles on Dec 30, 2016 15:05:53 GMT
A spiralizer? Seriously? History suggests it will be cheaply manufactured with a price tag in excess of quality products from other manufacturers. Just when I think WW is changing their business practices, they prove me wrong.
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Post by linda72 on Dec 30, 2016 19:36:04 GMT
They were selling the bundle of things in my meeting in Katy, Texas, this week.
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Post by ksbruns on Dec 30, 2016 20:18:14 GMT
Good to know, wonder when Oprah's cookbook is coming out. Although with the internet and pinterest, who needs cookbooks😁 I'm with you; I have diminished my old stockpile to a few favorites. |
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Post by linda72 on Dec 30, 2016 20:23:30 GMT
I'm purging my kitchen of cookbooks. I've copied some family favorites into a notebook but I agree that the internet has changed recipe saving forever. I still have Joy of Cooking that I got when I got married in 1972 but haven't looked at it in years. Same with the red checked Better Homes and Gardens cookbook.
I'm not in the Pinterest habit and DD keeps singing its praises. She showed me some neat things on Christmas afternoon but I'm afraid it could be habit forming! Yikes, I don't need another time killer in my life! LOL!!
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Post by ksbruns on Dec 30, 2016 20:31:36 GMT
I'm purging my kitchen of cookbooks. I've copied some family favorites into a notebook but I agree that the internet has changed recipe saving forever. I still have Joy of Cooking that I got when I got married in 1972 but haven't looked at it in years. Same with the red checked Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I'm not in the Pinterest habit and DD keeps singing its praises. She showed me some neat things on Christmas afternoon but I'm afraid it could be habit forming! Yikes, I don't need another time killer in my life! LOL!! Haha, exactly. The problem for me is that I rarely go back to find an old recipe, even if I liked it, so when the interest in cooking strikes, I'm always just trying something new...no wonder I don't put dinner on the table every day. During the years I was single and raising Brady, we just lived in the fast food lane; my mother was a mediocre cook that certainly never inspired me to follow in her footsteps. So, I have actually cooked more (believe it or not!) in the past 10 years than in the rest of my adult life. I absolutely knew how to make some great high point/calorie meals like lasagna, etc and could bake up a storm, but both of my husbands have faced a sad dinner table. |
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Post by jamescat1 on Dec 30, 2016 21:13:35 GMT
I wonder if the meal planning book is a cheap imitation of the one from Skinnytaste.
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Post by ladymajky on Dec 31, 2016 0:02:45 GMT
I still have Joy of Cooking that I got when I got married in 1972 but haven't looked at it in years. Same with the red checked Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I have three Joys of Cooking: I learned to cook from my mother's 1943 Joy. She gifted me with the 1972 Joy when I got married in 1972. I bought myself the 75th anniversary edition in 2006. It is really interesting compare the three Joys and see how recipes have evolved over the years. My red checked Better Homes and Gardens cookbook is a paperback from 1976. I also have Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book from 1950 and Betty Crocker's New Good and Easy Cookbook from 1962. All the other cookbooks have been purged. I never used them. |
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Post by azcristi on Dec 31, 2016 3:39:59 GMT
I just don't understand Pinterest, or don't have the patience to learn it. But as far as saving online recipes and online articles, I save them to an app called Pocket.
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Post by ksbruns on Dec 31, 2016 14:11:59 GMT
I just don't understand Pinterest, or don't have the patience to learn it. But as far as saving online recipes and online articles, I save them to an app called Pocket. Christi, I downloaded Paprika and put a handful of recipes in there...but never use it. However, 2016 was a new low in the kitchen for me, and I'm determined to do better this year. |
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Post by wildcat on Dec 31, 2016 15:04:21 GMT
I can't cook from a computer screen - I don't know what it is, it's like I have a mental block. If there's an online recipe I want to try I have to print it off. Which means I have a disaster of a file folder full of recipes that I have to paw through every time I want to cook something.
This is probably why I cook the same things over and over . . .
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Post by NatureLover on Dec 31, 2016 20:44:12 GMT
I've also quit buying WW cookbooks. Usually I end up making two or three recipes and the rest all seem so complex, and I never have all of the ingredients necessary at once; i.e., so many do not rely on pantry staples and most common produce that we have on hand (celery, carrots, etc.) but you'd need to run out for white balsamic vinegar or sugar free orange marmalade or something like that.
I have been using and enjoying Allrecipes.com - tons of recipes and you can save favorites and review them, and read reviews. I also like Skinnytaste and often come upon a winner just by searching for recipes by ingredient and stumbling upon some great cooking blogs.
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Post by zazzles on Dec 31, 2016 21:16:31 GMT
I still have Joy of Cooking that I got when I got married in 1972 but haven't looked at it in years. Same with the red checked Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I have three Joys of Cooking: I learned to cook from my mother's 1943 Joy. She gifted me with the 1972 Joy when I got married in 1972. I bought myself the 75th anniversary edition in 2006. It is really interesting compare the three Joys and see how recipes have evolved over the years. My red checked Better Homes and Gardens cookbook is a paperback from 1976. I also have Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book from 1950 and Betty Crocker's New Good and Easy Cookbook from 1962. All the other cookbooks have been purged. I never used them.
In fact, the popovers I’m currently hooked on came from Joy using the app version.
I also have at least 200 cookbooks spread across the house. Many of the WW cookbooks they sell in meetings, which I collected at used book sales usually for $1 apiece, I’ve cut the bindings off and scanned into PDF.
Every now and then I get into gear and convert 10 or 15 cookbooks into PDF.
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